Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Reading 1 Questions

1. The article talks about technologies moving towards a more 'authentic' representation. How are peception and authenticity tied together?

2. On page 22 Bolter says that a in a virtual reality system "the viewer is given a first-person point of view, as she gazes on s graphic world from a station point that is always the visual center of that world. This gives the viewer a sort of increased agency in that they may even change their view point. What does this mean for human relations and interactions? Is this in support of a sort of Solipsitic perspective?

3. On page 48 Bolter talks about how the goal in Disney's Toy Story is to make the computer disappear and appear as human-like as possible. Does this suggest an acceptance by society of the concept of artificial intelligence?

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