In his essay “The Poetics of Augmented Space” (2002, revised edition 2005), Lev Manovich places Augmented Reality in the context of similar trends in New Media: Augmented Reality being one possible form of Augmented Space, characterised by overlaying dynamic data over physical space. For me, the most important statement he makes in his paper is to describe Augmented Space – m.m. Augmented Reality – as “idea and cultural and aesthetic practice rather than as technology”. “here is the brief definition: augmented space is the physical space overlaid with dynamically changing information. This information is likely to be in multimedia form…
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Reading “SOFTWARE TAKES COMMAND”
Lev Manovich publishes his latest book “Software Takes Command” on-line – I’m discussing the November 20, 2008 version – and he is open to suggestions for cover art, or illustrations. Nice idea, on-line pre-publishing, and it will not keep me from bying a print copy when the final version will be available. 😉 With this book Manovich puts his own book “The Language of New Media” (completed 1999; published by MIT Press 2001) , where he a.o. coined the term ‘software studies’, in perspective. ”New media calls for a new stage in media theory whose beginnings can be traced back…