Love In The First Person
Point of view is something that is spoken of in literary criticism, but not as often in digital media it seems. I thought this is a great example of using straightforward technology (still photos and some video clips and a website) to tell a very personal story:It illustrates that simple techniques can be very powerful if used to the upmost. Of course it helps it if the project is created by a talented photographer or two.
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Going back to Kant's fundamental categories of the human experience -space and time-, Hayles continues: "Reduced to a point", (in the matrix) "the pov is abstracted into a purely temporal entity with no spatial extension; metaphorized into an interactive space, the datascape is narrativized by the pov's movement through it. Data are thus humanized, and subjectivity is computerized, allowing them to join in a symbiotic union whose result is narrative."
Although the concept of the matrix is akin to looking "under the hood" at the low level of a technology, understanding this concept is I think, essential to grasp the potential of new media (as in digital media) and the transformative capabilities that lie just below the surface of the familiar territories that we grew accustomed to in the pre-digital era.