Digital Amnesia; or extension, simulation and reproduction

“[…] this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in…

Representing outlines and absent meaning in Tree of Codes

This essay will investigate the hypothetical proposition of a digital scholarly edition of Jonathan Safran Foer’s highly derivative and experimental book Tree of Codes.

Tree of Codes

The power of the image: photorealism

If the humanism that makes civilisation civilised is to be preserved into this new century, it will need advocates. Those advocates will need a memory, and part of that memory will need to be of an age in which they were not yet alive.

The power of the image: Non-photorealism

Since investigating the various notions and attitudes surrounding the digital representation of cultural heritage artefacts, I’ve discovered that the reason or cause for digitisation appears to be the key factor when considering the most suitable method to…