https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/issue/feed Interface Critique 2023-06-19T17:41:33+02:00 Florian Hadler flohadler@gmail.com Open Journal Systems <p>We examine the conditions and contingencies of apparatuses and applications and promote an understanding of the interface as a cultural and historical phenomenon.</p> https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/97120 Contents 2023-06-19T17:41:33+02:00 Die Redaktion publikationsdienste@ub.uni-heidelberg.de 2023-06-19T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Die Redaktion https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/97106 Front Matter 2023-06-19T16:17:00+02:00 Die Redaktion publikationsdienste@ub.uni-heidelberg.de 2023-06-19T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Die Redaktion https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/95167 Front Mater 2023-04-24T19:07:01+02:00 Die Redaktion publikationsdienste@ub.uni-heidelberg.de 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/95166 Contents 2023-04-24T18:44:38+02:00 Die Redaktion publikationsdienste@ub.uni-heidelberg.de 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Daniel Irrgang https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93419 Inter|Face Experiments: FaceApp as Everyday AI 2023-01-17T11:49:36+01:00 Sabine Wirth irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“FaceApp presents itself as a second-order experimental arrange- ment in which the pleasurable practice of experimenting with one’s own appearance, so invitingly provided by the user interface, is used to further develop the underlying surveillance technology.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Sabine Wirth https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93418 Cultures of Experimentation: Testing Infrastructures in the Web and Beyond 2023-01-17T11:46:24+01:00 Timo Kaerlein irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Testing – and crucially: experimentally intervening by tweaking the environmental settings – becomes a feature of everyday life when people routinely interact with ‘smart’ devices and data-intensive media technologies that capture data about their use for constant interpretation and adaptation.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Timo Kaerlein https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93417 Decontextualising ‘Science Fiction Prototyping’ 2023-01-17T11:43:09+01:00 Christoph Ernst irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“The ‘experiment’ has expanded and mutated into a global usability testing case.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Christoph Ernst https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93416 Introduction – Special Section: Interfaces as Experimental Arrangements 2023-01-17T11:40:33+01:00 Christoph Ernst irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Timo Kaerlein irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Sabine Wirth irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Christoph Ernst, Timo Kaerlein and Sabine Wirth: Introduction – Special Section: Interfaces as Experimental Arrangements</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Christoph Ernst, Timo Kaerlein, Sabine Wirth https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93415 Radio in Mind – A Conversation with Friedrich Knilli 2023-01-17T11:36:44+01:00 Maria Knilli irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Lena Knilli irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Inventions are repetitions. Inventions are things lying around somewhere as clutter. Whereas the existence of media is limitless. The needle that pierces, the process of a stitch, is not an invention, but a new existence.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Knilli, Lena Knilli https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93414 Sea Soma 2023-01-17T11:33:22+01:00 Dora Đurkesac irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“The sea is an environment to exercise the feeling of immersion and encounters. It evokes the embodied knowledge unknown to the screen surfaces.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Dora Đurkesac https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93413 Pointing, Mutual Intelligibility, and the Seeing Subject in HCI 2023-01-17T11:30:50+01:00 Jonathan Zong irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Users, who select data objects by looking and pointing, are simultaneously also the objects being seen, selected, and acted upon by computers.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Jonathan Zang https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93412 Through the Autism Glass. Behaviourist Interfaces and the (Inter)Action Order 2023-01-17T11:28:08+01:00 Daniela Wentz irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Without the world becoming a sign, we do not possess it. And without the world becoming a sign, we cannot process it with a computer. In the sign, the world appears to us simultaneously as an object of cognition and of information processing. It is no wonder that the thought of artificial intelligence came up; the world constantly leads to signs. But we also have to attribute to the signs, the computational ones to begin with, the power to create the world from scratch.”</p> <p>– Frieder Nake</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Daniela Wentz https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93411 Splendour in the Grass 2023-01-17T11:25:18+01:00 Hana Yoo irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Cows are efficient machines for the transformation of grass into milk [...]. Man may not recognize his own project in the cow, he may forget that the cow is the result of his manipulation of reality according to his own model, and accept the cow as something that is somehow a ‘given’.”</p> </div> </div> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>– Vilém Flusser.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Hana Yoo https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93410 Toward a Map of the Body 2023-01-17T11:22:25+01:00 Vilém Flusser irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“The body structure which this paper is going to propose is a space-time continuum and therefore not easily executable in the traditional two-dimensional map form. [...] This is how it wants to be read: as a raw sketch to be translated into more adequate means of communication.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Vilém Flusser https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93409 Duplexes 2023-01-17T11:18:21+01:00 Aleksandra Domanović irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 9"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The images in this section are the latest addition to Aleksandra Domanović’s exploration of the co-constitutive powers of the gaze that she has been developing for the past two years. Employing the Bezold-effect, an optical illusion that makes a color appear to change depending on its adjacent colors, the works illustrate the fraught distinction between seeing and perceiving, as well as the entangled object/observer relationship in Karen Barad’s account of the ultrasound. In their 2007 book Meeting the Universe Halfway, Barad analyzes the social, material and discursive changes that take place in the technological “seeing” of ultrasonography. There is no unambiguous way, they argue, to differentiate between the object and the agents of observation. Separated from both mother and fetus, the image of the ultrasound becomes the object, and we the viewers the agents of observation.</p> <p>The series of images and the previous text by Nina Franz are the result of an ongoing exchange between the artist and the author.</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Aleksandra Domanović https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93408 Tactility, Sound and Diagrammatics. Ultrasound Imaging as an Interface to the Womb 2023-01-17T11:11:56+01:00 Nina Franz irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Emphasizing the diagrammatic aspects of ultrasound images can help to form a more complete picture of the technological and discursive components that led to the construction of the ultrasound image.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Nina https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93407 Post_Network 2023-01-17T11:08:01+01:00 Kim Frederic Albrecht irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“A community might exist as the non-networked, the gap between the lines, filled, extracted, and enhanced.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Kim Frederic https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93406 Which Operativity? On Political Aspects of Operational Images and Sounds 2023-01-17T11:01:55+01:00 Jan Distelmeyer irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“‘Operational’ now turns out to be characterized by mutual connections and interdependencies, which is why this politically motivated and complicating concept is so useful for opening up the diverse interface processes that are in use today on a planetary scale.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Jan Distelmeyer https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93405 Diagrammatic Interface 2023-01-17T10:53:45+01:00 Johanna Drucker irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“Try designing what can happen in an interface instead of just dividing screen real estate into compartments.”</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Johanna Drucker https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93404 Editorial: Diagrammatic Operations 2023-01-17T10:34:43+01:00 Daniel Irrgang irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Christoph Ernst irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“I believe I may venture to affirm that an intelligible relation, that is, a relation of thought, is created only by the act of representing it. [...] As Diagram, it excites curiosity as to the effect of a transformation of it.”</p> <p>– Charles S. Peirce (1906)</p> </div> </div> </div> 2023-04-24T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2023 Daniel Irrgang; Christoph Ernst https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81535 Editorial: Depth of Field 2021-06-09T12:20:33+02:00 Florian Hadler irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Daniel Irrgang irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p>Editorial</p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81331 Aesthetics of High-tech Intimidation. F-35 Lightning II and a Design for Human Reception 2021-05-18T18:16:57+02:00 Jan-Henrik Walter irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“They felt as secure as spectators at a bullfight; they risked their money perhaps on the result, but that was all. And such ideas of war as the common Americans possessed were derived from the limited, picturesque, adventurous war of the past. They saw war as they saw history, through an iridescent mist, deodorised, scented indeed, with all its essential cruelties tactfully hidden away.” – H.G. Wells, </em>The War in The Air<em> (1908)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Jan-Henrik Walter https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81329 Ambitopia and affective atmospheres. How world-building and cinema can help unpack ideology inside pervasive systems 2021-05-18T18:10:27+02:00 Emilia Tapprest irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Victor Evink irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“Who owns and controls the data infrastructure ? What is the relationship between the owners and the average participant? What are the interests that drive the use of power gained from data ownership?”</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Emilia Tapprest, Victor Evink https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81328 Talk with Machines, Redux 2021-05-18T18:05:38+02:00 Lucy Suchman irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“The designer’s project in this sense is to imbue the machine with grounds for behaving in ways that are accountably rational; that is, reasonable or intelligible to others including, in the case of interaction, ways that are responsive to the others’ actions.”</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Lucy Suchman https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81327 lapses in Thinking By the person i Am 2021-05-18T18:01:55+02:00 Josephine Pryde irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p>image essay</p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Josephine Pryde https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81326 The Nooscope manifested: AI as instrument of knowledge extractivism 2021-05-18T17:56:59+02:00 Matteo Pasquinelli irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Vladan Joler irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“Today, an Intelligent Machinery Question is needed to develop more collective intelligence about machine intelligence, more public education instead of ‘learning machines’ and their regime of knowledge extractivism […].” </em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Matteo Pasquinelli, Vladan Joler https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81325 Working for Systems that Do Not Do the Work. Joana Moll’s The Hidden Life of an Amazon User 2021-05-18T17:53:28+02:00 Jussi Parikka irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.” – Jeff Bezos </em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Jussi Parikka https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81324 Girls and Their Cats: Zooms – High Resolution – Making a Difference 2021-05-18T17:48:56+02:00 Elisa Linseisen irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“High resolution image surfaces are overfull with data – pixels – and zooming in them is a process of inquiry that leads to meaningful and sensual exclusions, distortions or intensifications."</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Elisa Linseisen https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81323 Wellness Capitalism and the Design of the Perfect User 2021-05-18T17:43:06+02:00 Cherie Lacey irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Alex Beattie irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Catherine Caudwell irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“Today, technological humanism replaces the Vitruvian Man with the Perfect User, who sits atop the hierarchy of all users. Mindful, intentional, healthy, disciplined, minimalist, designed: these features have become the ‘measure of all things’ for today’s aspirational user-subject.”</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Cherie Lacey, Alex Beattie, Catherine Caudwell https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81322 The Flusser-Hypertext: “Electronic Book Prototype 2” 2021-05-18T17:39:32+02:00 Daniel Irrgang dirrgang@hfg-karlsruhe.de <p><em>“I am but a pre-text for this work!” – Vilém Flusser (1991)</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Daniel Irrgang https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81321 From “Interfacing Objects” to “Interface Things”? Material-Strategic Notes on the Smart Speaker Design 2021-05-18T17:34:14+02:00 Konstantin Haensch irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“The slick, cold, metallic ‘outer opaque shell’ that preserved the degree of the otherness of laptops and smartphones is replaced by forms and materialities evoking a familiar closeness, inevitably conjuring uncanny interfaces.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Konstantin Haensch https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81320 Plant Sonification. Its formations and media-ecological implications 2021-05-18T17:29:15+02:00 Katharina Groß irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>The article "Plant Sonification. Its formations and media-ecological implications" by Katharina Groß was unpublished due to unmarked takeovers from the article "Botanical Rhythms: A Field Guide to Plant Music" by Carlo Patrao.</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Katharina Groß https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81319 Skin 2021-05-18T17:24:05+02:00 Vilém Flusser irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“Here the skin surface will be considered a plane on which I happen to the world and the world happens to me.”</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Vilém Flusser https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81318 Are there material metaphors? A comment on Marianne van den Boomen’s interface theory 2021-05-18T17:12:56+02:00 Christoph Ernst irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p><em>“The question of how practices are configured in interfaces is undoubtedly a key question in interface theory. But are we doing ourselves a favour by explaining interface arrangements or <br />interface processes as material metaphors? ”</em></p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Christoph Ernst https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81311 Conversations on cinema and media archaeology 2021-05-18T15:14:04+02:00 Thomas Elsaesser irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Siegfried Zielinski irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p>In Memoriam Thomas Elsaesser</p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Thomas Elsaesser, Siegfried Zielinski https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81306 How a technical innovation in ancient textile industry pioneered a new way of thinking 2021-05-18T11:26:32+02:00 Ulrike Beck irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de Martin Jess irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <p>“As early as the 1st millennium BC, the innovative idea to cut into fabric laid the foundation for new, efficient production concepts, extensively restructured the craft and established a new distinguished discipline: the construction of patterns."</p> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Ulrike Beck, Martin Jess https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81304 The Gestalt of AI: Beyond the Holism-Atomism Divide 2021-05-18T11:09:37+02:00 Hannes Bajohr irrgang@medienhaus.udk-berlin.de <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“One could therefore argue that neural networks do not only produce outputs that humans perceive as Gestalten, but that, as statistical models, they internally already operate&nbsp;according to a Gestalt logic.”</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2021-09-27T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2021 Hannes Bajohr https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/67261 Editorial: Navigating the Human 2019-12-05T15:27:15+01:00 Florian Hadler flohadler@gmail.com Daniel Irrgang flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>“The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well.” – Walter Benjamin, The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, 1935.</p> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-18T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66997 Natural User Interfaces and the Imagination of Post-Industrial Warfare: A Brief Look at Bladerunner 2049 2019-12-05T15:27:16+01:00 Christoph Ernst flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 120"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Blade Runner 2049 gives us a hint how to imagine the future of warfare. According to the lm, post-industrial society will be a ‘post-human’ society.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Christoph Ernst https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66996 From Artefacts to Interfaces: Gui Bonsiepe and the Redefinition of Industrial Design 2019-12-05T15:28:49+01:00 Roland Meyer flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 116"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Thus, not only the Opsroom, but also the dosing mechanism of a sowing machine could now be understood as an interface: it had to be readable and understandable, it had to convey a sense of the possible uses of the machine and provide access to its operative resources, and in doing so, it structured a common sphere of communication and interaction between people and their artefacts.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Roland Meyer https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66995 Taking Part. Two Steps towards Networked Computerization 2019-12-05T15:28:50+01:00 Jan Distelmeyer flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 111"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>That is why the term interface is so fruitful today: It helps addressing a variety of efficacious operations – from the material basis of all sorts of computers and networks up to the educational and epistemological or ideological guidance by user interfaces showing and instructing me what to do.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Jan Distelmeyer https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66994 Mobilizing Post-industrial Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction as Aesthetic Practice 2019-12-05T15:27:17+01:00 Timo Kaerlein flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 107"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Often against their own intentions, the pioneers of human-compu- ter interaction nd themselves at the forefront of the development of entirely new ways to control and programme the productivity of an increasingly mobile and exible workforce.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Timo Kaerlein https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66993 Special Section: Interface and the Post-industrial Society 2019-12-05T15:27:18+01:00 Jan Distelmeyer flohadler@gmail.com Timo Kaerlein flohadler@gmail.com Christoph Ernst flohadler@gmail.com Roland Meyer flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 106"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The following four essays are based on a workshop of the German Society for Media Studies (GfM) working group on Interfaces that took place during the annual conference of the GfM at the university of Siegen in September 2018.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Jan Distelmeyer, Timo Kaerlein, Christoph Ernst, Roland Meyer https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66992 American Psycho. Reading an Algorithm in Reverse 2019-12-05T15:27:19+01:00 Karl Wolfgang Flender flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 97"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Google serves instant soup-ads while Bateman cooks a woman’s head, or suggests anti-wrinkle-products while he skins his victims.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Karl Wolfgang Flender https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66991 Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature 2019-12-05T15:27:20+01:00 N. Katherine Hayles flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 85"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The question then is: what kinds of conceptual and artistic frameworks will help us understand the implications of our participation in the hybrid human-technical systems that have become essential to contemporary life in developed countries?</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 N. Katherine Hayles https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66990 Meet the Machine: The Sideman 5000 Edition 2019-12-05T15:29:34+01:00 Darsha Hewitt flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 80"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Freeing the Sideman from its heavy wooden con nes is like discovering a baroque electromechanical universe.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Darsha Hewitt https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66989 Unintended Consequences? 2019-12-05T15:29:35+01:00 Katriona Beales flohadler@gmail.com William Tunstall-Pedoe flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 74"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Without control, unintended consequences could be far worse. [...] So you could make the argument that the fact that it’s under people’s control is a good thing. You may regret who controls it, but at least as it’s controlled by someone, there is some mechanism for change.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Katriona Beales, William Tunstall-Pedoe https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66988 Still be here. The Multiplicity of Hatsune Miku 2019-12-05T15:28:52+01:00 Laurel Halo flohadler@gmail.com Mari Matsutoya flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 70"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Name: Hatsune Miku Release: August 31, 2007. Age: 16 years. Height: 158cm / 5ft 2in. Weight: 42kg / 93lb. Suggested Genre: Pop, rock, dance, house, techno, crossover. Suggested Tempo Range: 70–150bpm. Suggested Vocal Range: A3–E5, B2–B3.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Laurel Halo, Mari Matsutoya https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66987 Lynn Hershman Leeson's Cyborg Drawings 2019-12-05T15:29:48+01:00 Julia Heldt flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 60"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>The subject in these drawings is not identifying itself via the mirror anymore, but has become one with the mirror, the screen, the interface, resulting in exposure and self-determination at once.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Julia Heldt https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66986 Regimes on Newness: An Essay of Comparative Physiognomy 2019-12-05T15:30:26+01:00 Masato Fukushima flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 51"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>In this observation, we may think that the art regime, in reality, exhibits an intriguing case of being a specific interface consisting of different sub-regimes that demonstrate different criteria for newness.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Masato Fukushima https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66985 Starcity, MIR Simulator. And other Artistic Investigations 2019-12-05T15:28:43+01:00 Armin Linke flohadler@gmail.com <p>Starcity, MIR Simulator. And other Artistic Investigations</p> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Armin Linke https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66984 You, the Users 2019-12-05T15:28:44+01:00 Kalli Retzepi flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 38"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Who controls an interface? It is certainly not the user, no matter how hard the corporate rhetoric insists on that.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Kalli Retzepi https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66983 Manifesto for an acentric Design 2019-12-05T15:28:45+01:00 Anthony Masure flohadler@gmail.com <p>Manifesto for an Acentric Design</p> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Anthony Masure https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66982 Notes from the Labyrinth, or: The Infinite Web 2019-12-05T15:28:46+01:00 Filipa Cordeiro flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 27"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>Surfing the web is, thus, one more possible way of existing – a recent possibility that has, to be sure, created new frameworks of meaning in light of which human beings must now interpret and shape their existences.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Filipa Cordeiro https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66980 Oswald's Hubble 2019-12-05T15:28:47+01:00 Nils Röller flohadler@gmail.com <div class="page" title="Page 22"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>It is, of course, well-known that creation and destruction are complementary processes. But there are further similarities between Wiener’s œuvre and the Hubble telescope.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Nils Röller https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66979 Human-Machine Interface (1984) 2019-12-05T15:28:53+01:00 Frieder Nake flohadler@gmail.com <p>The development of communication itself is now the development of its means; in particular, its technical means.</p> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Frieder Nake https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66977 Navigating (through) Sound. 2019-12-05T15:28:48+01:00 Christoph Borbach flohadler@gmail.com <p>Auditory Interfaces in Maritime Navigation Practice, 1900–1930</p> 2019-10-08T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2019 Christoph Borbach https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/45695 Editorial – Beyond UX 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Florian Hadler flohadler@gmail.com Editorial text of <em>Interface Critique</em> vol. 1 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44747 Letter to the editor of Leonardo 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Vilém Flusser hello@interfacecritique.com "[…] the apparatus does what man wants it to do, and men can only want to do what the apparatus can do. In fact: apparatus and man form a single functional unit." 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44746 Art and apparatus (a Flusserian theme). Plea for the dramatisation of the interface 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Siegfried Zielinski hello@interfacecritique.com "[…] in the age of Baroque the crystal chandeliers with their myriads of light refractions that hung from the ceilings of palaces functioned as an interface through which the cosmos became imaginable from out of the straits of the private and personal sphere." 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44745 Automobile and information: the self, the automobile and technology 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Max Bense hello@interfacecritique.com <p>"[…] it is almost as if a new kind of existence had occured: the consciousness-like machine, the selflike automobile, a perfect human-machine team, an existential partnership between disturbances and fears, between mechanical actions and human reactions, between signals and impulses, noises and decisions."</p> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44744 Applied metaphysics – objects in object-oriented ontology and object-oriented programming 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Gabriel Yoran hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"As computer science works on domain-specific models in order to find solutions to practical problems, employing models of the world, informatics is – like any proper science – applied metaphysics."</span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44743 Interfaces of immersive media 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Julie Woletz hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"Instead of trying to induce immersion by presenting ever more realistic image spaces, interfaces of immersive media have to address the body by enabling kinaesthetic action."</span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44742 The conceptual debts and assets of the interface 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Kostek Szydlowski hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>"There is a growing need to rethink the notion of interface within a broader conceptual perspective, but it is important to be wary of calling for an interface philosophy based on technological enthusiasm and, more particularly, on a variety of metaphors derived from technical terms or marketing jargon—one that often tries to impose itself on discussions about technically mediated communication."</p><p> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44741 Gestalt-ideas at the interface between theory and pratice 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Alan N. Shapiro hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"Stories and technologies: two objects of knowledge- inquiry heretofore strictly separated from each other in our knowledge-culture, now brought together as a single object of inquiry, rethought from scratch as a paradoxical hybrid union [...]"</span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44740 Commons for cartography: How social computing changes the design of interfaces 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Christine Schranz hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"The transformation of the map into an interface medium has not only changed the use and aesthetics of maps, but has also caused a new spatial perception."</span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44739 There is no interface (without a user). A cybernetic perspective on interaction 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Lasse Scherffig hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"Interaction is seen as a one-way street, conveying a design model to a user, who is acting by that model either because they adapted to it, or because the model replicates their given structure. This is the cognitivist heritage of the HCI discourse responsible for the idea that interfaces can actually be designed."</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44737 Rich user experience, UX and the desktopization of war 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Olia Lialina hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"'Don’t call them Icons,' the team leader encouraged her, 'call them User Experience!' And his laughter sunk in with everybody else's.."</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44736 Training setting 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Branden Hookway hello@interfacecritique.com Maria Park hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"Just as flight instruments are means of reconciling the subjective experience of flight to a reality that might contradict it, the exhibition seeks to bring a heightened awareness of controlled environments and to mediate the tension between structured information and intuitive decisions."</span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44735 MNT Reform: DIY portable computer 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Lukas Hartmann hello@interfacecritique.com <div><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"I know that there are some who would like to better understand and take control of their device — for reasons of security, curiosity, or the desire for personal customization and hackability."</span></p></div></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44734 Interface Mythologies – Xanadu unraveled 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Christian Ulrik Andersen hello@interfacecritique.com Søren Pold hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"We are seduced by the interface into neglecting the work behind it, and the operationalization and instrumentalization of dreams that takes place. The interface appears mythical, absolute and frozen."</span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44733 Drawing connections – how interfaces matter 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Jan Distelmeyer hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>“[...] interfaces carry – in every sense of the word – the global computerization of living conditions.” </span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44722 Transgressions at the post office counter 2018-06-27T10:37:33+02:00 Susanne Jany hello@interfacecritique.com <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>"The counter, thus, was not a space where a simple difference – between clerks and customers, internal and external, operational and public – was established but where a complex and seemingly ambivalent system of mutually dependent acts of openings and closings were enforced to keep business up and running safe." </span></p></div></div></div> 2018-06-06T00:00:00+02:00 Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique