Interface Critique https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic <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> de-DE Interface Critique is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0) flohadler@gmail.com (Florian Hadler) flohadler@gmail.com (Florian Hadler) Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:51:44 +0200 OJS 3.2.1.4 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Contents https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/97120 Die Redaktion Copyright (c) 2021 Die Redaktion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/97120 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Front Matter https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/97106 Die Redaktion Copyright (c) 2021 Die Redaktion https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/97106 Mon, 19 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Front Mater https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/95167 Die Redaktion Copyright (c) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/95167 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Contents https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/95166 Die Redaktion Copyright (c) 2023 Daniel Irrgang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/95166 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Inter|Face Experiments: FaceApp as Everyday AI https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93419 <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> Sabine Wirth Copyright (c) 2023 Sabine Wirth https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93419 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Cultures of Experimentation: Testing Infrastructures in the Web and Beyond https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93418 <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> Timo Kaerlein Copyright (c) 2023 Timo Kaerlein https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93418 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Decontextualising ‘Science Fiction Prototyping’ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93417 <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> Christoph Ernst Copyright (c) 2023 Christoph Ernst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93417 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Introduction – Special Section: Interfaces as Experimental Arrangements https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93416 <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> Christoph Ernst, Timo Kaerlein, Sabine Wirth Copyright (c) 2023 Christoph Ernst, Timo Kaerlein, Sabine Wirth https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93416 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Radio in Mind – A Conversation with Friedrich Knilli https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93415 <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> Maria Knilli, Lena Knilli Copyright (c) 2023 Maria Knilli, Lena Knilli https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93415 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Sea Soma https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93414 <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> Dora Đurkesac Copyright (c) 2023 Dora Đurkesac https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93414 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Pointing, Mutual Intelligibility, and the Seeing Subject in HCI https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93413 <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> Jonathan Zong Copyright (c) 2023 Jonathan Zang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93413 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Through the Autism Glass. Behaviourist Interfaces and the (Inter)Action Order https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93412 <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> Daniela Wentz Copyright (c) 2023 Daniela Wentz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93412 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Splendour in the Grass https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93411 <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> Hana Yoo Copyright (c) 2023 Hana Yoo https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93411 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Toward a Map of the Body https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93410 <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> Vilém Flusser Copyright (c) 2023 Vilém Flusser https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93410 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Duplexes https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93409 <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> Aleksandra Domanović Copyright (c) 2023 Aleksandra Domanović https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93409 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Tactility, Sound and Diagrammatics. Ultrasound Imaging as an Interface to the Womb https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93408 <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> Nina Franz Copyright (c) 2023 Nina https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93408 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Post_Network https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93407 <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> Kim Frederic Albrecht Copyright (c) 2023 Kim Frederic https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93407 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Which Operativity? On Political Aspects of Operational Images and Sounds https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93406 <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> Jan Distelmeyer Copyright (c) 2023 Jan Distelmeyer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93406 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Diagrammatic Interface https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93405 <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> Johanna Drucker Copyright (c) 2023 Johanna Drucker https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93405 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Editorial: Diagrammatic Operations https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93404 <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> Daniel Irrgang; Christoph Ernst Copyright (c) 2023 Daniel Irrgang; Christoph Ernst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/93404 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0200 Editorial: Depth of Field https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81535 <p>Editorial</p> Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang Copyright (c) 2021 Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81535 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Aesthetics of High-tech Intimidation. F-35 Lightning II and a Design for Human Reception https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81331 <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> Jan-Henrik Walter Copyright (c) 2021 Jan-Henrik Walter https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81331 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Ambitopia and affective atmospheres. How world-building and cinema can help unpack ideology inside pervasive systems https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81329 <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> Emilia Tapprest, Victor Evink Copyright (c) 2021 Emilia Tapprest, Victor Evink https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81329 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Talk with Machines, Redux https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81328 <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> Lucy Suchman Copyright (c) 2021 Lucy Suchman https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81328 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 lapses in Thinking By the person i Am https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81327 <p>image essay</p> Josephine Pryde Copyright (c) 2021 Josephine Pryde https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81327 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 The Nooscope manifested: AI as instrument of knowledge extractivism https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81326 <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> Matteo Pasquinelli, Vladan Joler Copyright (c) 2021 Matteo Pasquinelli, Vladan Joler https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81326 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Working for Systems that Do Not Do the Work. Joana Moll’s The Hidden Life of an Amazon User https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81325 <p><em>“If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.” – Jeff Bezos </em></p> Jussi Parikka Copyright (c) 2021 Jussi Parikka https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81325 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Girls and Their Cats: Zooms – High Resolution – Making a Difference https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81324 <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> Elisa Linseisen Copyright (c) 2021 Elisa Linseisen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81324 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Wellness Capitalism and the Design of the Perfect User https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81323 <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> Cherie Lacey, Alex Beattie, Catherine Caudwell Copyright (c) 2021 Cherie Lacey, Alex Beattie, Catherine Caudwell https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81323 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 The Flusser-Hypertext: “Electronic Book Prototype 2” https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81322 <p><em>“I am but a pre-text for this work!” – Vilém Flusser (1991)</em></p> Daniel Irrgang Copyright (c) 2021 Daniel Irrgang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81322 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 From “Interfacing Objects” to “Interface Things”? Material-Strategic Notes on the Smart Speaker Design https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81321 <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> Konstantin Haensch Copyright (c) 2021 Konstantin Haensch https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81321 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Plant Sonification. Its formations and media-ecological implications https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81320 <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> Katharina Groß Copyright (c) 2021 Katharina Groß https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81320 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Skin https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81319 <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> Vilém Flusser Copyright (c) 2021 Vilém Flusser https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81319 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Are there material metaphors? A comment on Marianne van den Boomen’s interface theory https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81318 <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> Christoph Ernst Copyright (c) 2021 Christoph Ernst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81318 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Conversations on cinema and media archaeology https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81311 <p>In Memoriam Thomas Elsaesser</p> Thomas Elsaesser, Siegfried Zielinski Copyright (c) 2021 Thomas Elsaesser, Siegfried Zielinski https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81311 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 How a technical innovation in ancient textile industry pioneered a new way of thinking https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81306 <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> Ulrike Beck, Martin Jess Copyright (c) 2021 Ulrike Beck, Martin Jess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81306 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 The Gestalt of AI: Beyond the Holism-Atomism Divide https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81304 <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> Hannes Bajohr Copyright (c) 2021 Hannes Bajohr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/81304 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0200 Editorial: Navigating the Human https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/67261 <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> Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang Copyright (c) 2019 Florian Hadler, Daniel Irrgang https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/67261 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Natural User Interfaces and the Imagination of Post-Industrial Warfare: A Brief Look at Bladerunner 2049 https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66997 <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> Christoph Ernst Copyright (c) 2019 Christoph Ernst https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66997 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 From Artefacts to Interfaces: Gui Bonsiepe and the Redefinition of Industrial Design https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66996 <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> Roland Meyer Copyright (c) 2019 Roland Meyer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66996 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Taking Part. Two Steps towards Networked Computerization https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66995 <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> Jan Distelmeyer Copyright (c) 2019 Jan Distelmeyer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66995 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Mobilizing Post-industrial Subjects: Human-Computer Interaction as Aesthetic Practice https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66994 <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> Timo Kaerlein Copyright (c) 2019 Timo Kaerlein https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66994 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Special Section: Interface and the Post-industrial Society https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66993 <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> Jan Distelmeyer, Timo Kaerlein, Christoph Ernst, Roland Meyer Copyright (c) 2019 Jan Distelmeyer, Timo Kaerlein, Christoph Ernst, Roland Meyer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66993 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 American Psycho. Reading an Algorithm in Reverse https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66992 <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> Karl Wolfgang Flender Copyright (c) 2019 Karl Wolfgang Flender https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66992 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Literary Texts as Cognitive Assemblages: The Case of Electronic Literature https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66991 <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> N. Katherine Hayles Copyright (c) 2019 N. Katherine Hayles https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66991 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Meet the Machine: The Sideman 5000 Edition https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66990 <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> Darsha Hewitt Copyright (c) 2019 Darsha Hewitt https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66990 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Unintended Consequences? https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66989 <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> Katriona Beales, William Tunstall-Pedoe Copyright (c) 2019 Katriona Beales, William Tunstall-Pedoe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66989 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Still be here. The Multiplicity of Hatsune Miku https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66988 <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> Laurel Halo, Mari Matsutoya Copyright (c) 2019 Laurel Halo, Mari Matsutoya https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66988 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Lynn Hershman Leeson's Cyborg Drawings https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66987 <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> Julia Heldt Copyright (c) 2019 Julia Heldt https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66987 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Regimes on Newness: An Essay of Comparative Physiognomy https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66986 <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> Masato Fukushima Copyright (c) 2019 Masato Fukushima https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66986 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Starcity, MIR Simulator. And other Artistic Investigations https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66985 <p>Starcity, MIR Simulator. And other Artistic Investigations</p> Armin Linke Copyright (c) 2019 Armin Linke https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66985 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 You, the Users https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66984 <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> Kalli Retzepi Copyright (c) 2019 Kalli Retzepi https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66984 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Manifesto for an acentric Design https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66983 <p>Manifesto for an Acentric Design</p> Anthony Masure Copyright (c) 2019 Anthony Masure https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66983 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Notes from the Labyrinth, or: The Infinite Web https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66982 <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> Filipa Cordeiro Copyright (c) 2019 Filipa Cordeiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66982 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Oswald's Hubble https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66980 <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> Nils Röller Copyright (c) 2019 Nils Röller https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66980 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Human-Machine Interface (1984) https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66979 <p>The development of communication itself is now the development of its means; in particular, its technical means.</p> Frieder Nake Copyright (c) 2019 Frieder Nake https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66979 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Navigating (through) Sound. https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66977 <p>Auditory Interfaces in Maritime Navigation Practice, 1900–1930</p> Christoph Borbach Copyright (c) 2019 Christoph Borbach https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/66977 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200 Editorial – Beyond UX https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/45695 Editorial text of <em>Interface Critique</em> vol. 1 Florian Hadler Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/45695 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Letter to the editor of Leonardo https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44747 "[…] 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." Vilém Flusser Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44747 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Art and apparatus (a Flusserian theme). Plea for the dramatisation of the interface https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44746 "[…] 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." Siegfried Zielinski Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44746 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Automobile and information: the self, the automobile and technology https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44745 <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> Max Bense Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44745 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Applied metaphysics – objects in object-oriented ontology and object-oriented programming https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44744 <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> Gabriel Yoran Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44744 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Interfaces of immersive media https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44743 <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> Julie Woletz Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44743 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 The conceptual debts and assets of the interface https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44742 <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> Kostek Szydlowski Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44742 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Gestalt-ideas at the interface between theory and pratice https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44741 <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> Alan N. Shapiro Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44741 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Commons for cartography: How social computing changes the design of interfaces https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44740 <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> Christine Schranz Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44740 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 There is no interface (without a user). A cybernetic perspective on interaction https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44739 <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> Lasse Scherffig Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44739 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Rich user experience, UX and the desktopization of war https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44737 <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> Olia Lialina Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44737 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Training setting https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44736 <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> Branden Hookway, Maria Park Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44736 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 MNT Reform: DIY portable computer https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44735 <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> Lukas Hartmann Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44735 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Interface Mythologies – Xanadu unraveled https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44734 <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> Christian Ulrik Andersen, Søren Pold Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44734 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Drawing connections – how interfaces matter https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44733 <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> Jan Distelmeyer Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44733 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200 Transgressions at the post office counter https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44722 <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> Susanne Jany Copyright (c) 2018 Interface critique https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ic/article/view/44722 Wed, 06 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0200