{"id":6433,"date":"2005-10-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/post-2\/"},"modified":"2005-10-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T23:00:00","slug":"post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/17\/post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloquent Images<\/i> II"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 4<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

Wysocki – "Seriously Visible," 37-59
\nFirst, hypertexts, in their affordances of choice, are inherently engaging, and
\nthese engaging properties (engagementalities?) extend to civic and democratic
\npractices (freedom, liberty, etc.).  Second, predominantly visual documents
\nare unserious; they are the stuff of children’s books–lite, silly and
\nnon-rigorous. Wysocki opens with these old feints, and offers "responsive
\ncounterexamples" elaborated through analyses of
\nScrutiny in the
\nGreat Round<\/a><\/i> and
\nThrowing Apples
\nat the Sun<\/a><\/i>, two visualmedia pieces.  Before introducing the
\ncounterexamples, Wysocki thickens the air with surveys of the critical tensions
\ninvested in the opening positions.  To set up the idea of hypertext reader
\nas civic agent, she cites Lanham, Bolter, Edward Barrett (cognitive science),
\nWoodland, Nielsen, then extends to Mill, Habermas and Virilio to explain the
\ncorrelation between hypertext as choice and the dependence of public sphere on
\ndivergent opinions.  Importantly, Wysocki includes a section in the essay
\n(40-41) to acknowledge the "quickness of [her] preceding arguments" before
\nimparting a second survey of positions suggesting that the visual is elementary,
\nagain from Habermas and Virilio.  Included here are a series of scholars who
\nhave called for renewed attention to the complexity and dimension of images
\n(42-43).  Before shifting into the analysis of the visualmedia pieces,
\nWysocki explains, <\/p>\n

\n

\nThe assumption behind the critique of the visual is that we take
\nin what we see, automatically and immediately, in the exact same way as everyone
\nelse, so that the visual requires no interpretation and in fact functions as
\nthough we have no power before it[…]; the assumption behind the celebrations
\nof hypertext is that any text that presents us with choice of movement through
\nit necessarily requires interpretation (43).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

The analyses of Scrutiny in the Great Round<\/i> and Throwing Apples at
\nthe Sun<\/i> are nuanced and insightful; this got me thinking that I probably
\nought to spend some time interacting with one of the pieces first-hand. 
\nThe analyses are also successful in that the attention to detail and difference
\neffectively demonstrates Wysocki’s response to the opening bits, arguing, in
\neffect, that "visual texts can be as pleasurably challenging as some word-full
\ntexts" (56).  A few other brief quotations–copied here–round out the
\nessay, which closes with pedagogical assertions:<\/p>\n

"But we can compose in new ways only if we acknowledge that the visual and
\nhypertextual aspects of our texts are not monolithic.  Even to say ‘the
\nvisual’ or ‘the hypertextual’ is to imply that anything that fits under one of
\nthose signifiers points to the same signified; the pieces of multimedia I have
\nanalyzed show this not to be the case" (57).<\/p>\n

"If we want there to be more complex texts in the world and more complex and
\nactive readers and citizens, then let’s work with people in our classes to make
\nsuch texts and to develop together the abilities and concerns to help us be the
\nlatter" (57). <\/p>\n

Kirschenbaum – "The Word as Image in an Age of Digital Reproduction," 137-156
\nMany people presume that "the boundaries between word and image have never been
\nmore permeable than they are now" (136), but images and text are very different
\ndata-structures and those differences figure significantly in projects designed
\nto digitize illuminated texts such as William Blake’s poetry (141). 
\nFurthermore, image and word are defined by their technical structures; anyone
\nwith a dial-up modem understands that image files are larger and slower to load,
\nKirschenbaum explains.  These distinctive constitutions limit the kinds of
\n"electronic moves" (142)  we can make with words and images.  For
\ntagging and retrieval, this means that images must, in effect, be partnered with
\na descriptive lexicon; Kirschenbaum shares an example of the "characteristic
\ncomponents" used to identify Blake’s "The Shepherd": shepherd, male, young,
\nshort, crook, tights, standing, contrapposto, and looking (146). <\/p>\n

There are two other examples of text and image complicated by visualization
\n(as in, is it image or is it word?): the
\n
\nLanguage Visualization and Research group at Cornell<\/a> (148) and Kirshenbaum’s
\nown project using VRML in
\nLucid
\nMapping and Codex Transformation in the Z-Buffer<\/a><\/i> (150).  Once the
\ntext surrenders into image–as is the case with the 3D narrative
\nproject–writing activity slides to second chair, outdone by "the kaleidoscopic
\nvisual effects" (153).  With this description of his project, Kischenbaum
\nincludes the question, "Can one speak of ‘links’ in a 3-D writing space, or does
\nthe addition of a third dimension foreground the extent to which linking is a
\n‘flatland technology’?" (150).  Hmm.  Flatland technology. About the
\nLucid Mapping project, Kirshenbaum writes, "I meant to suggest a sentient and
\ndirected narrative experience, assembled ‘on the fly’ in response to changing
\nvisual and spatial conditions within a graphical environment: a mapping that
\nthen in turn alters the topography of the environment itself, and so on, thus
\nsustaining the classic cybernetic feedback loop" (152).  There is a whole
\nlot more to say about the split between image-text as conceptual blend (or even
\n"aesthetic conceit") and image-text as technically constituted, and I want to
\nlook again at this article with more thought about the archival material (how
\ndifferent are the humanities computing initiatives from our own efforts to
\nremake the image-bound archives of CCC Online<\/i>?).  In as summative of
\na statement as I could locate, Kirschenbaum ends the article with, "My point is
\nthat there are significant ontological continuities with analog media that are
\nnot adequately accounted for by casual assertions about the blurred boundaries
\nbetween word and image" (153).<\/p>\n

Quotations
\n"The point I want to illustrate through the above discussion is that one cannot
\ntalk about words as images and images as words without taking into account the
\ntechnologies of representation upon which both forms depend" (141).
\nThe notion that digital texts and images are infinitely fluid and malleable is
\nan aesthetic conceit divorced from technical practice, a consensual
\nhallucination in the same way that William Gibson’s neuromantic ‘lines of light’
\ndelineate an imaginative ideal rather than any actual cyberspaces" (154).<\/p>\n

Terms: jaggies (142), imageforms (145), image-vector-text and scalability
\n(152), lucid mapping (152)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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