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Survey of Interactive Entertai
Midterm
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Internet/New Media
Undergraduate 2
01/29/2009

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Marshall McLuhan
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Termed "Media is the message"
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Lumiere Brothers
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Created first motion picture. Made on Cinematograph, people were scared and ran out of film because they thought train was real
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William Gibson
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Neuromancer
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Jean Baudrillard
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Simulation and Simulacra-featured in Matrix
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Henry Bergson
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bases of reality is Flux.
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Happenings
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events blurring lines between performers and audience Lascaux Caves
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Marcel Duchamp
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Art is idea not image, readymade
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Andy Warhol
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Art is for everyone, multiples
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John Cage
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Fluxus influence
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The 16th Century print shop
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made info available to everyone
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
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Came up with Binary Code, wanted universal language
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Charles Babbage
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The Analytical Machine, came up with first mechanical computer idea
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Ada Lovelace
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first computer programmer, wrote code for Analytical Machine
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Joseph Jacquard's Loom
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used punch cards from loom for Charles Babbage's Analytical Machine
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Alan Turing
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father of computer science, made Turing Machine, came up with idea of software
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ENIAC
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Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer first general application computer
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Vanevar Bush
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"As we may think" pioneered idea of internet/webpage
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MITS Altair
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first personal comptuer
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
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founders of Apple, worked at Atari
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Daniel Bricklin
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VisiCalc-first spread sheet
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Sputnik
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1957, Russian Satalight, inspired space race
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J.C. Licklider
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worked for DARPA, created internet by networking computers
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DARPA
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Projects Agency
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internet started with ARPAnet
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packet switching
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breaking down data over network then reassembling it
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Archie
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first search engine
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Mosaic
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first web browser
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David Rockeby
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digital interactive artist, constraints create illusion of control
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"The Media is the message"
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media changing relationships, technology becoming extension of self
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"Desert of the Real"
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we now create our own worlds
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Global Village
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contraction of space and time
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Janet Murray's Triangle of Immersion
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REALISM-physics, consistency, sound
AGENCY- sense of control, avatar behaving way you expect
URGENCY- thing that compels you to do something
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Computer "bug"
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fist bug was moth caught is ENIAC
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MMO
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Massively Multiplayer Online
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Cyberspace
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William Gibson coined term, Parallel Universe
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Zeitgeist
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spirit of the times
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ideology
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something people believe in
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Cubism
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multiple perspectives, breaking idea of time and space
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Surrealism
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alternate reality, influenced by dreams
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Futurism
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about speed, motion, new technology, and youth
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Fluxus
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one foot in past and one in the future, temporality playing with time, globalism, intermedia, chance
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New Media/ Interactive Art
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emphasizes ideas of time and space, dependent on interaction of viewer and program. false sense of control
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Environmental Storytelling
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sense of story from space
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Convergence
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devices doing more then one thing, unification
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Collective Intelligence
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don't have to explain, your assumed to know, continuous circuit
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Hypertext
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dynamic linking texts to information
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Tim Berners Lee
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WWW, URL, HTML
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Paul Allen, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer
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founded Microsoft
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Nolan Bushnell
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Atari founder, founded Chuck E. Cheese's
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Ralph Baer
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created Odyssey and idea for Simon and Pong
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Daniel Bunton Berry
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M.U.L.E idea that people should come together to play games, multiplayer game, interactive family game
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William Crowther
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Adventure-first text adventure
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Roberta Williams
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Sierra Online-graphic adventure, sound in games
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Chris Crawford
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Balance of Power-game about Cold War, founded GDC
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Shigeru Miyamoto
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Created Mario, Donkey Kong, works for Nintendo, got narrative in games
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Tennis for Two
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fist "game" William Higgybottom created on Asyliscope
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Space Wars
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first computer game
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Pong
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launched home consoles, created by Atari
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Pac-Man
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Namco, first high score, crossed gender lines
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Reverse Engineer
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finding out how something works then recreating it
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