http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/uciart_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Open Access Policy Deposits Mon, 2 Nov 2026 13:34:17 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vq5d685 Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vq5d685 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Penny, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-5541 Postman, Neil https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ft7c1dh What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ft7c1dh Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Penny, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-5541 Dreyfus, Herbert https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58s8p9wj Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58s8p9wj Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Penny, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-5541 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14r2p87x Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14r2p87x Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Penny, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-5541 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w42d6p2 As I write this, at the end of 2010, it is sobering to reflect on the fact that over a couple of decades of explosive development in new media art (or ‘digital multimedia’ as it used to be called), in screen based as well as ‘embodied’ and gesture based interaction, the aesthetics of interaction doesn’t seem to have advanced much. At the same time, interaction schemes and dynamics which were once only known in obscure corners of the world of media art research/creation have found their way into commodities from 3D TV and game platforms (Wii, Kinect) to sophisticated phones (iPhone, Android). While increasingly sophisticated theoretical analyses (from Manovich, 2002 to Chun, 2008 to Hansen, 2006, more recently Stern, 2011 and others) have brought diverse perspectives to bear, I am troubled by the fact that we appear to have advanced little in our ability to qualitatively discuss the characteristics of aesthetically rich interaction and interactivity and the complexities of designing... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w42d6p2 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Penny, SG https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5084-5541