The IKEA Catalogue: From the “BookBook” to the Database
This IKEA advertisement describes their catalogue (a book) in the terms we would normally use to describe a new form of technology (namely computers) while mimicking the tone and aesthetic of Apple...
View ArticleDatabase Dance Floor: Manovich and Leckey
The idea of a database would be somewhat terrifying, I imagine, for the things that are databased (or archived), if they had the capacity to feel terrified. To be swallowed up by the endless...
View ArticleDracula as Epistolary Database – Alanna, Jess and Hilary
For our Boot Camp, we worked together with programmers to create a database of the epistolary texts present in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Alanna on her conception of the Dracula database project: This...
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