After seeing the video, A Screen and Page I honestly thought it was really neat and rather interesting. I have always heard of augment reality and how it can help with a lot of things, but I do think this is pretty smart. The computer glasses read a “QR” like code which are hieroglyphs that the computer reads and then a text pops up which tend to be poems, short stories and such which I find very accessible, yet not as accessible.
I say that it is accessible, yet it isn’t because not everyone can afford augment reality glasses with a computer that is able to run the software properly. I also find it very ironic how we still need to use a book in order to have this screen and page thing to work even though society is doing their greatest efforts to go fully digital. It reminds me of previous class discussions about how technology is always looking to better itself and make itself new but always having to rely on physical book aspects to maintain its identity and proper use. Examples such as bookmarkers still being used in digital media, highlighting, annotating, circling and such. I do think the concept is really interesting and intriguing.
A Screen and Page is fascinating because it begins to make you wonder as to how this piece of literature is classified. The formatting, structure, and such are all experimentally done well and it goes to also show that literature in general is experimental, and I do believe we should play around with it more. Like our discussions and how Pressman mentioned in previous classes, there is nothing stopping you from creating a book however you want. Having this kind of mindset has me excited to see other various forms of digital media and how we interact with it as well as to how maybe one of us can create a neat book that changes how we perceive books in general. My only scare and complaint about digital media is how will AI play a part in it all and if people use AI to write their stories, then who do we call the author? The person who put the prompt into the machine, or the machine that pumped out all the words and ended up calling it a “story”? Many interesting questions and conversations to have around digital media and why it is important in today’s time.
Good questions! I think that word is most interesting about this piece is that you really don’t need a book to do augmented reality, but this piece makes it very bookish– turns the book into a beautiful item and element in the communication circuit of reading.
Eager to have conversations with you this week!
Hi Mario, I like your post! It is interesting how despite the use of augmented reality, you still need a book to access the text. That makes me think that this is a great example of the intersection between the digital and codex age. It feels as if there are a lot of examples out in the world of using familiar physical mediums in conjunction with digital mediums–it makes me think of common front-facing computer wording like how “file explorer” on windows computers is in the shape of a physical file