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 project was a bit like diving into the deep end of a pool, never having seen water before. This is my first foray Read More
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 object-pool of the internet is to be flattened out into sameness and obscurity. Gone are the hierarchical or affective qualities that Read More
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 advertisements. Forbes recently published a post linking this Ikea advertisement with a Norwegian sketch called “Introducing the Book” that was posted before the Read More