6.02.2006

Bookmark: Digital Shadows

A piece inspired by Warren Ellis about creating digital shadows with things.

She goes more into the leaving a trail of how a piece or item is designed in the digital shadows which is a way of thinking of it that I had not. I always saw these digital marks in a work as a way to learn more and go into the next thread of thought or see where the information in a given work comes from.

Everytime I see this idea come up I think of the professor at State who wanted to create a hyperlink text of Critical Theory so students could jump to the other theories and philosophies and writings which created a certain theory.

Wikipedia does this to some extent,as do other encyclopedia software, where a reader can jump from article to another in the encyclopedia which has relvance. But to have something in a work you are reading or watching which allows you to see how the work was put together and where its inspiration comes from and where it is leading is surely the next step.

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