Novas dimensões vêm com novas responsabilidades. — Todos nós sabemos que o Metaverso — gostemos ou não — é uma utopia tecnológica inegável. Para além de qualquer produto que o (antigo) Facebook venha a apresentar, o Metaverso é uma mídia que está à espreita há algum tempo, do Habbo Hotel ao Second Life; todos destinados ao ostracismo…

New dimensions come with new responsibilities. — We all know that the Metaverse — like it or not — is an undeniable technological utopia. Beyond whatever product the former Facebook comes up with, Metaverse is a media that has been lurking around for some time now, from Habbo…

Procedural versus Diegetic applications. — The use of narrativity in interactive applications is far from something simple. And here we are not dealing with the intrinsic complexities of a script writing, but distinct narrative methods that could even disregard the use of scripts all along. This directly reflects the simple fact that a narrative is…

Time for a big-picture discussion concerning experience in the area of user experiencies. — The tragic consequences of the COVID-19 in our lives are broadly covered in everyday news, so that we can skip that part for now. It is fair to claim that among the overwhelming spread of the virus itself, we witness the rapid spreading of a certain COVID-19 lifestyle. We deal…

In hindsight, an interface is a thing that came into being as a result of a multitude of complex relations in both orders: social and technological. The most important aspect of these relations is that these two elements are indissociable, for every technological achievement is a social achievement. These questions…

Tradução moralmente obrigatória do artigo de Dirk Philipsen em Aeon — A realidade vigente é mais uma vez tentar romper a agonia de uma pandemia mundial e a desumanidade duradoura da opressão racista. Trabalhadores da saúde arriscando suas vidas pelos outros, redes de ajuda mútua capacitando comunidades, fazendeiros entregando alimentos para clientes em quarentena, mães formando filas para proteger os jovens…

There is a very specific point in western culture where the control over images was deeply transformed from free abstraction (a more semantic construction of imagery) to an objectivity-based, or better, mathematically biased depiction of concepts. Semiotically, the depiction of anything, however technical and accurate, is faded to be, ultimately…

It is an ever-recurring topic: The issue of what comes to be an ‘image’. The anthropological fact — now fairly recognized — that an image is a cultural metaphor is quite clear. This clarity is mostly derived from Hegelian-Marxian shift on the origins of meaning, bringing it into something more…