Comments on: Making technology vs. using technology http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology with Alexandra Samuel Tue, 22 May 2012 14:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Barcode http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-197894 Barcode Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:43:59 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-197894 Nice post, thanks for the share of this information. No one to choose among the two. Everyone should be responsible in using the technology. Nice post, thanks for the share of this information. No one to choose among the two. Everyone should be responsible in using the technology.

]]> By: Barcode http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-197737 Barcode Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:43:59 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-197737 Nice post, thanks for the share of this information. No one to choose among the two. Everyone should be responsible in using the technology. Nice post, thanks for the share of this information. No one to choose among the two. Everyone should be responsible in using the technology.

]]> By: Glen Lowry http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-188010 Glen Lowry Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:22:09 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-188010 Nice to read this blog post reframing the question of making—our lunch conversation—in relation to how we work with or on technology. I've continued thinking about your idea to bring artists and bloggers together and about my concern about the time and space of these meetings. I argued that what most working artists do involves a radically different sense of material process than that most generally associated with making art—object-based studio practice. I suggested that it would be pretty hard to get a sense of their creative practice by visiting many artists in the studio. I recalled how Kathleen Ritter pointed our, in relation to her VAG exhibition How Soon is Now (http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html), that the "studio visit" now tends to happen in a coffee shop with artist and curator gathered around a laptop. The distinction I'm interested in following involves an extended understanding of practice that sees the studio not as the primary locus of artistic production (art making) but as a node in a wider network or temporal-spatial matrix that includes many social actors—individuals and institutions. This is a point your post focuses for me: that is, how new digital media are at the crux of this shift in art practices, and how our relation to software (social software in particular) might function as both a mode of creative practice and metaphor for the investigation of these changes. Nice to read this blog post reframing the question of making—our lunch conversation—in relation to how we work with or on technology.
I’ve continued thinking about your idea to bring artists and bloggers together and about my concern about the time and space of these meetings. I argued that what most working artists do involves a radically different sense of material process than that most generally associated with making art—object-based studio practice. I suggested that it would be pretty hard to get a sense of their creative practice by visiting many artists in the studio. I recalled how Kathleen Ritter pointed our, in relation to her VAG exhibition How Soon is Now (http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html), that the “studio visit” now tends to happen in a coffee shop with artist and curator gathered around a laptop.
The distinction I’m interested in following involves an extended understanding of practice that sees the studio not as the primary locus of artistic production (art making) but as a node in a wider network or temporal-spatial matrix that includes many social actors—individuals and institutions. This is a point your post focuses for me: that is, how new digital media are at the crux of this shift in art practices, and how our relation to software (social software in particular) might function as both a mode of creative practice and metaphor for the investigation of these changes.

]]> By: Glen Lowry http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-198514 Glen Lowry Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:22:00 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-198514 Nice to read this blog post reframing the question of making—our lunch conversation—in relation to how we work with or on technology. I've continued thinking about your idea to bring artists and bloggers together and about my concern about the time and space of these meetings. I argued that what most working artists do involves a radically different sense of material process than that most generally associated with making art—object-based studio practice. I suggested that it would be pretty hard to get a sense of their creative practice by visiting many artists in the studio. I recalled how Kathleen Ritter pointed our, in relation to her VAG exhibition How Soon is Now (http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html), that the "studio visit" now tends to happen in a coffee shop with artist and curator gathered around a laptop. The distinction I'm interested in following involves an extended understanding of practice that sees the studio not as the primary locus of artistic production (art making) but as a node in a wider network or temporal-spatial matrix that includes many social actors—individuals and institutions. This is a point your post focuses for me: that is, how new digital media are at the crux of this shift in art practices, and how our relation to software (social software in particular) might function as both a mode of creative practice and metaphor for the investigation of these changes. Nice to read this blog post reframing the question of making—our lunch conversation—in relation to how we work with or on technology.
I’ve continued thinking about your idea to bring artists and bloggers together and about my concern about the time and space of these meetings. I argued that what most working artists do involves a radically different sense of material process than that most generally associated with making art—object-based studio practice. I suggested that it would be pretty hard to get a sense of their creative practice by visiting many artists in the studio. I recalled how Kathleen Ritter pointed our, in relation to her VAG exhibition How Soon is Now (http://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_how_soon_is_now.html), that the “studio visit” now tends to happen in a coffee shop with artist and curator gathered around a laptop.
The distinction I’m interested in following involves an extended understanding of practice that sees the studio not as the primary locus of artistic production (art making) but as a node in a wider network or temporal-spatial matrix that includes many social actors—individuals and institutions. This is a point your post focuses for me: that is, how new digital media are at the crux of this shift in art practices, and how our relation to software (social software in particular) might function as both a mode of creative practice and metaphor for the investigation of these changes.

]]> By: Mia http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-187950 Mia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:56:28 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-187950 Thanks for sharing this. I agree that it is a continuum, most of us 'tinker' at least from time to time with our technology - particularly when we are forced to find a new way of doing something, or forced to repair some broken program. My mother (in her 40's) has only learned how to do very basic things with computers in the last few years, like send an email. Her parents have also recently bought a computer and are learning how to use it. I am impressed with how much they have worked out by themselves without needing help from one of their kids or grandkids. I guess the same is true for me - I get my dad to "fix" many things on my computer if he is around, but if he is not, I usually figure it out myself. Rcently my laptop has got several virus threats and has crashed - I searched forums online and did a bunch of things I have never done before (like starting up my laptop on safe mode). I managed to fix whatever was going wrong with my laptop. Thanks for sharing this. I agree that it is a continuum, most of us ‘tinker’ at least from time to time with our technology – particularly when we are forced to find a new way of doing something, or forced to repair some broken program.

My mother (in her 40′s) has only learned how to do very basic things with computers in the last few years, like send an email. Her parents have also recently bought a computer and are learning how to use it. I am impressed with how much they have worked out by themselves without needing help from one of their kids or grandkids. I guess the same is true for me – I get my dad to “fix” many things on my computer if he is around, but if he is not, I usually figure it out myself. Rcently my laptop has got several virus threats and has crashed – I searched forums online and did a bunch of things I have never done before (like starting up my laptop on safe mode). I managed to fix whatever was going wrong with my laptop.

]]> By: Mia http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-198513 Mia Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:56:00 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-198513 Thanks for sharing this. I agree that it is a continuum, most of us 'tinker' at least from time to time with our technology - particularly when we are forced to find a new way of doing something, or forced to repair some broken program. My mother (in her 40's) has only learned how to do very basic things with computers in the last few years, like send an email. Her parents have also recently bought a computer and are learning how to use it. I am impressed with how much they have worked out by themselves without needing help from one of their kids or grandkids. I guess the same is true for me - I get my dad to "fix" many things on my computer if he is around, but if he is not, I usually figure it out myself. Rcently my laptop has got several virus threats and has crashed - I searched forums online and did a bunch of things I have never done before (like starting up my laptop on safe mode). I managed to fix whatever was going wrong with my laptop. Thanks for sharing this. I agree that it is a continuum, most of us ‘tinker’ at least from time to time with our technology – particularly when we are forced to find a new way of doing something, or forced to repair some broken program.

My mother (in her 40′s) has only learned how to do very basic things with computers in the last few years, like send an email. Her parents have also recently bought a computer and are learning how to use it. I am impressed with how much they have worked out by themselves without needing help from one of their kids or grandkids. I guess the same is true for me – I get my dad to “fix” many things on my computer if he is around, but if he is not, I usually figure it out myself. Rcently my laptop has got several virus threats and has crashed – I searched forums online and did a bunch of things I have never done before (like starting up my laptop on safe mode). I managed to fix whatever was going wrong with my laptop.

]]> By: Call Center Services Outsourcing http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-187864 Call Center Services Outsourcing Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:49:17 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-187864 I think I' m somewhere between tinkerer and hacker. I think I’ m somewhere between tinkerer and hacker.

]]> By: Call Center Services Outsourci http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/productivity/making-technology-vs-using-technology#comment-198512 Call Center Services Outsourci Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:49:00 +0000 http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/?p=6825#comment-198512 I think I' m somewhere between tinkerer and hacker. I think I’ m somewhere between tinkerer and hacker.

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