Windows and Mirrors

: Interaction Design, Digital Art and The Myth of Transparency

Jay Bolter and Diane Gromala
MIT Press, 2003
Translated into Japanese, 2004

Colophon : Excretia and Reading as a Reflective Experience

Excretia combines the two overarching visions of digital technology that we discussed in the first chapter: the computer as symbol manipulator and the computer as a manipulator of perceptions. Excretia does not deny the symbolic nature of writing. The writer still uses visible language to communicate. Instead, biomorphic type adds another layer of meaning to visible language by infusing the letters with a representation of the material and bodily nature of writing. If foregrounds the material side of writing that had been downplayed and even suppressed in centuries of printing and in the first decades of computing. (p.169)

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About the book
Contents
Chapter 1, 2, 3
Chapter 4, 5, 6
Chapter 7, 8, 9
Colophon

ⓒ Diane Gromala, 2007