TETRA - Post Media Condition + Gramophone, Film, Typewritter

Our group came to the conclusion that Gramophone, Film, Typewriter by Friedrich Kittler and The Post-Media Condition by Peter Weibel were not written appropriately as they are both unnecessarily hard to read. Both texts were jumping from one point to another without creating logical bridges between their ideas. An example would be in the introduction of Gramophone, Film, Typewriter text: he talks about media, but then suddenly jumps to Alan Turing.

As a consequence, we had to read between the lines of their own writing. The very word “writing” held different meaning through the ages: from a direct link to the author’s scribbling hands, to writing on a keyboard with pre-selected keys and formulas for simple standard communication - a medium. The need for a computable network made of formulas brought humanity to a digital uniformisation, a way to compile all information and write it on a universal storage/network. Writing as historically been used to symbolize enlightenment, something sacred to learn. Now, gods can be stored on chips and man puts his memories out of his mind and into a machine he made to his image: computing.

Key Question:
What is the difference between computer-generated art and art created by humans nowadays?

MC Lariviere, Miha Eftene, Etienne Bolduc, Madison Hunt