Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Chapter 5

This chapter talks about multiple-windows and multi-screens. The example includes lots of the films with split-screens, or frame-in-frame: such as Suspense, It’s Always Fair Weather, Pillow Talk, Sisters, and The Thomas Crown Affair etc. Other art forms as Andy Warhol’s repeated images and McLuhan’s performance are introduced too. Especially, this chapter talks about computer windows – the history of how computer has developed into a multi-window system that we see today.

To me, multiple windows means concurrency — things or events happen at the same time. For example, programs in different windows of the computer are running at the same time. The scenes in the split screens of a movie are happening simultaneously. It’s up to the receiver to decide whether receiving all information together or pick the one with high priority to him. Because of these multi-screens and multi-windows, people are busy receiving and processing the multi-channels information every day. It is a challenge to stay clear and keep own vision.

Luckily, windows in computer are still FRAMED within the monitor so far. The time of frameless has not come yet.

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