According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, interface is described in physics as a “surface separating two phases of matter.” As matter can only be applied to machines but not digital applications, the use of the term interface here reflects …Ascott, R. (2007). In E. A. Shanken (Ed.), Telematic embrace: Visionary theories of art, technology, and consciousness by Roy Ascott. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Ascott, R. (2008). Editorial: Cybernetic, technoetic, syncretic…[^18]: The practice of attempting to make the medium transparent to the user is not new. According to Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin (2000), immediacy is a “transparent interface [that] would (be one that) erases itself, so that the us…
Jay David Bolter
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Bolter (with Richard Grusin) theorizes the concept of "immediacy"—the desire for transparent interfaces that efface themselves from user consciousness—which stands as a foundational concept for understanding how digital media naturalizes its own mediation. In this course's framework, immediacy becomes crucial for analyzing how AI systems and cybernetic interfaces present themselves as neutral conduits rather than constructed artifacts, masking the ideological and technical choices embedded in their design. His work enables critical examination of how machine learning interfaces promise direct access to knowledge or control while obscuring the algorithmic and architectural decisions that shape what users perceive as possible.
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