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…
Richard Grusin
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Grusin, working with Jay David Bolter, theorizes "immediacy" as a key concept in how digital media create the illusion of transparent access to content by making the interface itself invisible to the user. His work appears here to ground a critical discussion of how interfaces function rhetorically—erasing their own presence—which is central to understanding how cybernetic systems and AI mediate our perception of reality. This concept becomes essential for examining the politics of mediation in art and technology, particularly how "transparent" systems obscure their own operations and design choices.
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