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, alongside Jay David Bolter, develops the concept of "immediacy"—the drive to make digital interfaces transparent and self-effacing so users experience direct access to content rather than mediation. This framework is invoked in the course readings to theorize how contemporary interfaces attempt to hide their own technical apparatus, a crucial concern for understanding how machines and digital systems shape perception and interaction in networked societies.
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