{"id":4801,"date":"2020-09-09T14:32:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/?p=4801"},"modified":"2020-09-09T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:32:40","slug":"axol_reading02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/yunyizhaandrew-cmu-edu\/09\/09\/axol_reading02\/","title":{"rendered":"axol_Reading02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Naimark proses the idea of first word art (&#8220;First word art is groundbreaking and exploratory&#8221;), and last word art ( &#8220;Last word art is virtuosity after the rules have been fixed&#8221; and has to withstand the test of time).<\/p>\n<p>When a work is technologically novel, then it has to eventually face the challenge of new technologies. The old Doom game was considered a peak in its graphical performance, or the old FF7 adding 3D graphics and was considered as a technological jump. The two examples above are both &#8220;first word&#8221; works from a technological point of view. But what made them withstand the test of time was their content, and not their graphics.<\/p>\n<p>New technology can bring new additions, new experiences to the work. It&#8217;s hard mark what&#8217;s a &#8220;last word&#8221; art on a certain technology. Technology is constantly evolving, and certain aspects\u00a0 that maybe considered &#8220;last work&#8221; at the time&#8211; because that&#8217;s the best the technology had enabled them to do&#8211; will no longer be considered so when the technology evolves(good example is graphics). Thus the novelty of work, if wished to withstand the test of time&#8211; should not merely be the technology, but how you use it, and what you&#8217;re creating with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Naimark proses the idea of first word art (&#8220;First word art is groundbreaking and exploratory&#8221;), and last word art ( &#8220;Last word art is virtuosity after the rules have been fixed&#8221; and has to withstand the test of time). When a work is technologically novel, then it has to eventually face the challenge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/yunyizhaandrew-cmu-edu\/09\/09\/axol_reading02\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;axol_Reading02&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}