the cognitive style of powerpoint.

two questions;
1. i feel like i learned nothing from reading this, except maybe some about nasa &the columbia shuttle. i don't understand why tufte is so bitter &cynical toward powerpoint. if he believes there is a better way to make presentations, then why not just make better presentations? tufte has all kinds of negative criticisms, but as seen in the one-page "improving presentations" out of a thirty-page writing, no real suggestions.
2. does tufte understand that powerpoint is taught to children in schools to teach them public speaking? i doubt many legitimate educators dismiss essays &papers &replace them with powerpoint presentation assignments. it is true that the rules of the english language and syntax are ignored or lost in the formation of data on powerpoint slides, but recalling data by the prompt of a bullet note &being able to speak well &give a coherent presentation before a group of people is a skill i believe children gain from learning in school.

2 questions

The Work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

1. Reproduction: it is made by people who want to fill selfishness. They wanted to have quality of the art in low prices. However, the reproduction has positive and negative parts such as people could earn education or the lost of aura of real one, the value of the work, are missing. The reproduction are deep into our lives if it is can not be reject there could be many ways to make this to more positive. What people need to do? Moreover, what is aura? What is value of the work? In the book, the author mentions “the accent is on the value”, “the exhibition value of the work.” What is different?

2. There are some of step of reproduction such as copying the work, by the photo, by computer, movie, and advertising. Furthermore, what is gab between audience and artist? Is that really impact the audience because there are mechanical system between art work and audience? Moreover, is mechanical reproduction not art?

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The cognitive style of power point: pitching out corrupts within

1. Even the Power Point lost their meaning; there are many great power points that are use for the business. It could be unmeaning or no useful but there are plenty ways to make this power point work better.

2. The Edward R. Tufte’s idea of the good power point might works good for most people. However, I think it is more personal thing. I mean it could be more weight on personal opinion. I greed with simplify of the design of presentation and text. They are good ideas but sometime people need more word or more expiation. I think people need develops their own way to make good presentation.

first things first &the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.

two questions;
1. why did the 22 visual designers feel the need to write &sign the 2000 design manifesto when the work an artist does is truly the individual artist's choice? designers are not being forced to put their talents toward certain areas. artists who feel their expertise &help is needed in the areas of cultural interventions, social marketing campaigns, books, magazines, exhibitions, educational tools, television programs, films, charitable causes, etc., should focus their work toward these areas. artists who believe their skills are more useful in advertising, marketing, and brand development should not be made to feel guilty if that is the work they choose to utilize their talents in. artists should create what they want to &what they feel is important, not what other designers tell them to. who decides what is "worthwhile use?"
2. in reading the paragraph that introduces the idea of the surgeon &the magician in "the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction," the preceding material in the essay gave me the idea that benjamin was referring to the painter as the surgeon &the cameraman as the magician. did anyone else feel this way, that benjamin would consider the painter a surgeon, diminishing the distance between himself and his work, and the cameraman a magician, creating in hiding "multiple fragments which are assembled under a new law?" i was confused &surprised when his opinions were clarified in the following paragraph ("the painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the cameraman penetrates deeply into its web") because i was originally so intrigued by the comparison.

Manovich 2 questions

1. Paragraph 5: The "non-transparency of the code" idea confuses me. Actually, the whole paragraph confuses me. Is cultural communication refering to the interface?

2. Paragraph 6: The cut and paste is "blind" to the traditional distinction between spatial and temporal media, scale and media. I don't understand what "renders insignificant distiction/blind" means in the "cut and paste" operation. What is a "temporal composition?"

the interface.

two questions;
1. "in society, work and leisure activities... increasingly involve computer use..." at what point will work &play &all other ways in which we spend our time merge into being completely computer-dependent?
2. because artwork created digitally depends so much on the program in which it is created, which can itself be considered a work of art, is it a stretch to call the artwork a collaboration piece between "artist/s" &program designer/s?