"Interface as Provocation"

In the Final Analysis

Johanna Drucker's focus on scholarly applications new visual forms is apparent as she winds down Graphesis in Interface and Interpretation and Designing Graphic Interpretation.

The Drucker Advantage

What I appreciate about her point-of-view and nexus of experience is her concern with how new mediums will either stifle or hyper-foster the dawn of future learning.

Reifications of...Graphification

It was most amusing to read that late medieval books have more blood affinity with books nowadays than with their earlier era counterparts. It emphasized how reifications of graphical standards can structure entire experiences of our world, each other and the information we use to navigate it.

Finally: Interface as Provocation

Her invitation to think about "interface as provocation" rang loud and clear as it resonates with why I am studying in the program today.

Some Personal Thoughts

Working in app development, business development, IGOs where deliverables do indeed follow a seamless, continuous search for the final "truth" to be signed, sealed and delivered to the client or end user prompts questions of how we can infuse confrontations within our creations.

It is from this standpoint that I appreciate Drucker's vocal presence on humanistic interfaces. After all, we have tools to fulfill any sort of imagined practical requirement nowadays. I also find it the more interesting task at hand to experiment with tools that are no longer tools, but provocations that allow us as humans to enter into higher levels of discourse with one another.