I just wanted to point out before I get into the big cheese that the notion of 'transparency' and 'glass' seems to have different meaning in our world. Transparency of information means that everyone could see and access everything. Diminishing boundaries of censorship seems to be the key idea, mutual understanding through clarity between both sides of the glass.
And then there's some other phrases like the 'glass ceiling'. Its used to describe how women in the work force have limited opportunity to get into highly paid positions and get lower wages than males in the workforce.
Andrew basically suggests how meanings are static in regards to what perspective you're looking at something.
There's this idea that photos and visualising data gives us a dimension or frame of what we're looking at. But it alone has an insignificant meaning to the wider picture. But visualisation's become ubiquitous in everyday life. It might seem to exist in one plane of visualisation but in reality, its become invading and mediating in all forms, creating different relationships with one another. Portable information such as the iPhone, computers and then there's information that is moving and motionless. Videos and flash animated advertisements compared to posters and large promotional texts. Much like Google Maps, a single plane is now not enough. We get different ways of looking at the same thing, street view or map views.
Looking back on the lecture slides there's also aggregation. The idea that we're mixing all kinds of stuff together in this giant data blender. Different ways of synthesising ideas to create new meanings. Like remixing videos and songs, youtube poops etc.
Here's a video I wanted to post some weeks ago. Its a video of aggregation. Its how we combine shadow puppetry with live action motion. We create new interesting ways of seeing things by aggregating information. Or you could say we aggregation exists when the world has gotten bored with the old.
