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The Production of a Feminist InterSpace

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This is a position paper in response to Johanna Drucker’s chapter “Interface and Interpretation”, in her 2014 book Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Productions. To read the author’s related annotated bibliography, click here. The Production of InterSpace: Imagining a Feminist GUI Design Process by Nathalie Down “The structure of an interface is information, not nearly a means to accept it.” I want to draw attention to Drucker’s position that the graphical user interface (GUI) is best understood as a “space of provocation in which a performative event takes place,” rather than a “representation of computational processes” (138). This paradigmatic shift from perceiving interface as a thing … Continue reading The Production of a Feminist InterSpace

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Interface and Interpretation, in Graphesis

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Drucker, Johanna. “Interface and Interpretation.” Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014. 138–179. Print. By Nathalie Down The chapter “Interface and Interpretation” from Johanna Drucker’s latest book, Graphesis, provides an exceptional and much-needed critique of the graphical user interface (GUI), the dominant feature of screens on most modern computational devices. Although the value of the chapter tends be overshadowed by the book’s more prominent knowledge contribution – the groundwork for an essentially new field of graphic-based semiotics – the insights presented within are of critical import to scholars across disciplines, to designers and engineers, and indeed … Continue reading Interface and Interpretation, in Graphesis