Dear Professor Margolin,
I understand that your query originates and seems focused only to the Western concept of data. I am wondering however if your "chronicle - of the Western - history of software programs - related - to data capture, data protection " and data use would'nt be advantageously highlighted through a somewhat comparative allusion to data creating and use in various other world cultures, not forgetting pre-modern cultures in the West as well..
Kind regards
François
Montréal
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>Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:41:16 -0800
>From: Victor Margolin <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: PHD-DESIGN Digest - 27 Feb 2006 to 28 Feb 2006 (#2006-54)
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>Dear colleagues:
>i would like to introduce a new copy to the list: the design of
>equipment for surveillance and data capture, sorting, and
>organization. I am interested in exploring the history of a host of
>devices that have been invented for producing and organizing data:
>these include
>credit card machines,
>fingerprinting machines
>facial technology machines
>credit cards
>swipe cards
>toll booth machines that register swipe cards
>chip implants
>identity cards
>airport scanning machines
>I'd be interested to know of any other machines that anyone can think
>of and where one might find information about them. Along with the
>machines, I'd like to begin to chronicle the history of software
>programs that relate to data capture, data protection etc. This would
>include the history of cookies, spyware, firewalls, and in general
>the whole world of electronic data security. Any books or articles on
>this subject would be helpful. My long term project is a complex
>diagram of data production and data use, including ways that data is
>bought and sold and then reused for commercial or surveillance
>purposes. I'd like to suggest that the design of data devices and
>data collection, documentation, and storage systems is a useful
>product for design researchers. Is anyone interested in this topic?
>
>Victor Margolin
>University of Illinois, Chicago
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>Victor Margolin
>Professor of Design History
>Department of Art History
>University of Illinois at Chicago
>935 W. Harrison St.
>Chicago, IL 60607-7039
>Tel. 1-312-413-2463
>Fax 1-312-413-2460
>www.uic.edu/~victor
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