The document discusses the relationship between theory and practice in various fields such as graphic design, technology, and research. It argues that traditional binaries and boundaries are dissolving, with paradigm shifts occurring as technology transforms research, design informs technology, and research and design inform each other. This is leading to new forms of multi-modal scholarship and more dynamic relationships between information presentation, architecture, communication tools, and knowledge production.

1. The War Between Theory and Practice

2. Fallacies

3. Inverse relationship between text and images Text = Images 1

4. Inverse relationship between Content and Design Content = Design 1

5. Inverse relationship between Design and technology Design = Technology 1

6. (dead-end strategy) = Visual rhetoric Graphic design + Interface design

7. (dead-end strategy) = Visual rhetoric Graphic design + Interface design

8. Research + technology + design = new scholarly vernaculars = New Scholarly Vernaculars Research + Technology + Design

9. Media Arts & Practice (iMAP) PhD program http://cinema.usc.edu/imap

10. Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular http://vectorsjournal.net

11. Paradigm shift + =

12. Technology transforms research Technology transforms research Paradigm shifts

13. Design informstechnology Technology transforms research Design informs technology Paradigm shifts

14. Research and design inform each other Technology transforms research Design informs technology Research design Paradigm shifts

15. Multi-modal scholarship Technology transforms research Design informs technology Research design (multi-modal scholarship) Paradigm shifts

16. Dissolution of binaries Dissolution of binaries: Front-end / Back-end Paradigm shifts

17. Dissolution of binaries Dissolution of binaries: Front-end / Back-end (Design) (Technology) Paradigm shifts

18. Paradigm shifts Information presentation Information architecture Paradigm shifts Paradigm shifts

19. Objects of communication --> tools to think with Information presentation Information architecture Objects of communication Tools to think with Paradigm shifts

20. Objects of communication --> tools to think with Information presentation Information architecture Objects of communication Evocative knowledge objects Paradigm shifts

21. Spatialization of information Spatialization of Information Paradigm shifts

22. Scholarship as dynamic subsystem Spatialization of Information Scholarship as a dynamic sub-system within a larger media and information ecology Paradigm shifts

23. IML Island: Second Life

24. IML Island: Second Life

25. Peggy Weil and Nonny de la Pena: Gone Gitmo

26. Gone Gitmo: Constitution Day 2007

27. Images = interface / index = Representation Images Paradigm shifts

28. Images = interface / index = Representation Images = Images Interface / Index Paradigm shifts

29. Ridley Scott | Blade Runner | 1982

30. Microsoft vs. Google

31. Microsoft | Photosynth : Notre Dame Cathedral | 2007 “…collective memory”

32. Microsoft | Virtual Earth | 2007 “…capturing history”

33. Microsoft | Virtual Earth | 2007

34. Microsoft | Virtual Earth: Bird’s Eye View | 2007

35. Microsoft | Virtual Earth: Bird’s Eye View | 2007

36. Microsoft | Virtual Earth: Bird’s Eye View | 2007

37. Microsoft | Virtual Earth: Bird’s Eye View | 2007

38. History + Digital equals total archive or chaos = Total archive History + Digital

39. History + Digital equals total archive or chaos = Total archive History + Digital Recombinant chaos or

40. University of Virginia | Rome Reborn | 2007

41. IBM | Second Life: Forbidden City recreation | 2006

42. Vassar College | Second Life: Sistine Chapel recreation | 2007

43. U.S. Secret Service | The Assassination of John F. Kennedy | 1965

44. Ant Farm | The Eternal Frame | 1975

45. Oliver Stone | JFK | 1991 Quantum Leap | “Lee Harvey Oswald” | 1992

46. The X-Files | “Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man” | 1996

47. Traffic | JFK Reloaded | 2004

48. Traffic | JFK Reloaded | 2004

49. Traffic | JFK Reloaded | 2004

50. Traffic | JFK Reloaded | 2004

51. Avatar Promotions | Second Life: Dealey Plaza recreation | 2007

52. Avatar Promotions | Second Life: Dealey Plaza recreation | 2007

53. Avatar Promotions | Second Life: Dealey Plaza recreation | 2007

54. Google | Google Maps | 2007

55. Google | Street View | 2007

56. Google | Google Earth | 2007

57. Google | Google Earth | 2007

58. Google | Google Earth | 2007

59. Google | Google Earth | 2007

60. Veronica Paredes, Kristy Kang, Diana Hughes | Spatial Palimpsest | 2007

61. Masaki Fujihata | [email_address] | 2002

62. Masaki Fujihata | Field-Work@Hayama | 2005

63. Michael Naimark: Viewfinder

64. Second Life map

65. Dubai | 2007