Herbert’s Baroque: The <i>Passio Discerpta</i>

Baroque Technology

As new interactive systems evolve, they frequently hit a sweet spot: A few new tricks to learn, and users gets tremendous benefits, simplifying their lives. But beyond that lies the dark phase of baroque technology: increasing complexity with little payoff. We will look at examples for both sweet-spot and baroque interactive technologies, from GPS devices to window systems, find out how to iden...

and the baroque guitar CRAIG

Guitar chords with a flurry of strummed strings sonorities we gard as commonplace revolutionized the sound of music at the 1500s and opened up a new universe of musical thought in Western Melody and counterpoint had reigned supreme throughout the as the principal musical aspects of a composition, but around role was challenged by a startling new concept harmony. viously music consisted of horiz...

Let's be baroque!

Received: 5 August 2005 Revised: 24 September 2005 Accepted: 28 September 2005 What happens if we abandon thinking about information systems (IS) in terms of fixed prescriptions or scientific models? What happens if we leave behind order, simplicity, sequence, and linearity, and in turn, embrace the sensuous, dramatic, vital, messy, and emotional? What a project for IT researchers! In this brie...

The Vernacular Bible: Reformation and Baroque

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The Art of Renaissance and Baroque Eras