In Machiko Kushara’s, Device Art: A New Form of Media Art from a Japanese Perspective, discuses the cultural differences between Japanese and Western art. It talks about how Western art asserts that its art should be on display in galleries or museums. On the contrary, Japan feels that there art is open to the idea that it can be displayed through different ways such as games or gadgets. I believe the main point of the article is the notion that Japan has no distinction between “fine art and applied art.” Japan comes from a different cultural background where these distinctions were never made. I found this article interesting because I never really took into consideration how a nation’s culture could influence its artwork so much. I also found it interesting how Japan sees robots more of a sense of entertainment rather than being serious.

      In Anthony Dunne’s and Fiona Raby’s excerpt from, Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects, discusses ways that technology plays a role in our everyday lives. The author talks about how technology can have an impact on our live in a nonordinary way. The author believes that products are created with a purpose of growing the psychological constraints that electronics have to offer. What I found interesting was how beta-testers are dissatisfied with reality and how they escape or drop out of reality. Sometimes when you come up with an idea for a device it is a reality. Once the device is designed and modified, it is no longer a fantasy but a reality now.