Media and Materiality 2010

Online social networks have paradigmatically changed the way we communicate with each other. They serve as a point of contact. They serve as a visual manifestation of self and those we relate to. A public record of our lives, our people, our interactions, they can act as digital playgrounds, a sandbox through which to strengthen [...]

“Hip-Hop Started Out In The Park” – Wes Jackson Hip-Hop exists in many forms but its presence as a physical space has rarely been studied. The subject of my exhibition will be to document the South Bronx in the late 1970’s as the physical birthplace of Hip-Hop. The center of the exhibit will be the [...]

“We are surrounded by so-called electric phantoms.”  1 And so Abraham A. Moles borrows and invokes a turn of a phrase from the science fiction author Villiers de l’Isle Adam. Again the claim, “We are surrounded by so-called electric phantoms.”2 The imaginary, the immaterial, charged and dynamic. Moreover Moles cites a nascent and pervasive culture [...]

The topic of this exhibition is to examine some of the different types of modular audio effects pedals (most commonly used with guitar, bass and keyboards; also known as stompboxes). Asides from drastically different technical aspects of these devices (how they effect audio signals), each stompbox also features highly divergent design aesthetics that reflect the [...]

For my exhibition, I would like to research materiality and how it relates to food, more specifically the erotic experience and representation of food. A meal is ephemeral; its materiality only lasts for brief minutes, “food is a quintessentially material thing.” When we eat out, we mediate with the environment and food in a subject-object [...]

The working title for my proposed online exhibition is Mapping Diasporic Soundscape in Brooklyn. I engage in the soundscape of the immigrants running businesses such as a deli, a laundromat, a restaurant, etc., which are glossed over within urban landscape. I consider sound as a thing, which is inscribed urban experience. Collecting the marginalized sounds, [...]

This project is about verifying and testing the hypothesis that a meaningful change is taking place in our relationship to the materiality of deletion.  Material presence of information never guaranteed the author control of the content, but the language of expressing and representing control over information is changing. My proposal is to foreground the various material [...]

This project is centered in the behavioral changes and impact in reading habits, practices, customs and social meanings of books as a consequence of the introduction of digital devices, especially e-readers as a new way of consuming books. Most of the available studies are centered in the devices itself and in the publishing industry strategies [...]

The topic I would like to work on for my exhibit is the digitization of fashion magazines. As these magazines are converted from print into websites or mobile applications, what changes are made to their form and content in order to suit a medium that lacks the materiality of paper? To which conventions of print [...]

Mapping our Worlds will be an online exhibit exploring new ways of mapping subjective experiences. From soundmaps to photomaps, digital mapping has allowed users to link a location to any other type of media. Online media, once praised for their global reach, have become hyperlocal. How does access to all these location-based messages alter our [...]