Media and Materiality 2010

During class on 11/16, you’ll all engage in a small group “peer review” — and while that’s happening, I’ll be meeting briefly with each of you to review your dossiers. What are you “handing in” on the 16th? Your dossier and your draft website. See the “Expectations” section of the website for more information about the [...]

The Museum of Online Museums is a website that that contains an archive of links to other online museums, collections and exhibits on the web that cover an extremely broad range of subjects and interests. The site is divided into three sections and is described on their Mission page as: The Museum Campus contains links [...]

We developed physical concept maps that materialized the potential links between our individual projects. Because Dopey Shannon didn’t budget our time appropriately, though, we were able to create only rudimentary (through not unimpressive!) prototypes. GROUP ONE GROUP 2 GROUP 3

Today we brainstormed possible schemes for reinforcing connections among everyone’s individual projects. There seems to be some consensus that we want to find interesting ways of materializing the link — perhaps by creating a system of “wormholes,” or by linking through “materially ambiguous homographs” (e.g., “felt” might link to a project that addresses emotion, or [...]

Urban Soundmaps Over the past decade, a great deal of sound mapping projects in the cities have emerged along with a growing scholarly and artistic interest in the relation between sound and urban experiences with a feat of communication technologies. Locative media devices made the audience participatory sound mapping possible. Most of projects use Google [...]

Reviewed by Christo de Klerk Explore 9/11 is a free iPhone app commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the private non-profit responsible for the management and redevelopment of the World Trade Center site in New York City.1 It is a popular mobile app. Though only launched on August 26th, the app was [...]

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 [...]

Art and Science Transdisciplinary Lectures: Okwui Enwezor, Curator. On the Politics of Disaggregation: Notes on Cildo Meireles’ “Insertions into Ideological Circuits” Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Parsons The New School for Design Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Kellen Auditorium 2 West 13th Street at 5th Avenue Free A new initiative co-organized [...]