http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/08/12/img-mgmt-the-nine-eyes-of-google-street-view/

go here.

Ryan Trecartin Named Wolgin Prize Winner

He gives a really bizarre acceptance speech and a lecture as well. Check it out here.

Mid-Crits

So, with my project -mapping out aerial footage as landscape- a lot of the footage I'm finding is after catastrophes. I was thinking about mapping out catastrophes with the footage, instead of, say, the borders of a country or geographic area. I still want the map (in its traditional 2-d plane sense) to be present, but I don't want the political overload that comes with borders. what do you think?

besides all that, having a map of the world (which makes it seem small) posed against the footage of the landscape might be interesting in terms of space and perspective.

escalator

Still Counting the Ways to Infiltrate Daily Lives

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By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

Published: December 7, 2009

If Google were a person, Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor and veteran of Silicon Valley, is quoted as saying in this perspicacious new book, it would have “all the flaws and all of the virtues of a classic Silicon Valley geek.”

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Ken Auletta

GOOGLED

The End of the World as We Know It

By Ken Auletta

384 pages. The Penguin Press. $27.95.

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Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in Sept. 2008

It’s an observation echoed by the book’s author, Ken Auletta, who in “Googled” depicts the company as a brilliant, game-changing behemoth that can be socially inept, and both naïve and arrogant in its dealings with the world. The book, more fair-minded reportage than a polemic, leaves us with a telling portrait of a paradigm-altering company, which in 11 years has utterly transformed the business and media landscape, but which also suffers at times from the sort of myopia that comes from determinedly left-brain thinking — that is, a scientific-engineering driven point of view that prizes data, efficiency and growth while often overlooking more human and political concerns like privacy and copyright.

Certainly Google’s founding by Larry Page and Sergey Brinand its rocketlike ascent have been chronicled many times before — among others, in Randall Stross’s “Planet Google” (2008), “The Google Story” (2005) by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed, and “What Would Google Do?” (2009) by Jeff Jarvis. Television profiles have duly noted the company’s laid-back, collegiate atmosphere, just as newspaper and magazine articles have deconstructed its emphasis on teamwork and embrace of bold, envelope-pushing moves.

In “Googled,” Mr. Auletta has not only amplified such earlier portraits through new interviews with the company’s principals, but he’s also drawn on his own experience writing the “Annals of Communications” column for The New Yorker magazine to situate Google’s rise and global expansion in context with the digital revolution and the crisis that traditional media faces as old sources of revenue dry up and people increasingly turn to the Internet as a provider of news, movies, music and video.

Already, Mr. Auletta writes, much of “the planet has been Googled, with the company becoming, as Larry Page has said, ‘part of people’s lives, like brushing their teeth.’ ” Mr. Auletta writes that Google has “transformed how we gather and use information, given us the equivalent of a personal digital assistant, made government and business and other institutions more transparent, helped people connect, served as a model service provider and employer, made the complex simple, and become an exemplar of the oft-stated but rarely followed maxim, ‘Trust your customer.’ ”

Google has become such a household term that its name has morphed into a verb. “Its index contained one trillion Web pages in 2008,” Mr. Auletta writes, “and according to Brin, every four hours Google indexed the equivalent of the entire Library of Congress.” Having acquired YouTube, the largest user-generated video Web site, in 2006, and DoubleClick, the foremost digital marketing company, in 2007, he goes on, Google boasted 40 percent of both the $23 billion spent to advertise online in the United States and the $54 billion worldwide online advertising. He adds that the company conducts some three billion searches a day, stores two dozen or so tetabits (about 24 quadrillion bits) of data and plans to digitize more than 20 million books.

The company’s famous motto is “Don’t be evil,” and in their early days, Mr. Page and Mr. Brin burned, in Mr. Auletta’s words, “with an idealism that sometimes bordered on messianic”: “They launched Google with a fervent belief that advertising tricked people to spend money, that the Internet would foster a democratic ethos that would liberate people.” And yet it is advertising that has made Google a 21st-century Goliath. The company’s exponential growth has fueled critics’ contention that the company’s size and power are turning it into another Microsoft, an Evil Empire that is stifling competition and sucking up talent — a digital bulldozer that is plowing under the profits of traditional media companies as it gobbles up new turf; a Big Brother-esque leviathan of data that could come to threaten consumers’ privacy and subvert copyright law.

In recent years Google has come under growing scrutiny for a number of controversial moves. Its decision to digitize millions of books — scanning and making them part of search options — upset authors and publishers, who see the plan as a threat to intellectual property rights and as an invitation to piracy, as the books stored on servers, like online music, might be vulnerable to hackers.

Google has been criticized for complying with Chinese censorship. (In 2006 its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said, “I think it’s arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning operations and tell that country how to run itself.”) And, as Mr. Auletta observes in these pages, the company’s storage of massive amounts of data about its users raises serious privacy issues, especially when the company acknowledges that it is in the advertising business and seems eager to play matchmaker between consumers and advertisers.

Because Google “enjoys a well-deserved reputation for earning the trust of users,” Mr. Auletta says, it is “hard to imagine an issue that could imperil the trust Google has achieved as quickly as could privacy.” He adds: “One Google executive whispers, ‘Privacy is an atomic bomb. Our success is based on trust.’ ”

If users, Mr. Auletta writes, “lost trust in Google, believed their private data was being exploited and shared with advertisers (or governments), the company regularly judged one of the world’s most trusted brands would commit suicide.”

Other problems also come with the company’s sonic, often pell-mell growth. Google is constantly pushing into new territory like cloud computing, the mobile-phone business and even a Wikipedia-like encyclopedia called Knol. As it does so, it is not only taking on new competitors, but it is also risking, in some critics’ view, a loss of focus. Google is “doing too many products and peanut buttering everything,” says one former executive, referring to a famous “Peanut Butter” memo once written by a Yahoo senior vice president who contended that Yahoo was spreading its investments thinly, like peanut butter, over too many ventures.

Will Google stay focused primarily on searches and what Mr. Wu calls “an engineers’ aesthetic of getting you to what you want as fast as you can and then getting out of the way”? Or will it become more of a destination in itself, a platform and source of content? How will the founders’ aversion to bureaucracy be squared with the management demands of a rapidly growing empire? Can Google find a way to monetize YouTube and other new acquisitions and projects? Will increasingly wary rivals (from Microsoft to Verizon to Facebook) forge effective alliances to stop the Google juggernaut? Will the government threaten the company’s growth through antitrust regulation?

“Google appears to be well positioned for the foreseeable future,” Mr. Auletta concludes, “but it is worth remembering that few companies maintain their dominance. At one point, few thought the Big Three auto companies would ever falter — or the three television networks or AT&T, IBM or AOL. For companies with histories of serious missteps — Apple, IBM — it was difficult to imagine that they’d rebound, until they did.”

In short, one of the few things it is impossible to Google is the future of Google.

is your facebook personality genuine?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/is-your-facebook-personality-genuine/

Queen visits Google HQ in London, uploads video to youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDTZMYfa6g

I'm quite impressed with HM's tech savvy. My grandmother is the same age but is sticking firmly with pre-landline technology.

To last couple posts.

I left the discussion about this class as a whole early and after reading Proffesor Pang's recent post about the discussion I feel like I must've missed quite a bit. I would like to say however that I feel like this course presents a lot of material that can be very useful to any artist, however the course objectives and outline leave the student in the dark. Something that no class should do. As (high paying) students, our education is about learning tools, ideas, theories, concepts, and skills that will benefit us when we hit the 'real world'. I feel that schools today have strayed from these focuses and have begun to focus more on 'what can I give my teacher that will give me an A'. Although I feel this course has the right materials and the right objectives set, the student still feels lost in understanding what they're supposed to do to get a grade that will give them a GPA that will help them graduate so they can get a piece of paper that will hopefully help them secure a job other than Einstein Bagels. Not that theres anything against Einstein, but you get my point. As a whole I feel that this class has the right materials and objectives but may still be misguided.

"This place you see has no size at all..."

Kadist Art Foundation
Design by Stéphane Argillet		"This place you see has no size at all..." December 4, 2009 - February 7, 2010 Opening: Friday December 4, 2009, from 6-9pm Curated by Jennifer Teets Kadist Art Foundation, Paris 19 bis - 21 rue des Trois Frères 75018 Paris, France http://www.kadist.org
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With existing and newly commissioned works by: David Adamo, Mark Aerial Waller, Mariana Castillo Deball, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Alex Cecchetti, Kate Costello, France Fiction, Darius Mikšys, Tania Pérez Córdova, Michael Portnoy, Pietro Roccasalva, Alex Waterman Writings by Mark von Schlegell Madame, Monsieur, Everything I am about to tell you began with a sighting of a heron in a tree. There I was in the Jardin Trocadero at the Parc de Saint Cloud on a late summer afternoon, burying the bones of Tom Ripley, in what the history books told me was once a labyrinth. When I looked around, I noticed that the place had no size at all. In one instance, the landscape was unusually curvy and in another, intricate alleyways and corridors appeared miraculously as I turned corners. Though I could see no one, a flurry of recombinant voices echoed from the hedges and the dialogues of fourteen individuals began to take on the qualities of those around them, in a seemingly ritualistic order. "This place you see has no size at all..." is an exhibition rooted in the possibility of virtual and parallel worlds as a viable platform for the production and consumption of art. Originally proposed as an out-of the box adaptation to an "alternate reality game", on July 22, 2009, artists were convened from around the globe to partake in a "scenario" at the Parc de Saint Cloud in Paris, of which they had little knowledge of, yet were immediate to its origin of initiation. In collaboration with sci-fi writer Mark von Schlegell, an abstract time-travel guide was scripted, combining clues, facts, and prompts around the peculiarities of the garden together with the singular questions: What could you perceive as the present? What are the elements of the present? Who are the members of the present? The guide spawned a chain of events suggested by and created for each of the artists with the purpose of activating a work and a communication process. Puzzles, motion, fictitious force, heuristics, chambres, a perte de vue, lost item, incoherency, the dead end. In one of the alleyways I found a man resting on a bed-sheet. He was surveying the universe with a planisphere. He told me he got there via an air balloon in order to produce a shroud, that this shroud was an embodiment of all of us. A fiction of the strangest kind that can't be materialized in any known form of art including classical conceptualism. He held an invisibility cloak that somehow protected him from the world of visible matter. It was sure to give him good fortune. A hypothetical collective structure, a private happening, and now exhibition, "This place you see has no size at all..." is purportedly non site-specific; on the contrary it grapples with the objectives of context. At Kadist, newly commissioned works are paired together with existing works, prompting an array of interactions, relationships, and readings in the exhibition setting. Schedule of parallel exhibitions and performances: Opening night: Friday, December 4th: Michael Portnoy presents, "Met ton doigt quelque part!", said Theo. 7:30pm, Kadist Art Foundation Saturday, December 5th: FRANCE FICTION, parallel exhibition, 6pm, FRANCE FICTION, 6bis rue de Forez 75003 Thursday, January 7th: LOVE THE CLEAR DARK, story by Mark von Schlegell, radio play and soundtrack by Alex Waterman, 7:30pm, Kadist Art Foundation Performed live by Mark von Schlegell and Alex Waterman with additional voices by Jennifer Teets. Wednesday February, 3rd: guided tour with Alex Cecchetti, Musée du Louvre, 7pm. Meeting point to be confirmed. This project has been realized with the generous support of The Elephant Trust and the Saison de la Turquie in France. Special thanks to Germana Innerhofer Jaulin Kadist Art Foundation 19 bis - 21 rue des Trois Frères, 75018 Paris, France Gallery Hours: Thursdays-Sundays, 2-7pm http://www.kadist.org |

More about our conversation last week.

HI Everyone,

I've thought a lot about our conversation last week and I want to thank you for bringing your concerns to me. I have a few things to add:

1. Whether you realize it or not, I saw evidence that some of what we talk about in class in the last round of projects. So it is seeping in. However, I have been a bit taken back by what I perceive to be a lackadaisical attitude to producing work. Remember that this is an upper level research seminar, you are expected to bring your studio practice to class. It shouldn't be my responsibility to prod you into making work in a conscientious way. I hope that you will all take your final projects more seriously than any of the previous ones. Sloppy or half hearted work will be graded punitively. We will have the rest of the semester to work on these projects. If you choose not to take advantage of mid-progress critiques there is nothing I can do to help you.

2. Education is not Entertainment and it is part of your job to as a student to make the leap towards the material rather than the other way round. I'm sorry if not all parts of the course have been interesting to each of you personally, however they were never meant to be, so tough. When I ask you to consider the internet's structure or culture in light of the theory we have read it means exactly that. That is the class, that is the work I want you to do. If it does not interest you to do it, or if it conflicts with an idea or value you already hold, well, that's too bad. I made it clear in the syllabus that this class would involve reading primary sources and doing primary research in relation to digital communication culture. I also made clear that we would not be looking at many artists. There may be graphic designers doing interesting design work for the internet but this class is not about cool visuals.

3. I set myself the task of introducing to you some of the major considerations of 20th century media studies which have had a profound influence on artists, e.g. the notion of the disciplined society, how to negotiate alterity, what constitutes an Image in a contemporary culture replete with images. These are not petty concerns, and they are definitely not "filler". Simply because they do not speak directly of the twinkling lights and dazzling gew gaws of internet culture does not mean they have no application. In fact, these are large and enduring issues which outlive any particular technology. In fact my other task for the class was to identify whether and how these concerns have been transformed by the new conditions of this most recent industrial revolution and how these can transform your work. I think we have made some progress there.

I look forward to seeing your presentations next thursday.

SL

Where are your questions for Bryan Zera???

NOt everyone has submitted something. I am going to send them to him tommorow regardless.

Torture Powerpoint

E.J's Crit

Hi E.J.

You set this up really well, very simple but effective. I know you are really interested in performance and the body. I would like to hear how you can relate this sort of practice to some of the things we discuss in class.

SL

Bruce's Crit

HI Bruce,

So I think there is a disconnect between the drawing and the sculpture. They work fine independently but I feel that you forced them together because the assignment stipulated you had to have 2 or more elements. You seem very keen on illustration. I think a comic strip or zine could work very well, especially online as a blog with links to the source images. Could be very complex and interesting.

SL

Jessica's crit

HI Jessica,

So I think this material is really difficult for you to deal with a source for artwork right now. Hmmm. I don't feel comfortable insisting that you use it. One thing to do would be to use your discomfort as primary source material rather than the images themselves. You could narrate a video, do screen captures from the internet... Anyone have any ideas?

SL

Leilah's Crit

Hi Leilah,

So, I think the many elements in this piece work together in an interesting way. The powerpoint presentation with the laugh track and images, the skull images and skulls and anti-war pin. There is something about all these elements are meant to be entertaining... However, you MUST take more control over your presentation. Using the whiteboard and room projector seems too unconsidered. Also, for this to become a multimedia installtion there has to be more, well, media. More skulls, more images ... I would like to see this installation cover a room.

SL

Josh's Crit

Hi Josh,

So this found object ( found objects do not need to be 3d things only) of the soft torture playlist is quite sensational, which makes it difficult material. I think your decision to play them for the audience is good. I like the durational aspect of that work. I think we all agree the sculptures didn't work. If you want to investigate the relationship between that music and figurative sculpture there are many strategies to take. We didn't talk so much about that, maybe you can clarify your intentions with regards to that aspect. The music and its purpose is so overpowering. That these tunes are regular bar tunes but also torture music is interesting and says something curious about humans' relationship to music. I think you need to clarify your position towards this music, when you know what you have to say about it, the work will follow.

SL

p.s it's taking way too long to upload documentation the video. I'll try again later.

Joel's crit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOxNS8S-Ww

HI Joel,

I think your action of making a video response to a found slide montage of the photos on youtube was a great one. It's a shame the maker of the video didn't appreciate it and cancelled your response. I think you should do more responses. As you said, you were representing something you think many Americans feel, but there are many possible responses. Finally, you should set up the piece for an audience, so maybe walk us through it via a screencapture? I also want to commend you for making something which addressed the assignment completely ( regarding the internet presence of the photos).

ABU GHRAIB PLAYLIST

1. Queen - We are the Champions

2. Metallica - Enter Sandman

3. Prine - Raspberry Beret

4. Christina Aguilera - Dirrty

5. AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill

6. 2 Pac - All Eyes on Me

7. Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name

8. NIN - March of the Pigs

9. Eminem - White America

10. Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

Karen's Crit

HI Karen,

So to reiterate what we spoke about during the class critique: I liked very much how you connect the set of 2-dimensional photographs with sensory experience. It is a worthwhile connection to pursue. I liked also how you tried to "fill in" the missing eperience of the photographs while depriving us of vision, so the lights out, but strong smell, unpredictable contact with the performer etc all worked very well. What I think you should work out is how to connect the performance with the images more clearly. If i did not know what the assignment was I would not have made the connection. You should also consider how you would do this performance in a gallery or museum. I also think a larger room would work better.

HOw does Facebook know you're gay and other questions.

http://www.slate.com/id/2234734/

I came across this Q and A page about tech issues. How are the questions for Bryan Zera coming along?

SL

About yesterday's crits

Okay, I thought everyone did a great job starting an interesting project. Now, our job in this class will be to AMP IT UP. Ideas need to be given form, developed, tested ... in order to transform in actual works of art. I would like to continue the critique discussions here on the blog over the next week. Joel already posted a link to his video, I will post my documentation here and on youtube. Please post comments over the next week.

abu ghraib american barbarism response (mask)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEOxNS8S-Ww

abu ghraib art

karen and i found these art stuffs together. her computer isn't working so i'm making the post from mine.

check out these links (click the photos):

Tim Shaw - UK artist works in mixed media












Legofesto - blogger and photographer makes lego reenactments of political crimes












Think Faesthetic - user-generated political art/activism, mixed media

Corpo/Ilicito: The Post-Human Society #69

Hey everyone, if you're available this Friday, please come check out what I promise will be a very interesting night:

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: Corpo Illicito: The Post-Human Society #69
Friday, October 30, 2009. 7:00pm. FREE.
Columbia College Chicago , 618 S. Michigan , 2nd Floor

Join us for a debut performance by members of La Pocha Nostra, the acclaimed Mexican-American “trans-disciplinary organization” and 2009-2010 Critical Encounters Artists-in-Residence. “Corpo Illicito” is the third in the group’s Mapa-Corpo series and will feature Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Violeta Luna and Roberto Sifuentes. The new piece tackles this historic moment of reinvention by looking into the past and attempting to prognosticate a possible future without resorting to quick fixes and false hopes. Using performance bodies as sites for political reinvention and poetic prophesying, La Pocha Nostra explores both the legacy of fear of the Other, the criminalization of the brown body inherited by the Bush administration, and the emerging culture of hope, imagination and faith that has developed in response to the former world order.

webcast fun.. CSPAN isn't that boring.

http://www.c-span.org/

my favorite webcast

unpaved roads

play all at the same time.

Flu shots....possibly not for everyone

Hey guys, it seems like every week one of us is falling victim to sickness. This week its bronchitis for me. fml. heres a video I ran across that might want you thinking twice about getting your flu shot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3xgV11ZSAg

Last installment of Josh + Karen duo..

This is Tannar's response to my first one:



This one is in response to Tannar's response to mine. Complicated web of response videos.



Sorry i couldn't make it to class yesterday, i'm sick as a dog and didn't want to contaminate you all/didn't have the strength to get out of bed. Looks like a lot of people are sick right now. We might HAVE to skype to class if swine flu takes over.

Leilah and EJ's videos

link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe1O4ZJsTE8

response videos

please post links to response videos if you havent!

Single Story

Video Responses: Bruce & Jessika

VIDEO DAYS - JOSH & KAREN

REAL ADOLESCENT FASHIONABLE PESSIMISM

Here's the opening sequence of Ingmar Bergman's Persona, referenced in the Chion reading.


And some non-essential viewing, a scene from Woody Allen's Manhattan.


"Bergman!? Bergman's the only genius in cinema today."

Video Viewing

Hey all. My apologies for missing out on today's class and the viewing of your videos. I'd still like to watch them over the weekend though. Maybe post them here? Or e-mail me the link at ernest.joseph.hill@gmail.com ... What ever works best for you. See you next week.

Flu

Hey everyone, sorry i couldnt make it last week but i figured it wasnt worth risking giving anyone the flu. Some of those vids about narrative and film making are pretty interesting. I stumbled across this video this week and although i think its pretty old i definetely still thought it was worth sharing. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5o-fFSRmM

man, i can't find any good videos this week.

sad face.

This kind of relates to the first reading about the explication of teaching etc. etc.

The power of Narration

Funny example of how narration can really change the way we view a film. -Jessika

one more..

"Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of disinterested acts of kindness, curiosity and trust."

TED talks

interesting talks about internet and democracy.. or lack of. TED talks are my favorite past time besides netflix.com.

"TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy -- with chilling examples of ways the Internet helps oppressive regimes stifle dissent."



"At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone texts following the 2008 elections, and has evolved to continue saving lives in other countries."



"Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too."

Watch all at once:

YOUTUBE'S IN THE RED

"[YouTube's] increasing popularity in poor countries, where the hopes of recouping mounting costs with ad revenues are slim, exacerbates the problem."

privacy in the digital age?

this month's Adbusters is all about internet technology and how it's changing the way we live our lives...and such and so on... it's something like a compare/contrast format that address the "natural world."

you can read some of the articles online, but the design of the actual publication is pretty cool.

ALSO...

found this article on Yahoo! about some trouble caused by a photograph uploaded to the state department's flickr page.

the Obama's apparently posed for a photograph with daughters of the Spanish prime minster, which isn't allowed.

read the full scoop here. SPAIN > FLICKR

hope you're learning lots in class.

peace.

-t

Derrion Albert

DANCE WAR

Apparently there's the start of the first internet dance battle on youtube. I thought it was cool and related to us talking about video and video responses on youtube. Apparently the beginning of the story starts with 3 guys at Judson University making a goofy dance vid and some girls from Liberty University thought they would respong with their own rebuttal. The real gem of the videos though is the last and latest video from Judson where they got 80 guys from their freshman dorm to trump the girls' video. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPPO7h3q9Q0

Sophie is my Kitty

What makes Trecartin Whitney Worthy and Ear Pwr internet trash?

Thoughts?

Tweet your way to a better vocabulary...

Artwiculate is a twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words.

According to the site: To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear here where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.

Points mean kudos. Oh, and if you follow @artwiculate, we’ll tweet you with today’s word and store your profile here so you can see your vocabulary improve over time.

hope you find it interesting: jessika

THE END OF SOLITUDE

An interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the corrupting influence of today's communication technologies on our capacity for alone time. "If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility."
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"To see the internet only as a extension of the possibility of communication is an extreme oversimplification, seen from an Existential point of view the internet gives the possibility to be alone with other people." - Jens Haaning, 1999

From my personal library

Here is the AutoTune the News I was talking about:



Versatility of the Arts:



Some interesting gestures:

Oi! AM I the only one out here?

Hey folks,

I am considering changing the first project from a linear video project to a collaborative project where 2 students conduct a video call and response on you tube. What do you think?

SL

Foucault and Chomsky in 1971

Since we are reading Marx this week, it would be great for you to watch this dialogue between 2 contemporary philosophers. It's wonderful.

CHOMSKY VS FOUCAULT - 1971
Uploaded by unzip. -

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32axv_chomsky-vs-foucault-1971_politics