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Syllabus Cache Critical Designer, Activist Engineer: Making Things and Making Things Happen
What happens when design and engineering research results in activism, human rights work, politics, or matters of equity and justice? Engineers and designers are often thought of as “problem-solvers” in mostly technical, practical, and formal senses. But this…

September 9 2020, 3:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts
This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…
We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its…

July 26 2020, 12:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Bookmark QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be…

May 22 2020, 1:13pm | Comments
Bookmark QAnon Is More Important Than You Think - The Atlantic
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase. If you were an adherent, no one would be able to tell. You would look like any other American. You could be…

May 22 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019
Afew years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to…

January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments
Bookmark BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme
As the decade began, there were reasons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into…

January 1 2020, 6:16am | Comments
Syllabus Cache introducing Media Art — jonCates (2019) - jonCates - Medium
jonCatesAug 21 · 7 min readover the last 15 years of my full-time teaching, i’ve collected, compiled, and processed a number of different ways and approaches for introducing students to Media Art in terms of the aestheticonceptechniques and…

August 22 2019, 5:47am | Comments
Bookmark MONSTROUS THOUGHTS: Philosopher Eugene Thacker on the “New Golden Age of Horror”…
When René Descartes, sitting in his armchair in Leiden in 1641, invites his readers to meditate alongside him, you get the sense he could do with the company.

August 21 2019, 4:09am | Comments
Bookmark Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism | Mute
The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project. However, given the provenance of its moniker and its 'pro-enlightenment' position, Annie Goh asks, WTF…

August 6 2019, 11:11am | Comments
Syllabus Cache NEW MEDIA TOOLS - Google Docs

August 2 2019, 4:39am | Comments
Bookmark Washington Monthly | The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution
Tens of thousands of Londoners died of cholera from the 1830s to the 1860s. The causes were simple: mass quantities of human waste and industrial contaminants were pouring into the Thames,…

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography
AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark BBC - Future - The world's most prolific writer is a Chinese…
“Inflatable duck baby pool with canopy.” “Hot selling colourful temporary full arm tattoo for men.” “Splendid reusable dog pee pad (minimum order: 500).

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Edward Snowden Reconsidered | by Tamsin Shaw | NYR Daily | The…
This summer, the fifth anniversary of Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance passed quietly, adrift on a tide of news that now daily sweeps the ground from under our feet.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark Compression Aesthetics: Glitch From the Avant-Garde to Kanye West – InVisible Culture
Carolyn L. Kane In a world that esteems technological efficiency, immediacy, and control, the advent of technical noise, glitch, and failure—no matter how colorful or disturbingly beautiful—are avoided at great costs.

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Medium is the Messiah: McLuhan's Religion and its Relationship to His…
To say that Marshall McLuhan was incidentally a Christian, or that his Catholicism was just part of his private life, is a little like saying that Karl Marx was only incidentally…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic
A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark Forensic Architecture: the detail behind the devilry | Art and design |…
In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic
Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark Code, Conservation, and Truth – Ben Fino-Radin – Medium
In a recently posted video, Patrick LeMieux(Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media at UC Davis) describes his own material exploration and investigation of Cory Arcangel’s seminal artwork, Super Mario Clouds…

November 20 2017, 11:06am | Comments
Bookmark John Lanchester reviews ‘The Attention Merchants’ by Tim Wu, ‘Chaos Monkeys’ by…
At the end of June, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook had hit a new level: two billion monthly active users. That number, the company’s preferred ‘metric’ when measuring its own size,…

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Writing and Digital Media «
{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments
Bookmark Writing and Digital Media «
{I was invited to teach a seminar at City College’s MFA program in Digital & Interdisciplinary Art Practice. This is the syllabus for the course I came up with.

July 30 2017, 9:24pm | Comments
Additivism Moreshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya’jooj Majooj
Moreshin Allahyari: She Who Sees the Unknown, Ya’jooj Majooj An interview with the artist Moreshin Allahyari about her commission for The Photographers’ Gallery’s Media Wall - See Who Sees the Unknown, Ya'jooj Ma'jooj. Artwork © the artist, Video © The Photographers’ Gallery, 2017

May 20 2017, 4:14pm | Comments
Bookmark Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer…
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark When a 'Remix' Is Plain Ole Plagiarism - The Atlantic
Digital technologies make it easier for people to copy the work of other artists—yet the same tools make it more likely for them to get caught. The messages began rolling in…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Fake news is a red herring | World | DW.COM | 25.01.2017
Watching the 2016 US presidential election was already a surreal experience, as dozens of qualified candidates lost out to a failed businessman and reality television star.

February 20 2017, 11:01pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Design+Media Theory | Public Seminar
Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3).

December 30 2016, 9:09am | Comments

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