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There seems to be a recurring trope of telling graduate students to carefully censor their social media presence in order to get jobs. This advice may well not be wrong. It is, however, ev…
At the latest lecture in my yearlong book tour for NowYou See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn , someone asked me how I thought Steve Jobs would “pitch” and “brand” my book. It took me a…
The Gund Gallery is opening at Kenyon College this fall with an inaugural exhibition called Seeing/Knowing. It’s open from 29 October 2011 to 4 March 2012. The exhibition includes works from myself, Diana Cooper, Andreas Nicolas Fischer & Benjamin Maus, Michael Joaquin Grey, Eduardo Kac, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Benjamin Maus & Julius von Bismarck, Emma McNally, [...]
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I do not teach in a first-rate university, and I do not even have a full-time job. I am a “part-timer” or “adjunct” in two local institutions of higher education, a state university and a community college. I make under $40,000/year—quite…
I’ve been amazed for some time by what can be achieved with LIDAR, a game engine, and a bit of processing power. A few years ago, Digital Urban posted a series of tutorials for getting architectural models from Sketchup or 3d Max into the Oblivion game engine, as a way for exploring built space. I [...]
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With the introduction of yet another view of Facebook profiles called timeline, Facebook has once again sought to change how we interact with and through social media. The drastic change in profiles is being slow rolled out to the general public, but i…
How will academia change if our functions were unbundled? This was the subject of today’s impromptu videoconference discussion.
The concept was suggested by a recent Chronicle of Higher Education panel at this month’s Educause conference….
Edinburgh is the latest creative map to be rendered, vism.ag/edinburgh. Mapped in collaboration with creative-edinburgh.com launching Thursday 3rd November, 6 – 8pm at The Cube, 47 Leith Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3AT. Identified as one of the 9 creative ‘hotspots’ in the UK by Nesta, this location has some great places on offer. From [...]
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