Archive of 2008 January All

Making a tumble into the present

Submitted by nknouf on 25 January 2008 - 11:50pm

Many people have had an account on tumblr for a while now. But I’m getting to it late. Basically tumblr is a service that is designed to let people post short snippets—of text, links, photos, audio, etc.—on a special site, leaving their blog for longer posts. For me, it’s great, as there are a ton of things that I look at during the day, that I’d like to write about, but aren’t worth an entire blog post. Plus, it’s a good way for me to keep track of the myriad things I look at during the day for research and stuff.

Tunng

Submitted by nknouf on 22 January 2008 - 8:24pm

I just came across, by accident, an amazing group from the UK called Tunng. People call what they do “folktronica”...I don’t care what the name is, I just love it.

Paper accepted for ISEA!

Submitted by nknouf on 20 January 2008 - 10:03pm

I’m incredibly happy to write that my paper was accepted for ISEA 2008! ISEA stands for the International Symposium on Electronic Art and is one of the premier new media/digital art/emerging technologies conferences out there.

When things like this happen...

Submitted by nknouf on 16 January 2008 - 4:56am

... you begin to wonder what power any individual has over the process anymore.

Kucinich was barred from the NBC debate tonight, as, according to the network, “there are only three viable candidates”. Of course, when you are judge and jury you can decide what number of candidates there are, independent of reality. As many in the NY Times thread rightly point out, it is within NBCs right to decide who to invite or not.

Making laser-cut snowflake ornaments

Submitted by nknouf on 15 January 2008 - 11:01pm

This is the first in hopefully a number of posts about various crafty things I’ve made and will make. I’ve mostly been someone who just thinks and writes in my life, i.e., a boring academic. Minus the music playing, of course. But high school and college were filled with the reading of books and sometimes-intriguing, often dulling research papers. Sure I performed experiments, which are a craft of their own, as any STS researcher can tell you.

New Year's Resolutions

Submitted by nknouf on 8 January 2008 - 11:14pm

I have too many of them. And some of them come from others, not me.

I have motivations for them on the back—but you can only see them if you are psychic. Try, really. I dare you.

Maybe I’ll put these in a readable form at some point.

Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed Conference

Submitted by nknouf on 8 January 2008 - 12:35am

I just found out yesterday that there is a conference (in Omaha, NE, nonetheless) about both Pedagogy and Theater of the Oppressed …and that it’s taking place this May. And there are three workshops that are with Augusto Boal and his son, Julian. And one of the workshops is on legislative theater, one of the methods that I am most interested in when it comes to participatory planning and design situations.

If there were ever a conference that I should go to, it’s this one.

Post for the new year

Submitted by nknouf on 6 January 2008 - 8:10am

Resolutions…I has them. But they will have to wait a while to be unveiled.

It is a bit late to be making a new year’s post, but true to my current-academic form, I’m missing the deadline.

I’ve been reading some books over the break.

And some various web sites about