ISEA was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland this year; and as expected it rained every day! I really do mean this exclamation mark to signify excitement because we hardly get rain in Cali…I presented Your Neighbors’ Biz, a Facebook application that is nearly ready to launch (we are hoping for a beta launch in early [...]
This weekend I closed up the Analog Interactivity show just after speaking on Michael Mandiberg’s panel, Artist as Startup: Web Application as Cultural Intervention at the College Art Association annual conference that took place here in Los Angeles. Michael provided as thorough a backdrop to the history of the current web-as-we-know-it that twenty minutes would allow. Then each panelist [...]
I’ve curated a small exhibit in a small space and it looks beautiful. Artists in Analog Interactivity (who are also going to be part of the upcoming Visual Communication Quarterly journal later this year in a special issue I’m editing under the same theme title) are Candy Change, Ethan Ham and Nishiki Tayui, Jeanne Jo, and Sara [...]
The National Communication Association’s annual conference was held in San Diego this past weekend. My panel with Troy Cooper was stimulating as his topic was Bansky’s counter-culture artistic production and my own was anti-hegemony on the web. The presentation I gave is (very briefly) summarized in this PDF document: nca08. The full paper is in the [...]