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Working with Incommensurable Knowledge Traditions: Assemblage, Diversity, Emergent Knowledge, Narrativity, Performativity, Mobility and Synergy, by David Turnbull

Fri, 29 May 2009 22:32:26 PDT

This paper approaches the question of working with multiple and diverse knowledge traditions by looking at problems of biodiversity and databasing.

Magic: An interactive media project proposal, by Craig DietrichVanessa Vobis

Thu, 28 May 2009 18:45:35 PDT

Software implementation of humanities-centered interactive media.Proposal revised March 16, 2009 by Craig Dietrich and Vanessa Vobis, with acute thanks to Jon Ippolito, John Bell, and Joline Blais.

On VORT, by barry s. alpert

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:23:16 PDT

Diachronic<>Synchronic Editorial Maneuvers During the Run of VORT Magazine

New Criteria for New Media, by Jon Ippolito, Joline Blais, Nathan Stormer, Owen SmithSteve Evans

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:28:08 PDT

"New Criteria for New Media"Version 2.2, January 2007 Published in Leonardo (Cambridge) 42, no. 1 (spring 2009). Free download.Authors: Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, and Owen Smith in collaboration with Steve Evans and Nate Stormer. ABSTRACT: An argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today's universities. This version also includes an appendix with sample criteria.

The Map is the Territory, by Kenneth Fields

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:50:14 PDT

In the fields of complex systems, theoretical biology, semiotic systems and cosmology, we find convergence in laboratory techniques and theory related to mapping. To map something is to understand it, both structurally and behaviorally. Mapping systems can be considered complex automated semiotic systems animated by procedural specifications and constraints. Physical and biological systems can be thought of holistically as a unified semiotic system. In this paper I combine the subjects of two recent colloquia, one which reviews the work of George Pattee, and the other on Mapping Knowledge Domains. The result: autopoietic ontologies - self-organized maps.

Telearts: Investigating collaborative production and performance on high-speed electronic art research networks, by Kenneth Fields

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:20:01 PDT

The objective of this mesh focuses upon the parallel, symbiotic development of new Telemedia Arts works and the designing of a network user interface (NUI) for supporting the creation of expressive telepresence on high-speed research networks (Internet 2). We are driven by questions that will lead to new use-cases (categories or genres) for artists active in the new medium of Telearts; how can we make this artist more productive. The last-generation of media tools were made for stand-alone environments, isolated CPU's, and slow networks (World Wide Web). What do lessons learned from the last 20 years of Network Art on slow networks teach us as we move into real-time, high-bandwidth scenarios? Telearts is more essentially a social phenomenon then the previous generation of computer based tools and media arts practices.

Prints in the Present Tense: Collaborations Across Cultures, by Vanessa Vobis

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:40:40 PDT

Documention of the panel,"Prints in the Present Tense: Collaboration Across Cultures," presented at Global Implications: Southern Graphics Council 2009, March, 2009.Prints in The Present Tense: Collaboration Across CulturesChair: Vanessa VobisPanelists: Craig Dietrich, Anita Jung, Melanie Yazzie, Malgorzata Malwina NiespodziewanaLocation: Columbia College, Hokin Annex, 623 S. Wabash Ave, 1st FloorDate: Thursday, March 26Time: 11:30 am - 1 pm

Out of the Hothouse and into the World, by Jon IppolitoJoline Blais

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:23:22 PST

A talk based on the book At the Edge of Art by Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito as part of ARCO Madrid 2009.

Source Code, by Joasia KrysaGrzesiek Sedek

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:49:53 PST

Source CodeJoasia Krysa & Grzesiek Sedek (2006)(for Software Studies: A Lexicon, edited by Matthew Fuller, 2008, MIT Press)

Extending Campus Conflict Resolution Efforts Beyond the Mediation Table, by Bill Warters

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:02:13 PST

Mediation has become a useful tool for resolving conflicts that emerge on campus. This article describes a range of creative responses to campus conflict that don't rely on mediation as their central strategy or approach, providing links to online examples when available. (This is a slightly updated version of an earlier piece published in the Conflict Management in Higher Education Report)