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| Surrealist cartography of Manhattan by artist Jennifer Maravillas. Discoverd her projects via Twitter link this week, check it out in my list below. |
More than a week without a blog post—I know. Let’s just say
that something had to give this month. Publishing deadlines, more grading,
administrative duties (along with my regular teaching schedule) have made up
the bulk of my days lately and I am looking forward to a bit more time now that
I have a number of these items off my to-do list. On a happy note, I was
invited to New York to present a paper on new media art by conference
organizers of the Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference at the New School.
It will be an amazing opportunity to meet other researchers working in the
ever-expanding field of new media theory and history. As a result, I now have a
trip to NYC in mid-April to look forward to and can check out and report back
on a couple of the exhibitions I had suggested at the beginning of the year on
my 2012 list (notably #2, #4 and #6). I hear it is already springtime on
the East Coast—it cannot come soon enough here. While we wait out here in
Vancouver, I wish you all a Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend and invite you to
check out some of my favourite tweets from the past week:
Maps have never looked so good - Surrealist Cartography
by Jennifer Maravillas
Why art will not suffer death by digital
Want students to succeed? A new study says the best
approach is to let them fail:
Why today is the most exciting time to be working on the
internet
Video games enter realm of art in Smithsonian show
The Cinema of Transgression: 16 films made on NYC's Lower
East Side in the early 80s:
Can we say we’ve read a book if we haven’t finished it?
Sometimes enough is enough, Tim Parks argues