Utopic Symbols: Alex Hartley’s Nowhereisland and Robert Smithson’s Floating Island
Figure. 1. Alex Hartley, Nowhereisland, 2011. This weeks Vancouver reference readings made me curious about how contemporary…
THE FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS OF VIRTUAL REALITY
This short article is a nice review of the various ways in which people have tried…
Joseph Beuys: The Bridge Between Material and Lived Experience
Joseph Beuys, The Pack. Installation View, 1969. In Matt Ratto’s Critical Making: Conceptual and Material Studies in…
The Golden Highway: Kittler’s Notions of Authoritarian Power is Alive and Well in our Fibre Optic Cable Systems
Figure 1. TeleGeography’s Submarine Cable Map Shows 285 cable networks, 2014. Open Source Image. In Friedrich…