New Media Gallery in New West. Making art of noise – audio feedback loops
I stopped by at the New Media Gallery in New Westminster on my way home from…
Katherine Hayles, Biotechnology, subRosa and Embodiment
Figure 1. Sommelier and Mignonneau, The Interactive Plant Growing, 1993. In Katherine…
Keith Piper’s Robot Bodies, Bladerunner and Digital Technology
Figure 1. Ridley Scott, Bladerunner, 1982. Film Still. In the iconic, cult classic, science fiction film…
Stelarc, Donna Haraway, Bodies and Illusion
Figure 1. Sitting/Swaying: Event for Rock Suspension. Tamara Gallery, Tokyo, 11 May 1980. Australian performance artist…
The Pisspot of Possibilities
One of the most interesting and ridiculous things in the reading this week is the…
Chris Marker – Continued…
While moving on to the new readings, I have also been digging deeper into some of…
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…