SENIOR MEDIA THESIS

Our Fractal, Algorithmic Nature Being as we are at the verge or perhaps in the middle of that threshold or bifurcation of our own destiny, i...

View from the Window at Le Gras, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce To quote Hamlet on the Holodeck: "...the inevitable process of moving away fro...

There is an excellent set of tutorial videos here about filming in SL. They are made by David Miller , a member of Work Literacy, a Ning n...

I spent a little time this weekend thinking about how to make a machinima. I needed to try to find some tools that would allow me to screen...

This week's reading, Of Writing Machines and Scholar-Gipsies, introduced me to Jacques de Vaucanson , and his automatons , such as the m...

After reading the chapter on Char Davies and her VR installation called "Osmose" in our text, I was very interested in the idea of...

I was taking another look at the syllabus to help plan out some of the rest of my semester. Like all of you, I have multiple things going ...

Stelarc's Handswriting "Evolution" Maki Gallery, Tokio, 22 May 1982. Photo by Akiro Okada “…Working in the interface between t...

Here is a screenshot of my desktop as I was streaming an Archaeology lecture by Ruth Tringham, UC Berkeley from an MP3 file downloaded from ...

Here is a clip of artist and technologist, Rokeby. He has transformed himself into a cyborg as a life project and connects his brainwaves to...

In 1998, when Kevin Warwick, researcher and Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, implanted a silicon chip transpo...

Hayles talks of a flux from which our mind and body emerge only to interact in ever-evolving ways. She tells of an installation piece in whi...

This article talked about some of the various virtual worlds that exist or have existed over the years such as Norrath, Ultima Online, The S...

In the Waiting Line by Zero 7 In the Waiting Line - music video by Zero 7 (2003). This composition was also featured on the Garden State mov...

Women Who Have Changed Machinima

Edward Castronova's 2001 Virtual Worlds: A First Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian frontier provides a compelling and t...

The material basis [of science] has directed attention to things as opposed to values. We look for the creation of a nonhuman type Unhindere...

I have become increasingly convinced that there is a great need for the opportunity for learning via the 3D web. There are plenty of opp...

Planetary Technoetics: Art, Technology and Consciousness “It takes a constructive and pro-active approach to the social, technological and s...

Semi-Living Garment The Victimless Leather is grown out of immortalised cell lines which cultured and form a living layer of tissue supporte...

After reading the article, "Planetary Technoetics: Art, Technology and Consciousness" by Roy Ascott, I reflected on the idea that ...

Image Source:http://graphico.free.fr/hfr/pollution.jpg As Yann Arthus-Bertrand (a famous aerial photographer, author of Earth from Above ) s...

No offense to the previous week’s reading assignments, which I found interesting, but this weeks article “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Acc...

After reading Roy Ascott's article "Planetary Technoetics: Art, Technology and Consciousness," I found several points to agree...

While checking some news today and also reflecting on the historical happenings from eight years ago I came across this article that talks a...

Machinima.com - Molotov Segment P1

Please review my blog for the week at http://myideasforbetterworld.blogspot.com/ -Suresh

I was researching Google Earth when I ran across an article about the Prado Museum in Spain using Extremely high resolution cameras to phot...

In his work “Planetary Technoetics: Art, Technology and Consciousness” Roy Ascott describes a paradigm shift that needs to take place as c...

Lifelog link

I read “All but War is Simulation: The Military-Entertainment Complex” with mixed reactions. On one hand, I was enchanted by the possibili...

Second Life has been a very new experience for me as I'm sure it has been for some of the rest of the class. As I have been seeing so m...

My father, who grew up on a farm, served in WWII as a ship’s navigator. He said that he decided to go to sea because there might be more ...

I know this is a bit tangential to this class but is a bit of a commentary on the previous post about instruments and relates to some of the...

Where did the musical instruments go (The disappearing musical instruments)? My first thoughts on viewing Pat's demo during the Digital ...