A Study of Instagram
Today’s information society has become reliant on consumer production. The concurrent emergence of advanced mobile technology and media networks that use consumer content are defining …
Network Imperialism
Network Imperialism
Cyberwar is coming. In fact, it’s already happened. As military organizations and governments become more reliant on digital technology, that very technology becomes a site …
A New Day’s Work
A New Day’s Work
Quick, name a digital artist. Name a piece of digital art. Name of work of digital art made in the last five years. Name a …
Basketball & China
Basketball & China
Forget ping-pong. The sport of choice in the People’s Republic of China is now basketball. I discovered this in the UK, when I joined (was …
Heritage at Play
Heritage at Play
For a month in the summer of 2010, I traveled to Ireland with Colleen Brogan to investigate the role of gaelic games in Irish society. …
Imagining Anthologize
Imagining Anthologize
One of the greatest and most unlikely honors of my life to date began with an innocuous tweet. The Center for History and New Media, …
In Bookish Play
In Bookish Play
The 1993 video game Myst has haunted me since I first saw it in a Harvard Square cafe called “Cybersmith” sometime in the mid-nineties. Two …
Fort Hill: Another Cool Night on the Park
Fort Hill: Another Cool Night on the Park
A stylized midnight sketch extended into a poetic animation, this short flash piece works with pacing and positioning of text to suggest a brief, contemplative …
The Dante Experiments
The Dante Experiments
True post-structuralism needs post-structural forms, or at the very least, forms that re-imagine structure so as to call attention to its artifice. I find it …
Notes on a DVD
Notes on a DVD
I have long believed that film students and critics need a real (or reel if you will exuse the pun) tool for critically annotating film. …