April 1: Online Forsythe Symposium and OSU Website Launch
Submitted by Ryan Platt on Apr 01, 2009, 10:08 AM
- An image from William Forsythe's "One Flat Thing, reproduced" (2000), which is the basis for the interactive website being launched by Ohio
Lives Streams From transmediale through Feb. 1
Submitted by Ryan Platt on Jan 28, 2009, 02:45 AM
This post is just a brief note to alert any interested parties to the possibility of handy live streams from the transmediale festival in Berlin. I haven't entirely wrapped my head around the festiv
Twitter and Tanztheater
Submitted by Ryan Platt on Jan 05, 2009, 07:43 AM
This post is a response to Cathy Davidson's mention of Twitter and microblogging at MLA by way of a contemporary performing arts curiosity that I came across (at this blog about dance and film-- it must be the only one like it.)
Notation: Exhibition at ADK/ZKM
Submitted by Ryan Platt on Nov 23, 2008, 05:22 AM
I have been struggling to write this post in a timely and concise fashion, which is a testament to the enticing complexity of its subject, the exhibition "Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten" at Berlin's Academy of the Arts. This is the latest ZKM undertaking by new media art mogul Peter Weibel, with media theorist Huberus von Amelunxen and ADK Professor Dieter Appelt.
I have been struggling to write this post in a timely and concise fashion, which is a testament to the enticing complexity of its subject, the exhibition "Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten" at Berlin's Academy of the Arts. This is the latest ZKM undertaking by new media art mogul Peter Weibel, with media theorist Huberus von Amelunxen and ADK Professor Dieter Appelt.
Walter Benjamin, Wikipedia, and the Task of Childhood
Submitted by Ryan Platt on Oct 20, 2008, 01:12 PM
A memorable moment from a Cornell graduate coursework?Susan Buck-Morss? comment that Walter Benjamin, the quintessential collector, would have been a veritable Wikipedia junkie. She likewise suggested an especially ordinary and innovative final assignments for her seminar on Das Passagen-Werk, or The Arcades Project, a collective revision of the existing Wikipedia article on the subject.
Another of Susan Buck-Morss? point of emphasis: the contemporary valance of Benjamin?s insights in her students? personal experience.
A memorable moment from a Cornell graduate coursework?Susan Buck-Morss? comment that Walter Benjamin, the quintessential collector, would have been a veritable Wikipedia junkie. She likewise suggested an especially ordinary and innovative final assignments for her seminar on Das Passagen-Werk, or The Arcades Project, a collective revision of the existing Wikipedia article on the subject.
Another of Susan Buck-Morss? point of emphasis: the contemporary valance of Benjamin?s insights in her students? personal experience.
Ars Electronica 2008: Web Resources & Interactivity
Submitted by Ryan Platt on Oct 01, 2008, 08:09 AM
Given financial and time considerations, Linz and Austria are almost impossibly remote from my current home in Berlin. This is especially unfortunate since I have been looking for good new media art festivals and conferences to attend in Europe ever since last year's exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, V
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