How are artists using the internet to beat the economic crisis and conduct radical and creative organizing projects? Read about ArtWork: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics.

This blog entry (not a HASTAC blog) is a list of all of the upcoming 2009 MLA sessions related to new media and the digital humanities. You may also be interested in following the Digital Humanities/MLA list on Twitter.

http://www.samplereality.com/2009/11/15/digital-humanities-sessions-at-the-2009-mla/

Here's the abstract for my essay historicizing our tendency to blame youth for generational change and our tendency to scapegoat new media for social change.  It  just appeared in International Journal of Learning and Media.

The past year on the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign campus has been full of art activist projects. As an MFA candidate in New Media who is interested in work that exists in the world of art and the world of social change ,simultaneously, I have been particularly excited about this. I intend to use my HASTAC blog platform to highlight both past and current art and activist projects that have touched the UIUC campus in one way or another. First up, Oakland based artist Favianna Rodriguez and the artist collective she belongs to, Just Seeds.

This is a brief description of what I have been thinking about and doing. You see, I have this idea. This idea is what has propelled me into a graduate program because I feel it is only in a graduate program I can find the words I need to describe my idea.