Keylines
A platform for open, collaborative conversation about contemporary issues relevant to the new media community. Each thread below was initiated by a "seed post" author and anyone can contribute to the discussion.
Art, Science, Technology: Towards Forging a Method and Firing a Canon
From the invention of one-point perspective and the creation of oil paint to the development of photography and interactive virtual reality environments, technical innovation and...
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genre
noun
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
category
noun ( pl. -ries)
1. a class or division of people or things regarded as having particular shared...
In Delhi, most neighbourhood residential 'colonies' have a building (or a set of buildings) haphazardly labelled 'Community Centre' abutting them. Usually this is little more than a faded sign affixed to a more or less shell-like concrete structure. Empty...
"Society" means everybody. "Technology" means anything invented since the grownups were born. "Environment" means everything else. So when we're describing the keenly modern crises of technology, environment, and society, we're talking mush, an indefinite...
First Blush
posted Aug 10, 2006 by Lynn Hershman
Recently, on my birthday, a friend suggested that ideally we should all live our lives backwards, and eventually reclaim our birthright of a celebratory orgasmic explosion. But before all that, of course, comes seduction. Life begins with a glint, then...
The New Media Backpedal
posted Aug 07, 2006 by Nato Thompson
The fact that radical actions flourished under Clinton but not under Bush is highly bizarre (if not somewhat amazing at the same time). Surely, one must consider the radical political landscape in the United States at this time and attempt to gain a handle...
The Innovation Trap
posted Aug 09, 2006 by David Ross
There are traps awaiting artists, some of them are productive, some of them are exquisite, some are merely a painful waste of time and energy. One such trap is imbedded within our glorification of innovation.
We conflate the notion of progress with...
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