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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.


Histories  
2 POSTS
  UPDATED: AUG 09, 2006
Historicizing Art and Technology: Forging a Method and Firing a Canon, Part 2
posted Aug 08, 2006 by Dr. Edward A. Shanken
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...
Genres  
2 POSTS
  UPDATED: AUG 07, 2006
New Media as Genre: Two Reflections, Part 1
posted Aug 07, 2006 by Patrick Lichty
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...
Communities  
1 POST
  UPDATED: AUG 07, 2006
Turn left from the community centre and walk fifty yards
posted Aug 07, 2006 by Raqs Media Collective
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...
Technology & the Environment  
2 POSTS
  UPDATED: AUG 17, 2006
Watching Stuff Rot, or, Society, Technology & Environment
posted Aug 07, 2006 by Bruce Sterling
"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...
Cyberfeminism  
1 POST
  UPDATED: AUG 10, 2006
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...
Radicalisms  
4 POSTS
  UPDATED: MAR 18, 2007
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...
Innovation  
3 POSTS
  UPDATED: SEP 14, 2006
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...