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January 12, 2008

Post #1

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TV Buddha by Nam Jun Paik (1974) closed circuit video installation

Course Requirements
- download
Course Schedule - download

READING for class 2: "Garden of the Forking Paths" by Jorge Luis Borges, 1941-download Both readings for next week taken from The New Media Reader by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, 2003

More information on work we viewed in class:
CHRIS MARKER markertext.com Marker scripts, writing, & links
more info on Chris Marker | review of "La Jetee," NYTimes

GEORGES MELIES essay @ Sense of Cimena | another overview

Empty Orchestra by Chien-Chi Chang

Screens in the News:
cellphone novels in Japan, NY Times | more from Wired magazine

January 24, 2008

"On Beauty"

Due to my pesky obsession with Stumbleupon, I discovered this website. It doesn't have much to do with anything we talked about last class; I just think that old photographs are neat. There are a handful of really great ones.

http://www.squareamerica.com/ob.htm

-Sara

January 28, 2008

Slide Shows #1

READING: "Photography's Expanded Field" by George Baker - for Feb 12 class
Download file

Slide Shows from New York Times Multimedia
- Free and Uneasy: The First Year Out
- China: World's Smokestack" by Chang W. Lee (P&I alum), 8-26-2007

Slide Luck Pot Show | archive of past events and slideshows
In class viewing: (SLPS X > slideshows) Nina Berman [website] and
Chris Jordan [website]

The Shining redux and the actual trailer
NY Times article on redux trailer

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players:
lo-fi-performance-art-pop-family - go to videos

Tech Info:
FotoMagico
Apple's Keynote

size images for slide show to 1024x768 pixels (72 dpi).

January 29, 2008

Street signs

Following in Sara's footsteps, I thought I would post a link I found interesting.
Mark Daye's Signs
There's been mixed responses to it, all very interesting.

January 30, 2008

Blogger of the Week Schedule

>week runs from tu-tu - at least 3 posts a week - remember to mark category blogger of week and any other pertinent categories<

Feb 5: Katelyn
Feb 12: Caroline
Feb 19: Elise
Feb 26: Robinson
Mar 11: Robert
March 25: Mike
April 1: Lili
April 8: Sara
April 15: Kathleen

January 31, 2008

More on Borges

Library of Babel another story to read download

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Borges: The Garden of the Forking Paths

2 articles
- Borges’ “Library of Babel” and the Internet by Christopher Rollason
- Borges and the Foreseeable Future by Noam Cohen

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