Designing Cities of the Future
Today’s cities are becoming increasingly dense as people choose to live more urban lives, which affects sustainability efforts put in place to protect the...
Unplugged: A 24-hour Media Fast
Instant access to friends, family, and information is part of the fabric of 21st century American life. Our devices are part of our extended...
Branding Digital America | featuring Sarah King
After about a half dozen false starts getting the branding in place, our marketing intern, Erin Smith, brought us Sarah King. Sarah not only...
Fashion Blogging and Webcam Media | Leslie Bloomfield
Fashion is broadcasted to us through one-to-many1 platforms that construct visual environments around lifestyles that sell personal identities and prescribed values using clothing as...
How the Internet is Helping the Music Industry | Will Johnson
The music industry is dying. At least, this is the common expression among music businessmen. The availability of music for cheap prices and the...
The Demise of net.art: A Look At Artifacts Past | Kenta Murakami
The absorption of radical art movements by the mainstream has become a cliché of the avant-garde. “Subversion to assimilation to absorption”: a cycle net.artist...
Living in Loser City: an interview with the creators | Francesca Lyn
Recently I had the chance to talk to the founders of a new online venture, Loser City. Loser City is a cross-platform arts and...
Dead Man’s Bell: Virilio’s Tele-vision & the Cybernetic Eternity | Norberto Gomez Jr.
“These creatures are nothing but pure motorized instinct. We must not be lulled by the concept of these are family members or friends. They...
Collecting Male Tears: Misandry and Weaponized Femininity on the Internet | Jillian Horowitz
“Gee, isn’t it awful for women to hate men?” With the ironic opening to her October 1972 piece for the Village Voice entitled “The...
Virtual Interworlds
What does it mean for something to be virtual? And what does it mean for something to be a world? These are the questions...