I was thinking about our discussion from the last day of class. Mostly, I like to think about that discussion because it was so open and warm and emotional. It reminded me of the last day of summer camp::: it … Continue reading
I decided to bring back the corniness of my Pay It Forward-happy-message-money signment this week. Corniness has a nice symmetry, a symmetry that seems to round things off—like a balloon or a sitcom episode, you know, happy circles. Yeah. So, … Continue reading
Cornelia Vismann, Files ∆ This nonerasable file […] remains the final threat for the functionaries of the Stasi apparatus. Their last and only hope is that their files may be canceled on Judgment Day, when our sins are erased (exaleiphein) … Continue reading
I made a Roy Batty Twitterbot @RoyBatty_1982 using the Zach Whalen instructions. (And thus whatever algorithms allow “Twitter Apps” to generate and post my tweets automatically; I have not yet decided whether my “vocabulary” and syntactical ingredients counts as parts of … Continue reading
“…spamming is the project of leveraging information technology to exploit existing gatherings of attention.” – Finn Brunton, “Introduction: The Shadow History of the Internet.” Today, walking home from Crazy Mocha, I realized that I needed to check my mail, a … Continue reading
So…. At this point, I’ve spend about 4-6 hours on this. But I don’t have a finished product. My original idea for this signment was to create a variation on a “Dr. Seuss” font. When I was in high school, … Continue reading
Hi Everyone, Today I remembered that this video exists, and I felt like sharing because 1) Björk is awesome, and 2) This video of her explaining how her TV works made me think back to Kirschenbaum’s claims about how we interact … Continue reading
At first glance, this appears to be a picture about my cat: However, this is actually a picture about the paper documents my cat has decided to make his seat. I fanned this papers out on my dining room table … Continue reading
“Any printed book is, as a matter of fact, both the product of one complex set of social and technological processes and also the starting point for another.” -Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book “Hermeneutic Code…all those units … Continue reading
Unlike “M,” it was difficult for me to disregard the second OE definition of “precious.” When Annette articulated our signment in class, the combination of the words “precious” and “paper” immediately led my mind to money. The U.S. dollar is … Continue reading