Media aura

Bill Viola – The Passions – an Exhibition on at the National Gallery London. Lots of high definition videos of people’s faces in slow motion, displaying emotion, disposition, reaction. The technology and medium makes us look differently at the everyday. That was about it though. I couldn’t bring myself to stand in front of a…

Information is a verb

Information is a verb and we need an archaeology of information. University of California Irvineat the UC Humanities Research Institute Occasion – a colloquium on the future of the humanities in a digital world. Attending – people from university humanities centers across the US, librarians, some government people, IT people (various supercomputing centers), and from…