We made it at last today to the Mark Bradford exhibition in San Francisco at SFMOMA – [Link] Exhibition website – [Link] Maybe it’s about … tracing the ghosts of cities past. It’s the pulling off of a layer and finding another underneath. It’s the … details that point to people saying, “We exist; we…
media matters
design thinking – the importance of representation
The end of our class in the d.school – Transformative Design. Presentations of the team projects – covering recycling, sleep management, making friends, interdiscipinary learning K-12, energy efficiency, digital privacy, personal tutoring, personal finances. Communication skills are crucial – sharing ideas with team members, listening to people in this human-centered design process. Effective use of…
d.school storytelling (continued)
from Nicole Kahn’s (IDEO) talk last week about need finding and ethnography
site and artifact – media materialities
Sam (Schillace) has put me onto a very interesting photo project – where site becomes the surface of artifact. PhotoGraphy from ShiKai Tseng on Vimeo. (An artifact is placed inside a pinhole camera that records a 360 degree panorama onto its surface.) Further focus on medium as mode of engagement, as much as signal and…
Innovation Journalism: performance and curation
Conference at Stanford – Innovation Journalism 2011 A panel discussion with Marisa Gallagher of CNN. The topic was the future of journalism and the place of narrative. Mobile Media Design – Is the Medium Still the Message?. The contemporary crisis in journalism is simple. With everyone able to witness and publish their experiences of newsworthy…
Gorillaz – the archaeological imagination
Superb performance last night from Gorillaz at Oakland Arena. Their latest, Plastic Beach, has an environmentalist theme, but avoids trite treatment of such a common and pressing matter of concern. (The contrast with the likes of movie Avatar is stark.) Human concern – – Damon Albarn, graphic artist Jamie Hewlett, the 2D virtual members of…
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