introduction to digital media | fdm20c

I’m sure you are hard at work on your proposals. Should you have questions, please do not hesitate to e-mail me. I’ll be checking my e-mail until 5:30 pm; after that, Logged off e-mail for the night. I’ll see you in class tomorrow. Please cc your TA on any correspondence with me; I like to [...]

Lots to think about with this project: http://911.wikileaks.org/

BB coverage by Xeni Jardin here, for some background & links to media coverage.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT:

ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND IMPROVISATION

As a part of UCSC’s 2009 International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) Festival/Conference, this
event will include VJ/artist/director Art Jones of the Bronx, the Los Angeles-based interactive arts
duo Lucky Dragons (Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara), and Bay Area performance artist/composer
Pamela Z. This panel will bring together audio and [...]

Following up from lecture: please change your assignments to say:

At least 1500-1700 words written on the “description of the concept”

NMC panel: http://www.newmediacaucus.org/journal/issues.php?f=papers&time=2009_summer&page=kelley

Final exam study guide is available in Elizabeth Travelslight’s TA mailbox in Communications.

re: Kerr Hall — circulate widely!

(via [by?] Madeline McDonald Lane)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE
University of California, Santa Cruz
11:00 a.m., November 22, 2009

UCSC student occupiers of Kerr Hall successfully escape arrest during confrontation with police

Earlier this morning, UCSC administrators called riot police to the campus to forcibly end the students’ peaceful occupation of Kerr Hall, the central administration building [...]

Doing my small part to disseminate this communique from students who have occupied Kresge & Kerr

Because last Thursday’s SL visit had taken months to coordinate, there was no way to address the occupation & regent’s vote during class. Please know that I will not be taking attendance in lecture for the remainder of the quarter, [...]

please note:

Due to SL running long, we won’t have time to cover all the material listed in the last weeks of the quarter. Do not spend time watching Dr. Horrible for class. For pleasure, please do, but I won’t be able to talk about it. Do not spend too much time reading Bagdikian. I will [...]

A new approach to the film New Moon as a feminist text:

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/feature/2009/11/20/twilight_and_women

(via Nava)

note event in your FDM dept! Should be amazing. Hopefully I am going.

FILM SCREENING
FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION WITH
DIRECTOR CARY CRONENWETT

An homage to Soviet silent-era directors and artists of the Russian avant-garde, MAGGOTS AND MEN retells the tale of the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion of anarchist sailors. Made in the Bay Area and cast with actors from [...]