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Fantastic-- looks like I'm not the only one interested in the ways digital photography is changing photography, and in turn, how this is may affect memory (as the two have become so intertwined). Douglas Rushkoff starts of a great dialog on Photography and Memory (via Purse Lips Square Jaw).

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I'm excited about a new research/community project I'm going to be working on with Monique Silverman that will teach written and visual (and digital) literacy to women primarily in Surrey's immigrant community-- using weblogs/photoblogs. The program will update Wendy Ewald's Literacy through Photography. I have a ton of links from my initial research, but here are some of the best:

Linked Out: Blogging, Equality and the Future: Blogging beyond A-Lists and Echo Chambers: "Rebecca Blood shares Mason's view that blogs provide a space for change, particularly for marginalised voices. "Bloggers (particularly women) can talk anonymously about personal subjects that are normally taboo. That's a huge cultural shift, and it will surely have ramifications in time."

Visual Literacy and Art Meritocracy: "At the moment, photography becomes an interesting example. Compared to other visual media, the advent of digital technology encourages its use dramatically. Disincentives like cost and delayed gratification will soon become issues of the past. Most likely, digital photography will integrate into common communication practices with near textual ubiquity. Furthermore, increased experience will raise the average level of photo-literacy and encourage more curious amateur practitioners to investigate the language at higher levels of sophistication."

Do you blog? "My blog is freedom," Natalia says. "It's an outlet for ideas and thoughts that don't have another place to go."

Jill Walker: Notes on "Weblogs, Learning to Write in the Network"

Posted by cloo @ 05:55 PM EST [Link]

Boing Boing's (Non-hypothetic ideas about women in gaming): Game execs tell us why women don't buy more games, and then Alice Taylor weighs in.

Your guess who's right.

Posted by cloo @ 11:17 PM EST [Link]

Ian White asks "whether our idées fixes about the new media genre – its levels of ludic subversion, its critique of the institution of Art, its interactive nature – aren’t misnomers in the face of the realities of the white cube." Does contemporary art's persistent Romantic fixation fully address the potentials of new media, or is it perhaps myopically focused on an easy contrast between natural and artificial space?

Read Romancing the Black Box by Ian White (metamute 15.10.03)

Posted by cloo @ 03:11 PM EST [Link]

Redesign hits Sugar and Sugar on May 15th (8pm), brought to you primarily by some of our brightest SIAT undergrads (most of whom we'll be shipping overseas on exchange to Sweden and Italy). What a great show-- these were some of the students I TAed in SVR just last year!

Posted by cloo @ 06:51 PM EST [Link]

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