Archive for October, 2009
useless/useful
From Flong Blog, Golan Levin on how new media artists, working outside the mandates of utility and traditional research, are often uncredited sources for novel, sophisticated technologies. Issues of copyright aside, it shouldn’t be news that artists work in ways that circumvent linear problem-solving, and may, in the process, create technologies that are very useful [...]
read moreWendy Jacob lectures on MIT’s TechTV
Artist and MIT professor Wendy Jacob talks about her recent work within her newly-established Autism Studio in the visual arts program there. Worth watching—she shows some recent work of her own, some of her students’ projects, and then a new collaboration with a young boy diagnosed with autism, working to create a novel way to [...]
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