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Mixed Realities Symposium

This Friday, February 8, I will be leading a panel discussion at the Mixed Realities symposium at Emerson College. The panel is titled “Immersion, Presence and Place.” Participants include John (Craig) Freeman, Usman Haque (via Second Life), Pierre Proske (via Second Life), Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, and David Steele. Each of […]

Categories: augmented_place · back-channels · mixed_reality · digital art · second life

What if the landscape had no words

This project is a surprisingly unsettling look at the relationship between words and the urban environment.  By blocking out text in urban environments, it nicely displays the power words have in shaping subject perspective, position, and interpretation. 
The
          Untitled Project
          is rooted in a base interest in the nature […]

Categories: digital art

Visible Evidence

I’m sitting in my hotel room in Montreal after attending the Visible Evidence conference.  It’s been years since I’ve attended this conference, and I’m glad to be back in the fold.  It’s really a quite sophisticated gathering in many respects.  While the discourse on new media leaves something to be desired, the participants are dealing […]

Categories: mediated urbanism · article ideas · digital art

Realism Lacks Presence

Communicating the body at a distance.  Seems to be all the rage these days.  This project R*Emote Mirror sets up a mirror in New York and another in Seoul.  A full length mirror in each site shows the outline of the remote person’s reflection.  Funny, how video images don’t seem to cut it anymore.  Realism […]

Categories: network · digital art