PhD defended!
Joint PhD in Communication Concordia University (2008–2012) // Doctoral Thesis Accelerator Award, Concordia University (2011-2012) // Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship (2008-2011) // Concordia University Graduate Fellowship (2008-2010) Masters in Media Studies Concordia University (2005–2007) // J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship (2006-2007) // Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada Graduate...
NMP 20: Witness
Welcome to the Witness issue. Witness as in: To observe. To attest. To testify. One who has personal knowledge of something. One who can give a firsthand account. One who gives evidence. One who is called on to testify before a court. A character witness, blind witness, Witness Lee, paranormal witness, auricular witness, adverse witness,...
Infographics: Creation as Research
I’ve been working on visually representing the trajectories–including crashes and invisible failures–of online video art archives in Canada for my research-creation thesis. Soon available in high res for download, but right now in low res draft form: http://www.wayward.ca/wayward/notes/video-cache-infographics/
Archinodes: Our posters are up in the metros of Montréal
Our Life Stories Montreal posters are finally up in the metro stations and cars of Montréal! They look especially vibrant in the huge format backlit boxes on the metro platforms (at Berri-UQAM and Lionel-Groux), but I mostly enjoyed sneaking around taking photos of the posters just blending in to everyone’s commute, in the metro cars....
Salon des rejetées: Visual Thinking by BRUCE
http://brucebrucebrucebrucebrucebruce.net/video/visual-thinking/
NMP redesign: new site launch
January 1, 2012 saw the launch of the new NMP site, this time in WordPress. I managed to learn and adapt the WPShower Imbalance to our needs which attests to the good design of WordPress’s backend and frontend alike. I’ve left the old site up for now until I figure out how to archive it...
Fembot Advisory Board
I’ve just been added the Fembot Advisory Board. Fembot is a new concept for multimodal publishing on gender, media, and technology. Fembot refers to three overlapping entities: 1. A collective of scholars, organized as an institute, who will share responsibility for the construction and implementation of a Fembot website, which will provide a platform for collaboration, publication, and distribution; decisions...
Mini Docs: 52 Pick Up Videos 2011-2012
I am currently working on a new mini documentary series of web docs for, Dayna McLeod’s 52 Pick Up Videos, which for me starts in December 2011 and runs until December 2012. The topic has to remain a secret for now because the documentary collects spontaneous, on the spot reactions, to the same question, 52 times. See...
S= (KN+KT)R: CAM MATAMOROS, FOUR YEARS LATER
‘Every school-day for 3 weeks i got up and made a 3 minute recording of where i thought i would be in 4 years when i finish my degree. an attempt to create routine, an anchor/reference point for the present and stability and hope for the future. then i edited out everything that wasn’t an...
Errors, Failures, Glitches: Another Collection
I’ve started collecting screen grabs of error messages, impasses, glitches, and so on…