Else-If-Then

Category: book project

  • Renee Turner 2008

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    Renee Turner 2008 Originally uploaded by cuuixsilver My next interview was with Renee Turner, a member of De Geuzen, for whom I gave a talk last January. De Geuzen is a group of 3 women conducting what they term “multi-visual” research, and most of it involves computers and digital media in some way. Renee describes…

  • Sher Doruff part 2

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    Ok, so…the creative industries. I must say that so far I have not heard one good thing about the plan to change to this model, and Sher was no exception. She feels the added bureaucracy will prevent any really interesting and original project from ever getting funded. While maybe this will push some artists into…

  • William Uricchio part 2

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    So one of the biggest issues in many of my interviews has been funding and William talked about this as well. Right now there is a lot of money available for digitizing historical archives and so every school is looking through their library to see what might be worth proposing as a project. The money…

  • Interview with William Uricchio

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    So as in the last trips, I am doing interviews. The first was with William Uricchio, (and here’s his page at Utrecht) from Utrecht University, and also MIT. In fact I knew William in the context of superhero comics long before I knew his new media work, but the latter turns out to be the…

  • Summer Research

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    So I am once again traveling to the Netherlands to do some research, scraping away at these interviews, as many as I can cram into about ten days without going insane. I leave on 23 June and go directly to University of Twente where I will meet Elfi Ettinger in person (one of my IR…

  • More good news

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    So now both of the panels I proposed to IR 9.0 have been accepted, which means that one of my book projects can really go forward–a collection of these papers and a few more I will invite from some other people I know who work on this stuff and who might be interested. Fingers crossed…

  • I am so behind…

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    Even though I’m not teaching as much this term, I am just buried in work. I’m co-chair a conference that takes place in two weeks and will so glad when it’s over. What a headache. Plus I am trying to work on some grant proposals, sent in the two IR 9.0 proposals, and just sent…

  • Research Update

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    Let’s see…first the bad news: didn’t get the Franklin Grant. It’s really competitive and I know I did the best proposal I could, so while I wish I’d gotten it, I don’t feel so bad. I talked with some colleagues and the consensus seems to be that getting grants is really almost impossible until after…

  • Final (for now) project proposal

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    Earlier this month I posted a proposal which did not get accepted for further submission and evaluation. I have to really thank Florian for being quite forthright about completely incoherent the first version was, and asking pointed questions that allowed me to see what needed to be straightened out. So I revised and revised and…

  • Book Project?

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    Last spring I decided to start researching how institutions that study, produce, and/or teach new/digital/cyber/hyper/whatever media organize themselves. At first I just wanted to see what other places were doing so that as we worked on our new center we would have some sense of possibilities and pitfalls. Pretty quickly I realized that certain choices…