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I’m posting up some work-in-progress entitled Exploring Patterns of Knowledge Production (link to full pdf) . Below I’ve excerpted the introduction plus list of motivational questions. Comments (and critique) very welcome! Introduction In what follows the term ‘knowledge’ is here used broadly to signify all forms of information production including those involved in technological innovation, cultural creativity and academic advance. Today, thanks to rapid advances in IT, we have av

Optica Festiva 09. Madrid – Different venues – fino al 17/10/09 Optica Festiva 09 International Festival of Videoart Optica is one of the first projects of its kind and, at the same time, is among the contemporary art events which attracts the most media attention. This initiative, organized by the Asociación Cultural Colectivo Interferencias, offers a forum for interchange and promotion that encourages an encounter with visual experimentation at an international level.To experiment means to g

by Tom James Dance, as with any social activity, is governed by its own code of etiquette. Proper conduct is just as important as mastering technique and perfecting each specific step. More than just a sport, social dancing is an art form, a manifestation of cultural heritage and human creativity? Understandably requiring a higher form of conduct is just plain sportsmanship. They allow us to practice not just the expressive aspect of dance, but also the communicative, where we dance not just

Earlier this week I had a conversation with an American colleague about (amongst other things) the British way of holding your cutlery and the comedy value of the thing in my garden that I call a water butt . After we had stopped laughing we got into a discussion about the extent that your own cultural background and the way in which things are presented to you affects personal interpretation. I kept this in mind while I was listening to and watching the gears. The designer Stefan Sagmeiste

Warning: Below video is racist, highly offensive Whatever happened to being a citizen of the world? Why aren’t media outlets more conscious about their content in this age of mass information sharing? It is true that I have never been to Australia and probably don’t plan on going anytime soon. But it is totally disheartening for me to see privileged, and ostensibly educated, white men appropriating this feigned image of Blackness for comedic ends. Then there is this other problematic mome

By Roy York Artists have used cloth, plaster, stone and other mediums to produce art, and on Thursday pizza dough will be added to the list. The Student Activities Board in partnership with UK Dining Services will host the second Wildcat Cook-off of the semester Thursday at 7 p.m. in Blazer Cafe with a “Pizza Pizzazz” theme. Four contestants will have 40 minutes to produce a creative and tasteful pizza that wows a three-judge panel of UK Dining Service chefs. Aubrey Collier, an economics s

Twitter It! My neighbor introduced me to The Office back in 2005. Since then, I’ve watched every episode of both the British and American versions. I’ve watched the show obsessively because I’ve been unable to figure out what makes it so devastatingly effective, and elevates it so far above the likes of Dilbert and Office Space . Until now, that is. Now, after four years, I’ve finally figured the show out. The Office is not a random series of cynical gags aimed at momentarily allevia

By Jessica R. Yurasek Let’s face it, most of the general public does not really understand typography. So when I first tell people that I attended something called ‘Type Camp’ this summer, I tend to garner a lot of puzzled looks. But, smiling bemusedly, the typographic outsider with whom I am conversing, is likely to then ask a question not so far off from my own the first time I heard about Type Camp: what , exactly, do you do there? Well, explore typography, of course. I signed up for

by simonlau on October 6, 2009 When the kids intend bag from edifice in the afternoon and feature ‘I’m bored’, at small you crapper saucer them towards doing their schoolwork – still – when it’s the week-end or edifice holidays – you undergo that it won’t be daylong until you center ‘I’m bored’ individual nowadays a day!Times are thickened economically but diverting kids has never been an pricey project – so here are eight ideas to ready your children busy, creative and active during these da

Theoretical Approaches to Learning Art “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ” Picasso As educational leaders, it is our task to enhance learning with the theories that we learn throughout our educational experiences so our children as Picasso so nicely put it could keep their imagination and continue being artists for the rest of their lives. Art is “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experience