Computer Love & Hacking the Timeline v3.0

Two events about the historification of Computer Art Developing a serious academically rigorous discourse, concerning the evolution of digital art, from its original elite origins to today’s ubiquitous world-culture was a focus of two consecutive evenings in Los Angeles in early 2014. As part of USC One Archive’s three-month long …

Earth Alert!

I recently found out that on March 1st, 2014, Patrick Wall had died. I had not seen Patrick in many years, and like so many others I have known, had lost touch with him over time. Patrick, along with Janet Bridgers, co-founded Earth Alert!, an Emmy-winning group of enviornmental activists …

Ulysses Jenkins’ Telematic Performances

Since Nicola Tesla developed the notion of alternating current, arguably more cultural change has occurred worldwide, than in all of our collective human saga. In examples ranging first from electric lighting, to radio, to television, to personal computing and now onto the proliferation of non-location based networked communities, homo sapiens has now entered a world where …