Your maps should be complete before our final class on December 12. Of course by “complete” I mean “good enough for a semester’s serious effort”;
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps, on NPR
From NPR (via my colleague Laura Auricchio): World maps help us make sense of the world around us, and our place in it. While mapmakers
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Global Exchange Lab – Spring 2013 Class
Spring Course Open to Media Studies Students: GLOBAL EXCHANGE [See PDF] W 15:50-18:30, E302 CRN 6994 Spring 2013 Brian McGrath, Research Chair of Urban Design,
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Simon Ganahl's Lecture on Dispositif Analysis
Reposted from Simon’s blog: On Tuesday, November 13, I gave a lecture titled »Dispositif Analysis in Media Studies« at The New School in New York.
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Cartographic Arguments
How much should we expect our plotted data to “speak for themselves”? How much framing and context do we need to provide? What combination of
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Individual Meetings
I’ve asked everyone to meet w/ me one-on-one for consultation about your projects sometime before (or, given that we’re a little behind schedule, immediately after)
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A Couple More Schedule Swaps
The storm has put us a little behind schedule and required that we reshuffle our map critiques. So, after some thought, I decided it made
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The Fall of the American Movie Palace – Dec. 3
The Fall of the American Movie Palace Join photographer, Matt Lambros, for an illustrated lecture about the death of the country’s greatest and grandest movie
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Computers and Cold Wars: The Military Origins of Enterprise Systems | Simon Head – 11/15
Following up on our discussion of “database logic” and data modeling… Computers and Cold Wars: The Military Origins of Enterprise Systems | Simon Head Nov
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Call for Proposals: Spectacular/Ordinary/Contested Media City Conference, Finland, May 2013
Robot readable world from Timo on Vimeo. I’m one of the keynote speakers for this conference in May. The conference organizers have just released their
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