New Media Education and Its Discontent

2003-10-04 Thread trebor scholz
students who think of themselves as consumers who conveniently with next to no effort (as in shopping), graduate. If this is what teaching is about, it fails its mission. Students should open themselves up to successful learning. And the ³success² in ³successful learning,² according to Bert

Re: Re: New Media Education and Its Discontent

2003-10-06 Thread trebor scholz
Hey Ted, ...a few brief responding comments to your longish post. In the US on the one hand we find undergraduate students under tremendous pressure to find a job - self-imposed, caused by peers and parents. Then there is the university that aims at high student number income. And in this complex

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2003-10-31 Thread trebor scholz
uot; anymore. Daniel Perlin pushed for the intellectual in the university as an amateur in the sense of one who loves their work and takes risks. Risk taking could mean acknowledging failure, self-criticism, de-specializing and having an interdisciplinary focus that inspires students and as "Nu

Whitney Biennial 06

2006-05-30 Thread Trebor Scholz
Whitney Biennial 06: An Afterword Judith Rodenbeck and Trebor Scholz The articles have been written and the doors of the Whitney Biennial are now closed. It is an historical truism in cultural production that after World War II, but especially after the freedom struggles of the late 1950s and

Architecture and Situated Technologies

2006-09-24 Thread Trebor Scholz
http://www.situatedtechnologies.net A 3-day symposium bringing together researchers and practitioners from art, architecture, technology and sociology to explore the emerging role of "situated" technologies in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary metapolis. Organized by Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, an

Interview artist and educator Ralf Homann

2004-11-08 Thread Trebor Scholz
Ralf Homann is an artist and director of the Experimental Radio Program at Bauhaus University, Weimar =20 Interview with Ralf Homann by Trebor Scholz. =20 TS: Please introduce the "Experimental Radio Program" at Bauhaus University and its history. RH: The Experimental Radio was

Interview with Warren Sack

2005-01-24 Thread Trebor Scholz
Interview with Warren Sack on New-Media Art Education by Trebor Scholz TS: In a recent interview members of kuda (new media center, Novi Sad) addressed the lack of non-proprietary software in the corporate world. But nevertheless, kuda strongly opts for open source / free software in education as

The ABC's of Conferencing

2005-02-06 Thread Trebor Scholz
y available now. Best, Trebor] The ABC's of Conferencing. Experiment, Play, Reflect by Trebor Scholz & Geert Lovink People love conferences. They can't get enough of all the offline events on offer. Like festivals, conferences are venues where you can meet future collaborators, deb

Copyleft and Tenure: Towards a Network Model

2005-04-04 Thread Trebor Scholz
Copyleft and Tenure: Towards a Network Model Interview with Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito Trebor Scholz: The academic legitimization of the wide variety of new media research practices is a widely discussed topic. From the collaborating media artist to the media critic who publishes online

Whose Future Internet?

2006-02-27 Thread Trebor Scholz
What defines the future of the Internet? The promises of the lustrous, technological future sell much better than the clumsy devices and network architectures in front of us. Internet2 is one of the goodies in the bazaar of the future. What is it? If you speak acronym you just call it I2. In his S