http://dmiboston2009.com/ DMI Blogs » Joe » September 2008 Gregarius 0.5.4 en http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=29 Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:17:54 -0700 http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=29 Veteran printing industry consultant Frank Romano has produced an entertaining 15 minute video on the history of printing. Worth a look. 

]]> http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=28 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:58:31 -0700 http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=28 Thanks to Elaine Froelich for this link to software engineer Brad Neuburg’s interesting blog. Clear examples of good research questions to ask yourself. 

]]> http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=25 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:09:11 -0700 http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=25 Clive Thompson’s article, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” in the September 5, 2008 issue of the New York Times examines the changing social mores of the digital world. What exactly is “intimacy” in the public realm? How close can we feel to someone when our experience is mediated by a screen? Well worth a read. 

]]> http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=24 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:55:44 -0700 http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=24 Electronic Arts Intermix is a great resource for anyone interested in video and electronic art. In addition to an extensive catalog of work, artist biographies, articles, books, and other references, the site includes “A Kinetic History” of the organization which in many ways is the history of video and electronic art in the last thirty years. 

]]> http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=23 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:39:23 -0700 http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=23 New Yorker music critic Alex Ross has just published The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. A superb, accessible writer, Ross charts the social and cultural influences that shaped the music of the last century. His blog includes audio excerpts from just about every major (and minor) composer including DMI hero John Cage. Several Cage excerpts can be found here. Here’s a fascinating video of Cage! 
 
   

]]> http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=22 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:15:15 -0700 http://blog.josephquackenbush.com/?p=22 We sometimes forget that “multimedia” does not begin and end with the digital. Oral culture was multimedia. We see the remnants in theater, performance art, and opera today. Take a look at this preview of the Lincoln Center Festival presentation of Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten opera. Unlike most performances in which the audience remains in a fixed position, the audience in the cavernous Park Avenue Armory move with the performers.   

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