Week #9 – Multimedia Midterm – Lauren Marie Paterson

Hello everyone! In light of our class focusing on the world of participatory media, I decided to go the same route with my midterm paper. Helen wanted me to share it this week in light of our theme of multi-disciplinary and multi-media projects. In order to make it more interesting and engaging, I tried to […]

Week 4: Grace Roxas Morrissey — Old is new again

When I tour people around the Portland Japanese Garden, I always love to point out the paradox of the sand-and-stone garden, that Japanese garden of empty spaces and abstract composition that people somewhat precipitously think of as the Zen garden (A garden is only properly called Zen when there’s a Zen Buddhist monastery around).

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Week #4 – Tactical Media – Lauren Marie Paterson

This week’s tactical media theme of exploratory material and reading from Charlie Gere’s Digital Culture wove together very well, and painted an interesting picture of art in the digital age.

In exploring the participatory art projects of artists Stephanie Rothenberg, I was drawn to Invisible Threads. Labeled as a “mixed reality performance installation,” it allows […]