So many resources, so little time! Take a moment over winter break explore these fun – and practical – websites, links, and programs that came through our inbox this fall!
1. Rhizome Artist Interviews – an ongoing series and full archive of interviews with artists who have a significant body of work that makes use of or responds to network culture and digital technologies.
2. Net Art Anthology – a rotating online exhibition that will re-stage and contextualize one work per week for the next two years, retelling the history of net art from the 1980s through the present day.
3. NMC Technology Outlook for Cooperative Extension – explores emerging technologies and forecast their potential impact expressly in Cooperative Extension programs. Nine key trends, nine significant challenges, and twelve important developments in educational technology are identified across three adoption horizons over the next one to five years, giving university leaders and faculty in both public and private funding organizations a valuable guide for strategic technology planning.
4. Scholars at Play – A Gaming Podcast – a new podcast co-hosted by three students from different departments at Vanderbilt University, created as a space for critical discussion of games, following the model of university seminars that usually focus on films, books and the like. Each episode brings together objects and readings to talk about contemporary gaming culture. Intelligent and fun!
5. Radio Heart: or, How Robots Fall Out of Love – the new volume of poetry from University of Oregon’s own visiting professor in Women’s and Gender Studies Department – Margaret Rhee, a poet, scholar, and feminist new media artist. Link goes to a podcast interview and information page.
6. Digital Literacy: an NMC Project Strategic Brief – commissioned by Adobe, this special report explores the advancement of digital literacy in in higher education and how to best prepare students for the demands of the global technological economy.
7. How to Reform Technology – exploring the changing the culture and practices of the big tech companies and how to approach technology and ethical reform in the same conversation. How will reform happen, and by whom will it be lead?
8. A Conversation on the Criticism of Technology – searching for the means to create technology criticism that follows other forms of cultural criticism, based in thoughtful consideration and analysis instead of suggesting technological change is problematic, or something to be resisted, in order to find opportunities to better understand ever-evolving social and cultural relationships to technology.
9. The Sonic Dictionary – a growing collection of sounds and exhibits created by students at Duke University and collaborating institutions. Explore their featured sounds and exhibits.
10. The Download : a Rhizome commission series that considers posted files, the act of downloading, and the user’s desktop as a space of exhibition.