As the subhead says, this is not a blog … not yet, anyway.  I’ve repurposed the software package into something that functions as a homepage, so go to one of the other headers and see if you can find what you’re looking for!

recent publications: “The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the State of the Image”, “Nella camera oscura c’e piu di quanto lo sguardo riesca a cogliere”, “European Identity as Palimpsest”, “A ‘Proper Point of View’: the panorama and some of its early media iterations” ….

coming soon:  a new CMS@MIT lab…!!! the MIT Open Documentary Lab. We’ll get the ball rolling with a day-long event on March 20th entitled The New Arts of Documentary, which will bring together technologists, makers, scholars, funders and curators. The goal is to begin a conversation about non-linear, location-based, collaborative, crowd-sourced, transmedia and other forms of documentary production — forms in need of more systematic taxonomies, evaluative frameworks and institutional support. The entire week will include related events from transmedia activism (Monday); to a Communications Forum on Documentary Film and New Technologies with Sundance’s Shari Frilot, NFB’s Gerry Flahive, Tribeca’s Ingrid Kopp and Ithica College’s Patty Zimmerman (Tuesday evening); to a CMS Colloquium on Mapping the Urban Database Documentary with Zeega’s Jesse Shapin and Kara Oehler (Thursday evening). Stay tuned for more….

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