Author: disruptor

Biomediaciones / Biomediations: new Liquid Book

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Life doesn’t exist: it is always mediated by language, culture, technology and biology. It is these multiple mediations of life that form the theme of this liquid, living book, the sixth volume in the Culture Machine Liquid Books series. Biomediaciones/Biomediations has been collaboratively speed-edited in three hours at the Living Books workshop at the Festival…

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Adobe Digital Media Education Summit 2013

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Creativity and Expressiveness, Adobe Digital Media Education Summit, 13-15th October 2013, Barcelona. Jonathan is delighted to announce he will be speaking at next week’s Adobe Digital Media Education Summit in Barcelona. “The Art School: The only limit when working creatively and commercially is the limits of our imagination!” The presentation advocates for increased creativity when…

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Fibreculture book series

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OHP and Fibreculture Journal are pleased to announce a new book series in networked cultures. Edited by Andrew Murphie, the Fibreculture book series encourages critical and speculative interventions in discussions concerning a wide range of topics. These include: digital and networked media and communications; new niches and new ecologies of media; transversal critique; related forms…

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OpenMedia Classes

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Shaun Hides & Jonathan Shaw Presented at the Digital Humanities Summer School, KU Leuven, Belgium 19th September 2013 The Coventry Open Media Class project grew out of the Open Media philosophy and approach that the Department of Media at Coventry University has adopted over the last four years. It is intended to capture a series…

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Opening the doors to visible and connected learning

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12th September PEDARE Conference 2013, Falmouth University, UK Opening the doors to visible and connected learning In 2011 Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun at Stanford University shook up educational institutions by opening their doors to their ‘Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’ interactive MOOC (Massively Open Online Class). Two years earlier in the back of a converted…

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