Veteran printing industry consultant Frank Romano has produced an entertaining 15 minute video on the history of printing. Worth a look.
Archive for September, 2008
“Creating a Personal Research Agenda”
Monday, September 15th, 2008Thanks to Elaine Froelich for this link to software engineer Brad Neuburg’s interesting blog. Clear examples of good research questions to ask yourself.
Electronic Arts Intermix
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Electronic 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.
“The Rest Is Noise” by Alex Ross
Saturday, September 6th, 2008New 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.
Stage, Space, Performance
Saturday, September 6th, 2008We 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.