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Ethnographic Interventions

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

A Strategy and Experiments in Mapping Sociospatial Practices

Mounajjed N, Peng C, Walker S

This paper in the relatively new journal Human Technology is about the use of ethnographic methods by artists. Ethnography is used as a tool for a growing number of disciplines, something that is essential for its prosperity (Marcus, 2003 cited in this paper). On the other hand it notes the increasing use […]

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Affordances and Art

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I recently came across Jan Robert Leegte’s installations, and I’m hooked! There’s something about this materialization of the digital that fascinates, and maybe tells us something abou the nature of affordance (maybe not in the Gibsonian sense, but closer to Norman). What else to do but manipulate the scrollbars? Doesn’t the “selections” installation give a […]

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