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Mort Ransen who recently died at the age of eighty-eight was a very important Canadian filmmaker and an extraordinary person.

Aside from a few shows, the material available from Netflix ranges from clichéd to super clichéd and this would not matter that much if they were not so dominant in the streaming era.

Not to Scale: How the Small Becomes Large and the Large Becomes Unthinkable and the Unthinkable Becomes Possible by Jamer Hunt (Grand Central Publishing, New York 2020)

 Reviewed by Ron Burnett

In the early 2000’s, I led a design research group which was part of the New Media Innovation Centre in Vancouver. NewMic was one of those brilliant ideas that come along once in a while but are generally rare. The inventory you see below was developed in 2002.

The video and computer game industry has been developing more and more sophisticated models of interactivity to allow us to more fully explore the closeness that we have established with screen-based experiences.

“The computer is a trope, a part-for-whole-figure, for a world of actors and actants and not a Thing Acting Alone.” - Donna Haraway

This website has been redesigned to mark and illustrate the beginning of a new era. In the past it has been a repository for articles and thoughts by Ron Burnett