Hiroshima, Mon Amour
Some years ago, I was a Professor of Film and Cultural Studies at McGill University. I taught a class I deeply loved with over six hundred students in it.
Lowcast Media and the Public Sphere
The focal point for many of the activities of the media be they mainstream or alternative can be found in the often different and varied ways in which media practitioners relate to the communities of which they are a part . . .
The Eyes Don’t have it: Video Images and Ethnography
I will weave through a series of juxtapositions in this essay drawn from a number of experiences which I have had in the "field" of ethnography . . .
Roland Barthes and Camera Lucida: Photography and Modernism
The many levels of mediation which go into the production, creation and interpretation of photographs suggest a great deal about how we categorize and make judgements about sight.
Art Education and the Built Environment
From the beginning of 2007 until the summer of 2017…
Scale is a Beautiful Thing in VR
Edward Madojemu is a third year Media student at Emily Carr…
Transdisciplinarity: a New Learning Paradigm for the Digital Age?
I have been an educator, administrator, writer and creative artist for over forty years. During that time, most of the disciplines with which I have been involved have changed.
Roland Barthes: Photographs and Images
The eyes of the emperor’s brother once looked straight into a camera, in this case ‘manned’ by a photographer whose duty it was to take pictures of the rich and powerful.
Common Ground, a Dialogue on Curiosity and Creativity Moderated by Sharad Khare
Common ground, a dialogue on curiosity…
Vancouver’s Urban Conundrum: Let’s Design Better Cities
Vancouver promotes itself as a modern if not postmodern city…
Research in the Creative Arts
Let me begin by suggesting that the term contingency may be a useful…
The Art of Creativity
Let’s assume for a moment that everyone is capable of being creative…
Projecting Minds
One of the central metaphors at the heart of the activities of New Media, both from the creation and audience side, is “interactivity.”
Star Trek (Summer 2016) Oh Dear…
What is it with Hollywood writers today? Have they not watched any films…
Nicholas Carr and the Internet
Among its many errors of logic and argument, Nicholas Carr's book…