This paper presents an account of a project jointly undertaken from 2001 to 2003 by UCLA and the Ocean Institute (Dana Point, California) to create an interactive virtual reality exhibit about archaeological objects found at Port Royal, Jamaica. The intended users of the exhibit were schoolchildren and other visitors to the Ocean Institute. The goal of the project was to facilitate learning thr...

This paper compares and contrasts approaches to combinatorics in OULIPO and Recombinant Poetics. OULIPO, also known as Ouvroir de Litérature Potentielle, is a literary and artistic association founded in the 1960s whose combinatoric methods and experimental concepts continue to be generative and relevant to this day. Recombinant Poetics is a term that I coined in 1995 in order to define a parti...

In this essay, I consider the scales and connections lost gained as natural history adopts digital data infrastructures. On basis of ongoing work in Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, track relations between insect specimens their material informational ecologies. Using Latour's notion ‘circulating reference’, follow they make way into taxonomies, databases, digitization apparatuses. focusing on hum...

Though we may be competent at using many technologies, most of what we think we know about technology in general is false. Our error stems from the everyday conception of things as separate from each other and from us. In reality technologies belong to an interconnected network the nodes of which cannot exist independently qua technologies. What is more we tend to see technologies as quasi-natu...

Hong Kong has always been regarded as a critical region of Cultural China. Surprisingly, traditional Chinese medicine has not yet been accepted as legitimate in the city. This study uses acupuncture as a case study into the way media texts work to organize a field of knowledge and practices about health in a post-colonial society where contrasting perspectives and hybrid ideas rooted from the E...

In 1988, O’Keefe proposed the theory of message design logics. Rather than a theory of communication, it is a “theory of communication theories,” focusing on the bases from which individuals envision the practice and possibilities of communication. In this view, three message design logics represent fundamentally different ways to see the communicative world. O’Keefe assumes a developmental con...

ion. The operation of structures and generative mechanisms must be studied as tendencies that may or may not be exercised depending on the concrete situation but which are, nonetheless, real and determining factors. We might say, therefore, that capitalist society contains a general “capitalist” structure but that the various economic structures, relations, and institutions vary in their concre...

S Music and the Moving Image Conference May 27th 29th, 2016 1. Loewe Friday, May 27, 2016, 9:30AM – 11:00AM MUSIC EDITING: PROCESS TO PRACTICE—BRIDGING THE VARIOUS PERSPECTIVES IN FILMMAKING AND STORY-TELLING Nancy Allen, Film Music Editor While the technical aspects of music editing and film-making continue to evolve, the fundamental nature of story-telling remains the same. Ideally, the role ...