I curate a digital art show: Digital Eclectic
Sometimes one life lived by a multimedia/new media artist, me, casts a shadow over another of her lives. I don’t refer to a dark, negative cast. More like a temporary solar eclipse. In this case, my art is eclipsing my book riffing. But instead of disappearing from my literary blog until the eclipse passes, I [...]
May 16, 2011
Tags: Antioch University, Ari Danesh, Bernadette Murphy, digital art, Digital Eclectic, interactive art, interactive light, interactive sound, Joseph Norton, learner centered teaching, learner-centered, Mike Winter, multimedia art, new media art, NoHo, Sharman Russell, Terry Bailey, Terry Wolverton, WEB art, WEB history Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary 
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Some Personal Philosophy – and Why You Will Not Read About Any Unsuccessful Books in this Blog
I read lots of books. Some of them I don’t mention here. Since one of the topics I have studied and taught is branding and cognitive theory, I know that even a negative review of something will bring attention to it and arouse the curiosity of some to the [...]
March 17, 2011
Tags: art and science, color theory, electronic literature, Flash, Jonah Lehrer, literary blog, new media literature, new media writing, Proust was a Neuroscientist, Terry Bailey, WEB history Posted in: Book Riffs, Reading Diary No Comments
Part 5: . . . and the Flash, iPad and mobile device saga continues: 1 step forward, 2 steps back
In her Insider Comment column in WEB Designer, Issue 173, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis states: “Long, Long Ago (in web years that is) we built our code to work in the browser that was currently the leader . . . . Life was tough. It was nearly impossible to make everyone happy.” She then refers to [...]
October 10, 2010
Tags: Flash, Hypercard, interactive history, iPad, Issue 173, Macromedia, Macromind, new media history, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis, Steve Jobs, WEB Designer, WEB Designer magazine, WEB history Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary No Comments
Part 2: The iPAD iPhone Flash Adobe Apple Controversy – this new media author’s take: A Dangerous Retro Blacktop Paved Hole
Steve Jobs is claiming his iPhone and iPad to be the latest in tech, while intimating that Adobe’s interactive content creator, Flash, is something from the past to be discarded by any hip tech person. The opposite is true. The iPhone and iPad are not strong or fast enough to keep up with Flash. Further, [...]
July 5, 2010
Tags: Adobe, controversy, ebooks, Flash, interactive literature, interactive media history, Internet, Internet History, iPad, iPhone, Steve Jobs, WEB, web content, WEB history Posted in: New Media Writing and Technology Diary, Reading Diary No Comments