Lately one of my professors has been crowd sourcing ideas for his upcoming classes this fall from his Facebook friends. One of his classes, which I unfortunately cannot fit into my schedule (I’ll still audit the hell out of it), is called Genres of Affect and explores the idea of how affect is seen as a form of power. It’s

So I’m obsessed with this (trigger word) “movement” that James Bridle and a bunch of his designer friends from London have coined: “The New Aesthetic”. Basically at its most essential can be categorized as a melding of the digital realm with the real world. We humans viewing the world through the eyes of our very own technology, and what beautiful aesthetic qualities

Last night I watched an excellent lecture (twice! first watched, then went to bed last night listening just to the audio) by London artist James Bridle. The, title as he explains, does have a reference to Rhianna, even though he messed up the wording a little bit. Here he talks about fascinating ideas of coded spaces, bot intimacy, gay cyber cruising,

So I’m arrived back at school this past week and I feel as disconnected as ever. However I am slowly crawling my way out of the social hole I dug for myself by going to Berlin last semester. I needed to get away from it with a distraction… something in the city… Something like Art Hack Day, as brought up