art as work

Syntax Terror – The Media Show

The Media Show continues!

A Democratic Agency

For me, the story about EdLab—its purpose, vision, and strategy—boils down to the goal of democracy. This post is a reflection on today's seminar by Gary Natriello, but I think it may also resonate with anyone who's a part of a similar organization. Gary articulated a vision of the future of the education sector that …

Two More Years of Library’s Scholars’ Lab

Mellon Grant Extension Boosts Digital Humanities Graduate Training Program. It's always interesting to see the funding trends in the area of the "digital humanities." In this case, the buzz is about UVA's "Library's Scholars' Lab" getting additional grant funding. Here's an additional note on where the money's going: The Mellon funding will also allow …

Manifestos on Digital Humanities

A Service Design Opportunity

I just participated in a two day workshop run by Engine, a UK design group that focuses on applying diverse design processes to designing customer-oriented services. The workshop focused on designing services that are complex by nature, usually involving "four P's": People, Places, Processes, and Products (not to be confused with the four P's of marketing). …

First Day with Engine

I just finished my first day of a 2-day "Service Design Workshop" run by Engine – a design group that focuses on service design. What is service design? It's pretty much as simple as it sounds, design processes applied to designing services. Of course, there's the challenge: services are complex by nature, involving "four P's": People, …

Drawing and an Argument for its Autonomy

Should the ability to draw be seen as a literacy? Is it sensible to characterize the act of drawing as the reduction of  multi- dimensional events to readable two-dimensional imagery? Last Thursday I was lucky to attend a lecture and conversation by Professors Stephen Farthing and Simon Betts on "The Bigger Picture of Drawing: A New Curriculum …

World of 100

Information about the world as if it were a village of 100 people -- a simple design and a powerful effect. Nice work Toby Ng!

Check This Out: Ethnocharettes

This is an interesting example of "design" being an inspiration for a day-long collaborative event. Interesting in many ways, but especially for the marathon-like duration. (It seems like it might not have been worth it . . .)

Snurblog liveblog at AIOR

Igniting Internet Research | Snurblog. Another liveblog of our Ignite talks. These internet researchers are good at liveblogging!

Ignite Talk at AoIR Internet Research conference

Matthew Allen » Blog Archive » IgniteIR – fast talks at AoIR Internet Research conference - Researcher, Educator and Net Critic. An early review of my Ignite talk on "Super-charging Creative Teams with Negative Feedback" at the Internet Researcher 12 conference. Cool!

Around the Campfire at IR12

The Twitter hash for the conference was #ir12. I had a chance to meet Mike Monello from Campfire and hear about his work in transmedia marketing. Monello was one of the producers on the Blair Witch Project. I also went to a panel about communities and behaviors of fans online.

Schools for Tomorrow

Nothing like a livestream to make it real. I'm speaking on "Tools Available in College" at The New York Times Schools for Tomorrow event. In their words: . . . we’re bringing together 400 of the most influential leaders in teaching, government, philanthropy and industry. The goal: to harness the power of technology to improve …

Richard Eldridge Day

The first chapter to Richard Eldridge's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art provided a good basis for discussion in class last week. He really shows off his interest in Romanticism, and his leanings towards a Pragmatic philosophy of art. We talked about the problem of "not having a perfect philosophy," located some philosophizing …

Strage Prize 2011: Christopher Emdin

Gerat video by the EdLab Team about a great teacher and scholar. I am proud to say I was a (small) part of this!

Intellectual Cosmopolitanism

I'm getting excited for the upcoming New York Times' Schools for Tomorrow conference, and working on my presentation. I'll be on the "Tools Available (college-level)" panel, and I'd like to convey some ideas about the future balance between tradition and timeliness in the academy. It's hard to articulate an interesting position in the 5-10 minutes that …

Philosophy as History

This afternoon I had the honor of working with Art Education students in Teachers College's Instep program – thinking about John Dewey's legacy and impact on art education. As preparation for the lecture and group activity (collaboratively writing philosophies of art education), we read: Ursula Niklas’ “On the Philosophy of Teaching Philosophy of Art” to …

What’s Hot on the Newly Released Vialogues Site?

The new Vialogues embed looks great. Congrats to the development team for a slick new interface.