Author: sasha

Interview with artist and media critic Alessandro Ludovico by Janneke Adema. The interview focuses on the post-digital print condition, print-digital hybrids, independent and networked publishing and the potential of post-digital print projects to question, disturb, and subvert existing hegemonic and exploitative practices and institutions. http://culturemachinepodcasts.podbean.com/2013/02/06/post-digital-print-and-networks-of-independent-publishing-alessandro-ludovico/ Culture Machine Live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of […]

Two years ago I was preparing for a semester in which all of my classes involved “multimodal” student work — that is, theoretically-informed, research-based work that resulted in something other than a traditional paper. For years I’d been giving students in my classes the option of submitting, for at least one of their semester assignments, a media […]

In the central post in my whaling series, I argued data presentation offers historians an appealing avenue for historical argumentation, analogous in importance to the practice of shaping personal stories into narratives in more traditional histories. Both narratives and data presentations can appeal to a broader public than more technical parts of history like historiography; and […]