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A sad day
This morning we received the sad news that three QUT Creative Industries students lost their lives in a tragic car accident over the weekend. Among them was Gerard Cutcheon. I only met him once or twice, but I am touched to see that the comments section of Gerard’s photography website has become the focus of…
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De/institutionalization
While logging into the QUT server just now, I suddenly realized that my new student number is easier to remember than my old one. Are these the moments that let us know we have finally passed over to the other side?
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Speaking of Everyday Life…
update: fixed the links (they don’t make it easy at Taylor and Francis). Cultural Studies has a special double issue on everyday life, which has lots and lots of goodies in it, including an article called Intimations of everyday life: Ubiquitous computing and the city by one of my favourite research bloggers, Anne Galloway, and…
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liquid architecture
Australia’s suavest soundart festival/collective, liquid architecture, has a suitably suave new website, including sound and video, news, articles and interviews.
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Digital Storytelling and the aesthetics of the deeply uncool
Together with three brilliant people, Mel Gregg, Jane Simon and Kris Cohen, I’m putting together a panel proposal for this year’s Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Everyday Transformations. We are tossing around ideas about amateurism, the banal and mundane, and problematising the default hipness of new media and digital technologies. Here are some of…
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the photographers
That’s what I’m talkin’ about: the photographers spied being mobile at this public address.
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Crazy Carnival Life
I’ve had an exciting and astonishingly busy week. I’ve finally managed to put together a diverse lineup for the music industry panel discussion that takes the place of a final lecture in the Music Subcultures and the Media course I’m coordinating. This week also winds up the experiment with blogs as a form of assessment…
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Mobile Phone Photo Show
The Mobile Phone Photo Show – it was only a matter of time…
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And in other news…
Although I did indulge in a small sms frenzy at the time, I completely forgot to blog the fact that the examiners’ reports on my MPhil dissertation came in last week. They were very kind, and the thesis was officially passed with no corrections. I’ll put the .pdf online in the next week or so.
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sound toys
way fun ear candy: sound toys