I have to give a short presentation (10-12 minutes) tomorrow morning explaining my doctoral research topic. Piece of cake I thought when it was assigned. Now, the day before I have to ‘share’, I am lost in a tangled ball of yarn. It is not that I do not know what I am working towards,Continue reading “Research Directions (or ramblings)”
Category Archives: School
Elasticity of Time: Films & Games
I am taking a course that is taught jointly with the Sorbonne Paris 3 (as I mentioned in an earlier post) and we have been given our (only) assignment for the course. There are four sections of the course covering different topics. We are to pick one of the four topics and write a paperContinue reading “Elasticity of Time: Films & Games”
A New Year
Looking at the calendar, I am amazed at how fast time flies. As the cliché goes, the older one gets, the faster time seems to go by. My oldest daughter (15) is starting to feel this and has recently asked me to explain it. Of course, I did my best to tell her about levelsContinue reading “A New Year”
End of Semester, Holidays…
And other things that take me away from blogging. The last few weeks has been filled with alot of reading (re: my last post) and writing (I am supposed to be working on my last paper of the semester as we speak – it is due tomorrow!). Along with schoolwork, like most other people, IContinue reading “End of Semester, Holidays…”
Working in Another Language
I was raised in a fluently bilingual (French / English) home. I went to primary and Jr. High school in French, and took advanced French in High School and as my ‘second language’ in my first year of my Bachelor’s degree at the University of New Brunswick, where a second language was a graduating criteria.Continue reading “Working in Another Language”
Settling In
After a rocky first two months of my PhD program – on a personal level – I am quite happy to say that I am starting to feel something that resembles normalcy again. I was nervous to make the transition from Sociology, which at Concordia had a theoretically heavy program – to Film Studies, where I amContinue reading “Settling In”
Physicality in Virtual Space
I am currently working on a small project around the ways in which we understand virtual spaces through our external physicality using E. Doyle McCarthy’s “Toward a Sociology of the Physical World: George Herbert Mead on Physical Objects” (found in Studies in Social Interaction, 5: 105-12) as a starting point. Indeed, it is not newContinue reading “Physicality in Virtual Space”
Context Specific Meaning
As a side note related to the earlier post on site specific art, I have been thinking about the difference between site specificity and context specificity. One of the ideas behind the ‘in situ’ movement is that outside of the site, the art looses its meaning – or at least meaning weakens (this, of course,Continue reading “Context Specific Meaning”
This Week’s Reading
On the reading list for my “cinema mobile” class this week: Lev Manovich’s “The Screen and The User” from The Language of New Media as well as Oliver Grau’s “Intermedia Stages of Virtual Reality in the Twentieth Century: Art as Inspiration of Evolving Media” from Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion
Site Specific Art & Games
Which is my translation from the french term ‘l’art in situ’. After attending a very interesting lecture on site specific and site dependent art forms such as monuments and gallery work, I started thinking about video games and play. The general idea behind this art type is that there is a relationship between the artContinue reading “Site Specific Art & Games”
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