I will be giving a talk on the emerging metaverse, art, and related topics this Saturday afternoon at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. I’ll be previewing the upcoming art show on the ATEC Second Life Island. The talk is part of the TexElectronica New Media Art event hosted by UNT. Tom Linehan and Frank Dufour from UTD are also scheduled at the event.
So you are in college and looking for a good gig. What do you do in the age of GooTube? You make a video of course. And you claim you can serve a tennis ball 140 mph and bench press 495 pounds. Wait, no, maybe you shouldn’t do that.
Actually I don’t think Yale student Aleksey Vayner knew he was living in the age of web 2.0 and GooTube – his video was part of a supposedly confidential application to UBS for an investment banking job. If your video is digital, you should assume everyone will see it, at least until we have better permission layers on Internet media.
Social networks can connect you and make you popular, but they can also bring you 15 minutes of shame.
The new EMAC Site is up. Just a default template for now but I’ve been pretty good about posting there in the past week or so – mostly for the UTD Arts & Technology community but anyone who reads this blog will probably find it interesting.
It’s mostly quick bits of things with sprinklings of commentary. The site is a group effort and there are several grad students contributing. EMAC stands for Emerging Media & Communication and is the new area I started this year inside the Arts & Technology program at the University of Texas and, happily, it’s really taking off.
Andres Duany: The New Civic Art
Originally uploaded by Dean Terry.
The Cover of Andres Duany’s new book The New Civic Art
Duany is featured in the documentary film “Subdivided” by yours truly.