Noteworthy Eclectic Selections from This Month’s Virtual Mailbag – by Neil Baldwin
Posted in: Director's Essay
“Digital platforms are worthless without content. They鈥檙e shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they鈥檙e empty sacks.聽It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you鈥檙e reading. It is about what you鈥檙e reading.”聽聽— Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, March 10, 2013.
March 2013
[I am coming around to believe that it is a curatorial syndrome of running a — as time passes, more and more items of interest move to the forefront of my thinking. And you…? — NB]
Claremont Graduate University presents [“on the intersection of STEM and Art”]
Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort introduce聽, an important and timely initiative from MIT Press.
The New Media Coalition 2013 Horizon Project Summit Communique on The Future of Education.
Kenneth M. Price and Ray Siemens, editors, present the first born-digital open-access anthology to appear on MLA Commons.
Mark Eisen in the University of Wisconsin Isthmus on [the mission of David Krakauer and his Wisconsin Institute for Discovery]
Jennifer Howard in the Chronicle of Higher Education on
Ellen Garvey on .
The Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting:
David Brooks on.
The CUNY Graduate Center on The Future of Longform.
The Indigenous and American Storytellers Conference in Commemoration of The 400th Anniversary of the Guswentha “Two Row” Wampum Belt.
Will Miller of The Wallace Foundation on their
Titus Kaphar on .
Sven Birkerts on The Pump You Pump the Water From
Ada Louise Huxtable [her final published article] on .
Timothy van Laar and Leonard Diepeveen on