On May 13th, a medium-sized brown box filled with zines, (“individualized booklets [that are] self-produced and anti-corporate”) (Piepmeier 2), was received by a UPS facility in Warsaw, Poland. The box was packaged carefully, wrapped in layers of clear tape to prevent any wear and tear on its journey which took less than a week to arrive at its destination. The package migrated across several national and city boundaries before arriving in Kelowna and was delivered into the hands of the team at ReMedia Infrastructure at UBC Okanagan.
Category: Projects
Teaching With Digital Storytelling
On Wednesday, February 11th, ReMedia PI Dr. Emily Christina Murphy will present insights from her forthcoming collection, EnTwine: A Critical and Creative Companion to Teaching with Twine, co-edited with Dr. Lai-Tze Fan. Dr. Murphy will explore how Twine supports inclusive, creative teaching and scholarship in conversation with Arun Jacob (PhD Candidate, Faculty of Information), who […]
IA1 Showcase Reflection
Last month, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend and present at IA1 Launch party and showcase. It was a chance for humanities researchers and students to come together and share their work with each other and other attendees. My ReMedia labmate, Odessy Liu, and I did poster presentations (which you can see in a […]
ReMedia students present research at IA1 launch
On September 25th, students Odessy Liu and Rowan Pickard presented research posters on ReMedia projects at the IA1 launch party and research showcase. Odessy Liu reported on data scraping and preliminary analyses for the SSHRC-funded Modernist Remediations project that will contribute to a chapter in Dr. Murphy’s in-progress book, Iconic Biography. Liu and Murphy will […]
High, Middle, and Low Brows in Graphic Biographies, Part 2
Undergraduate student assistant Julie Carr wrote this post as part of her work gathering titles of graphic biographies for the Modernist Remediations project. You can read Part 1 of this post here. In the last post, I discussed insights from the “brows” or constructed markets that graphic biographies from different publishers fall into. In this […]
High, Middle, and Low Brows in Graphic Biographies, Part 1
Undergraduate student assistant Julie Carr wrote this post as part of her work gathering titles of graphic biographies for the Modernist Remediations project. While working studying graphic biographies in the Modernist Remediations project, I became interested in whether we could classify this emerging genre along conventional “brow” lines and whether that classification would yield any […]
ASMR and Embodied Relationships to Technology
Oriane Edwards wrote this blog post as part of her work with Modernist Remediations to think through affective relationships to technology. ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, is a recently coined term describing a tingling sensation at the top or back of one’s head, neck and spine. Online discussion about this phenomenon began in 2009, […]
Ghosts in the Shells: Collaboration and Cosmic Horror in AI Art
[CONTENT WARNING: HORROR, BONES, TENTACLES] Oriane Edwards contributed two blog posts from her independent research on the Modernist Remediations project in ReMedia. The rise of artificial intelligence-made art (AI art) tools such as Midjourney sparked fierce debates regarding the future of art. Beyond art, how might AI art itself be used more broadly as a […]