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This Saturday – May 30th – I’ll be conducting a low budget video lighting workshop with fellow IMA students Laurie Sumiye and Sebastian Gutierrez at the 6th annual Grassroots Media Conference. It’ll be in the morning slot 10:30 – 12:00 at Hunter College.
And Hunter’s own Veralyn Williams was on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show [...]

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To the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles,
The very fact that the states in the U.S. continue to execute anyone, even if they are “guilty,” is deplorable. The justice system’s propensity to convict and sentence indigent people, black men in particular, is a practice that must end now. Every citizen deserves a fair [...]

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I’ll write more later, but here are some photos of Keith + Mendi Obadike’s visit to the IMA program yesterday. I was pretty much geeking out the entire time. They presented for about an hour or so and then checked out the IMAterial show that’s happening in the Black Box. There, they [...]

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i shot an interview last tonight with ira goldstein of the new york city taxi and limousine commission. the interview will be included in a short documentary that i’m making about the effects of technological upgrades in nyc cabs. the new technology – gps and credit card machines – were highly contested [...]

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Last week I attended a unique gathering – Future of Interactive Technology for Peace Conference – at Carnegie Mellon University. It was sponsored by the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) – an impressive interactive technology program in Pittsburgh. I went with Hunter’s own Professor Mary Flanagan, who had invited me along for the [...]

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okay, so i feel like i’m “the last to know” about this. why didn’t anyone tell me? harvard computer science courses are entirely available for free online and so-far are amazing. i’m particularly looking forward to the course about programming. here’s that course description:
Computer Science 50: Introduction to Computer Science I [...]

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OMG this is amazing.

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Thanks to everyone involved who made last night’s ESC event so wonderful. And such mood lighting they had! Oy, they schmear, the wine. And lovely presentations from a variety of MFA students to boot. Bravo!
Check out some pics from the event below:

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[ ESC ] is Electronic Social Club: a network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects in media, art and design.
next event:
Mixer & Presentations
Thursday / / 11.15.07 / / 7 – 10p
Hunter College Black Box
695 Park Ave. / / Room 543 HN
6 train to 68th St [...]

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