anna
Center for Cultural Studies

Projects

The assignment we were given was to explore the media ecology* of Chalkwell Park in Southend-on-Sea and, with the information we gathered, create a data jam. The initial premise was that

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Hi Ann, Here are some of my thoughts from yesterday: I don’t really know why I expected otherwise, but I was surprised that it was only kids or adults with kids who

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Don’t read this if you want to play the game!!! It was very beneficial to go back to Chalkwell Park last Friday to get a good sense of the experience of

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After feeling a bit apprehensive about the project, and how so many distinct voices could feed into a coherent game, we sat down to have a brainstorming session this afternoon

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I’ve been starting to read up on stuff for the games project and am feeling very, very excited about the possibilities (though a bit daunted by the

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A book itself is a literary machine. (Deleuze, in A Thousand Plateaus) According to Deleuze, a book is an assemblage of matters, dates, speeds that come from the outside (as well

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This is a really simple project that you can try using things you have around the house.  It just takes a little measuring, a little folding, and a little sewing

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At nineteen, I arrived alone to London.  It was not the first time I’d travelled solo, but it was certainly the longest trip I’d been on without my family and,

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Inspired by McLuhan, Neil Postman founded the Program in Media Ecology at New York University in 1971. As he described it: “Media ecology looks into the matter of how media

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Ana and Anna’s Perl script: The script allows switching the order of words in a sentence, reading it from a file. For now is limited to a 4 words sentence, but

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“The Unconscious City manifests itself in a collaborative, exploratory event. This event is catalysed by an unconscious algorithmic and generative process, which relegates ordinary decision making to engineered perturbations transforming

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