By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Ela Kagel is a freelance curator and producer. She is the co-initiator of the Mobile Studios project and curator of Upgrade! Berlin, a series of events on digital culture. Since 2010 she has been the director of the Free Culture Incubator, a series of workshops and events based on […]
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Interview with Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent I had the honor of interviewing Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, who both share an immense passion for art and creativity. I am glad we crossed paths some time ago and glad they are my friends now. Enjoy this interview and Happy New Year! Eva Kekou: Can you give […]
Interview with Artist and Curator Michelle Kasprzak
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent As an international correspondent based in Europe, I decided to interview Michelle Kasprzak, an international curator for electronic and media art and a Canadian, originally, who is now based in Holland. Michelle Kasprzak, a self-trained artist, decided some years back to move to Europe. First she moved to the […]
Infographics Friday: Impact of Major on Career Path
Today’s visualization comes from Satyan Devadoss, a Mathematics professor at Williams College, and his students Hayley Brooks and Kaison Tanabe. Using the CIRCOS visualization software, they mapped the major(s) and resulting career choice for 15,600 Williams alums. The result is an interesting – and visually pleasing – look at how students’ majors impact their career […]
amber’12: Interview with Ekmel Ertan, Director of amberPlatform in Istanbul
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent As a 4Humanities international correspondent based in continental Europe I think it is very productive to link the world of digital humanitie with interesting works of media art by both institutions and artists based in different places overseas and in Europe who all strive for art, expression and the […]
Challenges in Humanities Advocacy
By Lindsay Thomas My academic Twitter-verse has been in a bit of an uproar today about recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed on graduate education in the humanities. These articles include reports on MLA President Michael Bérubé’s talk at the Council of Graduate Schools (and here); Stanford’s plans to […]
The City as a Place of Economic and Social Struggle and Contradiction: Current Public Art Projects in Athens
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent We all know from listening to the news about the urgent situation in Greece. We know the unemployment numbers and we see people protesting, complaining and being destructive in an attempt to show their anger and fear. People outside Greece, however, still don’t really know how everyday people, including […]