By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Our interview this week is with Patrick Lichty, who, among many things, is a co-founder of the performance art group Second Front, an animator for the activist group The Yes Men, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago. We talked about art, Second Life, […]
Public/Not Public: Making the Humanities Count (UCHRI Panel)
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 from 5 – 7 pm PST, the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) will host a panel discussion entitled “Public/Not Public: Making the Humanities Count” on the public university in an era of dwindling public support and the place of the humanities in the university today. The panelists include […]
Interview with Anna Dumitriu
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Today’s interview is with Anna Dumitriu, a British artist based in Brighton, UK. Eva Kekou: “Anna Dumitriu’s work blurs the boundaries between art and science with a strong interest in the ethical issues raised by emerging technologies.” Could you elaborate on your artist’s statement it a bit more? Anna […]
Perspectivas globales: entrevista con Alex Gil
Ernesto Priego entrevista a Alex Gil, entre otras cosas coordinador de estudios digitales de la Universidad de Columbia en la ciudad de Nueva York.
Global Perspectives: Interview with Alex Gil
[Para una versión en español de esta entrevista, favor de hacer clic]. Ernesto Priego: Can you describe who you are and what you do? Alex Gil: I am @elotroalex, the other Alex. I take to heart Sartre’s admonition that we are nothing and add Borges’ insight that we are someone other to the world. Columbia […]
Interview with Curator Pavel Sedlák
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent Pavel Sedlák, deputy director/curator at Ciant in Prague, Czech Republic is my interviewee. Pavel was born 1977 in the Czech Republic, and he studied philosophy and the philosophy of art in university. He co-initiated a number of projects in art and science internationally and locally. He is now based […]
Interview with Curator Ela Kagel
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 […]