Published on November 17th, 2018Koi, the colored carp(锦鲤 Jinli), has long been held as a symbol of good fortune in the Chinese culture. As told in a fairly well-known folk tale, koi in the Yellow River would swim against the tide towards the dragon-gate mountain, and those who can leap […]
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Published on November 16th, 2018A blog post by GMTaC Affiliate Graduate Student Alan Zhang. A tremendous amount of human activity plays out in space. Commercial, military, and non-governmental organizations operate projects across various orbits around our planet. However, as space is out of view for most people, the public imagination […]
Published on November 9th, 2018A blog post by Visiting Graduate Student Gabriel Pereira & Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk Introduction to Zap Zap* *The affectionate way many Brazilians refer to WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a self-defined “fast, simple, secure messaging and calling” app. Its meteoric growth in the decade since the January 2009 […]
Published on November 2nd, 2018Myron Dewey (Newe-Numah/Paiute-Shoshone) is an indigenous citizen journalist, educator, documentary filmmaker and the developer of Digital Smoke Signals, a social networking and filmmaking initiative, emerging out of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project of 2016-17. Using a full range of contemporary […]
Published on October 22nd, 2018A blog post by GMTaC Affiliate Graduate Student Alan Zhang. June 6, 1944 is a date remembered for Normandy, but an unprecedented military effort was at the same time on its way to Pas de Calais, a stage few miles north. It was to be the […]
Published on October 5th, 2018A blog post by Visiting Graduate Student Gabriel Pereira. Satellites and other media infrastructures are areas of ongoing interest for GMTaC. As part of our effort in broadening satellite research to other global communities, we attended a presentation by Prof. Dr. Luis Loures of ITA, the […]
Published on October 4th, 2018The GMTaC lab is pleased to share the fantastic news that Professor Lisa Parks of MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing has just been announced as a MacArthur Fellow. The fellowship is colloquially known as the “genius grant” and is awarded to individuals who have shown “extraordinary originality and […]
Published on October 3rd, 2018A blog post by GMTaC Affiliate Graduate Student Alan Zhang. For decades, our planet has been imaged from space. Though people may think immediately of Google Maps in this regard, satellites capture more than cities and streets, and they are commanded by organizations beyond the tech […]
Published on October 3rd, 2018The GMTaC Lab has partnered with the Hivos Foundation to support the Digital Earth project, which grants fellowships to artists or designers based in Africa or Asia who are exploring issues of digital materiality. Lisa Parks will work as a research mentor to Emo de Medeiros, an […]