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  The Body That Can't Win

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  Matt Thomas University of Iowa

  August 13, 2010

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  concern will be for Sly’s aging physique; the veins bulge so alarmingly in his shoulders and neck we begin ... to imagine eventual Cronenbergian implosions. At the very least, a loved one should tell him to ease ...
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  The Flourish

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  December 06, 2010

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  history (it began sooner if you count Fluxus), we are beginning to consider the designers of games to be ... to even the odds for themselves. We call a game a sport when we begin to recognize its players, not ...
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  Tick Tick Blu

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  Caetlin Benson-Allott Georgetown University

  March 26, 2010

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  least reckoning with—the question: What are we buying when we buy Blu-Ray? Is it resolution? If so, ... of the promo’s phantasmatic media space. “The Future is Blu” begins with an homage to filmic ...
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  Located in Transit: Music and the Mobile Phone

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  February 15, 2010

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  moves.  If we view these media experiences as designed for and located in transit, we might begin to think ... listening that is tethered to a particular device or a particular location.  In doing so, we might begin to ...
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  30 for 30 and ESPN’s Quest for Cultural Consecration

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  Travis Vogan Indiana University

  July 09, 2010

  2 comments

  omnipresence in contemporary popular culture, there is one thing that ESPN is not, or at least was not until ... but they do not enrich, or at least are not commonly understood to perform this function. ESPN has ... the sound of a projector. The trailer, or at least these components of the trailer, positions ESPN as ...
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  The girls have caught up to the boys

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  Robert Gehl George Mason University

  March 03, 2010

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  text story begins with this lead: “If you thought only men engage in fist fights, you'd be wrong.” ...
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  (Not) Being There: Presence, Absence, Institutional Space, the Politics of Place

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  Toby Lee Harvard University

  September 15, 2010

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  International Film Festival institutional space cultural institutions Curator's Note BEGINNINGS & ... ENDINGS   We begin with a video created for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Thessaloniki International ...
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  For the Sake of the Children

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  John Howard King's College London

  February 10, 2010

  1 comment

  Leibovitz on the TV talk show on 16 November 2006, just as her major retrospective begins its tour of the ... United States and Europe – priceless advertising. The so-called tell-all “ Dream Jobs ” episode begins ...
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  Synchronous Objects: What else, besides the body, might physical thinking look like?

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  Norah Zuniga Shaw The Ohio State University Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design

  April 28, 2010

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  attempt to preserve the live moment. They begin from a different point. Instead they ask, what else is ... continue to emerge are the beginnings of what I hope will be a lively discursive space placing dance at the ...
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  The Different Hats of Toronto's Bell Lightbox

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  Brendan Kredell Northwestern University

  September 17, 2010

  1 comment

  unmistakable sense of a new beginning for North America’s largest film festival. What is much less clear, and ... hard business of running a large-scale cultural facility begins, and the negotiations over exactly ...

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