A week after the Cs, and I'm still amped by the experience. Highlight sessions included a special conversation with Greg Ulmer and VV...AND Lawrence Lessig was there, talking about the divisive rhetoric surrounding intellectual property issues. The accomodations, owing to a last-minute change of venue prompted by a workers' strike, were a bit like a tent city, but luckily we got a room with real walls for our presentation.
"Our" in this case would be myself, Scott DeWitt, and Jason Palmeri, and our presentation was "Writing Teachers Writing New Media." It was basically a mapping-out of our local social network, explaining how the interconnections between the various spaces, people, and technologies in Denney Hall (and beyond) facilitated our efforts to compose new media texts. On the whole, it was rather well-received, and in fact we were approached afterwards by a journal editor who wanted to publish it online as a kind of work-in-progress. Huzzah!
Also, I was happy to see one of my (modest) publications come out in time for the conference. "Ars Bellum, Ars Rhetorica," a series of musings on the rhetoric of warfare, was featured in the Newsletter of the Association of Writing, Rhetoric, and the Transcendent.
Oh, I haven't yet mentioned it on the pages of this blog, but I landed a job after all (it's here). Color me happy, relieved, and excited; I even got a t-shirt at the OSU party in San Francisco commemorating the event.
Finally, I should make a nod to one group in particular that helped make my strolls along the SanFran streets more aesthetically enjoyable. Red Ink Studios is a really cool guerilla art project that reclaims empty retail spaces along Market Street for temporary installations: mobiles, sculpture, paintings, etc.
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Here's wishing everyone a safe and happy CCCC in the always-lovely City by the Bay. I hope to touch base with many of you while there. Expect a post-conference update.
Here's a pic from a couple of years ago, when Ashley and I wandered aimlessly around the city and stumbled across a camera obscura at the since-relocated Musee Mechanique:
My jazz outfit, The South Street Band, got a little airplay recently thanks to the folks at BinRev. "Black and Blue" closed out Episode 85 of their online talk show, BinRev Radio. So I guess we're now officially part of the soundtrack for the revolution, eh?
Wishing the Grand Old Man of the Internets a Happy 10th. That's like,...250 in human years or something.
See also:
(from Wired) The UnGoogle