Tag: media
The Music of the Dinamita Brothers (Hermanos Dinamita) (circa 2002)
Some music projects last for long periods of time, others are just a matter of months or weekends. It is not easy to keep a band of amateur musicians together. ...
The Fragility of Vinyl Records: Sunlight Damage and Repair
In this post I share my experience with a warped record I accidentally damaged by directly exposing it to sunlight, and that I was able to fix (unwarp) using a ...
“Educomunicacion”: The Media Education (and literacy) Approach from Latin America
For several years I was unaware of “educomunicacion” (in Spanish), a rich tradition and diverse movement of media literacy education that originated...
Deep Mapping Bogota: Urban Mediation in the Tropical Highlands
It has been almost three months since I returned to Bogota. Quickly, I have tried to adapt to its scale, flows, and rhythms. It has been quite an intense experi...
Bridging Formal and Informal Learning Environments (part 2)
Across several books and articles, Lankshear and Knobel have conceptualized the new literacies as social practices that have “new technical stuff” a...
Bio-Creation and Peace at the Intersection of Art and Technology: Reflections on ISEA + International Image Festival
An inspiring week of workshops, panels, installations, round-tables, concerts, and other creative and intellectual exchanges took place at Manizales, Colombia, ...