Hi all. It’s been an awful while since my last blogpost, so here’s a small update on what I’ve been working on lately. On March 18th, the last meeting of the New Media Master course Scopic Regimes of Virtuality took place, in these meetings topics like ‘the other Self’, Augmented Reality, virtual time and space and virtual communities were covered, all with great readings like those of Brian Massumi, Thomas Boellstorff, Wendy Chung and Slavoj Zizek. Every week, each group of students had to propose the readings that’d fit within their chosen subject (my group chose ‘virtual communities and ethics’), unfortunately this subsequently leaded to an inconsistent bibliography in terms its quality. (Although it seemed that the everyone was well aware of this afterwards, so the texts were maybe still.. productive in a way).

Anyhow, every week blogposts were submitted on the course blog (here are my contributions), and I might take time to repost them here, and probably rewrite them slightly.

As an end result of the course people could choose to write a paper (of ‘just’ five thousand words), or to initiate an art project (that of course also involves some of the topics around virtuality). I couldn’t resist to choose for the latter option although I didn’t have a clue of where to start with it for ages. However, in the last few weeks I’ve been able to outline concepts and fill my sketchbook with doodles. All I can say for now is that the project will emphasize on virtual identities (‘identity branding’) in a non-conventional environment, and explore the boundaries of non-visual interfaces.

Of course, there’s also still the Master thesis, which I’ll continue to work on in the coming few months (graduating is so close, yet so far..), and will update you on in a follow-up post.

Oh, and by the way: have a great Easter!