Education

This is a page solely devoted to the Media Arts and Technology program at the University of California Santa Barbara. I found out about the program when trying to find more information on Erbe-Verb and its creator Tom Erbe, and the more I look at it the cooler it seems. Just read their about blurb: Media Arts and Technology (MAT) at UCSB is a transdisciplinary graduate program that fuses emergent media, computer science, engineering, electronic music and digital art research, practice, production, and theory....

This was a magazine about academia which seems interesting and ran from 1990 to 2001. I found out about it listening to the Longform episode with Masha Gessen who wrote for it at one point. Interestingly, Aaron Swartz pulled it into a mirror archive when he was 19 in December 2005 which is availible here: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/ This was how I discovered https://theinfo.org.

I found out about Steyerl from this New Yorker Article: Hito Steyerl’s Digital Visions. It’s a good read, but the thing that stuck out to me the most was the title of a 2013 work of hers: How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File As of writing, you can watch the whole thing here: https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651. It’s about 16 minutes long. It’s pretty great.

An MIT lecture that gives fairly in-depth instructions on how to give a presentation, but is generally a great primer on how to communicate and can be applied to a lot of other things.

https://act.mit.edu/ Shit it seems really cool. Part of the School of Architecture & Planning at MIT which also is the umbrella for the Media Lab, and sort of the “separated-at-birth more artistic sibling” of the Media Lab.