Category: Media

Portrait of a Drawing

May 28, 2017

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by

Zack Ramey

in ambient music, drawing, Media, Nature, portraiture, sketchbook drawing

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57efuZPJ-tM&w=853&h=480] Could we use video to promote slower thought patterns and mindfulness? Could we use the same medium that tends to slide between us and Nature to restore our craving for the natural world and immediate experience?
The Disembodiment of Knowledge

Sep 26, 2016

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by

Jennifer Ramey

in Education, learning, Media, philosophy

Thinking about Media with Socrates and McLuhan “Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.” – Marshall McLuhan A gradual externalization of human knowledge began with the advent of written language, the first alphabets arising around the 3rd millennium BC, and the old Latin alphabet…