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Research

Transcoding Place (design research methods), 2009 -10
MA Thesis, SIAT, SFU
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Transcoding Place (cultural analysis), 2008
Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place
IT University of Copenhagen, DK
Authors: Vicki Moulder and Jim Bizzocchi

Abstract: This paper analyzes the video documentation of a face-to-face event called Crude Awakening and its networked echoes in order to understand how communities enact agency in today's digital world culture. In the process, the paper creates a broader context for discussing the hybridization of technology and cultural production in general. The authors argue that digital social architecture, unlike traditional architecture, is a fluid system that evolves and changes along side social movements, and this dynamic results in the creation of shared meaning.
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Performing Ada Lovelace, 2007
Author: Vicki Moulder
The 2nd International Conference on Digital Live Art
Leeds Metropoiton University, UK

Abstract:A mobile experience can be characterized as an intersection point in everyday life that is mediated through a device such as a PDA or a cell phone. This paper explores the use of performance as a design tool in understanding how artists can weave together aspects of a mobile experience through a device. Read web version >


Essays

Mary’s Room (Conditions for Qualia), 2009
A conversation with Jay Bundy Johnson and Frank Cameron Jackson
Author: Vicki Moulder
The Richmond Art Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue
Richmond, BC, CA

Introduction: This essay introduces Mary’s Room (Conditions for Qualia) an exhibition designed by Jay Bundy Johnson that harnesses Frank Cameron Jackson’s controversial thought experiment Mary’s Room to explore the notion of Qualia through the lens of a visual thinker. Rationalism has been the over-arching paradigm within Western cultural ideology; insight into the nature of this paradigm and the tradition of romanticism is revealed in a conversation with Jay Bundy Johnson and Frank Cameron Jackson.
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