New school
Sitting in the Eugene Lang building at new school before my meet with mister w. Weird place. Definitely a university, possibly something else.
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11.4.09
I'm a cyborg and it's ok
Actually managed to get through the film and totally loved it. Definitely one to show the students :)
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Bibliophilia...
My Amazon bill is like a tax on enthusiasm and curiosity. Check out mechademia, edited by frenchy lunning. Totally awesome anime studies.
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Indoors...
It's a beautiful welsh day today and I am indoors working on my new essay. New York next week and then a few days when I get back before the last stretch of teaching kicks in.
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Slowly getting to grips with this iPhone malarkey and actually loving it, especially the insidious predictive texting !
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8.1.09
My Paper Proposal for S.A.S. 2009, Savannah, Georgia
High Definition Images, Moderate Scholarly Definitions and Low Level Analysis
David Surman
It makes sense that, in the wake of high definition content production and delivery, we would be sensitised to the affordances of lesser definitions. The contemporary question of definition is less contingent on an exploration of the dialectic between digital and analogue image cultures. Instead it presumes a post-digital analogue; analogue textuality performed and curatorially conditioned by a ubiquitous digital infrastructure.
The pixel doesn’t hold the immediacy of signifying digital visual culture that it once did since, come what may, historical iterations of pixellated imagery sit in an everyday context of conversely analogue forms -- cathode ray tubes, Polaroid film, CMYK magazine print. The previously potent pixel is now concomitant with the anticipation of the digital rather than its arrival. Its intervention is softened and naturalised by the reception and positioning of its encompassing image and sound production modes.
From the false monad of the pixel, we now zoom out to the polygon as candidate for stable signifier of digital processes. The polygon, the basic component of the constructed static meshes used to create computer generated imagery. The pixel is subsumed within the polygon, and ceases to signify other than in moments of shearing and microanalysis. Discernable pixels seek only to evoke the trajectory and contour of line, deferring to their cognition as polygons.
Wherein lies the significance of the polygon, when naturally the endeavour of producing higher image definition seeks to erase the trace of the component from the sensate surface of the screen? In the post-polygon digital image, tropes of the analogue are retrieved, in the form of perceptual cues and intellectual caveats. Lens flare, shaking camera, focal depth defer to the authority of the cinematic analogue, but highlight the intellectually and creatively precarious nature of the digital image which, like the roman mosaic, cannibalises the material terms of its own image to remain contemporaneous with its referent culture.
6.10.08
POUTINE, ZINES, AND EATING YOUR GREENS
I am on my way back from Canada now. I have had an amazing time over the past few days. The meetings in Ottawa went very well and I think I made a good impression on the group. 
We went for lunch on the Saturday and I ordered nachos. The quantity that turned up was absurd, and made me a little grumpy. Quality over quantity please! I guess it was our fault for having lunch in a sports bar :)
Yesterday I went to Montreal to meet up with Josh and Elizabeth. Sometime earlier in the week I had caught a nasty cough and cold (I'm currently blaming Angela) and so I wasn't on best form during the morning. 
Josh introduced me to the hallucinatory world of unregulated cough syrups (the kind you cant get in the UK), and I was suddenly feeling 120%. Montreal seems like a city that has a lot going on, and each area feels like a little village in its own right. I was feeling a little hungry, so Josh took me to a local poutine restaurant. Poutine is a Canadian delicacy comprising chips (fries) gravy and cheese. Sound familiar people of wales? Well the Canadians have institutionalised this treat, and added all manner of heart stopping extras to it. I was too chicken to go for Poutine T Rex, so I went for Poutine Poulet et Pois :)
After the poutine incident we met up with Elisabeth and went to shop for 'zines and clothes and all the other cute things Montreal had to offer. It was at this point my cameraphone battery died (goddamn N95) so I don't have pictures to reinforce just how awesome an afternoon I had. In the comic publishers store we even got to see a copy of Elisabeth's latest book, a compilation of the zines she has published over the past few years. She is v v modest and lovely, and I think it is one of the best book-format illustration works I have seen in a long time...
2.10.08
THE GREAT CANADIAN ADVENTURE
So I am stuck here in Newark, waiting for my connecting flight to Ottawa, which has been delayed by two hours. Things seem to have chilled out in US airports since I was last over. Love American people so much ^-^
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