metaphi
“The internet is not a thing. It is a process. It is a practice. Or rather an intersection of a great many processes and practices. It is a flexible protocol for reflexively working on, remixing, reusing, re-doing, re-synthesizing our media and our selves.”
— Colin Koopman. “How does internetworking work? (Talk at Metaphi.)” requiem for certainty, October 5, 2010.
Presented originally at “Digital Humanities: Real-Virtual Dialogue.” UO A&AA Lawrence Hall 177, May 10, 2010.
“The base blocks are a metaphor for the very foundation of the university itself-the faculty, the library, the research facilities. The upper composition of blocks that actively engage and play off the base blocks is a metaphor for the activities that the university engenders-learning, questioning, exposure to ideas and to art-and are the vital and dynamic purposes of the university.”
— Bruce Beasley (sculptor). Encounter. UO Museum of Art (UO MoA) North Lawn [bronze sculpture], 2004.
Interacted with at “Light & Sound Intermedia Encounter.” UO MoA sculpture & façade, May 12, 2010.
“The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.”
— John Dewey. Democracy and Education. In Vol. 9 of The Middle Works, 1899-1924. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1916/1980, p. 244.
Cited at “Metamedia: Experience-Instrument.” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall, May 20, 2010.