20 Posts from January 2021

Open Participants 2021, The Network

Old Paths, Newly Revisited: NetNarr and WalkMyWorld

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I am dipping my toes into new iterations of two projects that I have participated in as “open participant” in the past — Networked Narratives: Net Mirror (with Mia and Alan) and Walk My World: 2021 (with Ian). Like some others (such as my friend and collaborator, Wendy), I might tangle the two together, bundling my learning and explorations across platforms and networks and learning programs. Both NetNarr and Walk My World are situated primarily in college classrooms, at the […]

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Kean University 2021, The Network

First Big Leap into the Unknown

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Connections by Hugo Gatica, serigraph print 2020 Stepping into a world of written media is not new to me. I’ve dedicated a large part of my life being buried under heaps of words, idioms, metaphors, sentences and the like. It’s the reason why I chose to to pursue a degree in writing, in addition to a visual arts one. I try and see artistic value in many aspects of life as I can, so my journey as an artist is […]

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Kean University 2021, The Network

Welcome to “Net Mirror: The Post Pandemic University”

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Welcome to the 5th edition of this experimental, exploratory and inventive course! At the onset of our time together I want to quote the formidable Nina Simone and say to you all that “it’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, and I am feeling good.” I share here the words of Amanda Gorman, whose call for hope, unity and resilience in a time of division, is just the right invocation for the #netnarr, 5th edition: There is change in […]

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Kean University 2021, The Network

Set Up 20/21

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For students at Kean beng part of this class is setting up accounts on this blog as well as choosing or creating new new ones in twitter. We[e/a]kly Message Each week’s announcement/post here will start with a message done in a different format/mode/tool. Ok, a video shot on a mobile device uploaded to YouTube is hardly novel. But an approach we encourage in NetNarr is also to use media differently from the norm, subvert the channel if you will, even […]

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