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Here we are, then. The curtain is about to fall upon three months of curation, conversation and composition as we have navigated a critical path through cyberculture, community culture, and algorithmic culture. Please remember to submit your digital essay via the Moodle site by the deadline of midday 13 December (and let me know if… Continue reading Closing notes

With our exhibition deadline of 12:00 on the 6th of December, attention turns to the digital essay which is due by midday on Monday 13 December. Final galleries We will make a copy of the boards at 12:00 on 6 December and use that copy to begin reviewing them. We are looking forward to seeing… Continue reading Week 12: Submitting the galleries and the digital essay

As the photo suggests, this week gives us all a bit of time to tidy up our gallery spaces before the exhibition is complete, at midday on Monday 6 December. Please don’t feel under pressure to find or create new content (unless your galleries are unattended): instead, approach this week as a bit of breathing… Continue reading Week 11 – Applying the finishing touches to our exhibition

Hello all. Just a few quick points in this week’s introduction. This is final week of the Algorithmic Culture block, therefore if you could take time to complete your algorithmic play exercise and to write your catalogue entry, that would be appreciated. We have live sessions this week, if you want to join. Please do… Continue reading Week 10- concluding our work around algorithmic culture

This week we will continue our work exploring how algorithmic culture affects education. As time allows we would encourage you to try out the algorithmic play activity and then to share your findings somewhere in your gallery space. Have some fun with this activity, while at the same time thinking about what your findings might… Continue reading Week 9 – Algorithmic play and virtual reality

We will keep this introduction relatively short as we don’t want to interrupt your work on the mini ethnography.  We hope you have enjoyed making progress researching your chosen online community. That will remain the focus of this week: gathering and presenting ethnographic artefacts, preparing a catalogue entry, and then visiting the gallery spaces of… Continue reading Week 7 – Preparing your ethnographic exhibition

Week 6 – Beginning the mini-ethnography Having spent time last week becoming familiar with some of the reading and ethical considerations around ethnography, it is now time to begin your study of an online educational community. If you haven’t yet chosen a community to investigate, please do so now. You can be adding ethnographic artefacts… Continue reading Week 6 – Beginning the mini-ethnography

After three weeks creatively and critically exploring cyberculture it is time to venture into the second part of our course and exhibition, where will be using community culture to examine contemporary educational practices and spaces. The paint is still drying on the white-washed walls of our Community Culture gallery, but that’s fine as there are… Continue reading Week 5 – Venturing into Community Culture (and Block 2)

This week we will continue and then conclude our work around cyberculture and education. There are two two main activities to round off this block of the course: creating a cyberculture visual artefact and then writing a catalogue entry reflecting upon the content of your gallery space. Details of the visual artefact can be found within the Working visually page, however the… Continue reading Week 4 – The visual artefact and catalogue entry

The promotional poster for the 1973 film Westworld sought to entice customers with the slogan, ‘Boy, have we got a vacation for you…’. We can’t promise that our Cyberculture Film Festival will match Westworld for adventure (or, hopefully, menace), however it should make for an enjoyable and thought-provoking event as part of our work this week. You… Continue reading Week 3 – The Cyberculture Film Festival