Monthly Archives: February 2014

Final reflections on Networked Media

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

Congrats, Summer class of 2014! WE ARE DONE. Some hardworking champs we are, to be hanging around school while the rest of the campus is on break. Most of what I remember from the past six weeks of Networked Media … Continue reading →

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The second last workshop

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

We continued to work on our final Nikis yesterday, which means: more Assange. (Image credit: VICE) Assange used to have a good pal on the Wikileaks team. His name was Daniel Domscheit-Berg (also known as Daniel Schmitt). However, Schmitt left … Continue reading →

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Amira

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

I did a photoshoot with the gorgeous Amira a few months ago. This was shot in her studio at Monash, where she studies Fine Art and majors in Painting. Isn’t she just stunning?  

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Shooting film

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

Whenever I whip out my digital SLR to take a photo, my mom likes to remind me: “Don’t waste your shots!” I chortle and tell her this is not a film camera and I can take a virtually unlimited number … Continue reading →

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The most dangerous man in the world

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

For our final Niki, my group and I have chosen to work on Julian Assange, the infamous founder of WikiLeaks. I’ve been doing some massive digging about Julian Assange all day, and to say he is an intriguing man (he … Continue reading →

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Databases and narratives

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

In the Manovich reading, the discussion on the proliferation of databases on the Internet reminded me of Facebook and the recipe/cooking blogs I frequent. On Facebook, we can catalog photos, our statuses, the pages we like, etc., which is so … Continue reading →

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DNS and IP servers

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

In the symposium and workshop today, we touched on DNS and IP servers briefly. The Galloway reading discussed this, but it was a subject too complicated and dry for someone as disengaged with computers as I am. If you have … Continue reading →

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Technology: Neutral or non-neutral?

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Kimberly Lai

A few posts back, I spoke about technological determinism and proposed an argument that stood for it. I also promised a counterargument, so here’s what I’ll be discussing today: cultural materialism and technology neutrality. The technological determinism theory treats the … Continue reading →

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