Results tagged “newmedia”

When local artist Sean Gaulager arrived at his newly-rented workspace on Allen Street, he didn’t expect to find the walls transformed into a floor-to-ceiling collage, or painted, as its creator Sarah Stevens described, both “gratuitously and without hesitation.”

Excuse us while we step into the blogger battlefield compost bin. This isn't an attack; it’s just our new media way of recycling – turning lies into truth, melding age-old stereotypes into something a little more flattering. Al Gore is coming to town in October, people. It’s time to set things straight. Daisy Whitney runs a blog called “Trial and Error” over at TelevisionWeek where she keeps tabs on the ever-changing medium that is...

The penultimate speaker in KLRU's 2007 Spark Series is the ever-fascinating Douglas Rushkoff, a hugely prolific author, teacher, and documentarian who's written extensively on new media, pop culture, religion, and technology as it pertains to society in general. Rushkoff first exposed the world to the emerging cyberculture phenomenon with his 1994 book, Cyberia, and has since published at least ten best-selling books, including Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism (2003) and Media Virus: Hidden...

The Austin-made documentary Before the Music Dies has already attracted lots of attention from both audiences and critics. Now the music doc is attracting attention for an entirely different reason. Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen have decided to forgo offers from Hollywood distributors in favor of inking a deal with Austin start-up B-Side Entertainment. B-Side is a progressive alternative to more established distributors in that they use a combination of on-line marketing and...