Task 8: Golden Record Curation
I first heard about the Voyager Golden Record during my undergraduate, where my friends and I would have faux-philosophical debates…
Task 7: Mode Bending
Transformed Practice I was particularly drawn to the idea of involving transformation by making new use of old materials from…
Task 6: An Emoji Story
When I saw the description for this week’s task I was over the moon! One of my favourite BBC TV…
Task 4: Manual Scripts and Potato Printing
We know dictionaries don’t contain all the words, even the ever evolving online ones. Language is wonderfully elastic, able to…
Task 3: Voice to Text Task
During my undergraduate in religious studies, we often came across the topic of what happens when oral stories become codified…
Task 2: Does language shape the way we think?
I grew up bilingual, and spoke 6 languages by the time I was 10. Language was always so lovely to…
Activity 1: Defining Terms
Text and technology are two interesting words to consider. They can be defined either narrowly or broadly and have a…
Task 1: What’s in your bag?
So, this is me. I’m 26 years old, and for the last 5 years I have been travelling the world…
Hello world!
This is my UBC blog site for ETEC 540. I am really looking forward to considering the reciprocal relations between…