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1000 Cellphones debuts at world’s largest media arts exhibition, Synthetic Times 2008, Beijing

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David Carroll, Sven Travis, Benjamin Bacon, and Haiyan Huang debuted their mobile media installation, “1000 Cellphones” at the opening of Synthetic Times 2008, a media arts exhibition at The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, as a Cultural Olympics venue.

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Is this any way to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday?
We are appalled with Congress. In a huge victory for the Bush Administration, the Senate passed the revised FISA bill to grant sweeping government spying powers and shield the telecoms, especially AT&T and Verizon, from the legal action they deserve for breaking laws to build a universal [...]

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Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
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Available to the US in November 2007 from Birkhäuser and edited by Friedrich von Borries, Steffen P. Walz, Matthias Böttger, Space Time Play — Computer Games, Architecture and Urbansim: The Next Level offers readers 62 [...]

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Web Ink for Mobile Media Curriculum
Adobe published a case study on my work with students at Parsons Communication Design & Technology in the area of mobile media design.

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Specula-palooza
Risking iPhone coverage overexposure, today we ponder one of the most interesting questions about the future of Flash, iPhone and web standards. Despite assurances by Uncle Walt that Apple and Adobe are hard at work on a Flash Player for iPhone, plenty of naysayers, skeptics, and player-haters have voiced strong speculations that Flash will never [...]

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