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

Video clip on YouTube
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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Academic Site Earns New Distinction
The professorial site’s URL identifier has been streamlined to an expressively concise:
»»» dave.parsons.edu
Update your bookmarks. Here you can see Ivan Sutherland busy updating his link to my site on the TK2.

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No recent posts as we focus on Professorial site

It has been awhile since posting to mercurious. However, we’ve been hard at work updating our academic site. This site now documents recent student work:

Freshmen Processing work
Muzzi, the digital pet —music player hybrid
Info Wraps, a mobile informatics research project

It also now features a commercial work samples page [...]

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On Teaching Mobile Application Design at Parsons
Dr. Dobb’s Journal, legendary software design publication, published our phone interview on its web portal yesterday on the subject of teaching mobile media design at Parsons Communication Design & Technology. John Dorsey, the editor of Dr. Dobb’s, offered probing questions that got at the nature of the program, the [...]

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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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