This image is one example of image-manipulation. It was created by placing two
pictures together - the shark and the helicopter.
This image is one example of image-manipulation. It was created by placing two pictures together - the shark and the helicopter. |
Jeff Porter gave an invited talk last month (Digital Hoaxes and the Fine Art
of Appropriation) in honor of the Information Arcade’s 10th Anniversary.
The talk focused on image-manipulation and the shifting nature of authorship.
Making a pitch for creative appropriation to an audience largely made up of
librarians, Jeff was glad to have left the building with his hide intact. Rumor
has it that Jeff will clone his talk, complete with amusing photos and audio
and video clips, at a department colloquium early next semester.
Ted Genoways, a PhD student in English, recently received the Nebraska Book
Award for his first book of poems, Bullroarer: A Sequence, published
by Northeastern University Press in 2001. Just before Thanksgiving, he was notified
that he has been awarded an NEA Fellowship in Poetry for 2003, and his latest
book, Papermill: The Selected Poems and Prose Sketches of Joseph Kalar,
1927-1935, has been accepted by the University of Illinois Press as part
of their American Poetry Recovery Series.
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