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Ryan's Weekly Roundup - Final Edition

Posted by: Ryan Nadel on 11.04.2010 - 22:34
It's over. Two years ago I entered the colourful lobby of the CDM and anxiously began my MDM journey. Over these two years, I've made new friends, created a portfolio full of work, struggled, succeeded, failed, and learned. The MDM is not a program of lectures and exams and papers - it's one of experience, learning through doing. I have done much. I've worked on interactive installations, 3D...
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Posted by: Ryan Nadel on 06.04.2010 - 09:08
Two big musical events took place in Vancouver in the last couple days. Muse, touted as the best musical act on the planet, a must see event, packed the Pacific Coliseum. Muse is a big act rock band. The other event was a performance by Philip Glass. Glass is a prolific composer of ascetic pieces that flow with a trademark, mathematically precise, cadence. Glass is a 73 year old man at a piano on...
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Posted by: Ryan Nadel on 29.03.2010 - 09:41
What do you want to do when you grow up? In generations past, it was common for kids to say astronaut, explorer. Society used to be enamoured by shuttle launches and captivated by exploring the world and universe. In recent years this has changed though. The explorers of National Geographic and astronaut of NASA hold a very small share of the collective mind space today. Our focus has shifted...
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Posted by: Ryan Nadel on 22.03.2010 - 09:07
When does something become history? At what point do we, does society, recognize a cultural object and invest resources in preserving it? In a digital world where our objects of culture are expressed in bits and bytes, do video games belong in a museum? The beauty of the digital medium is that images don't fade and manuscripts don't decay. However, file formats do change and old disks lose data....
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Posted by: Ryan Nadel on 15.03.2010 - 10:03
Last week, a tiny two engined plane on a grey windy day lifted off in to the clouds with six MDM students. Our MDM project team was on its way to Bella Bella. The place has been the focus of our work this semester.  It was a short flight from YVR to Port Hardy, on the Northern most tip of Vancouver Island, then a 30 minute hop further north to Bella Bella. Bella Bella is a First Nations...
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