20 Opaque Minutes You Can't Get Back
Composes bios like this one:
"Neal Thomas is a PhD candidate in the Art History and Communications Studies department at McGill University. With an MFA in Communication Design from NSCAD University, Neal has taught new media design in the past, both at the University of Lethbridge and the Alberta College of Art and Design. His dissertation research is focused on the intellectual underpinnings of knowledge representation online. With case studies that include Google and XML, the work adopts a social-ontological vocabulary to stage a critique of semantic information processing practices on the web.
As inscription devices, computers carry a particular analytic
legacy deep into our everyday lives – beyond an original philosophical
sphere, into now-pervasive software structures like databases. Drawing
out a latent connection to twentieth-century logical positivism, the work
seeks to understand some of the subsequent effects on our discursive practices.
The long-term goal is to speculate fruitfully on alternative, more social-epistemic
approaches to classification, categorization and memory/storage."
Maintains the graduate student journal for
the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at
McGill University. It is currently offline due to technical problems
with my ISP.
Maintains the Media @ McGill content management system and audio/video resources.
Maintains the Graduate Student Association CMS for the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.
Maintains the del.icio.us resource list for the MIX-ARRT project on augmented reality underway in the department.
Works as an Associate for the International Institute for Sustainable Development in his hometown of Winnipeg, writing about new directions for ICTs, most recently conceiving of the graphical front-end for their site redesign.
Attends critico-digital summer boot camp when he has the money and wherewithall.
Helps partner and confidante Karilynn Ming Ho as a techno-donkey where needed to enact her various interventions.
Makes websites for friends.
Reads for his dissertation proposal. Reads this too. Sits in a computer lab. Remembers to wash himself every day.
Drop me a line, I have psychological problems with not checking my email. It may have something to do with all the reading I have to get done.