http://sharonirish.org/blog Musings about connections among heartful community engagement and networked systems Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:09:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The University of Minnesota Press just wrote on their blog: Our top 3 most popular books at this very busy, well-attended conference [College Art Association in Chicago] were: Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between, by Sharon Irish; String, Felt, Thread, by Elissa Auther; and Modernism after Wagner by Juliet Koss. Go here for more: http://www.uminnpressblog.com/2010/02/caa-in-nutshell.html HOORAY! http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/02/26/book-sales-strong/ Walter Brown just posted on the ciresearchers listserv (for people working in community informatics), run by Michael Gurstein. He echoed a provocative question from Mike's blog: "So What Do We Lose if We Don't Have the Internet?" He continued, The burning question for CI Researchers in my opinion is “How can ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/02/21/whats-at-stake-for-community-informatics/ The College Art Association's annual conference met this year in Chicago. Apparently there were 4000 registrants, but many were unable to get there because of bad weather. Suzanne Lacy was awarded the CAA Distinguished Artist Lifetime Achievement Award, Griselda Pollock received the Distinguished Feminist Award, Holland Cotter received the Distinguished ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/02/14/images-from-college-art-association-2010/ In September of 2009, the graphic designer at the University of Minnesota Press presented an idea for the cover of my book on Suzanne Lacy. Suzanne and I had both agreed that one image from her "Anatomy Lessons" series might be a good choice. The designer chose one that ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/01/01/the-cover-controversy/ [caption id="attachment_352" align="alignnone" width="210" caption="Book on artist Suzanne Lacy"][/caption] At long last, my book on Suzanne Lacy is coming out next month from the University of Minnesota Press. I will be tweaking my website over the next month to feature it more prominently, because this project was a very long haul ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/01/01/suzanne-lacy-spaces-between/ Last Thursday (December 11), I attended a panel organized by a working group at the University of Illinois called Ubuntu. Computer scientists kind of colonized the word by using it to describe a Debian-based Linux distribution. But in any case, Ubuntu is a Xhosa and Zulu word describing a philosophy ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2009/12/13/ubuntu/ Perpetual Peace Project is organized by the Slought Foundation, based on Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: A Contribution to Political Science (1795). The project "is a two-year initiative of the European Union National Institutes of Culture's 'Series in New European Manifestos,' which re-revisits and re-writes European political texts that have profoundly ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2009/12/13/perpetual-peace-project/ [caption id="attachment_330" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn"][/caption] A number of friends have read the book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. There's also a movement by that name. The book was excerpted in the New York Times ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2009/10/25/women-hold-up-half-the-sky/ Last night I sat listening to the New Orleans Hot 8 Brass Band play "St. James Infirmary." While I sat there I felt inconsolable about the losses experienced recently by friends, strangers, and acquaintances. This has been a particularly hard summer and fall for many in this community. Loss Within ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2009/10/17/loss-within-loss/ [caption id="attachment_318" align="alignleft" width="86" caption="Larry Stillman"][/caption] Larry Stillman of Monash University wrote the original drafts on community informatics for Wikipedia. He just posted this comment to the "ciresearchers" listserv: "From my perspective, SI [social informatics] is more the academic study of social uses of technology, but CI [community informatics] is much ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2009/10/06/community-informatics-as-activist-social-informatics/