http://sharonirish.org/blog Musings about connections among heartful community engagement and networked systems Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:22:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was recently on jury duty and did some informal inquiry and observation about the current ways in which Champaign County (IL) finds jurors. On a Monday morning, about 35 of us showed up at the courthouse in downtown Urbana and had a brief orientation. The staff handed us ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/07/29/jano-justice-systems-and-jury-selection/ Unfortunately I am not at the Digital Humanities conference in London right now. But I am following bits and pieces of it on Twitter #dh2010. Melissa Terra of University College London's Centre for Digital Humanities gave the plenary today, "Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon." One comment of ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/07/10/digital-humanities-2010/ After a really crazy spring semester, I am finally cleaning my home office, finding tidbits here and there that I intended to blog about, but never did. Dawoud Bey was the keynote speaker at this year's College Art Association conference. He teaches photography at Columbia College in Chicago, and runs ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/07/05/dawoud-bey-at-caa/ I grew up in Minnesota and still have many relatives who live there, so I was intrigued by this interview of Tim Pawlenty, governor of Minnesota ("pawlenty of trouble," according to my relatives), by Jon Stewart. Pawlenty is articulate and clear in his points, affable, even. But to equate education ... http://sharonirish.org/blog/2010/07/04/375/ 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/