Amelia SmithinIWU Pride Alumni CommunityIssue Two, Fall 2018This year’s Campus Pride Index gave IWU 4 out of 5 stars, with highest marks for LGBTQ+ Support and Institutional Commitment (4.5 / 5) and…Apr 11, 2019Apr 11, 2019
Amelia SmithinavongSignal VIn the articles we read about WeWork, there was mention of the use of algorithms in the building process. This reminded me of some playful…Nov 25, 2018Nov 25, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongSignal IVMy signal this week is the architect Bruno Taut, who worked in Weimar Germany and imagined Utopian cities in the Alpine skyline. This…Nov 18, 2018Nov 18, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongSignal IIIMy signal for this week is Franz Kafka, a writer most of us are probably familiar with from being forced to read The Metamorphosis in high…Nov 11, 2018Nov 11, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongSignal IIMy Signal for this week is an excerpt from James C. Scott’s book Seeing like a State about the urban designer and activist Jane Jacobs…Nov 4, 2018Nov 4, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongSignal IMany years ago I saw a video that I haven’t forgotten, for whatever reason, called “A Day Made of Glass.” At the time, I wasn’t aware of…Oct 28, 2018Oct 28, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongCuration on Miller GalleryWhat I found most interesting about our trip to the Miller gallery were the times that people weren’t sure whether a video piece was…Oct 10, 2018Oct 10, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongIV: Embodied InformationI’ve had many spirited conversations pondering the question of downloading human consciousness into a computer with friends over the years…Sep 30, 2018Sep 30, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongIII: Pretending to Be Less Than A.I.The first time I watched Her (2013) I was left feeling ambiguous about the politics of the film and my own response to those politics. The…Sep 16, 2018Sep 16, 2018
Amelia SmithinavongII: Cyborgs and (Female)EssentialismHaraway’s Cyborg Manifesto frames anxieties around cyborgs by some of the boundaries that are uncomfortably blurred by their existence…Sep 9, 20181Sep 9, 20181