“FAKTES” (facts vs. fakes)
Doerte-Ina Liebing “FAKTES” (facts vs. fakes) 40″x40″ hand dyed cotton, printing, machine quilting In our media age, it is wonderful that we can contact each other, connect with another, exchange information quickly and pass on knowledge immediately. The use of digital media brings us a plethora of advantages that we
Media Magical World
September 28 2020 Mikiko Takase My father bought a TV for my sick and elderly grandmother in 1960. She exclaimed, “There is some small person inside that box.” Now, years later, I am part of a generation that has lived with media for a long time, but still struggles to
Coming Together
Meeting by Zoom
Media centuries ago
A few years ago I visited Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. A beautifully restored house and printing house. They present the printing process from start to finish. A huge collection of manuscripts, lead type of fonts, woodcut printing blocks, very old printing presses, all situated in a magnificent property. A place
How did I use media for my trip?
My Cloth in Common works are based on my trip from New Zealand to Canada and the USA in 2019. How lucky was I to do this last year and not 2020? Anyway, when we received the prompt of Media for this round I wondered how I would apply this
Defining media
I’m still trying to decide how I want to define the word “media” before I can even begin to start on my media response piece–I guess I need to get on that! My first mental response was media=TV, newspaper, magazines and other such stuff. The dictionary has a lot of
Judgement and selection
In this age where I live, a huge amount of information is poured out through various media. In particular, mobile media is a medium that provides quick and convenient access to information. That’s why many people around the world do things, share information, and promote friendship within mobile media. It
The Fourth Branch
Media is our prompt. My undergraduate degree is in journalism, and at one point I actually worked as a journalist. Those were the days! My first internship was at the ABC affiliate in Topeka, Kansas which had the only computerized news room in the area. Can you image? Photographers carried
Investigative Journalism
The prompt “Media” is very fitting for our current times. I believe that independent media are a necessary cornerstone of a functioning democracy. Of course, no media is truly independent and impartial, but some are better than others in this aspect. The byline of the Washington Post newspaper is “Democracy
No green without water
Due to all kind of climate issues, the role of water is more and more important in the world. Sea levels are rising and as a result of that more and more soil is salinizing. In some areas in the world fresh water is becoming scarce. But fresh water is
Solace
When we were given the prompt Gardens, Parks, and Green Spaces, my mind immediately went to the concept of a whiteout. A whiteout, white-out, or milky weather is a weather condition in which the contours and landmarks in a snow-covered zone become almost indistinguishable. I experienced my first real whiteout my second winter in Alaska when
Green space
People living in big cities live in an environment surrounded by artificial buildings rather than nature and their life seems to be very busy. I guess that it’s not such a good environment. Like an oasis in the desert, green space such as a park in the city is space