Feb. 8, 2007: Scott Mahoy on "Russian Modernism Online"02.08.07 | |
Speaker: Scott Mahoy has over 10 years experience in the media arts including web design, motion graphics, animation and film/video production and post-production. He is currently the creative director of the Russian Modernism distant learning course being developed by the Labyrinth Project.
Abstract: This project is both an experimental model for demonstrating the unique educational possibilities of interactive media, and a specific course on Russian modernism, to be released as free open-source software nationwide. By emphasizing both the cultural specificity of Russian modernism and its connections to the larger international movement, it becomes useful for a wide range of courses in the humanities. Since this historic movement generated many concepts pivotal to hypertexts, our courseware stresses lines of continuity between the so-called "new media" and "old media" that emerged at both ends of the 20th century