by Jinnie Templin | Mar 20, 2015 | MA Project, Process, Projects, Reflection
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″] I’ve been working on creating these toyls (toy-tools) with simple circuits and using interesting materials that prompt playful interactions. As I was creating them and started sharing them, I realized that they were...
by Jinnie Templin | Jan 15, 2015 | Process, Projects, Reflection
For Graduate Critique, we were given an assignment to make a media representation of our creative praxis. I was struggling a bit as the only non-fine arts student in the class, so I went with what I’m good at- stories. I decided to take this opportunity to teach...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 31, 2013 | Reflection, Research
The world’s first bitcoin ATM arrived in a coffee house in Vancouver, Canada this week. The ATM allows customers to exchange cash for digital currency or to cash out their bitcoin wallets. Many are predicting that we may see the Robocoin ATM start popping up...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 8, 2013 | Reflection, Research
The government shutdown, which began October 1, has caused hundreds of thousands of government employees to be furloughed without pay. Among those furloughed in non-essential government organizations were many of the employees responsible for maintaing...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 1, 2013 | Reflection
Contrasting Journalism In Evgeny Morozov’s To Save Everything, Click Here, he takes on a critical view of Internet theory and the way we as a society discuss “the Internet.” It’s not that Morozov denies the influence of the Internet on modern...
by Jinnie Templin | Sep 19, 2013 | Reflection
In the introduction to his book Program or be Programmed, Douglas Rushkoff discusses the effects of technology on modern society. His introduction focuses primarily on the idea that with the rise of computer use, we are in the midst of a media revolution. Previous...
