Category Archives: Arts in the Digital Age

The Uncanny Valley of Zoom backgrounds

The Uncanny Valley of Zoom backgrounds

We’ve all been talking about the Zoom experience. How it’s slightly off from the in-person experience, in ways that can be disorienting and exhausting. Yet, ...
Elegy for Tesla, installation by Jeanne Jaffe at Rowan University Art Gallery, detail

An elegy for Tesla

Jeanne Jaffe’s ambitious Elegy for Tesla is a high-tech, dreamlike and heartfelt meditation on Nikola Tesla, the legendary scientist and inventor. Jaffe’s multimedia installation fills ...
Upholding Isis

Upholding Isis

During a hiatus from feline companionship last year, I daydreamed about naming our next cat Isis—after the goddess Isis so central to the religion of ...
Asteroid Sighting

Asteroid Sighting

The Asteroid Belt Almanac celebrated its launch yesterday, at a great event put together by the publishers, The Head & the Hand Press. Great venue ...
Mark Twain & Crowdfunding

Mark Twain & Crowdfunding

I've just written a guest post for The Head & The Hand Press, considering how Mark Twain's innovations in publishing could be seen as a ...
Asteroid Belt Almanac cover

The Asteroid Belt Almanac

What if Poor Richard’s Almanac were reimagined for today? The Asteroid Belt Almanac, coming soon from The Head and the Hand Press in Philadelphia, is all ...