Exciting New Blog: It's A Material World

Current UW-Madison Art History Graduate Student Gianofer Fields, in collaboration with Travis San Pedro, has been working on a fairly recent blog: It's a Material World that deals with our everyday interactions with the material world. Please take a look at it...

www.itsamaterialworld.org


The following is a brief synopsis from the website:

"In our lifetime we’ve seen the mobile phone shrink from the size of a suitcase to something easily lost in a coat pocket. Examining the everyday objects we choose to possess helps us place ourselves within a cultural context of technology and change. This project is called “It’s a Material World.”

First, it is a virtual exhibition and meeting place: an exploration of everyday and evocative objects with a savvy blending of multiple media practices.  A radio interview mode teases out meanings and feelings from scholars, artists and ordinary people, a visual frame gives the viewer a chance to see and join in a conversation, and an electronic format allows ephemeral events and interviews to be captured and archived. 

Our goal is to facilitate conversations between authors, craftspeople, designers, manufacturers, scholars, and students about the way our lives are interwoven with things, ideas, relationships, and meanings."