Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
Encyclopedia
Vectors is an international online
journal
produced by the University of Southern California
's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Launched in March 2005, the journal's current issue is its fifth, titled "Difference
". Through all of the issues, Vectors has featured over thirty scholarly new media projects.
Vectors mission is to publish material that can't be published in print utilizing cutting-edge tools and work processes. As the journal's about page describes,
Projects included in Vectors investigate diverse topics including evidence
, indigenous
communities, women's prisons, land use
, war
, and worker's rights. Many projects are produced by a team that includes a Vectors staff member. Other's are created externally and chosen for inclusion.
(Creative Director) and Craig Dietrich
(Info Design Director).
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produced by the University of Southern California
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Launched in March 2005, the journal's current issue is its fifth, titled "Difference
Difference
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". Through all of the issues, Vectors has featured over thirty scholarly new media projects.
About the journal
The journal publishes two new issues per year. Each issue features projects created by teams of fellows from a range of disciplines working together with technologists, creative directors and other scholars.Vectors mission is to publish material that can't be published in print utilizing cutting-edge tools and work processes. As the journal's about page describes,
This investigation at the intersection of technologyTechnologyTechnology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
and cultureCultureCulture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...
is not simply thematic. Rather, Vectors is realized in multimediaMultimediaMultimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
, melding form and content to enact a second-order examination of the mediationMediationMediation, as used in law, is a form of alternative dispute resolution , a way of resolving disputes between two or more parties. A third party, the mediator, assists the parties to negotiate their own settlement...
of everyday life. Using a peer-reviewed format and under the guidance of an international board, Vectors features submissions and specially-commissioned works composed of moving- and still-images; voice, music, and sound; computational and interactive structures; social software; and much more.
Projects included in Vectors investigate diverse topics including evidence
Evidence
Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are either presumed to be true, or were themselves proven via evidence, to demonstrate an assertion's truth...
, indigenous
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples are ethnic groups that are defined as indigenous according to one of the various definitions of the term, there is no universally accepted definition but most of which carry connotations of being the "original inhabitants" of a territory....
communities, women's prisons, land use
Land use
Land use is the human use of land. Land use involves the management and modification of natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements. It has also been defined as "the arrangements, activities and inputs people undertake in a certain land cover...
, war
War
War is a state of organized, armed, and often prolonged conflict carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional and widespread armed conflict between political...
, and worker's rights. Many projects are produced by a team that includes a Vectors staff member. Other's are created externally and chosen for inclusion.
Editorial staff
The journal has a dedicated editorial staff to provide editorial oversight and vision, collaborate with fellows, and create discourse and tools based on research during the project creation process. The present staff is: Tara McPherson (Editor), Steve Anderson (Editor), Erik LoyerErik Loyer
Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies....
(Creative Director) and Craig Dietrich
Craig Dietrich
Craig Dietrich is a digital artist, scholar, and educator who is presently on the faculty of the Institute for Multimedia Literacy, part of the School of Cinematic Arts, at the University of Southern California.-History:...
(Info Design Director).
List of issues and projects
The Vectors Journal has published over thirty projects since March, 2005. Below is a list of the projects and the members of the collaboration team.| Title | Primary team members | Project page |
|---|---|---|
| Issue 1 (Evidence): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=1 | ||
| In The News | Michal Migurski & Eric Rodenbeck | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=50 |
| Investigating Imaginary Evidence | Mary Agnes Krell | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=2 |
| Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual artist. Holzer lives and works in Hoosick Falls, New York.-Education:... at the Neue Nationalgalerie |
Ehren Fordyce & Gwen Allen, Alessandro Ceglia | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=4 |
| Narrating Bits: Encounters between Humans and Intelligent Machines | N. Katherine Hayles N. Katherine Hayles N. Katherine Hayles is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature at Duke University. -Background:Hayles was... , Eric Rodenbeck & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... & Tomas Apodaca & Michal Migurski |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=6 |
| Stolen Time Archive | Alice Gambrell, Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=10 |
| The Menorah of Fang Bang Lu | Andrew Jakubowicz, Tatiana Pentes | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=40 |
| The Unmaking of Markets: A Composite Visual History | Rebecca Jean Emigh, Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=5 |
| Virtual Vaudeville | David Saltz | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=39 |
| Issue 2 (Mobility): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=2 | ||
| Cultivating Pasadena: From Roses to Redevelopment | The Labyrinth Project with Marsha Kinder, Kevin Tanaka, Rosemary Comella, Karen Voss | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=55 |
| Hypermedia Berlin: Cultural History in the Age of New Media, or "Is There a Text in this Class?" | Todd Presner with Zoe Borovsky, Eugene Horikawa, Brian Lin, Shawn Higgins | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=60 |
| Mobile Figures | David Lloyd & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=54 |
| PlaceStorming: v. 3.0 | Jane McGonigal & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=8 |
| The Guantanamobile Project | Lisa Lynch, Elena Razlogova & Eric Rodenbeck | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=3 |
| Wegzeit: The Geometry of Relative Distance | Dietmar Offenhuber with Dietmar Offenhuber | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=64 |
| WiFi.Bedouin: This is not the web without wires.. | Julian Bleecker & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=12 |
| Issue 3 (Ephemera): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=3 | ||
| Cast-offs from the Golden Age | Melanie Swalwell & Erik Loyer | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=66 |
| Crowds | Jeffrey T. Schnapp | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=74 |
| Digital Dynamics Across Cultures | Kim Christen, Chris Cooney & Alessandro Ceglia with Craig Dietrich | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=67 |
| Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: Preserving the Stories of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma | Center for History and New Media | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=75 |
| Objects of Media Studies | Amelie Hastie & Raegan Kelly with Amelie Hastie, Raiford Guins, Anna Scott, Mary Desjardins, Kate Mondloch, Lisa Parks, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Laura Kang | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=65 |
| Panorama Ephemera | Rick Prelinger Rick Prelinger Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation.Rick has partnered with the Internet Archive to make... & Raegan Kelly with Craig Dietrich |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=58 |
| Slavery's Ephemera: The Contemporary Life of the Antebellum Plantation | Judith Jackson Fossett & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=56 |
| The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) Agrippa is a work of art created by speculative fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992. The work consists of a 300-line semi-autobiographical electronic poem by Gibson, embedded in an artist's book by Ashbaugh. Gibson's text focused on the... |
Agrippa Files Editorial Team | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=77 |
| Issue 4 (Perception): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=4 | ||
| Dead Reckoning: Aerial Perception and the Social Construction of Targets | Caren Kaplan & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=11 |
| Enfolding and Unfolding: An Aesthetics for the Information Age | Laura Marks & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=72 |
| Malperception | Perry Hoberman, Donald Hoffman with Perry Hoberman | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=71 |
| Public Secrets | Sharon Daniel Sharon Daniel Sharon Daniel is a professor in the Film and Digital Media department and serves as chair for the at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Along with teaching classes about digital media, Daniel does field research for new media projects. Her essays have been published in analytical and... & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=57 |
| The Virtual Window Interactive | Anne Friedberg Anne Friedberg Anne Friedberg was Chair of the Critical Studies Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California and President-elect of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. An author, historian and theorist of modern media culture, Friedberg received her PhD. in Cinema... & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=79 |
| Tracking Theory: The Synthetic Philosophy of The Glance | Eric Faden | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=78 |
| Unmarked Planes and Hidden Geographies | Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen Trevor Paglen is an American artist, geographer, and author.He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a PhD in geography from the University of California at Berkeley, where he currently works as a researcher.Paglen is the author of three books... & Craig Dietrich, Raegan Kelly |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=59 |
| Issue 5 (Difference): http://vectorsjournal.org/issues/index.php?issue=5 | ||
| Blue Velvet: Re-dressing New Orleans in Katrina's wake Blue Velvet (Digital Project) Blue Velvet is an online digital history project about the city of New Orleans both before and after Hurricane Katrina.The project was published in the fifth issue of Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, entitled "Difference." The full title of the project is "Blue... |
David Theo Goldberg David Theo Goldberg David Theo Goldberg, PhD was born and raised in South Africa, where he later received degrees in philosophy and economics from the University of Cape Town. He also holds a PhD in philosophy from City University of New York... , Stefka Hristova & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=82 |
| Deliberative Democracy and Difference | Mark Kann & Alessandro Ceglia | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=81 |
| Killer Entertainments | Jennifer Terry & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=86 |
| Nation on the Move | Minoo Moallem & Erik Loyer Erik Loyer Erik Loyer is a digital artist whose work examines identity and memory in the context of new modes of communications afforded by media technologies.... |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=83 |
| Programmed Visions | Wendy Hui Kyong Chun & Raegan Kelly | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=85 |
| The RED Project: Rendering Electromagnetic Distributions | Christian Sandvig | http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=87 |
| ThoughtMesh: Tag your writing. Join the conversation. | Jon Ippolito Jon Ippolito Jon Ippolito is an artist, educator, new media scholar, and former curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ippolito studied astrophysics and painting in the early 1980s, then pursued Internet art in the 1990s... , Craig Dietrich with John Bell |
http://vectorsjournal.org/index.php?page=7&projectId=84 |