Digital - News NYC Digital Releases Update to the Digital Roadmap with 100% of the Objectives Achieved, Digital Education Programs Have Impacted over One Million New Yorkers October 17, 2013 New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott, Media and Entertainment Commissioner Katherine Oliver and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot today announced Digital Ready, an intensive professional development and technology expansion program designed to help participating NYC public high schools use technology and student-centered learning to improve their students’ readiness for college and careers. “The Digital Ready program is a forward-thinking and beneficial addition to our school system,” said Chancellor Dennis M. “From kindergarten to senior centers, digital literacy programs in Mayor Bloomberg’s administration have impacted over one million New Yorkers, and this investment in education is crucial to the City’s Digital Roadmap,” said Rachel Haot, New York City’s Chief Digital Officer. • City As School
Letters of Note THE HELD ESSAYS ON VISUAL ARTArt Placebo I don’t know whether it is true that a janitor at an art gallery was fired not so long ago for sweeping up the artwork the morning after the opening, but the story captures a certain skepticism about art: if art is whatever “we,” or the art cognoscenti, say it is, then there is no such thing as art. The worry that art is a sham is an old idea and it is one that art itself has cherished. The confounding of folk ideas about what is art and what it is not is one of 20th-century art’s most flamboyant gestures, and familiar clichés. But skepticism about art—as I’ll call it—takes more subtle and more interesting forms. Psychology and neuroscience give rise to such skepticism from a different angle. From the point of view of these fields, works of art trigger experience, and experience is a neurological effect. Skepticism isn’t confined to outsiders either. Fried’s view is not exactly skeptical. But this can’t be right! Yes, critics can be wrong. Endnotes 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
UNE APPROCHE DÉCONTRACTÉE DE L'HISTOIRE DU GRAPHISME Tout l'été dans Libération à raison d'un strip par jour vous pourrez lire un projet assez curieux que je réalise avec mon vieux complice Toma Bletner. Une idée à lui par ailleurs : tenter de parler de graphisme à travers la BD et sous forme de comic strip en particulier. Comment mélanger les deux. Voici désormais l'intégralité des strips parus dans Libé cet été : Ce projet est très certainement la première incarnation de ce qui devrait être un chantier, plus gros, plus complet et plus ambitieux sur le sujet. Pratt Portfolios :: Gallery Created by You, for You. Terms of Use Forgot password? BESbewy
Relations In New York City, in the spring of 1999, a story hit the newspapers of a Long Island woman who had given birth to twins–one white and one black. The woman and her husband were white and the black baby was not theirs, at least not biologically. The embryo that became that baby had been accidentally implanted in the woman’s uterus with the embryo of her biological son, but it belonged to a black couple who were clients at the same fertility clinic, and they wanted their son back. After a DNA test, a custody battle, a state supreme court ruling, and an unsuccessful appeal, it was decided that the black baby was the child of the black couple, legally and entirely. The story had its peculiarities, like the fact that the fertility clinic had notified the black couple that some of their embryos had been mistakenly implanted in another woman, but did not tell them anything more, so they eventually learned of the birth of their son through a private investigator. And we were not.
Brain Pickings Carlos Andrés Gómez