CURRENT PROJECT

2023-25: DARK SKIES—HOT PLANET—COOL GAZE

Short film (40-45  min.) based on our previous works, including the international awarding-winning concept/design essay "Hot and Cool in the Media(S)cene" and "Thus Spoke the Cool" (essay forthcoming in Bloomsbury Encylopedia of New Media Art, London 2024). For more info, click here. 

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 RECENT PROJECTS

Note: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there were no public events created by the Center during the years 2020-2022. In 2023, we began long-term planning for events and projects in 2025 and beyond.

2022: MEDIA ENVIRONMENTS, 4TH EDITION

The newest edition of Barry Vacker's text anthology. For more info: click here.
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2019: "MEDIA(S)CENE" ART INSTALLATION

An art-tech-theory project which re-theorizes key concepts from Marshall McLuhan to develop a radical new model for a total media ecology. In long-term development by Julia Hildebrand and Barry Vacker. More canvases are in the works as we also explore other creative possibilities.

To read our essay, click here. The essay won the 2019 John Culkin Award, an international award given annually by the Media Ecology Association. The mixed-media installations exhibited at the 2019 Media Ecology Annual Convention, Toronto (June 27-30). To access Installation Program, click here.

 

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NOW IN SOFT COVER: BLACK MIRROR AND CRITICAL MEDIA THEORY

Edited by Angela Cirucci and Barry Vacker. Published by Lexington Books in 2018. For Lexington site, click here. For Amazon, click here. In 2020, the book was released in soft cover.

Featuring theorists from three continents and ten nations, including CMAD associates Julia Hildebrand, Osei Alleyne, Angela Cirucci, and Barry Vacker.

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    A TOP PROJECT FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

Space Times Square (2008, remastered 2021)

Winner of the prestigious 2010 Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis from the Media Ecology Association. Screened in numerous festivals and conferences around the world. Winner of the 2010 John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in the Field of Media Ecology, international award from the Media Ecology Association.

-- Shot entirely from the screens of Times Square in New York City (22 minutes). To view film, click here. Or click on the image below.

 

"Space Times Square" (2021 remastered version; 25 minutes) from The Center for Media and Destiny on Vimeo.