Welcome to the oldest continuous website maintained by a professor at Georgetown University. I am the Founding Director of Georgetown's Communication, Culture & Technology Program (CCT), and have been a professor at Georgetown for over 20 years. I set up the first website at Georgetown in 1993, and began developing websites for courses in 1994. When I launched the CCT Program in 1995-96, I began developing individual sites for each graduate course with web syllabi, readings, and lecture notes. I set up the first pilot implementation of Blackboard, the leading CMS for education, at Georgetown in 1998, but prefer to develop my academic material in an open Web environment. I also maintain an archive of lectures, essays, bibliographies, and presentations for students and those interested in the fields I work in. My teaching philosophy entails using the Web to implement real-time teaching: moving students out of the black box of the classroom and into a world of practice where already transmitted institutional knowledge is continually challenged by networked, multidisciplinary information. My seminars are laboratories for making interpretive interventions in an always evolving complex array of interconnected and interdependent sources. We are all digital followers Heraclitus (revised 1.2): you can't step into the same flow of information even once. Our received disciplines flow in an always-already state of internal divisions, contradictions, and institutional configurations, all subject to ongoing reinterpretation and interdisciplinary redescription. Welcome to the academy as networked knowledge remix: there's no there here outside the nodal points of interconnection and interdependence that we inhabit and remake. CCTP 725: Cultural Hybridity: Remixing Media, Music, Visual Culture CCTP 748: Media Theory and Visual Culture CCTP 797: Theory / Culture / Technology CCTP 738: Contemporary Visual Art: Theory, Practice, Institutions CCTP 510 (2005): Institutions of Visual Culture CCTP 510 (2004): Globalization in a Post-9/11 World | Intro Topics | Readings and Bibliography | CCTP 737: The Post-Internet University (archive) I maintain a Seminar Wiki site for student discussions and contributions to the real-time knowledge-building purpose of seminars. Wiki architecture allows students to write weekly seminar comments in a peer-dialog context, and to publish rich-content essays and research projects. Student work is accessible on the Web, indexed by Google and other Web indexing sites. The Wiki provides a fixed URL for reference and use by students in resumes and future professional work. See my teaching statement on the seminar Wiki. My Seminar Wiki is now hosted at Georgetown University. The Metapedia Wiki is now an archive; it has been my ongoing Wiki for Seminars and Student Projects since 2006, and maintained on a personal server. See the archive of student projects. Lectures, Presentations, Seminar Notes +/- Articles, Interviews, Work in Progress +/- Artworlds: Art, Media, and Networked Culture (book in progress). Martin Irvine, "The Work on the Street: Street Art and Visual Culture" (pdf). Book chapter to appear in The Handbook of Visual Culture, ed. Barry Sandywell and Ian Heywood. London: Berg / Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Also thumbnail list of images cited (pdf). Street Art and the Digital City: Presented at the Theorizing the Web conference, University of Maryland, April 9, 2011. Interview, on curating the Image/Fame/Memory photography exhibition, Worn Magazine, March 2011. "Cultural Semiotics: Black Madonna Icons in Europe," Interview on cultural semiotics with Montana Mathieu, Paris, 2009. For Student Writers: A Rhetoric for the Digital Age +/- Writing to be Read: A Rhetoric for the Digital Age. A guide for structuring your argument in essays and theses, and supporting your writing with authoritative sources in any medium, whether writing traditional "papers" or rich media essays on the Web. I am also the Founder and Director of Irvine Contemporary, a leading art gallery in Washington, DC from 2003-2011. The gallery is now closed as a physical location, but I am continuing independent curatorial projects. Over the past eight years, I have curated over fifty exhibitions, written many exhibition curatorial essays, published catalogs of artists' works, and placed works in leading museum collections. I am available for independent curatorial projects in all media, especially contemporary hybrid and digital media. |
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Martin Irvine University CV | Professional Resume (brief) "I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars." --Jorge Luis Borges, from "The Garden of Forking Paths" "Nothing conclusive has yet taken place in the world, the ultimate word of the world and about the world has not yet been spoken, the world is open and free, everything is still in the future and will always be in the future." --Mikhail Bakhtin |
