First, I've got to promote Rob Lafoille's new video project, Hella Pixelated. Lafoille is majoring in art and minoring in ethnomorphology at UVIC, and this new video combines the two in a expiremental piece that is also an ethnomorphology case study. See it at Google and Youtube--though they are one company at this point.
Lafoille"stretched the boundaries of digital art, tearing it to its rawest, undiluted form", reveling the pixels, the most basic unit of our digital world. What seperated Kim Jong-Il from Guantanamo? What seperates the different ethnicites of our world?
Anyway, I wanted to give you a sneak preview of my upcoming article "Ethno-Threat Matrix Theory" as part of the 'New Frontiers' series in the Canadian Futurism Journal. Ethno-Threat Matrix theory started American and Canada around 2003, as Ethnomorphologist became interested in the ethnomorphological aspects of the Arab-American conflict, specifically the view of Americans that Arabs were an imminent threat. ETM Theory not only studies the past of these phenomena, but seek to predict the trajectory emergence of new "threats", real or imagined, invented or spontaneous.
America therefore represents a plethora of cases, not just Mexican and Arab, but throughout its history (German, Irish, Chinese, etc.). The history is also concise, so cause and effect are closer together and therefore easier to see and correlate. Look for more information on this exciting new field soon, and a class in the coming semesters.
Sunday, October 22, 2006
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