Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967–1971 A Research Paper by Robert Irwin, James Turrell & Ed Wortz archive.org You leave with the artThe object of art
Against Canvas An Article by Alan Jacobs ayjay.org Even with all the features and plugins, Canvas presumes certain ways of organizing classes that might not be universal, just typical. And if (like me) you’re an atypical user, you have to choose between constantly fighting with the system or gradually doing more and more things the way Canvas wants you to do them. This, by the way, is why it’s never true to say that technologies are neutral and what matters is how you use them: every technology without exception has affordances, certain actions that it makes easy, and other actions that it makes difficult or impossible. A technology whose affordances run contrary to your convictions can rob you of your independence — and any technology deployed on the scale of Canvas will inevitably do that. It will turn every teacher into an obedient Canvas-user. I don’t want to be an obedient Canvas-user. technologylearningux