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Allison Guy graduated from Yale with a degree in Environmental Studies. She spent one year working for a small online services company in New York City while enjoying the all the digital life the city had to offer. She now studies New Media in the University of Amsterdam, and is attempting to make the transition from the NYC subway system to the NL bicycle system.

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Fellow Sorcerers: Rhizomatic Animality in New Media Art

Here’s my thesis, relevant for any fan of cyborg studies: Fellow Sorcerers PDF Abstract Beginning in the industrial revolution and possibly before, the balance of animal life has tipped away from a state of autonomy to a state of...
By Allison Guy on 09/06/10 Comments Off on Fellow Sorcerers: Rhizomatic Animality in New Media Art
Food Blogs as a Surrogate for Action

Food Blogs as a Surrogate for Action

Well-known champion of sustainable food and a commonsense approach to eating Michael Pollan recently ran a piece in the New York Times called Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch.  In this article, he argues that cooking shows, with...
By Allison Guy on 11/03/09 2
The Cybraphon, the Baroque, the Embodiment of the Digital

The Cybraphon, the Baroque, the Embodiment of the Digital

Wunderkammers, literally a ‘cabinet of wonders,’ are generally viewed as the precursor to the natural history museum, although such collections also spanned the breadth of human endeavor from art to anthropological artifacts to religious relics. Wunderkammer embody an approach...
By Allison Guy on 10/16/09 Comments Off on The Cybraphon, the Baroque, the Embodiment of the Digital
Foursquare: Are the benefits of locative social media limited to cities?

Foursquare: Are the benefits of locative social media limited to cities?

FourSquare has recently been described by bloggers as the next great micro-updating service – a geolocative platform that could compliment and even overcome Twitter.  Some are even guessing that with its built-in impetus to visit local businesses, it may...
By Allison Guy on 10/05/09 1
Does the Flickr ‘style’ manifest a longing for a non-technological authenticity?

Does the Flickr ‘style’ manifest a longing for a non-technological authenticity?

Photography on Flickr is clearly tied into the overall tradition of vernacular or amateur photography.  Where the introduction of the Kodak-Eastman camera in 1888 brought the means to create photographs to a huge segment of the population, the internet...
By Allison Guy on 09/28/09 Comments Off on Does the Flickr ‘style’ manifest a longing for a non-technological authenticity?
The road not taken, the entry left blank

The road not taken, the entry left blank

Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Belize, home of jaguars, manatees, and the largest nesting grounds for sea turtles in Belize, and contains the only spot along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef...
By Allison Guy on 09/21/09 1

Book Review: Mathieu O’Neil’s Cyber Cheifs

In 2004, after researching the allometric growth of antlers between extinct and extant deer, trapped deep within the dungeons of my university’s vertebrate collections, I whizzed over to the Wikipedia entry on the Irish Elk, sure I could add my two...
By Allison Guy on 09/17/09 Comments Off on Book Review: Mathieu O’Neil’s Cyber Cheifs