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Category Archives: art & architecture

Prentice Falls: Brutalism torn down in Chicago

October 14, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

As part of an ethnography study this past month,  I was working at the emergency department at Northwestern’s hospital in downtown Chicago. I passed by Prentice Woman’s Hospital on my […]

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art & architecture

Reflections on The Happy Show

October 8, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

I was lucky enough to catch The Happy Show by Stefan Sagmeister while it was at the Chicago Cultural Center. This was the first time I’d actually been inside the building, […]

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art & architecture

Lansing Solo Exhibition

May 12, 2013by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

“Coalescence” (see photos here) April 7-May 5, 2913 Gallery 1212, Lansing, MI My second solo art exhibition was (again) mainly based on my paintings of women in hanbok (Korean traditional […]

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art & architecture

Opening Ceremony of Broad Museum

December 3, 2012by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

The new Eli and Edythe Broad Art museum opened in East Lansing along with the announcement that they had met their funding goal; which was great news considering that construction […]

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art & architecture

Roy Lichtenstein retrospective: copycat or innovator?

August 26, 2012by arcticpenguin 2 Comments

I am not a huge fan of the pop artist, but I immensely enjoyed the Roy Lichtenstein (1923-97) retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. I was unfamiliar with his […]

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art & architecture

Housing for tornadoes

August 14, 2012by arcticpenguin 3 Comments

Whenever I read or hear about tornadoes damaging houses, it is interesting (although a shame) that despite all our modern technology, we are so vulnerable in front of destructive forces […]

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art & architecture

Digital Media Conference (DML 2012)

March 2, 2012by arcticpenguin 1 Comment

The first day at DML: it was such an engaging conference and a lot of the presentations so pertinent to my personal interests and feelings about education. For one, it […]

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art & architecture, daily doilies

Art & Architecture in Toronto

February 22, 2012by arcticpenguin Leave a comment

Toronto was surprisingly a very sophisticated palette in terms of art and architecture, with nods to modern “appendixes” to the eclectic city. It was hard to understand what Toronto was […]

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YvetteWohn

D.Y. Wohn, Ph.D.

Dr. Wohn (she/her) is an associate professor at NJIT and director of the Social Interaction Lab (socialinteractionlab.com). Her research is in the area of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) where she studies the characteristics and consequences of social interactions in online environments such as livestreaming, esports, virtual worlds, and social media.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and Yahoo, her main projects examine 1) content moderation, online harassment and the creation/maintenance of online safe spaces, 2) social exchange in digital economies & digital patronage (creator-supporter dynamics), and 3) news consumption via social media.

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  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law
2023 Talks

1/8-11: GROUP (Hilton Head)
4/23-8: CHI (Hamburg)
5/25/-29: ICA (Toronto)

Blog Posts

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  • being digital
    • ::3D Virtual Worlds::
    • ::Cyber Culture::
    • ::Gadgets/Services::
    • ::Games::
    • ::Mobile Culture::
    • ::Social Media::
  • daily doilies
  • fashion
  • fiction:surrealism
  • food
  • journalism
  • natural science
  • politics & law

Most Recent Posts

  • UNICEF Report
  • Pew Metaverse Report
  • Discussing mental health on livestreams
  • College of Computing research award

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