Open Journal Montreal

by Christian Bertelsen We got into the ‘knife this past monday. I guess you could say we’ve hit the ground running. My wife started work the very next day, and I, in the interim (before finding a job), began working at her mother’s store. Thus far, I have been struck by the little things. For [...]

McLuhan International Festival of the Future The McLuhan International Festival of the Future‘s highly successful VORTEX will return with a 4-day program to hook-up the most innovative minds in media culture with international experts who will provide the insight into taking prototype to a business venture. As last year, two awards of $2,500 will be [...]

According to communication theorist Harold Innis, it is open, oral mechanisms embedded in cultural institutions like the University, (and the Common Law,) that preserve a space in society for flexibility and cultivation. Conferences, for example, like the annual Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, are zones for the real life interaction, and the [...]

by Risa Dickens Singing is hard, man, that shit ain’t easy. My friend Emilie got back into singing with a band the other day. She hadn’t gotten up in front of a gang of musicians and had to throw in her thoaty two cents in years; not since back when she was 19 or 20 [...]

by Risa Dickens Open source software releases the long-winded code that lies beneath the bright surfaces of a user interface. It does so in order to contribute to a collaborative environment, to attract contributors, and to demonstrate its degree of commitment to an open society. But for open source to access those deep wells of [...]

‘Music. Response. Music; it triggers some kind of response.’ – The Chemical Brothers I have sent you my first impressions of the dark continent. I have sent some emotionally filled words describing my new home. I have sent you some contrasting images. I now send you another major part of life here in Mali : [...]