Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Began the day by reviewing the Malaysia poems for a while, then recorded all of them in the studio with Ajoi. Ali came along and videotaped the session, not focusing on me but the papers and who knows what else. The readings were pretty good—maybe a couple of little mistakes—Ajoi and I eq’d some of the bass out of the voice and I think everything worked out well. We’ll see what, if anything, becomes of them material. Mainly I’m glad to have a good audio document of the work.
In the afternoon I finished preparing the syllabus for my soon-to-be-started NJIT course, which also turned out well and is now posted at http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/2006/605/. Class starts tomorrow, 9000 miles away. I teach this course online at home all the time but for some reason it feels different being over here.
The only other activity I had time for today was to begin a revision of the lecture (“The Components of Digital Poetry”) I’ll be presenting in Singapore and Penang next week. When I was in Bangkok, Eric Curkendall gave me some good feedback on the lecture, and I’m incorporating some of his ideas and tightening the thing up in general. I should be able to finish this up tomorrow, no problem.
Tomorrow I’ll also be meeting with the Dean about the possibilities of future involvement as a consultant at MMU, and will take a ride over to Melawati and work with my friend Fauzee to print out pictures and poems (in scroll form) to mount in an exhibition that goes up in KL in a couple of weeks.
In the afternoon I finished preparing the syllabus for my soon-to-be-started NJIT course, which also turned out well and is now posted at http://web.njit.edu/~funkhous/2006/605/. Class starts tomorrow, 9000 miles away. I teach this course online at home all the time but for some reason it feels different being over here.
The only other activity I had time for today was to begin a revision of the lecture (“The Components of Digital Poetry”) I’ll be presenting in Singapore and Penang next week. When I was in Bangkok, Eric Curkendall gave me some good feedback on the lecture, and I’m incorporating some of his ideas and tightening the thing up in general. I should be able to finish this up tomorrow, no problem.
Tomorrow I’ll also be meeting with the Dean about the possibilities of future involvement as a consultant at MMU, and will take a ride over to Melawati and work with my friend Fauzee to print out pictures and poems (in scroll form) to mount in an exhibition that goes up in KL in a couple of weeks.
# posted by chris funkhouser @ 6:32 AM 
