This website presents student projects.

It does not store past projects.

This site is really about the space between these two possibilities. It attempts to reconfigure conceptions of student work and the boundries that institutional and cultural practices inscribe on bodies of work (and working bodies, but that's another story...). Rather than treating student work as individual products (and as the products of individual authors), this site approaches these projects as processes in motion, belonging to a community and, "authored," if such a term still has meaning, by collective collaboration. Student work (and we are all students) is not intellectual property as much as it is intellectual possibility.

Perhaps it is best to say that this site celebrates this possibility of suspended animotion. It "presents" projects-- keeps them open, fluid, and moving in the present. Like the work in it, the site itself is a growing project--a space constantly evolving in the present to present, encourage, and celebrate possibility.

In an attempt to objectify, I predicate this project as "an experimental integration of technological, rhetorical, pedagogical and postmodern theories." The site grows out of the reader oriented theories of Roland Barthes, the hip-hop and D.J. culture of Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid), and the insightful economic and cultural commentaries of Lawrence Lessig (specifically his book Free Culture). Common to all three of these disparate thinkers is the idea that cultural and intellectual property is meant to be shared, mixed and exchanged. Perhaps it is more fitting to say re-wread, re-mixed, re-leased. In this spirit I claim that this site contains re-visions, in whatever sense of the word you prefer. Enjoy.

Live Well and Play Nice,
Marc C. Santos