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November 2014
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Nov. 24, 2014Semiologist José Luis Fernández is studying what he calls “the Vorterix system”: a communication model developed by this Argentine radio station that combines FM radio, theater, and streaming. “Vorterix is broadcasting’s first major response to competing with social media for audience attention,” summarized Fernández, who was at the School of Communication to give a lecture, in this interview with In situ.
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Nov. 11, 2014María Emilia Tato Lamaison, who holds a degree in Industrial Design, created a line of eyewear that was selected by the Ibero-American Design Biennial in the "Fashion Design – Textiles and Accessories" category. For her, today "eyeglasses are an accessory closely linked to fashion" and "more and more people are choosing their eyeglasses as just another accessory without seeking to hide a visual impairment."
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Nov. 10, 2014Industrial design students were tasked with an unusual project: identifying problems in the city, finding solutions, developing them, and finally putting them into practice. That was the essence of Hack the City, a project conceived by Maximiliano Izzi, the professor leading the initiative.
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Nov. 5, 2014Marcos Hecht, a senior in the Bachelor of Communication program with a concentration in Audiovisual Studies, wanted to see what would happen if he combined two of his passions: audiovisual media and music. The result was the Pardelion Music TV project, which offers an innovative format for music videos, since “the important thing is that the musicians play for the cameras,” he explains. “We thought it would be great to show them playing songs for themselves and see what makes them talented, without having to resort to stock footage or video art representations,” Hecht explained in this interview.