I came with the intention of speaking about my experience at RISD and wishing President Somerson a good tenure here, but all I could write on my sketchbook page was “blank page.” I wrote “tabula rasa.” I wrote “a clean slate.” And I wrote those words several times, and I realized as I was writing them that that’s how I arrived at RISD.
Jonny Sun and Jonathan Zittrain on Joke Tweets, Memes, and Being an Alien Online
presented by Jonathan Sun, Jonathan Zittrain
I think I kind of have floated through the world feeling like an outsider and feeling a bit like an alien, I guess. And along the way I've met so many other people who have felt like that too, and I think this is a celebration of that kind of diversity and of that kind of outsiderdom. Read more →