At the eighth New York Digital Salon, which opened last week in the city's School of Visual Arts and online they compete for your appreciation.
Strangely, the more removed the mathematics becomes from what most people would be able to fathom, the more comfortable they are likely to be with its graphical representation.When Michael Field of the University of Houston showed his graphs, he introduced them as "Symmetry in Blues" or "Armies of the Night" and did not forget to mention which would be appearing in the New York Digital Salon.
From reporters at digital outlets like Gawker, Salon and Al Jazeera to pharmacists at a Brooklyn Target to cooks and cashiers at McDonald's, workers across the economy are demanding a seat at the table and a say at work.
A hair salon's digital-marketing partner may suggest a booking system.
In recent months, the newsrooms of several digital media organizations (including Gawker, Salon and ThinkProgress) have unionized with the Writers Guild.
The CMO, not the digital marketer, mandates that the salon get more Southeast Asian customers.
The Huffington Post got its start in 2005 as a "group blog," with Huffington inviting 300 big-name friends and associates contribute for a salon for the digital age.
Always the cultural hoarder, TV's latest show sees a characteristic meeting of high and low culture: from a French Salon hung with digital paintings to a Looney Tunes-style animation where Porky Pig is replaced with Picasso.
Since then, many other digital sites have unionized, including Salon, Vice, ThinkProgress, Law 360 and The Guardian U.S. The Huffington Post, which is also represented by the Writers Guild for America, East, became the largest such outlet to unionize when it won voluntary recognition from management in January.
In its message to colleagues on Thursday, the Fusion Union Organizing Committee noted that the management at other major digital outlets, including The Huffington Post, Vice, Salon and The Guardian have not engaged in similar anti-union campaigns.
As part of The New Museum's Ideas City, experimental rock musician and artist EMA put on what was essentially a salon-style draw-in for the digital generation. .
