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Moving On Up! Jack Chick anti-evolution comic. Scientists are such savages! Via: Wizardishungry
user labor markup language (ULML)
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1 hour ago
The above screen capture is pulled from the explanation for Burak Arikan and Engin Erdogan's exciting new User Labor project. With this venture, Burak and Engin have developed User Labor Markup Language (ULML), an XML format for determining the value of online activity, interaction and connectivity. The project neatly dovetails with other web initiatives like Data Portability and OpenSocial but moves beyond discussions about online identity and data ownership into the realm of quantifying the value of user contributions to [...]
much ado about everyblock
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1 hour ago
Imagine film of a normal street right now, a relatively busy crossroads at 9AM taken from a vantage point high above the street, looking down at an angle as if from a CCTV camera. We can see several buildings, a dozen cars, and quite a few people, pavements dotted with street furniture. Freeze the frame, and scrub the film backwards and forwards a little, observing the physical activity on the street. But what can???t we see? We can???t see how the [...]
lifemapping
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1 hour ago
I've been doing a little thinking about biography and self-archiving this weekend. Said train of thought was inspired by a chance encounter with the above project on ffffound! last week. This visualization is designer Ritwik Dey's Lifemap, a project he completed in an information design course at Parsons in 2005. The chart tracks Ritwik's education, topics of study (top), general interests (bottom), geographic location as well as milestones (i.e. the year he met his partner). These topics were traced back [...]
spirit_weedr_flight
spirit Awesome new piece up at Loshadka. Unfortunately, it's too large to fit into the reblog. The above is a partial screengrab, click through to see the entire thing.
Erase You
As a compact but cogent set of explorations on governmental secrecy, censorship and other forms of knowledge control, the exhibit "For Reasons of State" consequently doubles as a menagerie of information technologies: projects on display feature microfiche, voice mail, tape recording, 16mm educational film, printed books, photography, surveillance video, card catalogs, typewritten documents, and good old pencil and paper-- though, perhaps significantly, there's not a computer monitor in sight. Ben Rubin's Dark Source (2005) comes closest via perverse analogy: a [...]
Copyright? Conflicts of interest? Second Life? Museums: Meet the Intertubes!
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2 hours ago
A visitor to Van Gogh's bedroom in Second Life. Versions of the original painting are in the Art Institute of Chicago, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris via The Art Newspaper, May 22, 2008: Copyright, conflicts of interest, and how to deal with Uncle Sam US museum lawyers met last month to discuss the most pressing issues they are currently facing Martha Lufkin | 22.5.08 | Issue 191 Over 200 museum employees, lawyers and interested parties [...]
True Norwegian Black Metal on Vice TV
GAAHL, lead singer of Gorgoroth, screengrab from Vice TV “I don’t think of myself as someone who can paint. That’s why I quit art school…” explains Gaahl to Vice TV, the lead vocalist of Gorgoroth, the most feared black metal band in Norway. The ex-painter turned musician, Satanist and convicted felon goes on to liken violence that began self defense to art. “It’s like a painting,” he says, “you don’t stop until it’s finished.” Of course by this rationale you’d [...]
Gavin Brown's Enterprise: Dara Friedman, Musical -- Thursday, May 22, 6 - 8PM
Gavin Brown's Enterprise 620 Greenwich Street Greenwich Village Dara Friedman Gavin Brown's enterprise is pleased to present Musical, a new film by Dara Friedman Musical is an hour-long orchestration of sixty singing performances commissioned by the Public Art Fund that took place on the streets of Midtown Manhattan last fall. For three weeks Friedman invited ordinary New Yorkers to burst into song on street corners, in coffee shops, museums, and train stations. Friedman's film collates those discrete happenings, creating a sprawling [...]
'He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died'
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2 hours ago
This has been posted all over the web already: "Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. Finally my investigation turned up the photographer as Jamie Livingston, and he did indeed take a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 [...]
Workshop Announcement: Towards a Personal Vision
Conscientious |
2 hours ago
I'm pleased to be able to announce the following: Towards a Personal Vision is a photography workshop for practicing photographers and advanced students in photography, held in Northampton (Massachusetts) from August 8, 2008 until (and incl.) August 10, 2008 by Robert Lyons and myself. Find my interview with Robert here. Further information about the scope of the workshop and about how to sign up etc. can be found in this (pdf) brochure. There still are open spots!
Boadwee at Rocksbox
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2 hours ago
Keith Boadwee, "Intersection" Rocksbox presents This is a New Low, by shock artist Keith Boadwee. (In)famous for anal painting and a general obsession with his genital region, Boadwee's work has been described as "intelligent and irritating, repulsive and appealing". Intensely, inescapably physical, Boadwee toys with, and perhaps overextends, the visceral metaphors of the body. It is, indeed, an "uneasy alliance." Opening reception • 7-11pm • May 24 Rocksbox Fine Art • 6540 N. Interstate Ave. • 971.506.8938
The Queen and Ben Johnson
Liverpool Art and Culture |
3 hours ago
Maybe someday artinliverpool will be part of the 'Big Table' (biennial, tate, bluecoat etc.) and we'll get to dine with the Queen. Spotted a few of them going into St George's for lunch with HM today - all we got was Alistair Upton's plastic union flag. Only kidding of course, I would refuse any offer of dining with the ruling classes. She was here to officially open the Arena & Convention Centre. We were on our way to see the [...]
Brain Teaser for a Hurried Thursday
edward_ winkleman |
3 hours ago
Nutso busy today, so I'll have to keep this short. Still, based on an observation a good friend made while viewing the Courbet exhibition that just closed at the Met, I've been obsessed with the following sort of mental challenge--based on those awfully annoying aptitude test questions, such as:Apple is to Orange as Chalk is to a) Cabooseb) Cheesec) Charityd) Chalkboard(OK, so that's a bit too British a question perhaps...the answer is B).Only this time, I'm not supplying the options...the whole [...]
Call: Papers on the Challenge of Preservation [Quebec]
Call for Papers :: For Symposium: Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age :: McGill University :: Montreal, Quebec Canada :: Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2008 The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together scholars,professionals, and graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in order [...]
Call for Papers: Evaluating Player Experience [Liverpool]
CALL FOR PAPERS :: WORKSHOP :: Evaluating Player Experiences in Location Aware Games ::: Culture, Creativity, Interaction :: 1-5 Sept. 2008 :: Liverpool, John Moores University, UK :: Submission Deadline: June 15, 2008 Location aware technologies such as widespread mobile computers and varying location sensors open up a massive range of possibilities for extending game playing into streets, buildings and even the rural landscape. New and extended forms of location-aware games including mobile or pervasive phone games, smart toys, role-playing games [...]
Matthew Barney: Big Bucks, Many Whammies
Christopher Knight didn't have as bad a time at the performance/filming of Matthew Barney's "REN" as the audience members who were injured by flying glass when the backhoe went at it with the Chrysler Imperial in the auto dealer showroom:When paramedics left, the crowd filed into the tomb -- actually the car-lined former service bay. Lila Downs, the great Oaxacan ranchera singer, wailed at a corpse laid out atop a golden Grand Am. A "menstrual shroud" was extracted from the loins [...]
Hank Willis Thomas
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4 hours ago
I really like Hank Willis Thomas' work, especially "Unbranded", which shows images taken from ads specifically addressed at African Americans, with all text and logos removed. In contrast, the "Branded" series I find a bit too obvious (not that that's necessarily a bad thing). Hank's work was part of Leslie Martin's "Ubiquitous Image" at the recent NY Photo Festival; and you can also find a lot about his work over at Nina's blog.
Party Time! Photos from Rhizome's 2008 Benefit
Big thanks to Liz Filardi for documenting this year's benefit. Lynn Hershman Leeson in front of a projection of her work RCRD Label and Engadget founder Peter Rojas introducing Joshua Schachter Del.icio.us founder and Rhizome honoree Joshua Schachter Mary from High Places Shana Moulton Party, Michael Bell-Smith's Faceted Sphere on an Escalator in the background Johanna Fateman and JD Samson from MEN Art by Jacob Ciocci from Paper Rad, for the Silent Auction VISIT OUR FLICKR PAGE FOR MORE
WNYC Encourages Street Photography
Image via: WNYC I seriously doubt America needs more street photographers, though as a means of engaging people in photography it certainly beats the overhead heavy staged photograph genre. Presumably knowing this, WNYC launches Street Shots Challenge, and asks people to submit photographs for a chance to win a video profile of themselves and their work. A word of warning however; if the site tells you who’s judging this competition, I can’t find it, so it’s hard to know the [...]
"Art Paine's Turquoise"
San Francisco artist Kay Bradner zooms in for close-ups of unfurled sails of many colours. Representational becomes abstract in these oil paintings done on aluminium panels. The surface adds light and dimension to the compositions that almost appear to...
Drop What You Are Doing and Come to Berlin, 2
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6 hours ago
Post by Mari ShawThis is part 2 of Mari Shaw's post about Berlin Gallery Weekend.Read Part 1. Parts 3 and 4 will follow.A must- see Gallery Weekend show is a large installation by Andreas Siekman that inaugurates Galerie Barbara Weiss's new ground floor space on Zimmerstrasse. Andreas Siekman, detail, Negotiations Under Time Pressure, at Galerie Barbara Weiss. Photo courtesy of the gallery.Siekman is a brilliant, gifted artist who, along with his talented artist wife Alice Creischer, has been an important and active [...]
Curating 2.0 Panel @ The New York Photo Festival
I’ll be appearing on a panel which is part of Aperture Presents at The New York Photo Festival this coming Friday, May 16th. Please try to make it if you can! Curating 2.0 Friday May 16 | 5-6pm St. Ann’s Warehouse 38 Water Street Brooklyn, New York The internet is undoubtedly incubating a new generation of photo curators. How is the
links for 2008-05-01
Colossal squid ?? Te Papa???s Blog The colassal squid’s eye is bigger than a dinner plate. Holy smokes! Squid autopsies are highly riveting. Who knew? (tags: science nature squid random) Digg This Save to Del.icio.us
