In February, the Association for Cultural Equity unveiled a massive database of Alan Lomax’s entire life’s work as a folklorist and musicologist. This includes thousands
Read moreExhibition Review: Revolution, The First 2000 Years of Computing
Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing (tagline: the story of how computers came to be) is an ambitious and expansive exhibition that looks at
Read moreExhibition Review-Darren Bader: Images
Darren Bader: Images Darren Bader’s exhibit, “Darren Bader: Images,” is currently showing at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York. “Darren Bader: Images” was
Read moreObject Ethnography Launch, 3/15
The Object Ethnography Project Launch (you might recall that we posted about this back in January!) Thursday, March 15th @ 7:00 pm Silver Center, Room
Read moreYour Life, Uploaded
As I was looking for the PowerPoint presentation discussed by Kirschenbaum in “Mechanisms” (100) about the MyLifeBits , I stumbled upon the Total Recall blog: a living archive of
Read moreStuff on Things
Since we didn’t have much opportunity in our last class to discuss Brown’s “Thing Theory,” I thought I’d post a few potentially useful resources that
Read moreAnalog Pamphleteering – 2/28
Night School: Analog Pamphleteering with Luke Bulman Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6:30-8:30pm Studio-X NYC (map) Free and open to the public. No RSVP or special
Read moreJoshua Simon’s Neo-materialism Blog
You can find it here. And here are parts 1 (The Commodity and the Exhibition), 2 (The Unreadymade), and 3 (The Language of Commodities) of
Read moreexhibition review: pippinbarr.com
According to Kant, we perceive, and, in turn, appropriate, the things we phenomenologically experience in an effort “make sense” of the world. The “make” in
Read more“The Beauty of the Printed Book”
Here’s a link to a terrific article in today’s NY Times about how some publishers of art books are resisting the temptation to go digital.
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