January 2012
3 posts
Room E14-140 on the first floor of the Fumihiko Maki-designed Media Lab building, houses a cluster of the student offices of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. Participants of the program call the space the Venus Lab, but the door is clearly labeled:
MASTERCARD FUTURE OF TRANSACTIONS LABORATORY
This label is residue of a flopped MediaLab research group that was originally intended...
The Museum Problem
curated by Chris Fitzpatrick
featuring works by: Nina Beier, Liudvikas Buklys, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dalia Dūdėnaitė & Elena Narbutaitė, France Fiction, Antanas Gerlikas, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Chosil Kil, Juozas Laivys, Stephen Lichty, Lauren Marsden, Nicolas Matranga & Žiga Testen, Gizela Mickiewicz, Rosalind Nashashibi, Brandon Walls Olsen, Post Brothers, Chadwick Rantanen, Will...
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
8 posts
WatchRobert Wilson + Christopher Knowles perform ‘the sundance kid’ at MIT
Three Uses of the Knife
Vilnius, 2011.XI.04, 11, 18
lectures, discussions, monologues, reading, acting, karaoke, forms of alternative education, variety shows, or simply voice
Video: Raimundas Malasauskas, Narrative Show at... →
October 2011
2 posts
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September 2011
3 posts
August 2011
4 posts
On Monday I visited three pop-up art bookshops in New York.
1. A carry-over from the Motto bookshop that opened last fall for one week in downtown Brooklyn, Alex Damianos will be selling books and hosting events from his apartment in Crown Heights (Brooklyn). It’s great. Due to open in September.
2. ‘No More Reality’ - Textfield distribution presents a one long table at...
July 2011
12 posts
Anonymous aims to destroy the Norway gunman's 1500...
“UnManifest doesn’t call for an outright annihilation of the manifesto, but rather a systematic defacing. The second bullet reads, ‘2. Change it, add stupid stuff, remove parts, shoop his picture, do what you like to…’ […] By the end of the campaign, Anonymous intends for the original to be lost in a storm of fakes. With the defacing and distribution of altered manifestos,...
Not to Get Ahead Of Myself Expect Further...
From Geoff Dyer’s new NY Times column, “Reading Life” (don’t skim and dismiss it, like I did on the first read). via JSR
By GEOFF DYER
Published: July 22, 2011
In this column I want to look at a not uncommon way of writing and structuring books. This approach, I will argue, involves the writer announcing at the outset what he or she will be doing in the pages that...
June 2011
13 posts
The first development that brought about this so-called forgetting was the rise of the container. Pioneered by the United States in the late 1950s, ‘containerised’ shipping set a world standard for general cargo by the end of the 1960s. These uniformly sized boxes, capable of being mechanically transported from the berths of ships to a wide variety of land transport systems, quickly made...
War and Peace (1967)
An incredible 7-hour film version directed by Sergei Bondarchuk (also starring). [more info]
Jill Abramson’s voice is a...
EXP CIRC CLUB has a multi-part series on...
May 2011
2 posts
amirite? innit?
March 2011
2 posts
