September 2011
10 posts
The Definition of Context Collapse
“…an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space – virtually all possible contexts –...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new website. →
veken:
Not as sexy and dynamic as MOMA’s, but it’s simple, straightforward and worth checking out.
And since I can’t ever find what I need on MoMA, that’s a good thing.
The idea of an aesthetics of process draws from the consideration of technology as a social practice. It sees artistic creativity, particularly an art practice that thoughtfully and self-consciously engages advanced technologies, as a form of social praxis enmeshed in an ever morphing web of human social relations. It sees technology not as finished products to be used, but as works in progress to...
[T]he rush to stuff content into interactive media has drawn our attention away from the profound and subtle ways that the interface itself, by defining how we perceive and navigate content, shapes our experience of that content. If culture, in the context of interactive media, becomes something we “do,” it’s the interface that defines how we do it and how the “doing” feels. Word processors...
The apparently neutral space of the gallery is in reality a highly produced space. Control of environmental factors such as heat, humidity and natural lighting, that of artificial lighting, security and observation features, exhibition barriers, display cases and crowd flow management systems are all important considerations in the control and management of gallery space. Clearly, it takes a...
August 2011
9 posts
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“So bigots, take note: The world has changed, and so has its activism: The...”
– Jessica Valenti says social networks make offensive sentiments harder to hide. (via thedailyfeed)
July 2011
6 posts
More than 30 thousand ‘unfollow’ @barackobama on... →
soupsoup:
kateoplis:
Yeah, it helped a lot.
I think they need a better social media strategy.
