Month: August 2015

  • Cross-Cultural Understanding Through Game Analysis

    Cross-Cultural Understanding Through Game Analysis Author, Brian Upton, proposes a deep structure that affords games to travel/translate. The notion of a deep structure echoes for me the linguistic concept of Chomsky’s that attempts to reason why humans have language. The structure, in Chomsky’s version, is in the brains of all humans. I haven’t yet read…

  • What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This

    What Is Code? If You Don’t Know, You Need to Read This

  • Immaterial Worlds | The Smart Set

    Immaterial Worlds | The Smart Set smart writing about digital/conceptual art works presented at the Biennial of the Americas 2015. 

  • Because Apple was “disruptive,” anything deemed disruptive now somehow borrows from Apple’s cachet. “Disruption” has become another meaningless buzzword appropriated by overzealous cheerleaders of the entrepreneurial clique they aspire to someday belong to. And look… every once in a while, someone does come up with a really cool and radical game-changing idea: Vaccines, the motorcar, radio, television, HBO,…

  • The artist has been called the “antennae” of the race. The artistic conscience is focused on the psychic and social implications of technology. The artist builds models of the new environments and new social lives that are the hidden potential of new technology. Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews by Marshall Mcluhan

  • (via Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s Fallen Angel – artnet News)

  • You can read this as just a local earthquake caused by the larger tectonic shifts of the publishing industry. But art publishing has its own peculiar dynamics. One of these is that a great, great many art titles are vanity projects, backed by a rich person for the same kinds of reasons that rich people…

  • SJO -> BOG -> NVA

  • GPOY Sala de espera BOG