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Still, they’d have a hard time trumping Katharine Neil, to whom Ellison speaks in Paris. “To this day so many people don’t know Katharine’s work. She’s just one of the most extraordinary humans,” Ellison stresses.Neil was part of a covert team of game industry veterans and journalists who, using Australian state art funding, produced a…
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The phenomenon of immigrant children becoming “brokers” of their families’ new culture is well-documented and studied. Children translate phone conversations, documents and even road signs for their parents, which throws traditional family dynamics for a loop—a point that both Cuentos and Gonzalez brought up. “Kids run into problems with technology where they need their parents,…
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yalegraphicdesign: Untitled (September magazine), by artist Paul Elliman, takes the form of a 600 page glossy magazine, completely absent of any editorial text, and comprised instead only of cropped and juxtaposed images collected by Elliman over many years. The publication conveys in itself a kind of text spelled out in body shapes, signs and gestures.
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thedigitalmuseum: Museopunks regularly digs into some of the more innovative practice in museums, but so far, we’ve haven’t tackled curating. In this episode, Suse catches up with one of the most powerful people in the world of art – Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design, Director of Research & Development, MoMA – to…
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putthison: Reshoring Textiles The country we’ve insulted for the last fifty years, calling them a low-skill, low-quality manufacturer, is coming to the US to train our workers. The New York Times has a story about how Chinese firms are setting up textile companies in South Carolina. Twenty-five years ago, Ni Meijuan earned $19 a month…
