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Aurora cordially invites all emerging and established artists working with light, video, sound, digital, internet-based work and/or performance to submit proposals for Aurora in 2015: All Together Now. Proposals should explore innovative approaches to a free public art event that transforms the neighborhood of the Dallas Arts District (68 acres/19 city blocks of downtown Dallas,…
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Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition A literal reflection of the commodification of objects mounted on gallery walls, this is a video game in which you play a video game. Hijacking users’ webcams, Barr re-creates the reflection of a viewer on a sheet of museum glass that divides them from art. It’s a meta-game that…
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Conclusions Here I’d like to list a few thoughts emerged during the workshop. First of all, we realized that Calibre’s “Edit Book” function is a great tool for quickly prototyping ideas as EPUB files, thanks to its advanced WYSIWYG editor with syntax highlight and the possibility to directly replace images and other files. The development…
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kenyatta: rafaelfajardo: where is this from? rafaelfajardo it’s from a Channel 4 Chris Marker doc series on the Greek connection to modern Western culture called The Owl’s Legacy (the Onassis Foundation commissioners were so offended that it never made it to broadcast in Greece.) This is from his interview with Cornelius Castoriadis. There are download links for the…
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vjeranski: Felix Gonzales-Torres, Untitled, 1991
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shrinkrants: lesstalkmoreillustration: WRDBNR wrdbnr Who said, “It is the copying that originates.”?
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He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Jean-Luc Godard (via kadrey)
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smartercities: Urban Farmers Say It’s Time They Got Their Own Research Farms Whitney Pipkin, npr.org About 80 percent of Americans now live in urban areas, and more and more of us are growing food in cities as well. But where’s an urban farmer to turn for a soil test or when pests infiltrate the fruit…
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Vonnegut’s letter to a book-burner
mostlysignssomeportents: In 1973, Kurt Vonnegut learned that Charles McCarthy, head of the school board that governed Drake High School in North Dakota, had burned 32 copies of Slaughterhouse-Five in the school furnace, offended by the book’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut wrote a private letter to McCarthy, a heartfelt, low-key, scathing recrimination that could be repurposed for…
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where is this from?