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Walking West Artist Conor McGarrigle will walk Denver’s Colfax Avenue, the longest continuous street in America, drawing a 26 mile line to be captured in a satellite photograph. In his latest psychogeographic performance, which takes place on Friday April 11, McGarrigle will walk the entire 26.2 mile length of Denver’s best known and most controversial…
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Walking West Artist Conor McGarrigle will walk Denver’s Colfax Avenue, the longest continuous street in America, drawing a 26 mile line to be captured in a satellite photograph. In his latest psychogeographic performance, which takes place on Friday April 11, McGarrigle will walk the entire 26.2 mile length of Denver’s best known and most controversial…
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If you are 35 or younger – and quite often, older – the advice of the old economy does not apply to you. You live in the post-employment economy, where corporations have decided not to pay people. Profits are still high. The money is still there. But not for you. You will work without a…
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archivesofamericanart: PAUL CUMMINGS: Where is the accent in your name? SOL LeWITT: It’s the last syllable – LeWITT. [Emphasis on “Witt”] MR. CUMMINGS: It is? People argue about that all the time. MR. LeWITT: It’s not a very interesting argument – Oral history interview with Sol LeWitt, 1974 July 15. LeWitt died on this day…
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Rethinking video games Our design process has been greatly informed by the games team being part of the larger ustwo family of studios. Our colleagues are (for the most part) smart people and discerning fans of art, culture and design. Why do so few of them play games, even on mobile? Surrounded by these experts…
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An educator cannot be viewed as a technician, a functionary carrying out the instructions of others. Educators are learned scholars, community researchers, moral agents, philosophers, cultural workers and political insurgents. – Paulo Freire from Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via sincecombahee) Educators are… (via carlosesoto)
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theatlantic: Why The Conversation Should Be Required Viewing at the NSA Technology—iPhones, Google Glass, tablets, and the like—makes our day-to-day lives easier to quantify than ever. That’s a good thing, in many ways; more information about how people live can help, say, improve healthcare. But fiction, from George Orwell’s 1984 to this weekend’s box-office hit Captain America: The Winter…
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theatlantic: Why The Conversation Should Be Required Viewing at the NSA Technology—iPhones, Google Glass, tablets, and the like—makes our day-to-day lives easier to quantify than ever. That’s a good thing, in many ways; more information about how people live can help, say, improve healthcare. But fiction, from George Orwell’s 1984 to this weekend’s box-office hit Captain America: The Winter…
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fastcodesign: This Xbox Controller Can Sense Your Boredom, Make A Game More Violent Heart rate, temperature, respiration, and perspiration: These are our autonomous functions—our core physiological processes—that signal stress or arousal and can betray our otherwise cool exteriors. Stanford researcherGregory Kovacs is reading these signals through a modified Xbox game controller. By adding a new, sensor-laden…