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One day you are putting numbers into spreadsheet cells, and the next those numbers feed into budgets, and the budgets turn into requests to Human Resources, which turn into postings on Stack Overflow and requests to outsourcing placement firms in Estonia or Mumbai, and these turn into human beings doing things, sometimes in Offices, or…
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emergentfutures: Steve Wozniak just backed a DIY computer on Kickstarter—and so have 12,000 others Kano, which already received funding from Index Ventures, where one of its founders works, hopes to help fulfill the promise of the Raspberry Pi while offering much more. “The experience of Kano relies on Raspberry Pi but it is its own product,”…
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christopherschreck: This Is The Way Your Leverage Lies: The Seth Siegelaub Papers as Institutional Critique “This interactive exhibition examines Siegelaub’s brief but deeply influential career as gallery owner, independent curator, publisher, event facilitator, and seminal figure in the experimental and anti-establishment Conceptual art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His curatorial work took place both in physical…
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…become readers of any and everything: newspapers, magazines, Harlequin romances, detective stories, as well as novels and plays and poems. For reading is itself a moral act. As George Will once said, there is more imaginative life to be found in reading any cheap thriller than in watching the most sophisticated film. He is not…
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abstraire: Nancy Daly – Subject to Terms and Conditions “Viweres are urged to investigate the unanticipated effects of blind participation by placing them in a situation wherein aestheic choices made by individuals determine where the artist’s money goes. Daly pledges to donate percentages of her yearly charity donation budget to over 50 charities and organizations…