January 2012
1 post
Blackout - Click here to save our free internet! →
Today we could save the free Internet and stop the US Congress passing a law that gives them the power to censor the world’s Internet. Public pressure is at boiling point and we are turning the tide. Let’s stop the bill now — sign the petition!
Jan 18th
December 2011
17 posts
What are the key aspects of well-being? →
The UK Office of National Statistics is currently consulting on a framework and headline indicators for measuring well-being. This is an incredibly important development, intended in the long run…
Dec 16th
Ben Fino-Radin Rhizome's Digital Conservator on... →
Dec 16th
Technology is Not Enough: The Story of NYU’s... →
Dec 16th
How do you illustrate complexity? →
Declaration of the Occupation of New York, 2011, Rachel Schragis (links to interview) Artist Rachel Schragis created the Flow Chart of the Declaration of the Occupation. The media…
Dec 15th
Artist Profile: Ofri Cnaani →
Dec 15th
Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall →
Dec 14th
TippingPoint Newcastle →
Image from Tipping Point web site Tipping Point have announced their next gathering and have an open application procedure for some places for artists and academics. …
Dec 13th
YouTube Censors Petra Cortright, But 'VVEBCAM'... →
Dec 13th
PRISMA 1666 - Wonwei and Super Nature Design... →
Dec 12th
Corporations, Climate and the UN →
A significant report from the Polaris Institute on corporate influence, documenting the ways that lobbyists infiltrate UN climate change negotiations. Parallel with PLATFORM‘s work on…
Dec 11th
US town to turn drainage basin into public art →
Minnesota Public Radio recently reported that Jackie Brookner is advising and supporting the inhabitants of the City of Fargo in North Dakota on a major ecological art project funded in…
Dec 10th
If Facebook, Google Plus, and YouTube Were Built... →
Dec 9th
Political Ecology →
Where is the politics in political ecology? is a follow-up discussion by the Political Ecology Working Group at the University of Kentucky. Its an open discussion that anyone can participate…
Dec 9th
Rhizome Community Campaign: Brody Condon →
Dec 9th
Making Sense of Senseless Violence: An Interview... →
Dec 8th
The Kill Screen Dialogues at the New Museum Dec... →
Dec 7th
Artist Profile: Anna Lundh →
Dec 5th
November 2011
29 posts
CURATING CITIES: SYDNEY TO COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE →
Drawing on case studies from around the world, the Curating Cities project assesses the ongoing and potential contribution of public art to eco-sustainable development and the benefits to…
Nov 11th
Live Stage: e pluribus Anonymous: in lulz we trust... →
[Image: The Aesthetic Face(s) of Anonymous, owni.eu) AMT Lecture Series: Gabriella Coleman – e pluribus Anonymous: in lulz we trust :: November 10, 2011; 5:00 pm :: Parsons New School…
Nov 11th
TED: Allan Jones: A map of the brain - Allan Jones... →
How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which…
Nov 11th
Artist Profile: Artie Vierkant →
Artie Vierkant, Image Objects 2011 You are continuing to explore your Image Objects series for your Rhizome commission, which seems to deal with new elements of the age-old…
Nov 10th
City of Pieces – an urban festival of creative... →
This post comes to you from Cultura21 Bangalore 22nd to 30th of October Maraa, a media and arts collective, invites to City of Pieces, an urban festival of creative practices: …
Nov 10th
TED: Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D -... →
Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations — but they’re under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a groundbreaking 3D scanning system, is using his…
Nov 10th
Occupy the Internet →
This essay was originally published in N+1’s Occupy! An OWS-Inspired Gazette Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images via The Big Picture A Tumblr of user-submitted handwritten signs…
Nov 10th
TED: Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of... →
Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations — a typewriter that sends…
Nov 9th
Artist Profile: Jill Magid →
I Can Burn Your Face, neon, transformers. Installed at Yvon Lambert Paris, 2009. Much of your work takes place off site as a performance or engagement with a public entity outside of…
Nov 8th
Public Art – Green, Functional and Beautiful →
This post comes to you from Green Public Art On October 8th Rebecca Ansert, Founder of Green Public Art Consultancy, was invited to speak at the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places…
Nov 8th
Live Stage: the optimal value for y [Brooklyn] →
the optimal value for y: DataSpaceTime (Ray Sweeten & Lisa Gwilliam) — QR code portraits, Wallpaper prints, and Interactive video :: November 12 - December 12, 2011 :: Opening Reception:…
Nov 8th
A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law and... →
Production stills from Judy Radul, World Rehearsal Court, 2009. A Thousand Eyes: Media Technology, Law and Aesthetics is an anthology published by Sternberg Press and…
Nov 8th
TED: Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and... →
In his lab, Martin Hanczyc makes “protocells,” experimental blobs of chemicals that behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth … and perhaps…
Nov 7th
Dark Skies Biosphere Residency →
This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland Background The Dark Skies/ Biosphere Project aims to explore the role of artists practice in a meaningful promotion of this beautiful area of…
Nov 7th
Art and Sustainability: Breaking Through the Walls... →
This post comes to you from Green Public Art Green Public Art Consultancy will participate in a panel discussion, with Los Angeles aerosol artist ManOne and Justin Yoffe, Executive Director of…
Nov 6th
Co-Producing PAR+RS →
This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland Creative Scotland has just formally announced that I have, along with Trigger (Suzy Glass and Angie Bual www.triggerstuff.co.uk) been…
Nov 5th
TED: Marco Tempest: The augmented reality of... →
Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal.
Nov 5th
EcoAçãoCultural Seminar, 25-26th of November 2011 →
This post comes to you from Culture|Futures As a result of the Culture|Futures Conference in Sao Paulo May 30th 2011, the following key Sao Paulo institutions; British Council, Centro Cultural da…
Nov 4th
TED: Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains -... →
Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how…
Nov 4th
Transition Design →
This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland The creative futures (cf.) research centre at the University of the West of Scotland presents an evening lecture by Gideon Kossoff titled:…
Nov 3rd
Engage by Design is Live, Check out the... →
We are thrilled to announce that ENGAGEBYDESIGN.org is now live! We are launching with The Kaleidoscope Videos, a series of conversations with experts on sustainability, design,…
Nov 2nd
TED: Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive -... →
A flying car — it’s an iconic image of the future. But after 100 years of flight and automotive engineering, no one has really cracked the problem. Pilot Anna Mracek Dietrich and her team flipped…
Nov 2nd
Artist Profile: Dave Greber →
Dave Greber’s The Fool, The Hierophant, The Devil and the Wheel There’s a rather distinct cadence to the way that people communicate in your pieces with characters often having their…
Nov 2nd
Live Stage: Notes on a New Nature [Brooklyn] →
Notes on a New Nature Curated by Nicholas O’Brien :: November 10-20, 2011 :: Opening: November 10; 7:00 – 10:00 pm :: 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York. For me the Internet has always…
Nov 2nd
LDI 2011 Green Product Award goes to ArcSystems... →
A large crowd of LDI2011 attendees and exhibitors gathered for the annual LDI awards ceremony and cocktail reception, held this year on Saturday, October 29 at 5:15pm in Orlando, FL,…
Nov 2nd
Paz de la Huerta Plays Michele Abeles →
Paz de la Huerta/Michele Abeles David Velasco writes about Michele Abeles in Artforum (via Brian Droitcour.) Starting with an amusing anecdote about a project involving the…
Nov 2nd
TED: Paul Zak: Trust, morality - and oxytocin -... →
Where does morality come from — physically, in the brain? In this talk neuroeconomist Paul Zak shows why he believes oxytocin (he calls it “the moral molecule”) is responsible for trust, empathy,…
Nov 1st
Community Campaign 2012 and The Download →
Today is the start of Rhizome’s Community Campaign, our annual fundraiser that brings in critical operating support to the organization. This year, we are aiming to raise $35,000 by January…
Nov 1st
New Metaphors for Sustainability: A matter of time →
This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Nick Robins’ metaphor suggests a profound shift in our perceptions of time. Nick works in the policy, operational and financial…
Nov 1st
Artist Profile: Aleksandra Domanovic →
19:30 (stacks), 2011 - Aleksandra Domanovic You’ve been blogging for VVORK with Oliver Laric, Christoph Priglinger, and Georg Schnitzer since 2006. How has working with this small…
Nov 1st
October 2011
5 posts
New metaphors for sustainability: the Kelo →
This post comes to you from Ashden Directory We resume our series finding new metaphors for sustainability with the Kelo suggested by artist and researcher Amanda Thomson. For a…
Oct 29th
TED: Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper -... →
With scissors and paper, artist Béatrice Coron creates intricate worlds, cities and countries, heavens and hells. Striding onstage in a glorious cape cut from Tyvek, she describes her creative…
Oct 29th