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!
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…
Ben Fino-Radin Rhizome's Digital Conservator on... →
Technology is Not Enough: The Story of NYU’s... →
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…
Artist Profile: Ofri Cnaani →
Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall →
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.
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YouTube Censors Petra Cortright, But 'VVEBCAM'... →
PRISMA 1666 - Wonwei and Super Nature Design... →
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…
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…
If Facebook, Google Plus, and YouTube Were Built... →
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…
Rhizome Community Campaign: Brody Condon →
Making Sense of Senseless Violence: An Interview... →
The Kill Screen Dialogues at the New Museum Dec... →
Artist Profile: Anna Lundh →
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…
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…
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…
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…
City of Pieces – an urban festival of creative... →
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Bangalore
22nd to 30th of October
Maraa, a media and arts collective, invites to City of Pieces, an urban festival of creative practices: …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Public Art – Green, Functional and Beautiful →
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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…
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:…
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…
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…
Dark Skies Biosphere Residency →
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Background
The Dark Skies/ Biosphere Project aims to explore the role of artists practice in a meaningful promotion of this beautiful area of…
Art and Sustainability: Breaking Through the Walls... →
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Green Public Art Consultancy will participate in a panel discussion, with Los Angeles aerosol artist ManOne and Justin Yoffe, Executive Director of…
Co-Producing PAR+RS →
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Creative Scotland has just formally announced that I have, along with Trigger (Suzy Glass and Angie Bual www.triggerstuff.co.uk) been…
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.
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…
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…
Transition Design →
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The creative futures (cf.) research centre at the University of the West of Scotland presents an evening lecture by Gideon Kossoff titled:…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
New Metaphors for Sustainability: A matter of time →
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Nick Robins’ metaphor suggests a profound shift in our perceptions of time. Nick works in the policy, operational and financial…
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…
October 2011
5 posts
New metaphors for sustainability: the Kelo →
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We resume our series finding new metaphors for sustainability with the Kelo suggested by artist and researcher Amanda Thomson.
For a…
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…