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8-Ball (Eyeo Edition): Kim Rees
Media Lab
Jun 18
During the June 3–5 Eyeo Festival, we opened up the Media Lab blog to the many coders, artists, and web developers speaking at the conference, which took place at the Walker. To give presenters a chance to introduce themselves, we sent out our 8-Ball artist questionnaire, in which we pose some of life’s most–and possibly […]
During the June 3–5 Eyeo Festival, we opened up the Media Lab blog to the many…
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Low: Rock the Garden’s Own Rite of Spring?
The Green Room
Jun 18
Low’s Rock the Garden set—a droning, 27-minute version of “Do You Know How to Waltz?”—angered some audience members, who tweeted and blogged their ire. Curator Philip Bither, however, was awed by the set, likening it to music by Hendricks, Sunn O)))), and Cage. “I guess the kind of riots that erupted in Paris after Stravinsky’s premiere of The Rite of Spring in 1913 now happen online,” he writes.
VA
Art News from Elsewhere
Public Art Boom
Via forecastpublicart.org
Jun 18
A public art revolution is brewing in St. Paul, where the city has brought in privately funded “city artists” to work alongside public servants. Public Art Review chronicles how these artists explore creative forms of “placemaking” and civic engagement.
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Experience Rock the Garden 2013 in 300 Seconds
Jun 18
From the deluge of rain that sparked a parking-ramp dance party with Dan Deacon to Low’s 27-minute, one-song set, Bob Mould’s tour through his career with Hüsker Dü and beyond to showstoppers by Silversun Pickups and headliner Metric, the Walker videography crew captures all of Rock the Garden in five minutes—all set to Metric’s “Gold Gun Girls.”
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Be Nice, MIMMI is Listening!
Media Lab
Jun 18
The nature of Twitter is ephemeral: a shout into the digital void that quickly fades away. This summer in Minneapolis, however, your tweets may have physical impact on the environment — or, a very small microclimate, at least. Meet MIMMI: MIMMI is a large, air-pressurized sculpture suspended from a slender structure located at the Minneapolis Convention […]
The nature of Twitter is ephemeral: a shout into the…
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How Dan Deacon Decided to Go Underground
The Green Room
Jun 17
With rain and lightning threatening to kill his opening act at Rock the Garden 2013, electronic composer Dan Deacon approached Walker staff with an idea: “I can play in the garage.” Rock the Garden programmer Doug Benidt tells how the decision was made to turn the parking ramp into a 2,000-person dance party dubbed “Rock the Underground.”
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Art News from Elsewhere
Art Fair “Slum”
Via artinfo.com
Jun 17
Armored police forcibly evicted protesters occupying Tadashi Kawamata and Christophe Scheidegger’s Art Favela at Art Basel Friday. About 100 people were protesting the “decadence of including a slum setting as part of one the world’s biggest art fairs.”
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Punk Rock the Garden
Via startribune.com
Jun 17
Rock the Garden 2013 included “the two most punk-rock moments” in RTG history, plus three other performances that “full-on, gimme-earplugs, don’t-forget-the-smoke-machine rocked,” writes Chris Riemenschneider. Look for our reports on the festival soon.
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Surveillance on Film
Via vulture.com
Jun 17
With spying in the news in a big way, Vulture looks at current events through the prism (if you will) of film history. It tracks depictions of snitching, stalking, and high-tech surveillance from Metropolis (1927) to The Dark Knight (2008).