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Inflatable Technoviking
Via we-make-money-not-art.com
Sep 2012
Wafaa Bilal has breathed new life into Technoviking, a web meme circa 2007, for a digital arts festival in the UK. A commentary on social media, the replica head of the dancing YouTube star only stays inflated if enough people tweet about it.
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Smithsonian Shake-Up
Via adweek.com
Aug 2012
Smithsonian magazine is undergoing a big redesign—complete with celebrity writers and sleek graphics. At the hands of new editor-in-chief Michael Caruso, the magazine hopes to transform its content while still reaching their “thought-leader audience.”
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Frankbook
Via bloomberg.com
Aug 2012
Frank Gehry has been tapped to create Facebook West in San Francisco. The large, collaborative space will have 26-ft. ceilings and skylights to achieve Gehry’s goal of “ephemeral connectivity” and satisfy Zuckerberg’s desire to share space with his engineers.
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Art of Play
Via ft.com
Aug 2012
Dwarfing the movie business, the video game industry earned some $74 billion last year. But unlike cinema, no longer seen as an inferior sibling to theater, gaming seems to be making little headway in getting respect as an artform.
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Art on Instagram
Via hyperallergic.com
Aug 2012
From MCA Chicago and Ai Weiwei to the Walker, Printed Matter, and Brazilian street-art duo Os Gemeos, here’s a list of artists, critics, and museums using Instagram and, writes Hrag Vartanian, using it well.
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Sanction Violation
Via slate.com
Aug 2012
Online art destination Art.sy may be in violation of US sanctions on Syria with its .sy URL: “I think if you work in the technology sector or work in the internet you should know that buying a domain name is doing business with that country.”
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Cunningham App
Via nytimes.com
Aug 2012
On Friday the Aperture Foundation launches the iPad app “Merce Cunningham: 65 Years.” Expanding on David Vaughan’s 50-year Cunningham book of ‘97, its creators see it as a model for how performing artists can use technology.
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BAM Bucks
Via galleristny.com
Aug 2012
The Brooklyn Academy of Music has received a $1 million grant from the Leon Levy Foundation to create a digital archive—which will house “everything from Civil War memorabilia to footage from the early performances of Merce Cunningham and Robert Wilson.”
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New Online New
Via newmuseum.org
Jul 2012
Launched Friday, the New Museum’s redesigned website includes the “First Look” program, a series of digital art projects that launches with a work by Taryn Simon and Aaron Swartz; a global directory of independent art spaces; access to its archives; and more.