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Street Hacking
Via nytimes.com
May 2012
National Design Award winner Evan Roth, whose EyeWriter gave paralyzed graf artist Tempt1 a way to draw with his eyes, says, “When I look at graffiti artists, I see hackers — a community of people who are making their own tools and subverting systems to tell stories.”
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Catalogue.com
Via futurebook.mit.edu
May 2012
In advance of this week’s MIT conference “Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book,” the Walker’s Brooke Kellaway ponders the future of permanent collections catalogues and discusses the relaunch later this year of collections.walkerart.org.
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2012 Muse Awards
Via mediaandtechnology.org
Apr 2012
At the 2012 American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting, going on in Minneapolis through May 2, the new Walker website was awarded a Gold Muse for Online Presence. Congratulations to all Muse winners!
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Descriptive Camera
Via mattrichardson.com
Apr 2012
Digital cameras capture “gobs of parsable metadata about photos”— where they’re taken and when, say — but nothing about what’s in the shot, writes Matt Richardson. His new invention changes that: “The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.”
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Techno Overload
Via artinfo.com
Apr 2012
“When even the technologists start thinking that technology might be a little too overbearing, something may be up,” writes Ben Davis of a theme that he noticed emerging at Rhizome’s recent “Seven on Seven” conference on art and technology.
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Walker Wins
Via museumsandtheweb.com
Apr 2012
The Walker took home two prizes at the 2012 Museums & the Web conference, held in San Diego over the weekend, including Most Innovative and Best Overall. Congratulations to the Walker web and design teams, and to all 2012 winners!
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Internet FTW
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 2012
“The [Chinese] government computer has one button: delete,” writes Ai Weiwei in a rare western op-ed. But, “the internet is uncontrollable. And if the internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.”
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Art Provocateurs
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 2012
For their first solo show in London, Eva and Franco Mattes—aka 0100101110101101.org—present a show with a title that changes daily and offers a display of works the duo claims includes fragments stolen from masterworks by Duchamp, Warhol, and others.
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Walker Webby
Via webbyawards.com
Apr 2012
The nominees list for the 2012 Webby People’s Voice Awards—honoring the best of the web—has just been released, and the Walker Art Center’s new website makes the cut, in the category of best art site. Voting is open to the public through April 26.