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Iraq Hackerspace
Via wamda.com
Sep 2012
“A thousand years ago, Baghdad was a hub of science, technology, art and philosophy and it can be that again,” says Bilal Ghalib. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, he’s returning to Iraq to start a hackerspace to connect these disciplines.
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Pulverizingly Effective
Via artforum.com
Sep 2012
Petra Cortright makes “pulverizingly effective” art, writes Bruce Sterling. “Her material is scraped from the abyss of Internet pop culture: 8-bit clip art, animated GIF files, free screen savers. Polka dots, dinosaurs, sparkles, fake flames.”
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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.”
