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Back to the Water
Via guardian.co.uk
May 2012
Falling in a lake at age 6 was a seminal experience for Bill Viola. “I saw the most beautiful world I’d ever seen: fish, shafts of light, plants waving in the breeze. That’s why my art has so much to do with water—because I dream about going back to that place.”
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Browser-Based Art
Via thecreatorsproject.com
May 2012
Work from net.art’s heyday can be a letdown when experienced through modern web browsers, writes Ben Fino-Radin. It’s like music: “Having the score or source code is not sufficient if it is not performed with the proper instrumentation.”
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“No Text Means No Context”
Via wordlessweb.com
May 2012
Ji Lee, whose World Trade Center Preservation Project is part of our Graphic Design: Now in Production show (opening at Cooper-Hewitt May 26), is back with Wordless Web, a browser bookmarklet that strips text from favorite websites.
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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.