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8-Ball (Eyeo Edition): Giorgia Lupi
Media Lab
Jun 12
During last week’s 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 least–pressing […]
During last week’s Eyeo Festival, we opened up the Media Lab blog…
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Meet the Fritz Haeg Residency Interns
Field Guide
Jun 12
It takes a village, or in this case, a team of 5 talented and enthusiastic interns to help make a large-scale residency project like Fritz Haeg: At Home in the City work. Over the next few months Bridget Mendel, Will Gobeli, Katherine Lee, Brett Baldauf, and Björn Sparrman will bring their passions and knowledge for things […]
It takes a village, or in this case, a team of 5 talented and enthusiastic…
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Multitouch Kiosks Highlight Collection
Media Lab
Jun 11
It’s difficult to blog about a collections-focused touch screen in a museum without drawing comparisons to the amazing Collections Wall at the Cleveland Museum of Art — and feeling entirely inadequate. We’re not (yet!) anywhere near that scale, but luckily for our egos we weren’t aiming there with this project. We wanted a simple, intuitive interface and […]
It’s difficult to blog about a…
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Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced
The Green Room
Jun 10
When I asked a room filled with my peers to imagine an ideal future for presenting contemporary dance performances, they agreed on a set of qualities: a flexible space, a blurring of art and life, a place of abundance, a performance of life, a ridding of greed, intolerance and self doubt. Here, everyone finds time […]
When I asked a room filled with my peers to imagine an ideal future for presenting…
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From Lawn to Garden: Edible Estate #15
Field Guide
Jun 10
In a weekend that involved a sod cutter, 17 bags of leaf litter mulch, 30 yards of compost, 40 shovels, a wood chipper, thousands of plants, and an army of volunteers, a suburban front yard in Woodbury, Minn., was transformed into Edible Estate #15, the last garden in artist Fritz Haeg’s global series. Here’s a photo essay documenting the evolution of the Schoenherr family’s front lawn.