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Tweaking Techno-Utopianism
Via good.is
May 21
Kickstriker, a satirical crowdfunding platform for military missions, critiques both KONY12-style activism and techno-utopianism—"the belief that every problem can be solved through the creative application of technology.”
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G8 Street Tweets
Via designboom.com
May 18
Thanks to a tweet-fed mobile street-painting robot, citizens kept out of this weekend’s G8 summit at Camp David can have a say: 40-character tweets about global poverty and hunger will be stenciled using water-soluble paint on nearby streets.
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Top Museums Online
Via artinfo.com
May 18
From the International Center of Photography’s “dramatic” site to the Hirsshorn’s “of-the-moment” page to walkerart.org (“a dynamic blog and news resource rather than a stale well of information about ongoing exhibits”), Kyle Chayka picks his top 10 museum websites.
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Back to the Water
Via guardian.co.uk
May 16
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 15
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 9
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 3
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 2
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.
