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Counter-Surveillance Couture
Via guardian.co.uk
Apr 2
Adam Harvey’s show of “counter-surveillance fashions,” now on view in London, includes an anti-drone hoodie, a half-sweatshirt “made of silver, which is reflective to heat and makes the wearer invisible to thermal imaging.”
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Critical Miss
Via jsonline.com
Apr 2
Mary Louise Schumacher has a beef with a report by Columbia U’s Tow Center on the state of journalism: “There is no real consideration of cultural dialogue and criticism, perhaps the fastest shrinking segment of mainstream media today.”
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Cemetery of Kings
Via hollywoodreporter.com
Mar 29
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is prepping his first feature film since winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2010 for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recount His Past Lives. Set in northern Thailand, Cemetery of Kings tells a tale of soldiers struck by a strange sleeping sickness.
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Marriage Meme
Via hyperallergic.com
Mar 29
With SCOTUS considering the constitutionality of DOMA, Facebook users are showing solidarity for marriage equality through profile pics that riff on the iconic equals sign—with everything from a Rothko painting to a pair of cans of Bud making appearances.
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Rock Doc
Via thecurrent.org
Mar 28
In concert (ahem) with the March 31 broadcast of MN Original’s mini-documentary on Rock the Garden 2012, The Current shares a few web-only extras—footage of Doomtree, Trampled by Turtles, and Howler (covering Hüsker Dü’s “Don’t Wanna Know if You Are Lonely”).
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“Analog Nostalgia”
Via rhizome.org
Mar 28
The next time Hito Steyerl sees a 16mm projector in a gallery she vows to “take the poor thing to a pensioners home.” “It made sense to use Bolexes in 1968 […] but today people use cellphones, Kinnect sensors and After Effects to deal with the present and shape it.”
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Basquiat’s Ex
Via artinfo.com
Mar 27
By the time Jean-Michel Basquiat and Alexis Adler broke up in 1980, the then-budding artist had used the walls of Adler’s East Village home as a canvas. Now Adler is revealing these works, along with photos and ephemera, for the first time.
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Please Draw Freely
Via guggenheim.org
Mar 26
In conjunction with its current exhibition, Gutai: Splendid Playground, the Guggenheim has developed a participatory website, Please Draw Freely, which invites users to create drawings in collaboration with living Gutai artists.
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Curatorial Criminology
Via artforum.com
Mar 26
“The Curator’s Office, with its cigarette butts and coffee stains, is like a crime scene, motivating the viewer to uncover the identity left behind by this illusive figure,” says Mark Dion of his installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s More Real show.