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Furtherfield & HTTP Gallery
Media Lab
Nov 2005
Mute has an article about Furtherfield.org’s expansion from totally digital presentations to also include gallery space.
HTTP is London’s first dedicated gallery for networked and new media art. Working with artists from around the world HTTP provides a public venue for experimental approaches to exhibiting artworks simultaneously in physical and virtual space, and for online projects that…
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Barbie’s got nothing on Mabou Mines.
Field Guide
Nov 2005
I scored a ticket to see Mabou Mines’ DollHouse on Saturday, November 12. What a totally consuming and fascinating take on Ibsen’s proto-feminist classic.
I read Ibsen’s play in high school, but I find it much more striking now after having had the opportunity to study feminist art in college. It’s clearer to me now why Victorian Era audiences got their knickers in such a knot over the portrayal of…
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Esther Kaplan: Forget the Facts?
Field Guide
Nov 2005
The following event is being hosted by Education & Community Programs – in cooperation with Minnesota AIDS Project – as part of the Walker’s civic engagement initiative to encourage dialogue on topics of importance to the Twin Cities community. You are all invited to attend.
Gay men and drug users account for 20,000-30,000 new HIV infections each year in the U.S., so why are researchers being pressured…
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Interactive Map for House of Oracles
Media Lab
Nov 2005
We launched the interactive map feature for the exhibition site accompanying the House of Oracles exhibition the other day. The map on the top allows you to see connections between work and influences in the exhibition.
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Interview with Theo Jansen
Media Lab
Oct 2005
Posted at artificial.dk, this interview with Theo Jansen discusses, among other things, his wind powered animals or beach animals which he has been actively working on for the last 15 years.
After so many years, are you in control of the beach animals or are they really controlling you?
They have always controlled me. I obeyed their laws. Only recently they do what I want.
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Podcasting on mnartists.org
Media Lab
Oct 2005
There was an expansion of the podcasting offerings on mnartists.org recently. For an example, go look at the Radio mnartists page. The podcast is the same link as the RSS (the graphic on the right of the header, near the center of the page). Copy the link off that page, or just use the direct link below, and subscribe to the feed in your favorite podcast player.
Copy the direct link. Open up iTunes. Pull…
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Bandwidth Throttling & Debugging on Mac, Windows and Linux
Media Lab
Oct 2005
If you want to slow your downloads and your on a Mac I don’t think there are to many options but Charles, a small shareware app just got an upgrade and now works very well with almost no setup. At $50 per individual license it’s a bit expensive by shareware standards but it delivers reasonably on expectations, Charles slowed our blazing fast internal network down to the crawl of a 56k modem with…
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Breaking the Game
Media Lab
Oct 2005
I just found out about this workshop taking place in Ghent, Belgium this October and November and online in February. I don’t think any Walker new media folks will be making it to Belgium next month but the online symposium sounds interesting.
WORKSPACE UNLIMITED, in collaboration with New York curator Wayne Ashley, are currently organizing Breaking the Game, a series of interdisciplinary workshops…
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Podcasts and Catching up.
Media Lab
Oct 2005
The blogs been quiet lately and a lot of exciting things happened while I was on vacation.
First our podcast of Art on Call material is up in the iTunes store for you. Because of the way iTunes currently plays podcasts (it stops between segments) listening is easier if you move this into your iTunes library or onto your iPod before listening. All the material from the podcast is also now available…