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JUST ADDED: BORIS
The Green Room
Feb 2006
Japan’s legendary Boriswill join SUNN O))) as the opener on May 25!One night of perceived punishment will lead to a lifetime of pleasurable memories…
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a wish granted
The Green Room
Feb 2006
Start your Memorial Weekend off right by coming to the McGuire on May 25. We’ve confirmed SUNNO))), plus some special gueststo be announced very soon.
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Disasters on the brain.
Field Guide
Feb 2006
I dropped in Sunday on the Walker’s recent civic engagement forum: The Spectacle of Death:The Role of Disaster and Tragedy in Shaping Community. Using the images in the current exhibition, Andy Warhol/SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths, and Disaster, 1962-1964 as a jumping off point, the forum set out to explore ways that man-made and natural disasters shape culture. Panelists included Timothy Mennel (managing…
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Like father, like daughter
The Green Room
Feb 2006
I asked someone “Could you send my letter away?” “You are too young to put all of your hopes in just one envelope” I said goodbye to someone that I love It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us And it was hard Like coming off the pill that you take to stay happy Someone above has seen me do alright Someone above is looking with a tender eyeThey’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered…
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I’m addicted to film and multimedia arts. And it’s TOTALLY Nam June Paik’s fault.
Field Guide
Feb 2006
Coming to the end of my undergraduate college career, I was finishing a B.A. in computer science, and I was hating it. Hating the “Boys Only” locker room atmosphere in the department, hating the prospect of spending 50% of my career justifying my presence to my peers, and hating the fact that Abby – best friend extraordinaire and only other female student in the department – and I were constantly on the…
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Dialog Documentation Site
Media Lab
Jan 2006
We now have a central site to document our installation of Dialog. There are photos, videos and descriptions of the table and it’s interface at newmedia.walkerart.org/dialog. I put the site together using the design and XSL that Brent made for the Art on Call site, I just changed the graphics and colors.
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Dialog Documentation
Media Lab
Jan 2006
We shot a short video of two people using Dialog which I think effectively demonstrates the interface in action. The video is for a lecture Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Design Director, will give in Ann Arbor this week. It will also show up on our official documentation page which will launch this week as well.
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The state of museum blogs (Part II).
Media Lab
Jan 2006
For the second installment of this series I found two science museum blogs, one general museum resource and a podcast.
This blog addresses current science related topics with medium length writing (a few paragraphs) which shares some online resources and invites dialog. The goal of Science Buzz from their about page:
The science museum also has a atalhöyk Excavation Blog for their Mysteries of…