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Codifying Chaos
Via youtube.com
Jun 11
Henry Rollins knew about Raymond Pettibon’s logo for Black Flag before he heard the band play (he later became frontman). The “impactful” logo, he tells MOCA TV, “became synonymous with unrest, chaos, rebellion, and those pushing against anything you got.”
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Like Catnip
Via hyperallergic.com
Jun 11
“Is the art world becoming more and more like the internet—or is it just desperate for wider attention?” Citing cat-themed events from Flux Factory’s Kitty City to #catvidfest, Jillian Steinhauer examines the art world’s love of felines.
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Designing Prism
Via gawker.com
Jun 11
“NSA doesn’t have much in the way of design sense,” writes Max Read of the spy agency’s Prism logo. Turns out the mark’s featured photo was taken by British TV presenter Adam Hart-Davis, who offered a free, lo-res version of it at his website.
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Blogs
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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Art Burn
Via phaidon.com
Jun 10
A new video reportedly shows Richard Prince burning one of the “Canal Zone” paintings at the center of a (largely unsuccessful) copyright infringement suit against him by photographer Patrick Cariou. “To them it represents money,” he said before torching the work.
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0s, 1s, and 404s
Via nytimes.com
Jun 10
As we know from our Gallery 9 collection, conserving net-art can be tricky. It’s an issue museums like the Whitney face in considering how to present works like Douglas Davis’ 1995 piece The World’s First Collaborative Sentence, made with now-obsolete technology.
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On Whistleblowing
Via schneier.com
Jun 10
“[W]histle-blowing is vital, even more broadly than in government spying,” writes Twin Cities–based security technologist Bruce Schneier of leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. “It’s necessary for good government, and to protect us from abuse of power.”
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Blogs
On Nonparticipation: Fatos Ustek, Rachel Anderson, Jeanne Dorado
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Jun 10
In conjunction with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler‘s exhibition The Museum of Non Participation: The New Deal, we’ve invited a range of voices to address “non participation”—within the context of personal and professional lives or thinking on the convergences of art and political praxis—with the aim of bringing the expansive spirit of Mirza and Butler’s […]
In conjunction with Karen Mirza and Brad Butler…