A speculative audiocassette: an archaeological artifact of the present. Not available through subscription or purchase, for educational use only. … More Imagining Tellus # 28: Heard in LA
Jacob Goldman
Participants were asked to try to describe the sound of their own voices as they speak, so that what’s describing is what’s being described and vice versa. … More it’s more how I expected it to be than I expected that it would be.
Dan Bustillo
The following is an interview by Dan Bustillo with Abigail Glaum-Lathbury and Maura Brewer, who founded the Rational Dress Society. Together, they developed JUMPSUIT, which is an ungendered monogarment, available pre-made or as an open-source pattern, with a sizing system that accommodates up to 200 body types. … More Interview with The Rational Dress Society
“An artist’s studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”
—Leonardo da Vinci … More Networked Studio Project
Mary Mattingly and Mark Shepard
Mary Mattingly engaged Mark Shepard in a conversation over Skype about their works in progress on January 16, 2015. On that date, Mattingly was based in Miami and Shepard was in Germany. They talk about Shepard’s “False Positive”, “Sentient City”, and Mattingly’s “Swale”. … More Interview with Mary Mattingly and Mark Shepard
Tyler Calkin and Chris Bassett
This project actually started as a bicycle ride connecting several of the sites along Santa Clara Divide Road (3N17). It worked out to 120+ miles if I recall correctly. After trying it out, I decided that it would make for a better photo series than a set of directions. The ride/hike was just too long and difficult for more than a few people to get the experience. … More An Interview with Chris Bassett on NIKE: Los Angeles Defense Area
Isabel De Sena Cortabitarte
In this paper I assert that in bio-art, the use of humour as a rhetorical tool holds the potential to bring ambiguous, non-normative perspectives into ethical questions that arise from developments in the life sciences (that field concerned with the study of living organisms and the advancement of life-altering interventions, such as bioengineering and genetic manipulation). … More “It’s not a joke!” Bio-art and the aesthetics of humour
Tyler Calkin
Toys are for everyone, not just the young: models, miniatures and replicas are as much for adults as they are for children. And the function of a toy extends beyond a moment’s amusement. Throughout history and across cultures, toys have been created to serve as tools for teaching. Indeed, they are almost always instructive in some capacity, eve if they have not been built with a primarily pedagogical intent. Toys are reflectors and propagators of a culture’s ideology, and variably serve as teachers of moral lessons, mathematics, imperialist narratives, class distinctions, and spirituality. … More Whimmydiddles, Whirligigs, and Capital Punishment: A History of Toys and Games, Being A Partial and Idiosyncratic Exploration of Several Centuries of Developments, Focusing Largely on Europe and North America.
K. Bradford
I stood in a temple of toilets. It was open-air, roofless. Everything pointed skyward. I sat on a toilet and looked up as dusk fell. … More The Re-tech of Noah Purifoy: an overture in detritus
The Networked Library Project looks at the artist’s library as a creative research space, a source for collection, identity and practice. It embraces the natural impulse towards curiosity, activism, exchange and occasional eccentricity. … More Networked Library Project
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