Play: Active – A curatorial project in the form of a workshop

January 4, 2017

Tom Leeser

The political theorist, Hannah Arendt stated that we “define labor as the opposite of play.” However the predominant value of labor has evolved from physical activities embedded in a manufacturing economy to a form of indexical finance that is decoupled from the production and exchange of things. This digitally based “fiat” economy has fractured the definitions of labor and play that was articulated by Arendt. … More Play: Active – A curatorial project in the form of a workshop

24 Fragments of Purifoy

January 2, 2017

Tom Leeser

Noah Purifoy exhumed and transformed technology’s phantom through a creative process of direct activity and making. He built a network of “power-objects” in his remote desert compound in Joshua Tree, California, far outside the urban boundaries of industrial Los Angeles and long before the Internet. … More 24 Fragments of Purifoy

Culture in Miniature: Toy Dogs and Object Life

January 2, 2017

Chi-ming Yang

In April 2007, National Human Genome Research Institute scientists published their discovery of a single gene responsible for the smallness of small dogs. The research showed that minute genetic mutations can determine the vast difference between a chihuahua and a Great Dane, two creatures that are poles apart but nonetheless share the elastic designation “dog.” … More Culture in Miniature: Toy Dogs and Object Life

To Be Announced

January 1, 2017

Courtney Malick

As we venture into the second decade of the 21st century, it is at times difficult to reconcile the tensions between what remains standard from the past with the complex nuances in thought and technology that complicate contemporary life. … More To Be Announced