Exhibit of the week: The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now – THE WEEK My review of the exhibition at SFMOMA, in which appears a work my lab created with artist Lynn Hershman, is here – [Link]
Author: Michael Shanks
Mobile media 2015 – thinking design through archaeology
When the graves of ancient Macedonians crossed with the Dodge Charger … Back in 2005 my lab ran a collaborative project of research and consultation with RTNA (Research and Technology North America) – the research division of DaimlerChrysler. What will be the media experiences of the car of 2015? How can we assess what people…
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Daguerreotype c 1850. Oblique view. See the project Ghosts in the machine.
SFMOMA – The Art of Participation 1950 – Now
Life Squared [link], our installation in the online world Second Life, is currently part of the exhibition The Art of Participation 1950 – Now at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Life Squared – web link and gallery link. More links – Linden Lab/Second Life and Wired magazine The exhibition, curated by Rudolf Frieling, is…
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Spent a family Thanksgiving up in Boonville, Anderson Valley with Sam and Angela Schillace. As ever, the locality is, for me, one of few fragile traces of somewhat indeterminate and agricultural pasts, juxtaposed with major investment in business futures. An old (cultivated) apple tree in the nearby field, railway carriages in the town converted to…
Anderson Valley
Up from Boonville. An old apple tree. Few are now left. The valley is turning from fruit trees and sheep farming to Pinot Noir. We heard that our friends at Lazy Creek Vineyards, an idyllic spot near Philo, have just been bought by a large Nevada-based corporation. See also a gallery of images at –…
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