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]
archaeology
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…
Metamedia at Stanford
Reception yesterday in our lab at Stanford. Metamedia – because there can be no archaeology without media(tion) – the past is turned into something else – that we may attempt understanding. As archaeologists we displace the remains of the past, translate, write, draw, photograph … A lab – devoted to collaborative experiment. [Link]
potsherd
Potsherd found in the ruins of the Stanford family mansion destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.
Charles Redman on environmental politics
It has taken me too long to get round to reading Charles Redman’s great book Human Impact on Ancient Environments – Arizona, 1999. I came to the book because of the upcoming exhibition at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, of the photographs of Edward Burtynsky – they foreground massive environmental impacts. [Link] We need a…
collecting culture and intellectual property
Had lunch with Ralph Maurer today. He researches organizational behavior and is interested in how people get attached to what they make, the ideas they have and such, and how this attachment may lead them to manage work and intellectual property without reference to economic gain. Economic relationships are embedded in all sorts of cultural…
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