Watch as multi-award winning German design collective URBANSCREEN transform Sydney Opera House with their reinterpretation of the sails.

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infographics re: covers, color, POC (people of color) representation on YA covers…
fascinating. more than one conclusion might be drawn.
posted 16 May 2012

via: https://twitter.com/Terresa_W/status/205764484369883136

Culver City, California

Jenny Åkerlund
Selenography II (2010-11)
Colored pencil and graphite powder on paper. 21x29,7 cm
Drawn reproductions of photocopies.

Photos of code are a topic of discussion in the current session of Nō Code at UnderAcademy College. The animated nō filter gif above is cycling through a single photo of the little piece of code which originally announced the course.

posted 8 May 2012

posted by the gentle author on 24 May 2012. simple and elaborate both; includes two by William Hogarth

Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education (Review), 20 May 2012
on David Skrbina, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Michigan, compiler of book of Ted Kaczynski's writings called Technological Slavery (2010)

An independent journal of scholarly papers on culture, edited by Kimberlee A. Cloutier-Blazzard and Gordon Arnold

Félicia Atkinson

Shannon Mattern, Design Observer, 22 May 2012

retro

"The Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind was published in 1837 for children at the New England Institute for the Education of the Blind in Boston."

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Andrew Martin and Andew W. Lehren, NY Times, 13 May 2012

relates to the mortgage finance/securities debacle.

average debt per student at graduation

Libby A. Nelson, May 18, 2012

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David B. Smith Gallery. "letter press on wood panel"

Akihito TAKUMA

Richard Cahan, NY Times "Lens: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism," 8 May 2012

Boston, March 6-9, 2013

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire

[Source: "Japanese Posters and Handbills in the 1930s - Communication in Mass Society," published by National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2001]
posted 8 July 2010

"…lives and works in Switzerland. His explorations are oscillating between chaos and emptiness, between the narrative and the abstract. He is using photography, video, sound and painting as medias. "

e.g., Rochester, New York

"To Die No More is an artist's book about the marvelous embroideries of death taken from many sources both known and long forgotten.
170 fragments - from Aries to Wittgenstein - collected and edited by Herbert Pfostl and Kristofor Minta with splinters by Kristofor Minta, ruins, appropriated by James Walsh, and small paintings of shipwrecks, animals, and ashes by Herbert Pfostl.
Made with great care and sober like a good dream.
Dedicated to the deeply dead and the truly living.
2oo pages text - 25 color images"

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GABRIEL DAWE was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. After working as a graphic designer, he moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 following a desire to explore foreign land. In search for creative freedom he started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led him to explore textiles and embroidery—activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico. Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture. By working with thread and textiles, Dawe’s work has evolved into creating large-scale installations with thread, creating environments that deal with notions of social constructions and their relation to evolutionary theory and the self-organizing force of nature.

BBC News, 24 April 2012

Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan author and a past winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, argues that the world has got its image of Africa very badly wrong. :

"Let us imagine that Africa was really like it is shown in the international media. // Africa would be a country. Its largest province would be Somalia. // Bono, Angelina Jolie and Madonna would be joint presidents, appointed by the United Nations. // European aid workers would run the Foreign Affairs Office, gap year students from the UK the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Culture would be run by the makers of the Kony2012 videos. "

National Gallery of Art
March 30–April 29, 2012

courtesy greyherbert

John Latham (1921‑ 2006)
at the Tate

Salon, Scott Timberg, 22 April 2012

"Says Lethem: 'These days everything has to have a clear market value, a proven use for mercantile culture. Well, art doesn’t pass that test very naturally. You can make the art gesture into something the marketplace values. But it’s always distorting and grotesque.'"

long article, need to think it through. I don't buy the special place for art idea.

love these comments:

tedolSalon Core Member
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 10:32 am
Can I just say, as a graphic designer and an artist, let's reserve the term "creatives" for corporate HR people, douchebag art directors and smarmy suits, and just use the term "artist

rorschach
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 11:20 am

It's a sad, shallow, sterile culture that measures the value of art in dollar signs. What nasty Ferengi we've become.

Odin's legacy
Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 11:36 am
19“Here comes the dreamer!” they said. 20“Come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns.

beautiful drawings, photos.
via: http://mondonoir.tumblr.com/post/21408483247/nasreen-mohamedi-untitled-ca-1960s-black-and

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collagistic, lots of writing, parts of writing, juxtapositions.
water based screen printing.
via: http://mondonoir.tumblr.com/post/21308685351/breath-lexicon-woodcut-and-screenprint

"…interview at Spark with Michael Cook, a PhD student at Imperial College in the UK. It concerns the question of 'artificial creativity,' which is basically artifical intelligence (A.I.) moving into the arts."

Adrian Piper, posted 25 March 2012

I like this —

"When I read W.G. Sebald, to take just one example, I am not just enjoying what he has written. I am thinking about what it means for another person to have written this, that someone, both similar and different from me, has been able to think and write in this way. The arts bind us to each other in a very species-specific way."

Greg Downey assignment:
Finding information that's not online. Find an article (research journal article, analytic newspaper article, serious magazine article, or scholarly book chapter) that is on the topic of the Internet or new media, but not available (at least, not to you) on the Internet, and acquire a digital copy of that article. In a one-page, single-spaced write-up, document the steps you took to (a) find the article, (b) ensure that it was not available to you online, and (c) find out how to get it offline, (d) digitize it, (e) use optical character recognition software to make your text searchable, and (f) save the file to MyWebSpace and give your TA permission to view it. Paste the full URL of your file at the end of your write-up.
posted March 21, 2012

The Atlantic, Jun 16 2011
"The teacher of the School of Visual Arts's "No Google!" design class explains the importance of digging up objects—and their stories—by hand"

$1.5M grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will launch CAST.
12 April 2012

São Mamede - Galeria de Arte

Inside Higher Ed (April 3, 2012)
(1) ability to change; (2) belief in the ability of the institution to change; (3) desire to change; (4) desire to appear to change; (5) courage to translate ideas into action.

comments good too, e.g., one on determining which changes are right, and which are not; top down and grassroots up; question of assumption that change is good; wisdom to decide what and how to change; need to "invest in people with expertise to create structure and processes that impel change"; leadership…

posted April 12, 2012
The core challenge — the key question for educators — is this: Is there an acceptable substitute for an interest in learning? Yes, I know that that's not how we usually phrase it: the typical question is, How can we get students interested in learning, or in learning my subject? Most teachers know that if you have a student who is genuinely interested in one subject it's not unusual to get her interested in a different one. But the generalized indifference that people have who don't really want to be in school at all — who are there because their parents want them to be, or because they see school as a ticket to a job — is extremely difficult to overcome. It may be even harder to change the students who are only interested in grades, since they are likely to believe, erroneously, that they're good students, eager for knowledge.

…when we educators turn to technology we're hoping not to <i>generate</i> interest in learning but to <i>substitute</i> for it.

blue match sticks. dots.
"Consumption, 2010
Blue match-sticks (100,000), plasterwall and labour. Three dremel drills with multi-purpose cutting kits, 25 high quality 2.2mm drill bits, masks and eye proctection wear, dimensions variable
Gallery installation: 140 x 1500 cm "

via: http://notquitelocal.tumblr.com/post/20896300853/alecshao-claire-fontaine-consumption-2010

whiteness

"lettering in the urban environment"

Huma Kabakcı Koleksiyonu

PBS NewsHour
18th Century Japanese Scrolls Make Rare U.S. Appearance

In a rare U.S. visit, a collection of 30 Japanese bird-and-flower silk scroll paintings by Ito Jakuchu are on display at the National Gallery of Art… Judy Woodruff reports on the display of the 18th century Japanese national treasures.
through April 29.

Benoit Paillé

Penélope
01.03.2012 · Kunst
Die Installation der Künstlerin Tatiana Blass beschäftigt sich mit dem Mythos um Homer’s Odyssee. Penélope war die Frau von Odysseus und wartete zwanzig Jahre am Strand auf ihren Gatten, während er seine Abenteuer erlebte.
via: http://hypocrite-lecteur.tumblr.com/

"I challenge you to find a more kickass banknote than the Cook Islands $10." via @sciencepunk via @edyong209
of course, the euro spelled the end of much of this, for most of Europe.

Lecture 1
Drawing Lesson One
IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS
Tuesday, March 20

Lecture 2
Drawing Lesson Two
A BRIEF HISTORY OF COLONIAL REVOLTS
Tuesday, March 27

Lecture 3
Drawing Lesson Three
VERTICAL THINKING: A JOHANNESBURG BIOGRAPHY
Tuesday, April 3

Lecture 4
Drawing Lesson Four
PRACTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY: LIFE IN THE STUDIO
Tuesday, April 10

Lecture 5
Drawing Lesson Five
IN PRAISE OF MISTRANSLATION
Monday, April 16

Lecture 6
Drawing Lesson Six
ANTI-ENTROPY
Tuesday, April 24

by Kitty Burns Florey, author of Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Curious History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences.
NY Times, 26 March 2012

It is absurd and insulting to assume artists are assisted by despair or hunger in a way that, say, plumbers are not.
Guardian, 2 April 2012

Anne Carson's Antigonick

initial meeting last year (27 June 2011).

via: not quite local: Hong Kong + Beijing, posted 2 April 2012
says ringtales: "…the sooner you give the people in your life your clear vision for your life the sooner they can decide to accept you (even if grudgingly) or move on. If you start now living an uncompromised life you are more likely to find someone willing to live that life with you rather than trying to change midstream."

Trev Broughton, TLS, 28 March 2012
review of Talia Schaffer, her Novel Craft : Victorian domestic handicraft and nineteenth-century fiction (OUP), together with Mrs Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and Kucich and Taylor, eds., The Oxford History of the Novel in English, vol 3 (19th century)

"Schaffer suggests that, rather than filling a taste vacuum left by early Victorian consumerism, design reform may have been in part a defensive response to handicraft’s own aesthetic and appeal."

fashion

Corner Office | Charlotte Beers
interviewed by Adam Bryant, NY Times, 1 April 2012
The Best Scorecard Is the One You Keep for Yourself
“Don’t let others tell you who you are,” says Charlotte Beers, former chairwoman and C.E.O. of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. Self-assessments, she says, are vital.

"These three brief videos feature Boston’s Harcourt Bindery master
bookbinder Sam Ellenport on how he chose his career, running a business, and the how the current information revolution echoes that which followed the invention of the printing press."

Digital Domain / Computer Science for the Rest of Us
Randall Stross, NY Times, 1 April 2012

"Many computer science professors said they think all college students should learn “computational thinking,” but they disagree on its core components."

range of approaches, exemplified by these two photo captions:

Colleges are taking widely different paths to teaching general concepts underlying computer programming language. Tom Cortina offers a course in “Principles of Computation” at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.
and
Mark LeBlanc teaches “Computing for Poets” in conjunction with English courses at Wheaton College in Norton, Mass.

Tom Cox, Guardian, 30 March 2012

Tom Cox's bookshelves were less about him than about a stranger he subconsciously imagined would one day visit his house – and so began the great sort

Michael Powell, NY Times, 26 March 2012

"Bushwick Community is run, in part, by its faculty members, who offer the usual collection of the smart, the eccentric and the deeply committed found in most schools that work."

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"Thoughts Toward a Symposium (May 3-4, 2012)"

This symposium explores the future potential of the book by engaging practitioners and performers of this versatile technology to ask some key questions: is the book an artifact on its deathbed or a mutable medium transitioning into future forms? What shape will books of the future take? Grounded in this technology’s history, we will reflect critically on possible futures, promises, and challenges of the book, showcasing practices by writers and artists, putting them in conversation with scholars and thinkers from across the disciplines who are framing discourse and questions about book-related technotexts.

MMA

UFC (ultimate fighter championship) / MMA (mixed martial arts)

wang zhi hong, born in 1975 in taipei.

Yayoi Kusama | 草間彌生 (b.1929, Japan) - Accumulation of Nets. Preuve gélatino-argentique, encore, collage sur carton, 62,2x73,7cm (1961)

Scan from Centre Pompidou exhibition catalogue

ARTchipel, posted 30 October 2011

13 March 2012

Guardian/Observer 18 March 2012

For a groundbreaking book, 120 of Britain's most celebrated and emerging talents have granted rare access to their work spaces, offering a compelling behind-the-scenes glimpse into their artistic processes, capturing them at their most creative, experimental and sometimes chaotic

Sanctuary: Britain's Artists and their Studios, edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi, with essays by Iwona Blazwick, Richard Cork, Tom Morton, photography by Robin Friend, is published by Thames & Hudson at £48 hardback.
thamesandhudson.com

google street views.
via: http://jonrafman.com/
via: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/feb/20/google-street-view-nine-eyes-in-pictures#/?picture=386213498&index;=0

Alex Tabarrok, Chronicle of Higher Ed, March 4, 2012 ¶ college and high school dropout rates say that both aren't for everyone. wants to see Eurostyle vocational and apprenticeship programs. thinks that subsidies overemphasize liberal arts and humanities, scanting STEM whose graduates contribute more the society as a whole. lots of comments.

"I'm making, um, it's kind of hard to explain," Dominik said. "It's kind of like a guitar."

Jill Tucker, "Music makers: Berkeley students build instruments,"SFGate, 8 March 2012

odd things. great.

via: prbtsn

Carole Cadwalladr, Guardian/Observer, 3 March 2012
tiresome snarky comments, and a well-placed rant rejoinder at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/mar/04/learn-programming-software-app-java?commentpage=1#comment-14976750