We know you all can't take your eyeballs off of the computer screen; that your addiction to Visine is worsening by the hour; and that your Matt Drudge pin-up calendar is cracking from age. But here's another blog (this one by Josh Levy) to add to your media repertoire:
Is Jean Baudrillard a prophetic cultural theorist of contemporary politica= l significance? Or is he a myopic intellectual impostor, a twenty-first century writer of cultural and political ...
In 1980s Japan, the expression otaku came to describe a subculture of manga and anime-obsessed misfits. Despite its negative connotation in Japan, in the West, otaku is often positively associated with Japan's cutting-edge coolness, including the latest in gadget technologies and ...
Tad Hirsch is a researcher and PhD candidate at MIT's Media Lab, where his work focuses on the intersections between art, activism, and technology. He has previously worked with Motorola's ...
I had been toying with the idea of a podcast when Robbin Murphy came back into New York to start upgrading The Thing’s web portal http://post.thing.net. Rob & I and Adrianne Wortzel were doing Art Dirt in the 90’s ...
Conference Report:Sonic Interventions: Pushing the Boundaries of Cultural AnalysisAmsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Universiteit von Amsterdamby Marisa S. Olson The Sonic Interventions Conference was described by its organizers,the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, as an interdisciplinaryconference "dedicated to exploring the cultural practices, aesthetics,technologies, and ways of conceptualizing ...
Of course, what Kansas is doing is laughable and/or pitiable. But one thing that strikes me as interesting is that the Kansas school board is seeking to replace the definition of science with one that is very much like a definition of much contemporary art practice…
the show apparently just featured satirized corporate logos… (along with another recent attempt at censoring a public artwork in Baldwin Park by the xenophobic org Save Our State, LA is going through an interesting battle in the co-called culture war… http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/126478.php ...