An excellent weekend in Shanghai, my first of what I’m sure will be many times in this city by the sea. I first spoke at Xindanwei (新单位), a co-working and new media space that I’ve been admiring from afar. For their Weekend of Social Media (社会性媒体周末), I introduced the audience to social media art and [...]
When do you feel like you’re in a city, and not just floating through it? Most cities I’ve traveled to feel like passing friends. They’re here, they’re gone, and next thing I know I’m looking down on the landscape as I fly home. How long does it take for you to feel like you really [...]
In between my growing list of adventures here in Beijing, I’ve been steadily working on the Gwangju Design Biennale. The event, which alternates each year with the art-focused Gwangju Biennale, is coming up fast. And yet, although it’s known as Asia’s premiere biennial, Gwangju can be a tricky town to reach even from the continent. [...]
As I announced briefly on Twitter, I’m heading to Beijing for a bit. I fly out next week. What will I be doing? I recently received the opportunity to work on the curatorial team for the Gwangju Design Biennale. The more familiar Gwangju Biennale [of Art] bills itself as “Asia’s oldest and most prestigious biennial [...]
Image courtesy Nour Malaeb A big big BIG thank you to the amazing crew at Mindshare Los Angeles, especially Doug Campbell, curator of the evening’s events, and Jason Porath, who was an excellent host. It was truly an honor to present alongside some incredible speakers, Steve Glenn of Living Homes and nanotech researcher Professor Philip [...]
This past Thursday and Friday, I helped Dr. M.A. Greenstein organize TEDxSunsetBlvdWestLA, a livestreaming of TEDWomen for folks in LA’s Brentwood Village. This was my first time viewing a TED event live, rather than clicking around different topics. What I found most striking about TED is the way the event mixed different speakers from very [...]
Couldn’t make it to Miami this year? Neither could I, nor could a number of artists. My art collective, @Platea, and I organized a video called “Sorry I Couldn’t Be There”, in which we invited artists around the world to send in a video explaining why they couldn’t come to Miami. It’s a simple concept, [...]
For #TheSocialGraph, I proposed a look at the next step in social media — telepresence, which, in its simplest form is a large-scale video chat meant to mimic the presence of someone in the room, and at its most complex can take the form of a roving, camera-enabled robot… More on Hyperallergic. Special thanks to [...]
I’m honored to have a half dozen poems included in an island of egrets, the 10th anniversary anthology of the Southern California Haiku Study Group. This Sunday, September 26, I’ll be reading alongside the inimitable Debbie Kolodji and 20-odd other haiku poets at the Pacific Asia Museum, starting 2 pm onward. Can’t make it? The [...]
New article out on Hyperallergic. To get to Los Angeles, I took a two-week train trip west from New York. I highly recommend the journey. Learn more here: My journey took me from midtown Manhattan to the steel mills surrounding Pittsburgh, then the museums in our nation’s capital, down the Appalachian mountains to the bayous [...]
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