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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
You know I had to get on that bandwagon. The Facebook profile hack started by French artist Alexander Oudin is such a clever way of remapping the clean (and sometimes staid) format of the Facebook profile. And it’s not even a major hack — it just uses the basic tools of tagging and profile picture [...]
Marc Horowitz, whose work I reviewed in Hyperallergic, has finished his month long project, the Creative Time-commissioned Advice of Strangers. While it can be easy to see the wacky videos as purely entertainment, it’s important to realize that people voted that way. There was a clear turning point when he asked the crowd if the [...]
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 [...]
Markers of a car-dependent city: lollipops served at a gallery opening in LA’s Culver City.
Before the Tate had to rope off Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seed installation, I took a good number of pictures of folks interacting with the piece, turning it into what felt like an indoor beach. The first few photos come from the opening night, and then from the next day (Tuesday). By Wednesday, due to health [...]
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