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American/Mexican: January 2009
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Friday, January 30, 2009. The New Industrial Revolution. Suggests in The Language of New Media. Today, the subject of the information society is engaged in even more activities during a typical day: inputting and analyzing data, running simulations, searching the Internet, playing computer games, watching streaming video, listening to music online, trading stocks, and so on.". Affectingly put it,. To become an ...
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American/Mexican: Get Smart
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Thursday, August 6, 2009. As happy Mac users, we knew it was only a matter of time before we made the iPhone purchase. Our reluctance was a result of our not wanting to be connected all the time. Our antiquated phones gave us an excuse to disappear. To not have to answer right away. To not have to answer at all. So this purchase came with a condition: these phones will not change our lives. The life change that...
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American/Mexican: Anatomy of an Accusation
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Friday, November 13, 2009. Anatomy of an Accusation. I recently had a chance to view Peter Greenaway's. Latest film, Rembrandt's J'Accuse. An experiment in documentary filmmaking, historical research, and academic lecture, at Film Forum. I grew to enjoy, perhaps admire, his disembodied presence, delivering a professorial, wordy analysis of the famous painting in question, The Night Watch. The film takes an Erro...
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American/Mexican: November 2009
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Friday, November 13, 2009. Anatomy of an Accusation. I recently had a chance to view Peter Greenaway's. Latest film, Rembrandt's J'Accuse. An experiment in documentary filmmaking, historical research, and academic lecture, at Film Forum. I grew to enjoy, perhaps admire, his disembodied presence, delivering a professorial, wordy analysis of the famous painting in question, The Night Watch. The film takes an Erro...
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American/Mexican: Welcome to the Dollhouse
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Thursday, May 14, 2009. Welcome to the Dollhouse. Science fiction is the link between popular culture and modernity. Through it we can engage in fantasies that allow us to imagine ourselves in situations that seem too radical to realistically adopt but offer desirable alternatives to everyday life, at least in small, manageable doses. Common theme of exploration. (Can we trust machines? Created additional blur ...
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American/Mexican: Shared Spaces
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Wednesday, April 22, 2009. Today, my latest curatorial project, an online exhibition that features the work of six artists, launched. Is on view through May 6, 2009 at No Commercial Value. An online exhibition space created and managed by Amir Husak and Prem Sooriyakumar. Curated by Natasha Chuk. On view at No Commercial Value. April 22 through May 6, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Arun With a View.
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American/Mexican: May 2010
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Thursday, May 6, 2010. Postmodern Perfect, Or How to Make an American Quilt. A double feature of Kick-Ass. And Hot Tub Time Machine. At a drive-in movie theater a couple of weekends ago got me thinking about postmodernity - again. Hot Tub Time Machine. He nearly single-handedly connotes an entire index of pop culture references: Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes. And most comically and perhaps unintentionally, Hambu...
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American/Mexican: Serving Up a Fashion Statement
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Friday, August 28, 2009. Serving Up a Fashion Statement. Gearing up for the upcoming U.S. Open. Featured a short piece. On the sometimes eccentric fashion choices displayed by tennis players over the years. My two favorites are pictured here: Bill Tilden (1930) and Suzanne Lenglen (1919). Anne White's Lycra bodysuit (1985) fits the same description, while. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Arun With a View.
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American/Mexican: September 2008
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Monday, September 22, 2008. This open source site. By artist duo MTAA (M. River and T. Whid Art Associates) creates a date page that mimics work of conceptual artist On Kawara's date paintings since 1966, Today Series. Saturday, September 13, 2008. Unnamed Artists has organized and curated another single-evening art event. Saturday, September 27, 2008 @ 6 PM. La Lutta Project Space. 204 Sackett Street (@ Henry).
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American/Mexican: March 2009
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A Place for Research and Commentary on Pop Culture, New Media, Art, and the Spaces in Between. Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Paik on My Mind. Perhaps the most striking component of. Currently on view at the Guggenheim is titled Buddhism and the Neo-Avant-Garde, showcasing some of the most influential work of Nam June Paik, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and Allen Ginsberg. A live projection of an empty film leader from 1964. It's hard to imagine some of the performance artworks of his fluxus. Arun With a View.
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