Category Archives: Technology and Information Systems

Linda Griggs showed art Online long before…well, anyone. Now: let her help you prep for NYFA.

By sarah | Published: September 19, 2011
Read the entire interview at the W + G News and Arts in print or online here. She was an incredibly honest subject to interview, and I enjoyed it! skipping a bit…more excerpt. [One question is in normal text and should be in bold, btw: "Sounds like you're talking about community...social network?"] ..and finally: she also want [...]
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Mark Skwarek and Will Pappenheimer: AR-tists and Curators

By sarah | Published: May 9, 2011
This duo worked hard to put up a show of 20+ AR artists in Williamsburg last month. Pictured above is a screen image of Skwarek’s work “Parade to Hope” as seen around Lorimer Street in Williamsburg. The parade was last spotted on the BQE going east. Now that I, too, am starting to post in AR, [...]
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Famous Accountants, and more Augmented Reality Art

By sarah | Published: January 11, 2011
Really good show in Ridgewood. took on new media.
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Jonathan Franzen: reads good books; writes on a defunct tombstone of a laptop.

By sarah | Published: September 3, 2010
Totally cool interview with writer Jonathan Franzen in “The Onion.” Agree!: AVC [The Onion asks about the Internet, et al]: How much do you think about the concept of readership? It’s changed so much, even since your last novel. It appears to be more about interactivity and instantaneous response, and about everyone having an equal voice. Do [...]
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randomness

By sarah | Published: August 31, 2010
I got this heads up from random.org and this sequence of dots from LavaRnd. Seems that randomness is a thing of beauty to computer geeks; the Sublime for people out in code land. The truly Random is a territory that’s hard to find, a land….oh, anyway, I tried to take this test. It asks if I can [...]
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“Guerilla Television” anticipates Information Age

By sarah | Published: August 18, 2010
This book is a real find. Here’s the quotes on flyleaf page: Guerilla Television was written in 1971 by Michael Shamberg & Raindance Corporation. It has chapters with titles like “Meta-Service Economy” and “Techno Evolution” and Info-Structures.” Now, here we are, back in 2010. Check out the Daniel Langlois Foundation, which funded this project —thanks to which [...]
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