I took the City’s graffiti locations data set for a walk last Sunday in Brooklyn using the graffiti web app.
As discussed in my last post, mapping and animating the graffiti locations…
In my last post, I tried to situate my exploration of a data set within media archaeology by foregrounding the gaps contained within the data set and how those point back to the discursive…
- from Andre Breton’s The Automatic Message
To understand surrealist automatic writing, we might think of typing without backspace or undo. In the process of writing this first sentence, I…
Alhazen was asked to build a dam on the Nile in the 11th Century by the vindictive and ruthless caliph al-Hakim. In surveying the selected site, Alhazen determined that…
This city is not about other people or buildings or streets but about your mental structure. If we remember what Kafka writes about his Castle, we get a sense of it. Cities really are mental conditions.Ai Weiwei (via)
(Source: proustitute, via kristinesamson)
The Death Revealer iPhone App
To raise awareness of the traffic accidents that are happening every day in Moscow, Leo Burnett created an iPhone Augmented Reality App that revealed the injuries and accidents in the location they actually happened. This one really pulls on the heart strings, drumming home the reality of your actions if you drive unsafely.
The campaign was supported with ambient activity that drove people to download the app while out and about. In a nod to the white lines that are drawn around bodies, their faces were replaced with QR codes, splattered with blood.
Via The Ad Buzz.
(via mattermedia)
… and so: “Targeted memory erasure and enhancement may be possible,” says neuroscientist Andre Fenton in response to that Guatama Siddharta quote.
This lecture appears to be part of a series…
16mm bolex film we shot back in February.
will be showing it at ruff cuts this friday may 23, 2011 at the new school university (free admission).
So many great things to see in the city yesterday, but the Homeless Museum of Art may just have been my favourite. (That really is a taxidermied dog next to the booth.)
Lost hosting for christodeklerk.com. I have been deliberating the move away from godaddy for awhile, but will likely make a full move later this year. For now, will try hosting christodeklerk on tumblr.
I am very excited to be attending and presenting at the New School University’s annual Critical Themes in Media Studies graduate student conference. It is this Friday and Saturday,…
My sister has a play on this week in Montreal. If you’re in or near Montreal, go see it.
McGill Classical Studies presents the 2011 Classics Play, Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, in a new…
the cultural union of neolithic and paleolithic peoples.
so masculinity dominated and sadistic rigour took over from easy-paced routine.
advent of masculine gods associated with power. myths of…
What if you were asked to set an expiration date for every file you saved on your computer? Imagine what would take place on that date. Your file would be automatically erased from your…
