Archive for October, 2009
A lot of our work lately has been involved with looking at the human:digital interface. Is that the same as the human:machine interface? What are the differences that I am interested in exploring? How does our work in Performing the Self (the avatar as the real), as well as our work with the digital (trying to perfect our way of speaking to a camera by interviewing ourselves, editing, memorizing and repeating), etc. open up these ideas – but on the other side of the machine equation?
This time about the “indentured servitude” that student loans are piling onto Americans, and its effects on both the (idea of) middle class and the “American Dream.”
See a great article with multiple links here.
It’s my personal belief that student loans are creating an over-educated, under-employed/employable class of citizens in this country – particularly in the arts, but in other disciplines as well. The upside, I suppose, is that such conditions generally make fertile ground for true revolution.
This guy Graham is a new media artist doing some interesting work – just learned about him from the Media Modes symposium being held at the School of Visual Arts, NY in November. Check him out.
An article from today’s NYTimes Opinion pages about the traditions of “conceptual art“