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anti-ad website. fun.

OPENING RECEPTION
September 26, 6-8pm
Special hours for the DUMBO Art under the Bridge Festival: September 27, 1- 4pm

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Influenced by the organization inherent in cartography, the twelve Brooklyn-based artists in BAC Gallery’s latest exhibition, Creative Cartographies, present viewpoints both personal and political, mapping their own thoughts, journeys, and observations. Collectively, the artists show that structure and expression are not mutually exclusive and utilize a variety of materials to create imagined and real geographies. Maps traditionally suggest stability and a sense of purpose; they originally served to chart new territories and make the unknown less intimidating. In the age of Google maps and GPS, art inspired by maps continues to aid the viewer in navigating unfamiliar territory, but it also veers from the scientific and factual to the creative and subjective.

About a year and a half ago, McKenzie Wark, together with the Institute for the Future of the Book, set out to explore the possibility of a new textual form in social web media: a middle space, somewhere between the sprawling public discourse arena of the blogosphere and the collaborative knowledge factory of Wikipedia. A framework for extended, critical inquiry around a central idea or itch. Something, well, book-sized.

We hoped to find out whether opening up the process midstream — throwing author and reader into dialog while the work was still in progress — might reveal a valuable new way of writing, and get people thinking more expansively about the future of the book in the digital age. And so we published GAM3R 7H30RY 1.1: a first stab at a new sort of “networked book,” a book that actually contains the conversation it engenders, and which, in turn, engenders it.

Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book, I created this website as a way to think to about games. Games, as in computer games, are the subject of my next book, GAM3R 7H30RY. I am interested in two questions.

1. can we explore games as allegories for the world we live in?
2. can there be a critical theory of games?

http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/gamertheory/

http://www.futureofthebook.org/mckenziewark/index.php

http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii

Adobe announced the release of the fourth edition of its Creative Suite.

a usable toilet enclosed in a cube of one-way glass where the person inside can see passersby while remaining invisible to them. By Monica Bonvicini.

http://2×4.org/_txt/reading_0.html

How do you spell change?

We need your help to show the breadth and depth of Barack Obama’s support and fight back against Republicans who accuse him of only representing college students and coffee shop liberals.

If you’re an artist or designer, help us by reinterpreting one letter of the alphabet in a way that represents what Obama’s candidacy means to you (specs are here).

If you’re a photographer, help us bring this alphabet to life by shooting Obama supporters from all walks of life wearing t-shirts with these letters printed on them (specs are here).

Everyone can help by using this site to send t-shirts and e-cards personalized with their own messages of hope and change (coming soon). And, of course, by registering to vote (you can do that here in the meantime).

Together, we can bring real change for all Americans to Washington.

If interested, please reply to letters@spellingchange.com
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS: 6:00PM EST ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

Self-Sustainable Chair.

By Designer JooYoun Paek.

Artist and interactive designer, JooYoun Paek takes the cake on that front with her recently revealed Self-Sustainable Chair, a wearable piece of furniture which is a dress where the butt inflates into a chair through pumps in the shoes. Paek hopes the provocative art piece will “transform the humdrum experiences produced by routine walking commutes into an amusing interactive performance.Paek’s “chair” more closely resembles a wearable outfit than a piece of furniture and is is composed from a pair of shoes, pumps, and polyethylene.

http://www.americathegiftshop.com/

http://www.justtoiletpaper.com/changeisgood.shtml

This will blow your mind.

Client: Aides
Agency: TBWA, Paris
Animation/VFX: Minivegas
Director: Minivegas
Music/SFX/Sound Design: Future Perfect

Corporate work can look good too.

This guy works at a major stock photo company and hunts down Amazing stock images you would never knew existed. Pretty Rad!

just something that hit me when i looked back at some of the work from the fine art kids back at pratt.  i miss school somehow, as messed up as it was.