I’ve just finished reading my friend Justine’s first trilogy, Magic or Madness - Young Adult Fiction - and it’s great. Mostly intended for teens (without condescending to them), and widely read by adults — her husband, an old friend of my wife’s, Scott, has been on the NYT bestseller list a few times - [...]
Fantastic interview. Available in Windows Media Player or Quicktime.
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Great panel in SL right now… Am there… Link. Click for enlarged image and see SL art stars….
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via Joy at NewsGrist, who got it via email:
via email:
WASHINGTON, D.C.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS - WE WILL NOT BE SILENT
Multiple actions occurred in the early afternoon today inside the Hart Senate Office Building. Eight New York
activists were among the 15 plus arrested.
TODAY, APRIL 26, 2007, A.R.T.* OCCUPIED THE HALLS OF [...]
There’s the “Body in Quotes” panel at the Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States conference in Second Life. Sponsored by Ars Virtua New Media Center, and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and hosted at the Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds). From stage left to stage right is Xerxes Druart (Stuart Bunt of SymbioticA) [...]
Nice group show at the Goethe in Joburg; my buddy Christo Doherty (head of digital arts at Wits) in participating. Recommended if you are in the area!
Tags: art, art and tech, re-blog tidbits, south african art, stimulus
Not sure when I missed this, but it seems that South Africa’s premiere (and apparently accredited) contemporary art mag (um, only printed contemporary art mag, really, tho there are more and more “lifestyle” mags that do some art and design) now has most of its issues and articles online - including the ability to comment! [...]
The ‘Remains’ panel discussion @ Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States, from letft to right: Rubaiyat Shatner (James Morgan, Ars Virtua), JOE Languish (Laura Jones, anthropologist and archaeologist), Chloe Mahfouz (Renée Ridgway, artist & curator), Kliger Dinkin (Brad Kligerman, artist & architect).
Yesterday marked my own first interaction with other avatars in SL, and, unfortunately [...]
My favorite South African displaced in New York, and an inspired/inspirational sculptor and artist, Sean Slemon, is having his Masters Solo Show at the Pratt Studios in Brooklyn, 30 April - 4 May. If you’re around, do yourself a favor and attend (and tell him I said hi - he’s very nice). More on Sean [...]
