{"id":837,"date":"2005-10-15T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T06:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=837"},"modified":"2005-12-11T05:50:57","modified_gmt":"2005-12-11T03:50:57","slug":"ralph-borlnd-in-nyc-suited-for-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/15\/ralph-borlnd-in-nyc-suited-for-subversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Borland in NYC: Suited for Subversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s own Ralph Borland is exhibiting on a group show in NYC at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/\">Museum of Modern Art<\/a> (MOMA), right now! <a href=\"http:\/\/physicalcomputing.co.za\/ralphborland\/art\/s4s.html\">Suited for Subversion<\/a> is part of the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/exhibitions\/2005\/safe.html\">SAFE: Design Takes on Risk<\/a>, October 16, 2005 &#8211; January 2, 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s two pics he sent me from over in the states:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/wp-content\/ralph_suit.jpg?w=850\" alt='Ralph Borland and his Suited for Subversion at the MOMA, and in the streets of NYC. He wore that same suit as my date to the Kebbles in 2003; my wife thought he looked good. Pictures by Kim Silberman' \/><br \/>\n<small>Ralph Borland and his Suited for Subversion at the MOMA, and in the streets of NYC. He wore that same suit as my date to <a href=\"http:\/\/thekebble.co.za\/\">the Kebbles<\/a> in 2003; my wife thought he looked good. Pictures by Kim Silberman<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/physicalcomputing.co.za\/ralphborland\/art\/s4s.html\">Suited for Subversion<\/a> draws on <a href=\"http:\/\/physicalcomputing.co.za\/ralphborland\/art\/s4s.html\">Ralph Borland&#8217;s<\/a> work as an activist involved in street demonstrations in New York. Made of vinyl stuffed with polyurethane foam, the suit protects the wearer from police batons at large-scale street protests, and monitors the wearer&#8217;s pulse. In the centre of the suit&#8217;s chest is a speaker that projects this amplified heartbeat. It can also be used to play music and chant slogans.<\/p>\n<p><em>As much as my suit is armour, it is also disarming; as much provocation as protection.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s own Ralph Borland is exhibiting on a group show in NYC at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), right now! Suited for Subversion is part of the exhibition SAFE: Design Takes on Risk, October 16, 2005 &#8211; January 2, 2006. Here&#8217;s two pics he sent me from over in the states: Ralph Borland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,4,9,2,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-news-and-politics","category-pop-culture","category-south-african-art","category-stimulus","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-dv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1577,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/18\/ralph-borland-at-wits-johannesburg\/","url_meta":{"origin":837,"position":0},"title":"Ralph Borland at Wits (Johannesburg)","author":"nathaniel","date":"18 January 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"If in Joburg, go see a great speaker and artist (and my classmate from ITP, peer in South Africa, and colleague in Dublin), Ralph Borland, next Friday. 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Yeh, it was kinda cool (I even made the front page). Admittedly, one week of workshops in Jitter is not nearly enough, but I know I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1156,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/20\/live-from-stellenbosch-u\/","url_meta":{"origin":837,"position":5},"title":"Live from Stellenbosch U","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 April 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"physical computing @ Stellenbosch Ralph Borland and I are giving a two-week workshop in interactive art at Stellenbosch University! Shown here is Ralph working with the Basic Stamp microcontroller (BS2), building some circuits just before we go ahead and try some input\/output from and to the \"real world\". 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