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Wearable Technology

Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, PhD student at MIT, created this wearable piece of technology; it’s called the Duoskin, and it’s a gold leaf temporary tattoo that can be used as a touchscreen. Her inspiration? Street fashion in Taiwan. Kao says that metallic jewelry-like temporary tattoos are a growing trend, providing a great opportunity for creating functional fashion. […]

Jacques Heim, for Shain's, shoes, about 1960. (c) 2016 Peabody Essex Museum

Shoes: Pleasure and Pain

@Peabody Essex Museum November 19, 2016 to March 12, 2017 This November, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents, Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, an exhibition that explores the creativity of footwear from around the globe. Featuring more than 300 pairs of shoes ranging from an ancient Egyptian sandal decorated in pure gold leaf to futuristic-looking shoes […]

Under the Influence

The incomparable Picasso once said: Good artists copy; great artists steal.” And that was before copy paste.

Lynn Hershman @ Bridget Donahue, through April 5

99 Bowery, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10002 USA Wednesday–Sunday, 12-6 PM Over the last three decades, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technologies and her investigations of issues that are now recognized as key to the working of our society: identity in a time […]

Hito Steyerl @ Artists Space through May 24

Artists Space 38 Greene Street 3rd Floor New York, NY Through May 24, 2015 Wednesday – Sunday: noon – 6pm This exhibition surveys the work of German filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl, focusing particularly on the artist’s production from 2004 onwards. Over this period Steyerl’s films, essays and lectures have uniquely articulated the contemporary […]

Poetry on the Digital: Worth a Book?

by Thomas Ellison

Dumb Video

Happy Valentine’s Day! As a count-down to Valentines Day, we are featuring 1 dumb video per day for the next four days by a group of artists collectively known as DUMB Video.

Citizen Science: So Eighteenth Century!

Growing up in Hawaii, I dreamed of becoming an ecologist at Lake Baikal in Russia or an archaeologist in Tanzania. I had maps of Africa on my bedroom wall, and I always expected I’d someday venture to the places pictured in them. But because, as an undergraduate, I chose to major in English instead of […]

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Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe The Artist’s Institute, New York City By Lucia Hinojosa Images Courtesy of The Artist’s Institute “How can these voluntary omissions be explained?”- Jorge Luis Borges (From Pierre Huyghe’s selection of The Garden of Forking Paths) Whenever decentered models of thought challenge human consciousness, an external structure […]

Amazon’s White Patent

AMAZON’S WHITE PATENT by Alexandra Salazar Much to critical chagrin, Amazon was awarded a patent for what has commonly been simplified as “photographs with subjects against a white background.” In actuality, the patent granted to Amazon on March 18, 2014 is for a studio setup method to produce images featuring a seamless, shadow-less white background […]