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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 […]

Realism and Rancière: Arts in Occupy

Realism and Rancière: Arts in Occupy by Ruth Erickson Photo by Jeff Mitchell/ The Daily Collegian Much has been written about the relations between the arts and the Occupy Movement (or, perhaps, occupy movements) because from the very beginning art and artists have played galvanizing roles. Nato Thompson, the Chief Curator at Creative Time and […]

Natural Speaking by J.D. Ho

I can currently neither read nor write without the assistance of machines. I am composing this essay with a speech recognition program called Dragon NaturallySpeaking. In order to use it, I wear headphones and a microphone. I stare at the computer screen as I speak. Speech recognition is now remarkably accurate, but despite Dragon’s claim […]

We Are All Cultural Producers: Institutionalized Criticism and Agonistic Frame-works

by Lizzie Hurst In the world of cultural production, there is work: art-works and frame-works. My main interest here is the frame-work: the receiving of a work of art—an action we all are capable of doing—as it relates to commercial criticism and what might be termed an overall societal “crisis” of valuation. If value and […]

Displaced Selves: Natural and Mediated Identity in the Films of Atom Egoyan

By Stuart Kurtz There’s a seemingly innocent tracking boom shot in Felicia’s Journey. Felicia, pregnant, tossed out by her father, and in search of her boyfriend in the English army, walks alone along one of Birmingham’s canals. She continues under a road bridge to emerge on the other side in a garden. Seen through Egoyan’s […]

Teaching Ethics in a Dark World

by Howie Good As I begin another semester, I find myself wondering whether it is irresponsible of me to teach students to take democratic ideals and ethical principles seriously and then send them out into a world that has little respect for either. Twice a year for the past 25 years, I have taught a […]