Monthly Archives: September, 2005

When uncertainty is the only thing to be sure of.

Find out how healthy SAIC students really are by Simon Hunt Last spring, SAIC Health Services sent out an email with the subject, “How The Health...

Are you a non-smoker looking to fritter away that socially awkward twenty-minute class break by heading to the computer lab only to be disappointed by the “one new message” pop-up producing a less than titillating 10kb email from “Broadcast News”? Try the bbc.com’s Art and Personality test. The mildly entertaining test designed by Dr. Stan Reimers in collaboration with the BBC is part of a long history of art and personality tests designed to help you … well … you know, “know thyself,” and all that.

Alone in the World by Christopher Day by Annette Martin by Zissou Tasseff-Elnkoff

The F News website promises to fill in the holes created by the limitations of the monthly print edition, and generally lord it over the paper-and-ink crowd with their ability to deliver information almost instantaneously.

Following Banksy’s art-making pranks is like watching a skateboarder riding a rail in the park without the inevitable end: he never busts his balls. And Bansky never gets his balls busted … too seriously. In his latest exploit, Bansky spray-painted nine stencilled pictures on the 425-mile long barrier that Israel built to separate itself from the Palestinian territories.

Following Banksy’s art-making pranks is like watching a skateboarder riding a rail in the park without the inevitable end: he never busts his balls. And Bansky never gets his balls busted … too seriously. In his latest exploit, Bansky spray-painted nine stencilled pictures on the 425-mile long barrier that Israel built to separate itself from the Palestinian territories.

Steak / A neutered moose / Serious about sleep

Upon walking into the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the first thing the viewer is greeted with is a creaking, slowly spinning, rusted mobile. Trials and Terrors is a showing of large-scale multimedia installations the MCA describes as “transformation through hardship and evocations of sinister phenomena and events.”

In a world where organizations are constantly changing their names to shorter, more media-friendly handles—think Kentucky Fried Chicken, Commonwealth Edison or Miller Genuine Draft—one department at SAIC has opted for a longer one. This fall, Exhibitions & Events will be adding 17 letters to their title, resulting in Exhibitions & Events /Exhibition Studies. Strangely, Exhibition Studies will be adopting the same name.

In a world where organizations are constantly changing their names to shorter, more media-friendly handles—think Kentucky Fried Chicken, Commonwealth Edison or Miller Genuine Draft—one department at SAIC has opted for a longer one. This fall, Exhibitions & Events will be adding 17 letters to their title, resulting in Exhibitions & Events /Exhibition Studies. Strangely, Exhibition Studies will be adopting the same name.

From the Guayaquil Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art.

From the Guayaquil Museum of Anthropology and Contemporary Art.

The latest development in the world of art online is Photomuse.org, the ambitious collaboration between the George Eastman House and New York’s Centre for Photography. The site, which plans to host over 200,000 noted photographs, will be the largest collection of its kind online. Even more notably, it will be totally free to the public.