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Monthly Archives: May, 2009

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New Releases from the Old Avant-garde

“Good students,"MacDonald says, "feel obliged to fulfill every expectation anyone has of them.” They develop “a hunger for new forms of experience.”

Fashion Show 2009

This year marked the 75th anniversary of one of SAIC’s most renowned events, the Fashion Show, but for the first time, rather than have the fashion show exhibited on a catwalk, the models walked along a maze of work by MFA graduates in the recently opened Sullivan Galleries.

The evolution of prosthetics

Technology has actually progressed so far in some areas that there are concerns prosthetics may function better than mere flesh and blood.

May School/Art News

May Art and School News

Five things you didn't know science has already done

(and might still wish you didn't)

Editing Bodies

How do I negotiate the space between me and my avatar—is it a hyperreal one where the avatar mimics me? Is it a mutation of me? How does it come back to me?

Non-required Reading

The Scholl Center Seminars at the Newberry Library

Public Sculptures

The longer days and fine weather make summer the ideal time for actually stopping to look at the public art that is all over the city.

May Theory

“Our Literal Speed” symposium in Chicago.

Atmosphere is in the air

"Olafur Eliasson: Take Your Time" at the Museum of Contemporary Art

The Future is Yesterday

Four terrifying advances in robotics (and the like) that have already happened.

Amazon Fail

What it means about the relationship between humans and technology

Nerdcore: Where Sci-Fi meets Hip Hop

A new form of rap, with more “artistic” or playful lyrics and music has been gaining a following among younger crowds, even in academia. These artists are positioning their work in dialogue with the literary canon.

Town Hall Audience Response

A case for accountability