Chis Smit was a scholar and disability rights activist. He co-founded DisArt, a production company that cultivates disability culture. Chris passed away on January 4, 2023. The following text was written for “Letters to Chris” on the DisArt website. Chris Smit was someone who changed how I saw the world multiple times, as a professor,Continue reading “Remembering Chris Smit”
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The Best Art I Saw in 2022
For years I always wrote a post in late December about the best art I had seen that year. When I worked for ArtPrize I got to travel to art fairs, biennials, and various cities where I visited museums and galleries. When Covid hit in 2020 ArtPrize was canceled and I left that job. IContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2022”
My ‘Project 2’ T-Shirt: Swag for a Non-Existent Exhibition
Back in 2018, when I was still Artistic Director of ArtPrize, we announced that following that year’s event ArtPrize would continue on a biennial schedule. This was to make room for a new format of public art exhibitions that would take place in the intervening years. The first one, held in 2019, was called ProjectContinue reading “My ‘Project 2’ T-Shirt: Swag for a Non-Existent Exhibition”
Links! August 11, 2021
Hello and welcome to another link dump. Yes I’m still here, yes I’m still writing sometimes. There are a lot of weird and wonderful things in this world if we’re patient enough to see them. Such as… Cornell University Library’s digital collection of punk fliers. More than 2,000 scans of messy, raw, Xeroxed graphic design.Continue reading “Links! August 11, 2021”
Links! April 15, 2021
When Food & Wine Magazine published a recipe for Mole Verde, they included limes and hot sauce in the photo. This turns out to have been a mistake. They issued an apology and reshot the dish without the offending condiments. It might seem like a small quibble, but it’s really not. Food is a bigContinue reading “Links! April 15, 2021”
Links! January 22, 2021
It’s a new year and it feels like a new world, doesn’t it? I don’t know about you, but I’m inhaling the pungent aroma of possibility. I’ve got some new writing on the way that will be featured here, as well as some new maker projects / hardware experiments that I’ll also write about. StayContinue reading “Links! January 22, 2021”
The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2
It’s been an unusual year, and this is an unusual version of my annual blog post about the best artworks I saw. Most are not really artworks at all, and I spent some time explaining my thinking around that in Part 1. Here’s Part 2: 6. Factorio A few months ago a friend told meContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 2”
The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1
Every year at this time I write a blog post about the best art I saw throughout the year. This has not been a normal year, so this won’t be a normal list. I used to travel a lot, I’d see exhibitions all over the country and all over the world; New York, Miami, LosContinue reading “The Best Art I Saw in 2020 (sort of), part 1”
Links! December 18, 2020
A website that drops you in a random Google Street View location. Go get lost. An archive of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, MI. Did you know that Alexander Graham Bell made complex tetrahedral kites? These are the most striking photographs I’ve seen in a long time. More great images from The Public Domain Review,Continue reading “Links! December 18, 2020”
Links! November 27, 2020
John Conway was an English mathematician who died of Covid-19 in April. He was known for inventing Conway’s Game of Life, an early example of cellular automata. The Game of Life is a zero-player game (can such a thing exist?) where a set of rules determine whether filled cells on a grid persist, die, orContinue reading “Links! November 27, 2020”
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