Mawage!

Woman Marries 600-Year-Old Bridge - http://huff.to/1cSkSNb

Tri cities youth shelter

I thought you might be interested in this story: Kennewick teen shelter struggling to help, http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2013/05/04/2382902/kennewick-teen-shelter-struggling.html Sent via the TCHerald Android App. Download the app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tricityherald.android

This deserves to be in the Vatican next to the pieta

'Homeless Jesus' Sculpture Rejected As 'Not Appropriate' - http://huff.to/15aTjz9

Museum reopening, seriously wishing I lived in Europe

Rave reviews for Rijksmuseum opening http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22149807

Stream art

Troubled £535,000 Olympic art axed http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22152127

The evils of Photoshop?

LOOK: Stunning Photos Show Just How Unrealistic Airbrushing Is - http://huff.to/14Yt2E9

Very cool idea

IT GLOWS! - http://huff.to/14XRVzO

Sharing an Article

People react

Twitter Loves Tilda At MoMA - http://huff.to/15MvCt5

Artist Lives Without Money For Years - http://huff.to/15POwPE

'It's Socially Unacceptable..It's Kinda Creepy' - http://huff.to/15PeVx1

MoMA takes it to the Web

Creating Engaging Museum Online Experiences: MoMA's Digital Lounge - http://huff.to/14pCI5W

Photo contest finalists

And The Finalists Are... - http://huff.to/14pNTeW

Wow

Artists use data to make political statements

Article about digital literacy

Kids 'writing malicious hack code'

Very fun way to spend some time

Pippin Barr's 'Art Game' Brings The Experience Of Getting A Work In MoMA To Your Computer: via HuffPost http://huff.to/12r2qdD

Cool story

When Science Met Art: via HuffPost http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mario-livio/joseph-mallord-william-turner_b_2624625.html

Yay!

Metropolitan Museum Launches '82nd & Fifth' Online Series And More Arts News: via HuffPost http://huff.to/11KIQJB

Shanken pgs. 54-78

Reading about these pieces was a little frustrating. While obviously we are limited in a variety of ways from actually experiencing them as the artists intended there were several that really captured my attention. For many of these the line between work and viewer is nearly indistinguishable, like Dan Flavin's Greens Crossing Greens: To Piet Mondrian Who Lacked Green. In my mind I envisioned viewer's/participants wondering in this green discombobulating space looking at the deceptively white tubes that are not only illuminating the space but the viewer herself who also has joined in with the area's green hue. But reading online I get the impression that viewers did not have the ability to actually enter the gallery, leaving the piece to challenge the space without any influence from the viewer. I would love to truly see this, something I do not believe possible outside of truly presenting oneself to it.

Shanken pgs. 30-45

The past several decades (following the proliferation of electronic media in the general public) has forced us to reconsider the meaning of many, many things. Music and presence are the ones that jump out most to me. I was excited to see the section on John Cage, he was my inspiration for my video last semester of a blank screen, and how his involvement of the viewer in 4'33''forced people to be conscious of the sounds that surround them everyday.
The thoughts on presence, though, are the ones that grab my attention most. Countless examples of viewers-turned-performers on the www stage force us to reconsider what it means to "be somewhere". Paul Sermon's "Telematic Vision" demonstrates this so well. I'm not a psychologist, so I wonder what it says about our notions of personal space when I person moves away from another on screen because they feel invaded. I wish so much that I was able to see this piece in action, what an interesting case study it would be. I think as electronic media continue to spread we may find our global village becoming smaller and more intimate in ways we never thought possible.

This is an article about some glasses in development that make the wearer invisible to facial recognition programs.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/01/18/isao_echizen_and_seiichi_gohshi_s_privacy_visor_shields_you_from_facial.html

Slut Walks

In 2011 a police chief in Canada made this comment, "Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." http://www.excal.on.ca/news/dont-dress-like-a-slut-toronto-cop  A group of women in Toronto responded by launching the Slut Walk movement with this...

As the city’s major protective service, the Toronto Police have perpetuated the myth and stereotype of ‘the slut’, and in doing so have failed us. With sexual assault already a significantly under-reported crime, survivors have now been given even less of a reason to go to the Police, for fear that they could be blamed. Being assaulted isn’t about what you wear; it’s not even about sex; but using a pejorative term to rationalize inexcusable behavior creates an environment in which it’s okay to blame the victim. http://www.slutwalktoronto.com/

This spread worldwide with Slut Walks in Chicago, New York, London, even Hong Kong to name just a few. This idea that a woman can be "asking for it" is unfortunately not a new one but coming from a member of law enforcement was disturbing, infuriating, and heartbreaking all at the same time. As a women I felt as though all the advances made to educate people on the horror of rape was a big waste of time. Slut Walks were a way for others to express similar feelings but in a loud, public way. These walks continue, despite backlash from others against the idea of trying to reclaim the slang term "slut", and yet these types of comments continue. Phrases that I do not care to repeat only further illustrate how easy it is for ignorant people to gain an audience, interviewed over and over again as if their words have merit and a validity in the rhetoric of public discourse. While the walks are only, ultimately, only a show of solidarity, they have forced the issue to remain present in the public arena. Words like what that police chief in Toronto said should never be tolerated, and the more flamboyant the response the better.

Yeah, censorship is alive and well, at least people stood against it.

Maine Labor Mural Back On Display After Being Removed By Governor Paul LePage: via HuffPost http://huff.to/V5Uug1

Shanken pgs. 2-3

This piece really caught my attention so I looked it up and, in so doing, stumbled across this quote from Billy Kluver, one of the artists who created it.

  "The artist is a visionary about life. Only he can create disorder and still get away with it. Only he can use technology to its fullest capacity. The artists have to use technology because technology is inseparable from lives."

Intellectual property

Aaron Swartz, Internet Pioneer, Found Dead Amid Prosecutor 'Bullying' In Unconventional Case: via HuffPost http://huff.to/ZUVswN

Intellectual property is an issue that I feel we, as hopefully future practitioners in the realm of digital and internet based works, should spend a fair amount of time thinking about and discussing. We will not always be safely inside the "womb of academia" as Dr Mansperger put it to me once. What a sad, sad story.

Finding her inner voice,

Janet Echelman: An Artist's Portfolio Site

Art? Absolutely.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CDUQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fartinfo%2Fdesign-to-save-the-world-_b_2425658.html%3Futm_hp_ref%3Darts&ei=xzjuUPzbAqL0iQLv84CACg&usg=AFQjCNGX16sNCiVFBG2z-SPGr63uKtVjLA&sig2=ho97w77K-rScdlaX8rak8A&bvm=bv.1357700187,d.cGE

Murry

This was my Christmas present from my nephew this year. A very short interview (it was Christmas morning after all) revealed that he named the work "murry" in honor of his "elf on a shelf" of the same name. The description he added on the back along with a photo of the entire painting. The idea for the gift was his own, his mom just helped him figure out how to make it work.

Picasso can again r.i.p..

Picasso 'vandal' hands himself in