Media Mindfulness

As reported earlier, things are heating up in several oil rich countries on the Arabian peninsula to become new Vegas-like destinations of the global jet set (for what it’s worth, now Halliburton Co. is reportedly moving its headquarters to Dubai). Now Abu Dhabi is trying to outdo Dubai in capitalist swank, art being a new [...]

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This is slightly old news, but it needs to be said again that Brinco shoes are slammin’, and it is one of the few occasions when conspicuous consumption is in order. Commissioned by inSite-05, artist Judi Werthein designed these for border crossers who face real dangers, but for me they appeal to my inner-alien (I [...]

Some pals in New York City are doing this really cool art project. Read below for details. If you are in the city, do drop in. From their announcement:

SHOPDROPPING.NET EXHIBITION 2006, opening party on April 1st, 7 to 9 pm.

(shop drop) v. To covertly place merchandise on display in a store. Primarily [...]

What happens when you give to seemingly oppositional social forces disposable cameras? Hopefully a more humanized image of conflict, in this case the Minutemen vs. illegal border-crossers coming from Mexico. The Border Film Project supplied disposable cameras to immigrants in Mexican shelters and asked them to document their journeys. The vigilante Minutemen group who are [...]

Read Part I here.

Dadadelica remixes the sublime: the awesome strangeness of the impermanent hybridreal that causes the human ego to flitter when facing the greater chaosmoses. Jim O’Roarke’s “Door 2005″ video installation does just that. On the peripheral walls are shuttering doors in stereo, presumably alluding to the doors of perception, and facing you is [...]

Read Part I here.

Read Part II here

Here is a note on the Fifth Floor Mezzanine Biennial subshow, “Down by Law“: Yeah, yeah, America (oh yeah, Amerika with a ‘k’) is a terrible dark place of torture, etc. Tell me something new, enlighten me. One piece that really deserves attention, though, is Kerry Tribe’s video of [...]

“Day for Night,” Whitney’s Biennial, is now available for scrutiny.

Unfortunately I saw the show in reverse, starting at the first floor and moving up, which is like starting in hell as opposed to getting there last (I suppose that actually is easier on the stomach, but sadly it didn’t work out that way because [...]