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ITP Spring Show 2008 Pictures

Here are some pictures from the ITP Spring Show 2008

Enjoy!

My synth in concert, at No Fun Festival

My friend Nancy Garcia played an outstanding duet with Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth fame) at the No Fun Festival, on May 16th. I enjoyed the show, and was especially pleased because Nancy played one of my musical instruments, the Rhythmic Synth!

You can hear the synth very clearly in this song…

The No Fun […]

Probe Swarm: The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth

My master’s thesis project at ITP is complete, and on display at the ITP show this week. Check out the presentation on Vimeo!

Probe Swarm is an exploration of the ways in which intelligent behavior can be attributed to inanimate objects (or animals, or people) based on limited information.

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Artists and critical analysis

Jon Taplin’s blog has an interesting post on “Artists & The Crowd”. I’m particularly interested in two quotes he cites in the article, by Herbert Marcuse and Marshall McLuhan.

Marcuse says:

In its refusal to accept as final the limitations imposed upon freedom and happiness by society, in its refusal to forget what can be, […]

"Rice, Death and the Dollar" at the Asia Times

Interesting article by Spengler over at the Asia Times, talking about the food crisis as a result of monetary factors.

“Rice, Death and the Dollar”

Whether or not you agree with him, his writing is certainly colorful:

The George W. Bush administration might as well have used the State Department as a set for the […]