Benjamin Duffield's feature documentary on my public art is finally available online! "Megalodemocrat" (2019) was shot over ten years, when I still had hair, and it shows behind the scenes of making my interactive installations. Watch it for free here: vimeo.com/233836122
MEGALODEMOCRAT: The Public Art of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
SYNOPSIS: Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer started making public art in 1992, using high-power audiovisual media to help him transform cities around…
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This Thursday at Rocket Science Room in Montreal: Krzysztof Wodiczko and Ewa Harabasz in conversation www.instagram.com/p/DKU5G-8xW17/
The private sector will not fill the gaps. The size of the cuts is too big, and the incentives does not align to do basic research or train the next generation of PhD students. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...
Are universities too dependent on federal support?
Destroying a decades-long scientific partnership will hurt more than higher ed
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Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · last yr.There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
A few more days left to apply for this full-time position at my studio. Join an incredible team of people working along progressive, open, fun, ambitious, international projects! is.gd/Qe8uTH
Personal Assistant to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Notion
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My dear assistant Gabriel Rizzotti is moving to Paris. So now I’m looking for a new PA. We have a tight deadline to hire someone full-time as we want them to overlap with Gabriel as much as possible. Please help me circulate this job posting to any potential candidates out there! is.gd/Qe8uTH
Personal Assistant to Rafael Lozano-Hemmer | Notion
Mar 14, 2024 — English version follows French
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Just a few weeks since we had this talk in NYC and reality is already far more harrowing than we expected then, —and we are a pessimistic group. Time to light up the flares! www.artforum.com/video/artfor...
Atelier December 2024
Artforum introduces a series of live panel conversations between artists, critics, curators, and other voices in contemporary art.
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New issue of Amodern on “Countertype”, illustrated with our generative typeface for Encode/Decode. amodern.net
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Amodern is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics.
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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Trump, with Netanyahu sitting next to him, says "Gaza maybe is a demolition site right now ... you can't live in Gaza right now. I think we need another location."
New artwork "Binocular Tension", belongs to the series of interactive pieces I have been making since 1992(!) related to surveillance, observing observation, and making eye contact. The piece will be presented by PACE Gallery @pacegallery.bsky.social at ZonaMaco art fair in Mexico City.
I love Chrystia Freeland's proposal that Canada should put tariffs on Teslas.
As always, learning from Kate Crawford: I can’t believe I’d never heard of Jevon’s Paradox.
Kate Crawford@katecrawford.bsky.social · 2y agoDeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what 𝐉e𝐯𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐱 means for AI and climate. A thread 🧵
Hi. Jewish person here. These are concentration camps and should be called that by everyone.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump: Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the departments of defense and homeland security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay
First time flying into Gilead, stopped by immigration for the first time in a decade.
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
The more awards Emilia Pérez gets the more I hate the film.
We work too hard. We're too tired to fall in love. Therefore we must overthrow the government. We work too hard. We're too tired to overthrow the government. Therefore we must fall in love. —Rod Smith, "Pour le CG7" Poem sent to me by Antimodular's Michael Nardone
We made a short video documenting the Dark Ride performance vimeo.com/1047647002
Dark Ride - Miami to Naples - 2024
Dark Ride was a sound-art performance conceived by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in 2016 for Laumeier Sculpture Park in St-Louis. The piece was initially intended as a "social…
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There was a time when I could recite every line from Blue Velvet. RIP David Lynch, you were not supposed to die yet! "What year is this?"
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
Quisiera hacer un musical llamado “Louis Bernard” sobre el saqueo colonial de Francia en Polinesia, con un gran final explosivo: bombas atómicas devastando Mururora, Fangataufa y otras islas. Salvo un par de actores indígenas Ma’ohi, el resto del elenco será Mexicano. La música será de Lila Downs.
Channeling Ursula Le Guin: “The path to a better future is treacherous”.
Hello! I used the chrome extension "Porto" to bring my twitter history into Bluesky. The migration is missing links, some media, and replies, but it is otherwise very recommended. lifehacker.com/tech/use-por...
This Chrome Extension Uploads All Your Old Tweets to Bluesky
If you're migrating from X to the friendlier skies of Bluesky, you don't have to leave everything behind—Porto is an extension for Chromium browsers that imports all of your old tweets to Bluesky auto...
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“Bilateral Time Slicer” is now on view at the group show “the pieces I am” at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. On view until 8/1/23. @ UCCA Edge
I went to an immersive show on Frida Kahlo. Yeah, anyway, it was impeccably designed by Europeans, who deliver a techno-colonial appropriation, featuring a troubling erasure of her politics. The gift shop infantilizes her and creates an icon that is at odds with her life’s work.
Just posted a photo @ EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art
This Thursday at 1PM Eastern, join us for this panel with the Brooklyn Rail on Art and Border Relations
