Just by chance, we decided to drop in on an event that caught my eye yesterday. It was a reading at KGB bar in the East Village arranged by the new MFA in Design Criticism at SVA. The topic was food and 3 professors from the new department read their criticism from a podium [...]
Meet Big Dog, designed by Boston Dynamics for DARPA. One blogger called it “amazing”, I call it creepy. When I was young I used to fantasize about a future flourishing with robots in all shapes and sizes, but during these wartime years here in America I feel less comfortable with our military’s effort to sanitize [...]
“Towards a Critical Faculty” reader compiled by Stuart Bailey aka Dexter Sinister
I was pleasantly surprised to find Stuart Bailey listed as one of the artist to be included in this years Whitney Biennial 2008. I’m curious as to what he will be offering to the show. From what I gather, his work is without form, [...]
If you missed Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey’s events in this month’s Performa 07 (“Loose Associations Lecture v.1.1″ reading at Drawing Center, or the radio performance of “Appendix Appendix” on WFMU) You’ll be happy to know that their radio performance is online now as a mp3 from the Dexter Sinister site. We attended [...]
A rather odd video report on New York Times today highlighting the AK-47 machine gun as it turns 60 today. In the video, at what appears to be a celebratory conference honoring the AK-47, the Defence Attache to Zimbabwe and Vietnam are giving speeches that pay tribute to the gun in which they “see Freedom.” [...]
You would think that a company who supports young designers (both print and web) would have a good grasp of the technology and etiquette involved in dealing with those aforementioned industries. That doesn’t seem to be the case for “Young Guns”, an awards company which hands out a out yearly prize or two to designers [...]
Don’t worry guys, we’re working several beautiful designs!
‘It’s a silly thing to design, a conundrum, [...] You might as well leave it to security and engineers.’ - Diller, Scofidio & Renfro to the NYTimes in the article A Fence With More Beauty, Fewer Barbs. (That’s a good answer, glad they opted out of the free [...]
