Interactive art

Ganked from deri­gueur : Soy tu aire. Span­ish inter­act­ive art, requires Flash 10. Utterly beautiful.It’s funny, I remem­ber sit­ting at a press con­fer­ence many years ago and having some Adobe guru demon­strate for us the vari­ous things they were...

Naked tweens not inherently sexual: Censors

And in shock news, the Aus­tralian cen­sor­ship office has made a logical decision, announ­cing that the con­tro­ver­sial Bill Henson photos of a 12-year-old naked girl rate a PG and should not be banned. Could this mean that any pedo­philic thoughts...

Politics, art and liberty

The last days in New York were over­cast then rainy, but we walked the Brook­lyn Bridge and I spent a bunch of time in MOMA and the Met. I didn’t make it to the Gug­gen­heim because it was closed on Thursday when I tried.Still, the Geor­gia...

Electundra and purpose

Today’s musical styles could­n’t have con­tras­ted more. The after­noon was upbeat reggae and African rhythms in one room, West Papuan and pacific in another and smells of cook­ing waft­ing through. This even­ing was ser­i­ous young men (and they were all men),...

Things I would like to go do/see in the near future: The Unquiet World exhib­i­tion @ ACCA (free), on now. Some of the Gypsy films at ACMI (films $13/$10, season passes $60/$48), starts Thursday. The open­ing of James Geurts’s exhib­i­tion Tidemark at the...