Dear Mr. President

- Randall Packer -

High Entertainment

- David Robbins -

A platform is a context, medium or venue for the presentation of people, events, objects or information.

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The E-mail Obsessional - Compulsive Inventory (EOC)

- irational.org -

Find us at the kitchen door

- Hadley + Maxwell -

Unitednationsplaza is an ongoing experimental exhibition/educational institution organized by artist Anton Vidokle in collaboration with Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Nikolaus Hirsch, Magdalena Magiera, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Jalal Toufic and Tirdad Zolghadr. Nestled in the shadow of romantic plattenbau apartments, unp Berlin (the project’s initial location), is a small square box that sits at the rear of a big box—a giant food retailer.

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John Fare - The Scandal of the Missing Body (Parts)

- Audrone Zukauskaite -

Malinowski in Miami

- J. C. Fregnan -

TBA: Time Based Art

- Katherine Bovee -

Annually, since 2003, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) has assembled a group of artists, musicians and performers under the rubric of “time-based art.” Embracing a broad and multidisciplinary definition of contemporary art, the ten-day Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival consciously strives to erode divisions between “the performing arts” and “performance art.”

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Origami Unicorn

- Ray Ogar -

I wake under tentacles of vernacular neon. Tense at first. The swell of advertising reads me as the city’s most prehensile appendage. Sleep retracts from my face. I’ve been doubled. Or so I think. I wake in front of the post office. The sun, refracted by glass, breaks me in two. At first I stutter down the entrance window, my skin catching against its Windex film...

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Mediums

- Kubick, Walsh, Raymond, Stevens -

The following discussion between artists Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh (who collaborate as Double Archive) and Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens (who collaborate as Potter-Belmar Labs) took place via e-mail during the latter part of 2007 and the first weeks of 2008.

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At Your Service: Escaping the Progress Trap

- Andrea Grover -

At Your Service: Escaping the Progress Trap is a selection of informational videos by artists who use recent technological tools for purposes other than what they were designed to do and, in some instances, in direct opposition to their intended use.

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Contestational Robotics, 1998

- Critical Art Ensemble -

This article is the first in a series of robotic objector projects for the home roboticist/anarchist. This design combines the integrated perception and autonomous navigation skills of the human dissident with the efficiency and compact size of a robot specifically adapted to the tactics and terrain of street actions...

Contestational Robotics: Addendum, 2008

- Institute for Applied Autonomy -

It has been ten years since the Institute for Applied Autonomy and the Critical Art Ensemble published “Contestational Robotics,” a manifesto proposing the use of activist-made robotics to create temporary spaces of free expression.

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Apophenia in Practice: Probing the Indefinite

- Anjali Gupta -

On The Road and Staying Home

- Michael Auping -

Sorrow Hound

- Stanfield, Vogt and Ziedler -

At Your Service: Escaping the Progress Trap

- DVD -

Austin

Cauleen Smith
- Till Richter -

Jonathan Marshall {read more}
- Madeline Irvine -

Florian Slotawa
- Ivan Lozano -

Dallas

Phil Collins {read more}
- Noah Simblist -

Annabel Daou & Stephen Lapthisophon
- Kevin Bouchard -

Houston

AES+F {read more}
- Evan J. Garza -

Thomas Glassford
- Garland Fielder -

Nan Goldin
- Rachel Cook -

Laura Lark {read more}
- Nick Kersulis -

Bruce Nauman
- Eric Zimmerman -

Claude Wampler
- Claire Ruud -

Amy Sillman
- John Devine -

New York

Aaron Parazette
- John Ewing -

Chris Sauter {read more}
- Riley O’Bryan -

Lawrence Weiner
- Yaelle Amir -

Andy Coolquitt and Frank Haines
- Marie-Adele Moniot -

San Antonio

Paul Feeley
- Lawrence Jennings -

Standing on one foot {read more}
- Ben Judson -

Book Reviews

ubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed
- Tim Staley -

An Atlas of Radical Cartography...
- Alex Jovanovich -