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Driving East

Posted on April 28th by Shae Davidson.
The ideal of the open road has served as a way to examine contemporary life and the nature of change and growth. Some have taken this fascination with ...

Transportation: Piece by Piece

Posted on April 21st by Shae Davidson.
The effects of mobility on life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as concerns about the connection between energy consumption and changing conceptualizations of space and distance, ...

City Lights

Posted on April 7th by Shae Davidson.
The Helsinki-themed collaborative media and art project CityWall allows users to explore images and data gleaned from the Internet--particularly items from YouTube and Flickr.  With help from the More →
http://www.lightart.nl/KALKAR/kalkar.htm

Qualitative Light

Posted on March 24th by Shae Davidson.
Amsterdam-based artist Joost van Santen created the online Museum of Light and Daylight to explore the relationship between light and landscape, and the ways in which the interaction of ...

Fallen Fruit

Posted on March 21st by Shae Davidson.
Blending the local food movement, cartographic art, and the idea of the public commons, Fallen Fruit invites participants to map the locations of fruit trees, creating an open project ...

New to the Collaborative

Posted on March 6th by paulkreiter.
Greetings all, I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. Originally from outside Chicago, I came to the east coast first to work at Brown University, and then to pursue ...

Text Mapping

Posted on February 29th by Shae Davidson.
For the past decade, artist Peter Cho has explored the boundaries between text and images and the visualization of data.  The collection of his work at TYPOTOPO focuses on the relationship between ...

Two Ways of Seeing Noise

Posted on February 13th by Shae Davidson.
Two sets of research and art projects catalog the effects of noise pollution in urban areas and public green spaces.  An ongoing program of the European Commission relies on extensive research ...
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Seamless Technology Fashion Show

Posted on February 5th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I had the pleasure of attending the third seamless technology fashion show wednesday at the Boston Museum of Science. Highlights included: Ok2Touch, which uses a human powered circuit ...
http://www.caracara.org/radar/nobody19a.htm

The Art of Being in Danger

Posted on January 18th by Shae Davidson.
A few years ago, a public art project by the Belgian Royal Academy Dendermonde Against Racism (RADAR) challenged people to reconsider the ways in which they viewed poverty and  ...

Personal Art

Posted on January 9th by Shae Davidson.
DNA 11 creates unique artwork by offering "portraits" of a client's fingerprints or DNA.  Customers receive a kit for collecting either a cheek swab or fingerprint samples, and then work with artists to select ...

Quantifying Culture

Posted on December 31st by Shae Davidson.
  The Urban Institute's  Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project created a way of describing an area's cultural infrastructure in quantifiable terms, allowing policymakers to see the effects of artistic ...
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Photography Across the Curriculum

Posted on December 24th by Shae Davidson.
In the late 1980s, Duke University's Center for Documentary Studiescoordinated a short photography workshop for local public schools.  Positive response from teachers, students, and administrators to Wendy Ewald's two-week ...

Remnants

Posted on December 10th by Shae Davidson.
  Shadows, afterthoughts, and accidental images provide a foundation for an exhibit by Real Art Ways.  The works that comprise the Shadow Show explore the edge of awareness:  the lingering effects of ...
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ArtsLit

Posted on December 5th by Shae Davidson.
ArtsLit fosters literacy education and engagement with the larger world by building partnerships between students and performance artists.  The program, based at Brown University, makes literature meaningful for academically-challenged students through ...