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some photos of bilbao:

jonah and nina in front of ciberart posters that filled the city (more…)

Pattern Language is an upcoming exhibition at art interactive in cambridge, mass. looks like some interesting work by a broad range of artists and practitioners… from august 20 - to october 31, 2004. if anyone is around boston then and checks it out send me some photos…

jonah, nina, and i are all presenting work at the ciberart this week. jonah and i already gave our talks and nina speaks tonight. tomorrow we’ll visit the guggenheim and take a short trip out to the beach!

richard stallman at the ciberart bilbao

hehe… amazingly real photo-scenery for your flight simulator! i must say their screen shots of los angeles and san diego are pretty amazing. there’s even a shot of palos verdes. the night shots though, are really the best. i remember ending many transcontinental flights that way.

some images from the FEED exhibition in the birmingham selfridges:

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just got back from birmingham - and setting up for the FEED festival, where I am showing Inside/Outside alongside Hussein Chalayan, Sompit Moi Fusakul, Jenny Tillotsen, Rachel Wingfield, Elise Co (with Nikita Pashenkov), and Maggie Orth. the work looked great - check out the pictures i’ll post for a closer look…

had a great time hanging out with Moi, who completed her Ph.D. at RCA and is now back in Thailand teaching at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, in Bangkok. we met at the e-culture fair, where we were both exhibiting our work in the ‘my mode’ show, though with all the activity i never had the chance to appreciate just how beautiful her work is. the more relaxed pace at FEED allowed me to take in more about the works being presented, and the context of the show, in the new selfridges in the ‘bull ring’ managed to give an entirely different feel to all the pieces presented.

also got to meet up again with the fabulous duo who run capsule and drool over all the designer goods packed within selfridges!

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. - Joan Didion

back at home i spent quite a bit of time in the local library - haha… yeah, the library i used to go to while in high school. found some pretty interesting books i would otherwise not come across in dublin.

this one by david brodsly: L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay, 0-520-04068-6 was particularly moving. for me, native southern californian and resident of the satellite sprawl of los angeles, some things about this book rang so true. with references to joan didion, los angeles history, and plenty of striking photos of soaring freeway interchanges, it perfectly captured the best and worst of los angeles, and how the freeway is central to any discussion of life there. (more…)

david IM’ed this over… slowLab…

…deep experience of the world– meaningful and revealing relationships with the people, places and things we interact with, and importantly, with our own inner selves– requires slow-ness.