- Robot Glockenspiel Performs Popcorn. [YouTube and above]
- In contemporary art museums, columns are going the way of gluten. Both the Broad and the Whitney tout their soon-to-come “column-free” exhibition spaces. High-ceilinged, flexible spaces are one way to keep pace with changes in contemporary art practices, but, turns out, adding or adjusting moveable walls as needed is a giant pain in the ass. [The Art Newspaper]
- Creative Time’s gesture of solidarity with Cuban artist and sometime political prisoner Tania Bruguera underwhelmed one journalist, who made note of how hashtags supplanted loudspeakers as the choice medium for transgressively involving the public, and how the public art project largely ignored the immediate public.You know that zen koan, “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Looks like the answer is yes, if enough people tweet about it. [Hyperallergic]
- Wow. Art in General will leave it’s home in Tribeca after 34 years. Their lease is up. [Artnet News]
- Google image searches may actually shape the way we perceive the world. Mostly because believing everything you see is the new believing everything you read. [The Atlantic]
- According to UC-Berkeley’s Center for Labor Research and Education estimated 25% of all adjunct professors receive some form of public assistance.* [Slate]
- *Here’s a video of a bunch of kittens riding a roomba to help you through that last article. [YouTube]
- Still no word on who will run the new .art domain, but .sucks up and working as of June 1st. Looks like ICANN, the group that manages domain name systems, figured out there’s a lot of money to be made from Internet trolls; the fact that this domain name event exists suggests they knew it would would be popular. Naturally, there is already controversy: The company that will administer the new domain, a Canadian-based company called Vox Populi, is charging $2,500 for the website names — far more than a typical website registration of $10 to $25. The Intellectual Property Constituency, an advisory group to the global Internet domain regulator, has already complained. Is this just a shakedown to get money from companies and others? After the June 1 deadline, online trolls or “cybersquatters” could buy up the names and then extort even higher prices, according to the group which includes film, software and music industry associations and other trademark organizations. [Yahoo]
Tuesday Links: Museum Columns Go the Way of Gluten
by The AFC Staff on April 14, 2015 Massive Links
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