The Bathysphere, "an underwater opera and an interactive game: a musical narrative in which the audience triggers events," is installed as part of the CHAT festival at UNC this week.

Society for the Humanities to host public conversation with Mary Flanagan (Digital Humanities, Dartmouth University) on Monday, February 8th, 4:30 p.m., at the A.D. White House, Cornell University. Public participation encouraged.

How are artists using the internet to beat the economic crisis and conduct radical and creative organizing projects? Read about ArtWork: A National Conversation about Art, Labor, and Economics.

Not knowing much about Oliveros and her performance style before the concert, I was open for anything when I went to the Krannert Art Museum.  I knew I wanted to attend because I did know that Oliveros was an accomplished, 77 year old woman playing radically creative music on a specifically modified instrument- a rare combination, something I did not want to miss. And that rare combination proved to be so much more.

I don’t know of any other museum that does such a good job of conjoining ancient and modern, history and making, as one seamless, interactive, interconnected world of creative, playful learning.

The past year on the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign campus has been full of art activist projects. As an MFA candidate in New Media who is interested in work that exists in the world of art and the world of social change ,simultaneously, I have been particularly excited about this. I intend to use my HASTAC blog platform to highlight both past and current art and activist projects that have touched the UIUC campus in one way or another. First up, Oakland based artist Favianna Rodriguez and the artist collective she belongs to, Just Seeds.

I was fortunate enough to be involved in a wonderful, experimental seminar at Duke called Wired! New Representational Technologies, co-led by Sheila Dillon, Caroline Bruzelius, Mark Olson, Rachael Brady, and Raquel Salvatella de Prada.  The purpose of the seminar was to explore how

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I spent yesterday touring Harajuku and Akihabira, Tokyo.  For a part of our day, we were accompanied by JohnHathway, the pseudonym of a stunningly original and talented physics graduate student who devotes himself to the most painstaking kind of anime, where he layers literally thousands upon thousands of layers of images, using Adobe computer photoshop layering, to produce a final image that he then sells in self-produced manga.   You can find his work at http://mots.jp.   You can buy it, you can tell your friends.