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Laila El-Haddad, and her father in Gaza on CNN tonight at 10pm

picklesno1 — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:02:16 +0000

Laila, @Gazamom has been tweeting about the ground invasion in Gaza City in real time. She and her dad will be on CNN at 10pm tonight. She also posts on the situation on her blog. Here’s a film that Laila did for Al Jazeera about the effects of the tunnel trade in Palestine.

FOO 09

admin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:25:03 +0000

Extenuating Circumstances
Elastic Space
Sascha Pohflepp
Nick Bilton
Kiwitobes
Robin Hunicke

lots of other great stuff and people…

Under the Table

picklesno1 — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 21:18:04 +0000

As a response to Waldemar Januczszak’s London Times article, ‘What is Art for?,’ Adam Parrish and I created the following participatory event for one of Marina Zurkow’s classes at ITP. Everyone got under the table and described specific place they remembered from childhood. It was an interesting mix of stories about: beaches, bamboo groves, laundry baskets, climbing trees naked by the highway, jumping up on kitchen counters, eating steak sandwiches in a basement dark room, using a fishing pole off of a NYC balcony to drop notes on other people’s terraces, swimming pools with frozen chocolate bars, wrestling with twins, and hanging out by the creek. Thanks to everyone for participating.

Photo: Carsten Holler, Tate Modern

experience-based
role of spectacle: internal/external
collapse of the viewer/performer/piece
Political act of artist calling the piece ‘test site’—experimental, experiential applications transform high art institution into a lab space
relationship between sliders/spectators as an interruption to general adult and museum etiquette/mobility
Accessible Protocols — slides (kids: park; adults: emergency exits)
Art brings Magic
context breeds meaning
Who can appreciate this?
What do people expect of art?
Why do people go for an art experience?
Change conditions
Escapism vs Presence

Other Relevant Projects that Play in this Space

Cocaine Buffet, 1998 and 2002, Rob Pruitt
Turrell’s P.S.1 piece
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s dinner pieces in galleries/museums that explore the role of the artist, building on Joseph Beuys’ concept of ’social sculpture’ and Bourriaud’s ‘relational aesthetics’

Pieces that have gone beyond museum as ‘test site’

improv everywhere Operation: Best Buy
smiling flashmobs in belarus or here

Field trip to foam stores

picklesno1 — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 01:13:00 +0000

Everyday technology difficulty of use chart

picklesno1 — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:25:32 +0000

Device	Your Usage	Use w/o Hearing		Use w/o Vision		Use w/o Ability to Walk		Use w/o Ability to Use Hands
		Use	Modification	Use	Modification	Use	Modification	Use	Modification
cellphone	34	4.5	2*	5	4	1	n/a	5	4.5
laptop	21	2	1.5	5	5	1	n/a	5	4.5
radio	5	5	5	1	1	1	1	2	2
lights	14	1	n/a	5	n/a	3	?	4	4
train	2	2	2	5	5	5	2	4	4
train ticket kiosk	1	1	n/a	5	maybe modified	1	1	5	4, v/o
subway	3	1	n/a	5	4	2	1	2	1
metrocard	7	1	n/a	1	1	2	1	5	4**
taxi	1	5	5	4	4	5	3	3	4***
elliptical machine	3	1	n/a	2	3	5	5	2	?
stereo	1	5	5	4	2	3	2	5	4
soldering iron	3	1	n/a	5	5	2	1	5	5
video projector	3	1	n/a	5	5?	1	n/a	1	n/a
street crossing light	154	1	n/a	5	5	2	1	1	n/a
bus	4	2	2	5	4	3	3	4	5

*purchase pre-existing technology
**RFID?

***use pre-existing technology of automatically opening/closing taxi doors, like those in Tokyo.
Cell phones

I found several pre-existing cellphone options for the hearing impaired, that use the state Relay Service for voice to text and this one offered a full qwerty board for easier typing, only all of these options seem bulky and expensive.

For vision impaired, I found mostly magnifying options and screen readers. I did find an article on a PDA that included Braille keys, SMS options, etc.

Street Crossing Light

For vision impaired, I found this article from the NYC DOT about their newest street crossing technology for the vision impaired, that was recently installed in Staten Island.