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Sorting Daemons

Friday, January 15th, 2010

I attended the opening for Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance and Social Control, which is being held in conjunction with the Surveillance Camera workshop I’m attending.
Information-gathering systems increasingly affect our lives, tracking our movement and consumer preferences. Such “sorting daemons” reinforce existing streams of influence and quietly create new ones. The artists in this exhibition take [...]

Favianna’s in town!

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Favianna moving the merchandise
Photo by Rodger Levesque
Radical poster artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez is in town from Oakland, CA this weekend for a series of supercool art/technology events. Last night she kicked off the 2009 Web of Change calendar with Designing for Democracy at District 319. Favi’s multi-media presentation, including live drawing dealt [...]