This past Monday night the Internet exploded. It does this from time to time due to some seminal cultural moment, when everyone, it seems, swarms online to post their reactions and thoughts right this moment. On Monday night, it was due to an incredible, horrible, no good very bad call […]
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This week the MIT Office of the Arts is hosting kick-off events for Artists-in-Residence Mel Chin and Rick Lowe. Both artists are renowned in the field of “social practice” which conceives of art-making as an activity that can be participatory, social, community-oriented and engage many fields in and outside of […]
On Friday morning, Becky, Rodrigo and I set out for Central Square, where we had a date with Cambridge Community Television for Parking Day. Parking Day is an international celebration, with do-ocrats, organizations and cities eager to reclaim parking spaces as public spaces. Your typical street-side spot becomes a mini-park, […]
Babycastles curates, hosts, and install independent games made by small groups of people or individuals around New York City and around the world, creating an arcade setting for people of all ages and identities to experience games. Speaking to us about Babycastles is Syed Salahuddin, an adjunct professor at […]
A quick note pecked on my phone from the ONA conference in San Francisco… At the end of this morning’s “Business of Collaboration” session, I had the chance to ask a panel of editors, “Why have you only talked about how you collaborate with other news outlets? Are there particular […]