http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com media & film, design, philosophy, politics Tue, 18 May 2010 02:12:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Nina Beier, "Non Finito Series," Wood, metal, 20 x 20 cm, 2009"][/caption] Though interesting enough on their own, these two works by the Berlin-based Danish artist Nina Beier form something entirely new when taken together. In the first (and the order is important), a "horizontal skyscraper" is ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/12/nina-beiers-possibly-in-progress-non-finito/ P1020372, originally uploaded by _Elijah. "Elijah Porter, a student at the Yale School of Architecture, has a great Flickr set up called Material Formation in Design. It features several awesome examples of how strategic cutting can transform a solid surface into a porous structure. In the specific case of the image ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/material-formation-in-design/ The Man of Commerce, 1889, by A.F. McKay, originally uploaded by joneilortiz. http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/04/the-man-of-commerce-1889-by-af-mckay/ From all that's written on the military and virtual reality, you might think that the equipment and apparatus we have come to associate with VR are exclusively military inventions, when, in fact, artists have played a much more profound role than traditionally credited. As Margot Lovejoy put it in her ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/art-and-the-origins-of-virtual-reality/ [caption id="attachment_737" align="aligncenter" width="450" caption="MemeTracker for the Presidential Campaign '08"][/caption] In a thought-provoking post on I cite, Jodi Dean describes the proliferation and popularity of 'tag clouds' as capturing "the shift from message to contribution characteristic of communicative capitalism". That is, in place of meaning and context, which in actuality govern ... http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2009/02/politics-tag-clouds-and-meme-tracking/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://www.mutuallyoccluded.com/2008/02/a-grunge-dirge/