January 2012
16 posts
A.D.: Various Surfaces →
alexdolan:
Snake Scales
Realistic Human Skin
Dna Lava-lamp
Precious Peritoneum
Fleshy Organics
Xenian Bubbles
Zerg Skin
Blubbery Bronchitis
Wet Grey Skin
Blood Worms
Tissue Section
Mustard Virus
Ne56 Disease
Alien Egg Cluster
Getroid
Nuclear Tidbit
Alien Skin Veins
Humanoid Skin
Weird Skin
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December 2011
11 posts
PERSONAL TUMBLR ANNOUNCEMENT
http://k-core.tumblr.com
which will also aggregate the high points of other general research accounts and k-holes throughout the web
So now you have @karialtmann on twitter, karialtmann.com, and k-core.tumblr.com. Maybe even Facebook, MAYBE… plus the 39 tracking feed Tumblrs and other accounts
Better act like you know
I bring to you at home, you like you buy, special price top...
“The dominant practice for thousands of years was instead voluntary gift-giving, which created a binding sense of obligation between potentially hostile groups. To give a gift was not an act based on calculation, but on the refusal to calculate. In the societies Mauss studied most closely — the Maori of New Zealand, the Haida of the Pacific Northwest — people rejected the principles of...
“Recently it has become increasingly easy for people to participate in the media, whether in the form of reality TV, so-called participatory democracy, crowdsourcing, or social networks. Anybody who is connected to the networks can make media artefacts that can reach a vast audience, recombine other such artefacts almost limitlessly, share ideas, content and engage in debate all over...
November 2011
19 posts
A.D.: advanced performance material technologies →
alexdolan:
Airstretch™
Armor-Tan™
Avora® FR
Body Care®
C_Change™
Celliant®
Coolmax™ EcoTech™
CORDURA® Ballistic
CORDURA® Baselayer fabrics
CORDURA® NYCO
CORDURA® UltraLite
CORE-FLEQT®
Cryon™
CuTEC™
Darlexx Superskin®
Darlexx Thermalastic®
Dri-release®
Earthwhile™
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Mal du Materiel: High Technology and its Shadow →
Abstract for a paper, via Matei
Some snippets that sound promising:
“The materiality of our contemporary environment is the product of large, to varying degrees global processes involving the collaboration of myriad people; excavating, smelting, soldering, thinking, planning, moving the materials around until they have settled in the forms we can observe here today. Whatever moves...
“I wonder if this work enacts a contemporary Emperor’s New Clothes myth, where fairly simple objects have been associated with such particular meaning that they become stand-ins for a separate web of ideas.”
FLOOR MODELS
“This show addresses three main institutional questions: that of the networked identity presenting itself as distinct characters; the realities and formats of the email-outsourced art show as outpost; and the pressures of product logic in the careers of artists. As R-U-In?S turned into a product and meme of its own, it also became subject to expectation, translation, bootlegs, and...
“An alternative search software used by a community of people around the world”
The End of Poverty? →
Documentary about colonization, debt, appropriation, resources, culture, finishing v. raw, etc.
Team up Nothing’s worth anything unless you have a good distribution system. A friend of mine sells roses delivered to the door. Another friend sells luxury hams from Italy and exotic mushrooms from Japan. Those that buy the roses might very well be interested in a basket of exotic foodstuffs, whereas those buying the food might be interested in the flowers. One night the penny dropped....
cmd: Kari Altmann →
cmdldn:
HAZING - in conversation with http://karialtmann.com/
Documentation from Core Samples: Blackmoth.info Body Piercings, 2011
We talked previously about an emphasis on Tumblr in dialogue surrounding your work — would you say there’s a frustration in repeating yourself in…
October 2011
13 posts
“Youthful fascination with collectivism is in part simply a way to address perceived ‘unfairness.’ If everyone shares, then a young person arriving on the scene fresh will not have less than an older person who has been around for a while.”
“This is all harmless enough, but the pattern can be manipulated in dangerous ways. I don’t want our young people aggregated, even...
