Archive for December, 2009
accident-explanatory slings
So many directions you could go with these: via Craftzine blog
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Can prosthetics be an unfair advantage?
Here’s Part I of a great discussion of the ways prosthetics—in their ever more sophisticated forms—are raising ethical questions about bodily augmentation and mechanical advantage. The image is of Oscar Pistorius, an athlete and bilateral amputee who’s been able to seriously compete against both able-legged runners and at the Paralympics.
read moreinternational lab coat symbol (ongoing series)
I’ve started a collaborative, public project designed as interventions in medical office waiting rooms, and I’m looking for partners. I’ve made these postcard drawings of lab coats, and I’d like collaborators to place a card in one of the magazines that sit in waiting rooms, leaving them for the next prospective patient. The dynamics of [...]
read morehappy accidents
From Mitchell Whitelaw’s Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life: “New media art self-consciously reworks technology into culture, and rereads technology as culture. What’s more, it does so in a concrete, applied way; it manipulates the technology itself, with a nonindustrial latitude that admits misapplication and adaptation, rewiring and hacking, pseudofunctionality and accident. New media art also [...]
read moretools for historical imagination: jury duty
Tools for Historical Imagination: Jury Duty Running Time: 7 min 35 sec I’ve been interested in judicial service for a long time—the daunting responsibility of it, the chance to look inside the justice system, the human stories at the center of any case. After serving on a case in 2003, I couldn’t shake the feeling [...]
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