What makes a video go viral? What creates the impulse for shareware across the interwebs? What stimulates the mirror neurons..
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Jimmy Kimmel‘s on the street interviews: Obamacare versus The Affordable Care Act Through onstreet interviews outside studios in Los Angeles,..
Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan had a dream: to go to school. She started a blog at the age of 11,..
A powerful 35-minute documentary by the director Werner Herzog is making the rounds with a mission to end texting while..
Despite the zoom consumption of media events in the fantastic land of the Internets, an occasional review once-through gleans some..
A millennial biracial Native American poeticizes his moment in 2013. His is, in his own words: “a house fire without..
Celebrity Energy: #NoFrackingWay: Mark Ruffalo, Yoko Ono and The Anti-Fracking Movement In 2010, the Emmy-awarded documentary Gasland, by activist Josh..
Although we live in an Internet era of oversharing, sexting, combined with an HBO/Showtime matrix of explicit programming, and a..
As Ben Rattray, Founder of the highly influential changemaker site Change.org tells it, he graduated from Stanford with every intention..
This past year, New York-based artist Robin Kahn participated in dOCUMENTA 13 presenting “The Art of Sahrawi Cooking”, a collaboration..
Commuters: A Year on the New York Subway COMMUTERS: 2012 from Rebecca Davis on Vimeo. A hypnotic take on the..
When the power went out last night at the Superbowl in New Orleans, the twitterati went to work lighting the..
(Source: The Atlantic) Despite all the hoo-ha that takes place every year around the Oscars, the Emmys, the Grammys, etc.,..
Are GIFs the new emoticons? (Ellsbeth Reeve, The Atlantic) The shorthand capacity of the GIF has aided and abetted viral..
Ann Hamilton’s spectacular interactive performance environment, “The Event of a Thread” debuted at the Park Avenue Armory on December 6th…
An Invitation for those in the New School Community and Beyond! I have been invited to teach a living archive..
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