Claude Monet’s La Japonaise (1876) portrays Camille in an outlandish red kimono, looking at the audience with a coy smile. In 2015, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston held a Looking East exhibition, showcasing a collection of Japanese-inspired European art. The museum’s “Kimono Wednesday” program—a summer special event where the Read more…
In May 2016, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a study to examine different lighting technology’s impact on crime reduction in NYC. After a 31% increase in shootings at NYC Housing Authority developments in 2014, Blasio installed 400 units of white LED lights. These harsh, blinding white LED Read more…
In “Cultivating the Self”, Alta Starr quotes Audre Lorde to confront the way some people live “outside themselves”, meaning that they rely on external directives only, rather than their internal knowledge and needs. Through embodiment and somatic work, one can deconstruct traditional structures that often limit and distract creative processes.
In my exploration of glitch as an art form, I used TextEdit to break the image file and create variations in saturation, hue, and value. After glitching the image numerous times, I ended up with a vibrant green picture. While researching, I stumbled upon a post about video game players Read more…
Minnie Kim Digital violence can translate into the physical world. Initially, Pegasus, a government spyware, was sold to Mexican federal agencies by the Israeli company NSO Group on the condition that it only be used to investigate criminals and terrorists. However, the spyware was found to have connections with real-world Read more…