It’s Raining Social Practice | Smack Mellon brings a survey exhibit, Condensations of the Social, with the suggestion that social practice, more than any other, can change how we live. [Provisions]
Keep it Movement | The United States Social Forum is in full swing, with many not-to-be-missed events. We’re not in town, but if you are, dig the New World from Below book party for some friendly faces. [USSF]
Time to Upgrade | Eyebeam, Not An Alternative, and Upgrade!NY are busy with Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, which starts with participation as a dominant, even coercive paradigm, and examines it in art, activism, urbanism, technology, and more. [Upgrade]
Tips Appreciated | The HONK! Festival’s annual benefit happens Friday, with RiotFolk artist Evan Greer, the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society, and more of Boston’s wonderfully weird. [HONK!]
Adam Friedman’s “No Vestige of a Beginning, No Prospect of and End” (2010)
Big Shots | Take a look at the rich, white men at the top rung of the NYC cultural ladder. [NYTimes]
DIY WPA | The Work Projects Administration is experiencing a revival, at the hands of public artists and community organizers. [WPA]
Reason to Interfere | Invitations are being solicited for work combining art, politics, and protest, for Interference 2010. [Artsadmin]
Preference & Prejudice | Tackle the issue of bias where art and politics meet. [The Arts Politic]
Heather and Ivan Morrison’s How to Survive the Coming Bad Years
Sweet Release | Autonomedia’s dropping their new book, Critical Strategies in Art and Media, and throwing a big party. [Eyebeam]
Eponymedia | The conference that inspired the book, also titled Critical Strategies in Art and Media, featured Steve Kurtz, Bifo, Brian Holmes, and more. The video documentation can be watched online. [World-Information Institute]
We ♥ Geo-Affinities | Spend some time with this experimental mapping project exploring the interrelation of gender, ethnicity, race, class and sexualities in contemporary European art. [GenderArtNet]
Groundswell Gains | We wrote a piece on how we work, and what we do when we work. [Sheepless]
Oh, so Democratic | The UK Border Agency has denied visas to five artists participating in a group show at Cornerhouse Art Gallery. [Animal]
Not One, but Two | Not only Ricardo Dominguez, but also Ken Ehrlich is targeted by the UC Regents, just when it seemed they couldn’t possibly do any more wrong. [b.a.n.g lab]
Sold Out | Every copy of our journal that we had in stock has moved from our shelves. These spots might have a few left. [Red Emma's, Bluestockings, Ada Books, Half Letter Press]
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger paints morphologically disturbed insects, their malformation caused by human-made radiation.
Razzle Dazzle | An NYU student is developing makeup techniques that “could render very expensive facial recognition technology utterly useless.” [Animal]
Dirty Money | Mel Chin’s Fundred Project, an arts-driven advocacy effort to make safe the lead-contaminated soil in US cities, is coming to Boston’s ICA on April 9th. [Fundred]
From the Ashes, Literally | Can you create an artwork from industrial spoil? Falkirk Council invites submissions for socially engaged works. [Arts & Ecology]
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