“Forty-two” is the response given by Deep Thought, the supercomputer programmed to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This answer, while delivered after centuries of waiting and couched within some serious expectation management (‘You’re really not going to like it’), […]
Ecce occupy , number 89 of the 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts series published as part of 2012 dOCUMENTA(13), was created by the collaborative pair of Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri (Iran/Palestine/USA). The long title of the work runs as follows: Ecce occupy: Fragments from conversations between free persons and captive persons concerning the crisis […]
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We are heading into the last weekend of the three current exhibitions on show at the Wexner Center for the Arts here in Columbus, Ohio: Christain Marclay’s The Clock Josiah McElheny Towards a Light Club More American Photographs I want to share with you a project I designed for the students of my Philosophy 3210: […]