Iraqi video artist Wafaa Bilal, a faculty member of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, was fingered as a terrorist by the Institute’s College Republicans because of a video game he created called “The Night of Bush Capturing: A Virtual Jihadi.” According to the artist the game, which was derived from a propaganda Al [...]
Archive for March, 2008
The land of free speech?
Posted in Conflicts of Interest, tagged academia, Bush, college, free speech, Republicans, terrorism, terrorist, university on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Drama on the elevator…
Posted in surveillance, Theater, tagged drama, surveillance, Theater on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Take a ride on the elevator at elevatormoods.com, a project created by Andrew Naham and friends. It features elevator dramas filmed from the surveillance camera’s point of view. One might call it, “theater in the square”! Click the web site’s floor buttons to watch clips of mini dramas that only make sense within the claustrophobic [...]
Check out…
Posted in Check out..., tagged Mexican border, music, sound on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…sound artist Glenn Weyant, creator of the The Anta Project / SonicAnta Project, a sound collage created by recording sound generated by the U. S./Mexican border fence. “There’s actually a lot of political and conceptual ramifications …what one decides is noise gets policed and cordoned off from what gets to be considered music…to be able [...]
