Open Space

ROBERT BRESSON SAID THIS

In Notes on a Cinematographer , filmmaker Robert Bresson wrote: A single look lets loose a passion, a murder, a war.

PERIPHERAL UTTERANCE

OPENINGS IN THE VEIL: JOANN LOW AND KEVIN KILLIAN IN CONVERSATION

Kevin Killian and JoAnn Low, 2018. It took me years to find JoAnn Low, but it was worth the wait. Writing the life of Jack Spicer,...

TALIA TAYLOR & CANDICE ANTIQUE'S DEFINITION OF LOVE

Over the past few months, I've be doing audio interviews with mothers who are artists, asking them for their definition of love, and...

LUCID DREAMING WITH ABBAS KIAROSTAMI

Abbas Kiarostami, Sleepers , 2001 I used to study books on lucid dreaming. Repeat I am aware that I am dreaming before dozing off;...

THIS THING NEVER STOPS: ROSCOE MITCHELL AND PHILLIP GREENLIEF IN CONVERSATION

Roscoe Mitchell performing at the Moers Festival in Moers, Germany, 2009. e Alike 3.0 Unported . It would be hard to overstate the...

MÁS SENCILLA Y MÁS SINCERA, OR: AQUÍ ES TODO DIFERENTE, TODO, TODO ES DIFERENTE

My mother, the year she was left in Chiapas. Earlier this year, in the spring, I accompanied my mother to Tijuana. She had announced...

THE ENTHUSIAST: MAC MCGINNES AND CONSTANCE LEWALLEN IN CONVERSATION

Constance Lewallen and Mac McGinnes in Mac's San Francisco apartment. I met Mac McGinnes soon after I moved to San Francisco in the...

GUANXI, 350-950

This piece could never adequately capture the complexities of the separate-but-related projects of China's intensified surveillance...

NOTES FOR NEXT TIME

Graphic: Omar Mohammad. Our Rethink: Web workshop included a wealth of artists and creative thinkers, and yielded too many threads...

TRANSFER POINTS

FAMILIAR STRANGERS, STRANGE FAMILIARS

Which flag do you fly? the man sitting next to me on the train asks, carefully looking at me. I've been staring out the window for...

NOT POLITE TO POINT: A BLIND PERSPECTIVE ON THE ACCESSIBLE WEB

If you were to follow a blind person through their daily life, you might be surprised by what surprises you. The novelty of how we...

PROTOTYPE: SERENDIPITY

So much of our online activity is dictated by algorithms that decide what we see, sometimes adding context like “most popular” or “trending,”...

NEEDA BEE'S DEFINITION OF LOVE

Needa Bee at The Village in Deep East Oakland. Photos: Pendarvis Harshaw. For the next month, I'll be doing audio interviews with mothers...

INSECTROPOLIS

| It is a brightly broke is corrupt data. | It is a brightly broke is corrupt data. | It is a brightly broke is corrupt data. Insectropolis Our...

OLIVER LEE JACKSON IN NEW YORK

Oliver Lee Jackson, No. 4 , 2015 When confronted with a blank canvas or a blank piece of paper, many artists have felt frozen - in...

OLIVER JACKSON IN NEW YORK

No. 4, 2015 by Oliver Lee Jackson When confronted with a blank canvas or a blank piece of paper, many artists have felt frozen - in...

LETTER FROM A VIRGIN WHO CAN'T DRIVE

Until I was eighteen, I was told a humorous story about my birth, one that I desperately wish was true: that my mother, in complete...

URGENCY BROADCASTS

From: HK To: OMG Sent: 07/01/2018 Subject Fw: Urgency Broadcasts Pls print. SLRC/Committee approved rollout of the notifications...