Very excited to have wrapped up producing and installing this exhibition in Halifax with some fantastic BCL colleagues.

Everything I Wanted Is Right Here (street installation shot) | Broken City Lab.

The term artist is an antiquated idea in trying to come to terms with this reality. It can be a useful category because the skillsets of artists are being deployed by power in various forms. But the manipulation of cultural symbols is nowhere remotely the sole purview of artists.

via Inside the Artist’s Studio | Nato Thompson | Art21 Blog.

This would be a really great way to introduce some basics of programming in a foundations-style class…

http://sketch.processing.org/

via https://twitter.com/#!/connors934/status/172341057160351744

Studio Seminar in Public Art: Lec 3 | MIT 4.367 (Lecture 3 of 3) | Antoni Muntadas | Academic Room.

- MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world. It will also enhance the educational experience of its on-campus students, offering them online tools that supplement and enrich their classroom and laboratory experiences.

The first MITx course, 6.002x (Circuits and Electronics), will be launched in an experimental prototype form. Watch this space for further upcoming courses, which will become available in Fall 2012.

The different hand signals used in the General Assembly and other communications between humans. Might be interesting in BCL or in class.

Occupy Hand Signals | Occupy Design.

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Below is a new demo song from The London Apartments, entitled, “Almost the New Year,” recorded between December 29, 2011 and January 1, 2012. You can stream it with flash, or download the file. This song is part of a new album I’m writing and hoping to release in the summer or fall of 2012.

Almost the New Year (mp3)

Beginning as a bedroom recording project by Justin Langlois in 2003, The London Apartments have since released numerous EPs and singles on netlabels around the world, a debut album, “Romanticism Aside” on Sound of Pop Records in 2005 and an E.P., “Logistics & Navigation” on Beggars Banquet in 2006, and an online album, “Signals & Cities Are Forever” in 2009, available for download here.