The Myth of Floxing

The Artist’s Interactive Toolbox

Computer Crash

A message for interactive artists from the Harvard Business Review. You’re art is competing with fridges! So if you want people to look at, you’d better make it smart…

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Social entrepreneurs go Hollywood: The promise of change in 25 words or less

You're the only person who listens
It’s pretty hard to change the world, if no one wants to follow your thinking…

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Does social mirroring lead to bostitution? Please like this…

I like your new hair-cut!

Want to get “in” with the In-crowd? Trying mirroring their body language and facial expressions.

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Social Justice in our DNA?

Tim Flannery, author of Here on Earth and The Weather Makers, explains why he thinks Darwin’s theory of evolution points to the development cooperative social systems like ant colonies, cockroach agriculture, and human cities — what he calls “intelligent super-organisms”. Others, like Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene, see “Survival of the Fittest” as […]

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Portfolio

Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)

Is fear of the “Dirty Oil” label behind Canada’s tarring of Artist’s European tour? What lengths will the Canadian Government go to ensure that oil from the Alberta Tar Sands is not labelled “dirty”? Watch this video about Canadian artist Franke James, and how a dream opportunity — a 20-city European artshow to educate youth about climate change — faced behind-the-scenes interference by the Canadian Government.

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D. Nile: Money and other things

Laurie Brown looking through Money, an interactive sculpture created by D. Nile (a.k.a. Billiam James) for A Space exhibition Guerrilla Tactics, 1987
Laurie Brown and Money, an interactive sculpture created by D. Nile (a.k.a. Billiam James) for A Space exhibition Guerrilla Tactics, 1987
Money, an interactive sculpture created by D. Nile (a.k.a. Billiam James) for A Space exhibition Guerrilla Tactics
Money ATM (Art Technology Money)
An interactive sculpture with real-time video integration of user input, consumer profiling, and electronic commerce — it delivered a customized print-out with real money to every user. Created by D. Nile (a.k.a. Billiam James) for A Space 1987 exhibition Guerrilla Tactics.

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