DJ Spooky: Seoul Counterpoint: The musician spins a live Internet tale of two cities at NYC’s La MaMa this weekend

DJ Spooky: Seoul Counterpoint


When we last checked in with Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, he was finishing up his year-long residency at NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Seems like he hasn’t taken a break since: Miller was…

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StreamMeUp: The SXSW Interactive installation that allows users to explore alien worlds through Kinect

StreamMeUp


While a good majority of panels and projects at this year’s SXSW Interactive centered around the NSA and government surveillance, interactive installation StreamMeUp offered a lighthearted alternative to the discussion on where advancements in technology can…

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ListenUp: Petit Fantome’s interactive music video, Superhumanoids’ i-D mix, our Valentine’s theme song and more in the music we tweeted this week

ListenUp


Woman’s Hour: Her Ghost The British quartet Woman’s Hour isn’t easy to sum up, but any band whose website contains a manifesto-like literary component and whose album art and videos are created by the politically-minded, provocative photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, would…

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Dances of Vice: The group hosts enchanted evenings that are equal parts party, performance and fantasy

Dances of Vice


by Natasha Tauber Whether performing at the annual invocation of Edward Gorey on Halloween, creating a ’60s spy film (complete with a femme fatale) or working with the Japan…

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Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning: An immersive theater experience transports the audience back to the Prohibition era, interpreting a murder mystery from a new angle each week

Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Bloody Beginning


On 14 March 1935 in the Bronx, New York, a man named Frank Spano was shot to death in front of his 12-year-old son Dominick. John Guerrieri, the man who held the gun, was their neighbor and father to Dominick’s friend—and would later…

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David Datuna: Viewpoint of Billions: American culture magnified in the artist’s groundbreaking work which interacts with Google Glass

David Datuna: Viewpoint of Billions


Melding enough types of buzzworthy gadgets to make any technologist drool, NY-based artist David Datuna’s new multimedia piece “Viewpoint of Billions” is likely one of the first pieces of art to be specifically created with Google…

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Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Drones dropping books, interactive TV, Banksy’s $60 art and more in our weekly look at the web

Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. GQ’s Man of the Year: Noel Gallagher Known as much for his ability to say almost anything as he is for a batch of successful tunes, Oasis lead guitarist Noel Gallagher has been selected as GQ’s man of the year. In an…

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Tangeez Tangible Lights: Interactive, color-changing building blocks that let you play with light, by New York’s Next Top Makers finalists

Tangeez Tangible Lights


We first came across Tangeez—colorful, interactive, light-up building blocks—at this year’s Maker Faire. A long-anticipated reinvention of the classic toy, these mesmerizing, palm-sized objects change color as they’re stacked….

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