LUMEN_EX 2010

Banker’s Bonuses project just been accepted for LUMEN_EX 2010 competition (Cáceres, Spain)

Anti-war art

Emily Prince’s drawings of 5,218 US war dead.

Steve McQueen’s Queen and Country project, in which he created postage stamp sheets of 155 British soldiers killed in Iraq. He continues to campaign for the stamps to be issued.

Karl Marx goes manga in a Kapital comic strip

Japanese bookstores are preparing for what they expect to be the publishing phenomenon of the year: Das Kapital – the manga version.
“The comic, which goes on sale early next month, plays into a growing fascination among Japan’s hard-working labour force with socialist literature and joins a collection of increasingly fierce literary critiques of the [...]

Buddy Rivers to perform in Paris

Buddy Rivers has been accepted for the Hacker Fest in Paris: Wednesday 18th June:
Workshop Day #1 (Hacker-centric workshops)
* Wikidot: your wiki website in 3 minutes - Benjamin Henrion
* Logz & web 1.9 - Loz
* Buddy Rivers Live - Dave Miller
* L’art viral / Détournements artistiques dans le champ technosocial - maxime marion
* NoOOXML - Benjamin Henrion* [...]

Leroy show update/ some thoughts

I’ve just changed the url for the site: http://davemiller.org/experiments/buddy_rivers_leroy/.

We’re currently not sure if I’ll be using the 1st or ground floor as yet, but here are 2 pics of the ground floor, and this is likely to be the area where I use: 

The overall idea is to project the performance onto a wall. I’d like [...]

A walk in the park with Joseph Paxton

I’ve just completed a quick interactive online experiment: http://davemiller.org/experiments/paxton. This is an interactive conversation, and visual story combined. It deals with a controversial, topical and emotive local issue, concerning the development of Crystal Palace park after long years of neglect. Lots of plans are being put forward, and local people consulted extensively. It occurred to me [...]