Properties of Networked Publics
I have uploaded the lecture on network culture, intellectual property, and subjective that I gave at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies to Vimeo. Properties of Networked Publics from kazys Varnelis on Vimeo. I was invited by Marysia Lewandowska, a visiting critic at the CCS this year. Her "Museum Futures" project sets the context and is well worth watching. See here.   Bookmark/Search this post with:

On Methods
The following text is a methodological introduction to a talk I gave at Bard's Center for Curatorial Studies yesterday. A video of the talk, which is on the topic of intellectual property under network culture will be forthcoming soon.   At hand today is a discussion of publics and property under network culture. The reading that I will undertake emerges originally out of work that I did while a senior fellow at the Networked Publics group of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The work of our year-long faculty seminar was published in the book Networked Publ

Slow Infrastructure
In a bizarre misinterpretation of Michael Pollan’s advocacy of slow food, the Obama administration has decided to pursue slow infrastructure. No, this doesn’t mean funding more freeways in Los Angeles, I’m kidding about the Pollan reference, it does mean stalling on infrastructure yet again because it isn’t politically expedient and doesn’t benefit his main supporters in the world of finance: investment banks and health insurance companies. See here. Note to doe-eyed newspaper reporters who want OMA-designed windmills to view from their villas in Catalina Is

Bill Moyers At His Best
This is Bill Moyers at his best. It must have slipped past the guards at PBS, but its really fantastic, a spot on indictment of Congress. Can I have a third party now to counter the party on the far Right and the party on the extreme Right? Please? YouTube - Bill Moyers on Max Baucus and Senate health insurance reform bill Bookmark/Search this post with:

First Works at the AA
Unfortunately I won’t have a chance to see this show, but I had the chance to contribute a brief piece on Archizoom’s “Structure for Leisure in Prato–Permanent Luna Park in a Shopping Centre” to the catalogue for First Works: Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the 1960s and 1970s, now on display the AA. The show explores the first projects that architects of that era (Archigram, Archizoom, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Peter Eisenman, Norman Foster + Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Rafael Moneo, Morphosis, Renzo Piano, Cedric Price, Aldo