'Grossology' Museum Exhibit Burps, Stinks (AP)

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Another car exhibit in a Massachusetts
art museum

Another car exhibit in a Massachusetts
art museum 04/18/2005 02:34 AM

In an attempt to build up my skills in the Piper Arrow, an example of the "complex" airplane that must be used for an FAA flight instructor flight test, I went out to western Massachusetts on Saturday to MassMOCA, an electronic components factory converted to contemporary art museum.  The most arresting exhibit currently is by the explosion artist Cai Guo-Qiang.  He tricked out Ford Tauruses with fiber optics to simulate rockets and fireworks then hung them from the ceiling in one of MassMOCA's largest rooms.  This is well worth the trip to the North Adams airport (KAQW; surrounded by mountains and not suitable for IFR or night operations).  If you were bored by the car exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts you'll like this one.

ht tp://www.caiguoqiang.com/project_detail.php?id=114&iid=517 sh ows some photos.  The exhibit closes in October 2005.

Board games anything but boring at
museum exhibit

Board games anything but boring at
museum exhibit 01/09/2004 10:14 PM
Others, like the board game featuring Barney Google and his racehorse, Spark Plug, represent a piece of past popular culture. While ...

Should we exhibit GMail in the Museum of
Jurassic Technology?

Should we exhibit GMail in the Museum of
Jurassic Technology? 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
There is a place in Los Angeles I've never visited, but would love to: The Museum of Jurassic Technology. It is the subject of Lawrence Wechsler's delightful 1995 book, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. One Amazon reviewer called the museum "a straight-faced, Andy Kaufman-esque joke, blending exhibits that look too nutty to be true, but are true, with outright hoaxes." ...

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
(Reuters)

Nudes Fill Museum for Unusual Exhibit
(Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery Thursday to prepare for a one-day exhibit Friday.

Museum to Exhibit Paintings
Back-To-Front (Reuters)

Museum to Exhibit Paintings
Back-To-Front (Reuters) 08/03/2004 10:47 AM
Reuters - A South African museum is to open an exhibition of 17th Century Dutch Master paintings all hung the wrong way around with the artwork facing the wall.

Russian Museum to Exhibit
Rasputin’s Penis - NEWS -
MOSNEWS.COM

Russian Museum to Exhibit
Rasputin’s Penis - NEWS -
MOSNEWS.COM 05/01/2004 03:41 AM
Just when you'd thought you'd seen everything: .. Russian museum to exhibit Rasputin's penis .. Read article

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German nudes fill museum for unusual
exhibit (Reuters)

German nudes fill museum for unusual
exhibit (Reuters) 04/07/2005 12:58 PM
Reuters - One hundred virtually naked women between the ages of 18 and 65 have displayed their bodies in a Berlin art gallery to prepare for a one-day exhibit on Friday.

"Russian Museum to Exhibit Rasputin’s
Penis - NEWS - MOSN..."

"Russian Museum to Exhibit Rasputin’s
Penis - NEWS - MOSN..." 05/02/2004 09:08 PM

inLogic Announces RFID Pilot Solution
for Miami Museum of Science &
Planetarium Shark Bytes Exhibit

inLogic Announces RFID Pilot Solution
for Miami Museum of Science &
Planetarium Shark Bytes Exhibit 04/13/2005 03:26 AM
inLogic today announced the success of a RFID solution for the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium. The solution is designed to create personalized and participatory experiences through the use of RFID readers and antennas positioned throughout the exhibit. Visitors will receive a reusable RFID badge that will track their movements and trigger different multi-media responses at selected stations. [PRWEB Apr 13, 2005]

"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television."

"Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television." 06/11/2004 05:57 PM

Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television

Ingenious is a website by England's
Science Museum, the National Railway
Museum and the National Museum of
Photography, Film and Television 06/10/2004 10:19 PM
superb colloboration .. ingenious.org.uk .. 3 museums,

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Coca-Cola: Minor Burps?

Coca-Cola: Minor Burps? 04/15/2004 01:11 PM
Contentious shareholder relations and management issues plague the soft-drink giant.

Technology That Stinks... Again

Technology That Stinks... Again 04/18/2005 04:16 AM
What is it with companies coming out with products that have been tried and failed many times before, suddenly announcing that they're doing something innovative? Do they really do no research on the history of such products? Someone anonymously submitted a Business Week story about yet another company working on a product to add smells to the internet and video games. The Business Week reporter doesn't note the history of similar products, such as DigiScent s that hit the market in the bubble years and went out of business rather quickly when it turned out people really didn't want to buy an extra device to smell things online (even if Wired Magazine did once predict it would be the next web revolution). Of course, the real innovator in this space was the early web design firm Agency.com who, in the mid-90s, created the spoof site for RealAroma, making fun of RealAudio. If they were smart, they would have patented the idea, and used it to sue all these other copycats. Of course, you could go back even further to attempts like aroma-rama and smell-o-vision to learn of other attempts/spoofs at adding smell to entertainment. What's scary, though, is just how much these "real" iSmell companies seem to just be copying the idea cooked up as a spoof.

Your Credit Stinks

Your Credit Stinks 05/25/2004 01:23 PM
Common credit conundrums that make lenders say, "No thank you."

A Rogue By Any Other Name Still Stinks

A Rogue By Any Other Name Still Stinks 11/04/2003 12:52 AM
A rogue access point on a company that takes its wireless LAN security seriously still painful to detect: You can see how even with a strong set of policies, it's easy for an employee to subvert them. You might understand now why some companies have strict bag searches for employees entering and leaving the building. Those of you who saw the Al Pacino movie The Recruit will remember that one of the most plausible technology plot points involved a hidden USB hard drive. (Of course, CIA computers probably have their USB drives sealed and USB drivers set to restrict access, but you never know.) One of the factors that makes rogue wireless access points difficult to cope with is that local wired networks are often security free. This is changing, of course, with the rise of VLANs and secure fileserver mounting. The Recruit 2: Revenge of the Nerds will obviously feature someone with a micro-Wi-Fi-antenna....

Notes and Tips: Buddylinks Stinks

Notes and Tips: Buddylinks Stinks 02/12/2004 11:28 AM
Even though this slimeware runs on Windows, it may hit your Mac with ad garbage via instant messaging.

Dead Squirrel Stinks Up Courthouse (AP)

Dead Squirrel Stinks Up Courthouse (AP) 07/29/2004 04:52 PM
AP - Those in charge of blind justice have been holding their noses at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse.

WHY SERVICE
STINKS: CORPORATE APARTHEID

WHY SERVICE
STINKS: CORPORATE APARTHEID 09/04/2004 03:52 PM

Some articles have a long shelf life. Case in point: This BusinessWeek cover story from four years ago called Why Service Stinks. Bottom line is that, like everything else in the US, and to a lesser (but growing) extent elsewhere in the West, your value as a consumer (and as a citizen) is a direct function of your wealth and your propensity to spend it. So if the computer of the person who's serving you says you're the buying rep for a ten billion dollar company, believe you're going to get great service. But it that computer says you've only bought one thing from them before, and it required service under warranty: "Sorry, we seem to have a bad connection." *click* This is part of a larger malaise that tries to make us believe, for the benefit of the corporatist aristocracy that owns and runs more of our lives every day, that we are only what we buy. If it's easier for you to buy a replacement for the shoddy item you bought, than to return it or get it fixed, then if you can afford to do so you'll replace it. The vendor will therefore make sure it's easier to buy new than repair or return it under warranty. And if you can't afford to buy a new one, the vendor doesn't want to know you. Companies know just how good a customer you are--and unless you're a high roller, they would rather lose you than take the time to fix your problem, says BusinessWeek. They explain how companies allocate service reps according to the amount of business they get from each customer group (which is why, for example, corporate Dell customers are routed to one 'help line' while 'retail and home' customers get the Indian help line). They call this practice of triaging customers by wealth and spending habits corporate apartheid and that's a perfect analogy for it. The world in which corporate aristocrats live today is increasingly separated from all contact with the masses: Private chauffeurs, private rooms in private clubs and restaurants, private schools, private jets (and Elite Class perks when they're forced to travel on the same planes as menials), private rooms in private health care facilities. The people who live in this bubble of fawning privilege have no idea what life in the real world is like: they never see it, and they never have to deal with it. This remains my #1 concern with the concept of The Support Economy (though its author, Ms. Zuboff, was gracious in trying to refute this concern in personal correspondence with me): That only the very wealthy few will be able to afford it. The BusinessWeek article shows that the customer experience is a function of wealth and spending no matter what industry is supplying the product or service: financial institutions, brokerage houses, retailers, machinery manufacturers, phone companies, airlines, insurance companies, you name it. It's no accident that the code for spending volume on many computerized customer information systems is called Status or Class or Value. A Maytag exec sees nothing wrong with this. People who buy top-of-the-line "not only want more service, they deserve it", he says. If he had been referring to a racial class rather than an economic one, such a remark would provoke outrage. BusinessWeek foresees a future in which "the service divide may become much more transparent. The trade-off between price and service could be explicit, and customers will be able to choose where they want to fall on that continuum. In essence, customer service will become just another product for sale." So the discrimination will depend not on your wealth or past spending volume, but on what you're willing to pay now for 'superior' service, or to jump the queue. Is that fairer? Do we all deserve the same level of service, or should service depend on what you can afford? Where do you draw the line? In Canada, we (most of us, anyway) consider the idea of the rich jumping the queue for critical medical services to be morally repugnant, but in the US this is accepted as natural, just 'the way things are'. So much for "give me your huddled masses". I remember a few years ago I was waiting in a long customs and immigration line-up in a sweltering third-world airport terminal at 1 a.m. chatting with the son of the British High Commissioner to that country who'd come in on the same flight. Suddenly, a boy came rushing up to me, asked my name, and then said "Give me your passport." When I looked alarmed, he pointed to a mezzanine gallery where the friend who was meeting me on my arrival was waving and nodding. The boy took my hand, walked me to the front of the long line, whispered in the ear of the customs agent, and I was whisked through, no questions asked, and into my friend's waiting car. "In this country, it's who you know, not how much money you have, that counts", she said. I was embarrassed and astonished. But is this any worse than the system that rushes first-class airplane passengers in many cities through shorter, less confrontational customs and immigration line-ups? Call me naive, and idealistic, but all kinds of apartheid offend me. The wealthy and the connected don't deserve any better service than the rest of us. To the corporations that believe that service should depend on what the customer's 'worth', and the rest should either self-serve or go away, my response is: Welcome to my Boycott List. Good-bye.

Jim Campbell Exhibit

Jim Campbell Exhibit 03/06/2004 01:49 AM
If you are in the Bay Area, check out the Jim Campbell exhibit at the Palo Alto Art Center. From an SF Gate article: The work of San Francisco electronics whiz Jim Campbell has never received a more considered...

Exhibit of quack imagery

Exhibit of quack imagery 03/31/2005 12:42 PM
David Pescovitz: Philadelphia Museum of Art has a new exhibit tracing the history of patent and quack medicine through posters, pamphlets, and prints:

These range from an early seventeenth-century Dutch engraving, Operation for Stones in the Head, a sleight-of-hand cure for insanity, to Medical Confessions of Medical Murder, a twelve-scene print in which James Morison, a clever marketer of pills, uses quotations from prominent physicians taken out of context to impugn their practices. The Health Jolting Chair, an 1885 color lithograph of a seated woman, demonstrates the ability of electricity to secure the "most highly prized Feminine Attractions"

Lin k to exhibit page, Link to AP article with photos here and here (via Medgadget, thanks Howard Lovy!)

+WAR +Iraq Poster Exhibit

+WAR +Iraq Poster Exhibit 12/26/2004 04:28 PM
+WAR +Iraq Poster Exhibit Graphic designers from multiple political POVs collaborate, and the gallery is up to 17 pages of thumbnalish posters since March, 2003. [via jennet.radio]

Exhibit Features Viruses as Art

Exhibit Features Viruses as Art 08/27/2004 02:09 PM
Computer viruses aren't just for wreaking havoc on global networks. They're also an art form. That's the take of an upcoming exhibit that focuses on malicious scripts, hacker films and the aesthetic charms of programming code. By Michelle Delio.

What to do in LA: see NANO exhibit at
LACMA

What to do in LA: see NANO exhibit at
LACMA 12/26/2003 07:57 PM
Recently opened at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "nano," a cool art/science exhibit for geeks of all ages:

nano [is] an exhibition that merges the arts and the atom by presenting the world of nanoscience through a participatory aesthetic experience. The exhibition, a collaboration between LACMALab and a UCLA team of nanoscience, media arts, and humanities experts, is free to the public and runs through September 6, 2004 in LACMA's Boone Children's Gallery.

This groundbreaking project provides a greater understanding of how art, science, culture, and technology influence each other. The exhibition addresses sophisticated subject matter that is especially relevant for the next generation. Modular, experiential spaces using embedded computing technologies engage all of the senses to provoke a broader understanding of nanoscience and its cultural ramifications. The various components of nano are designed to immerse the visitor in the radical shifts of scale and sensory modes that characterize nanoscience, which works on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Participants can feel what it is like to manipulate atoms one by one and experience nano-scale structures by engaging in art-making activities.

Link

LotR Costume Exhibit

LotR Costume Exhibit 10/29/2003 12:12 AM
When we were in London late last week and over the weekend for the CPAN meeting we had a...

Occult book exhibit

Occult book exhibit 06/02/2004 12:10 PM
Here's a stunning collection of rare occult books from the Monash University Library in Australia. From the 1998 exhibition ca talog:

"So great is the variety of 'occultisms,' that it is often difficult to find any connecting link between these traditions. The word is derived from the Latin, occullere, to cover over, to hide, or conceal, and all occult belief systems lay claim to some esoteric or hidden knowledge, but so too do many religions and mystical and philosophical systems, which are not defined as 'occult'. It is also clear - at least as far as those 'occult systems' with their own complex cosmologies are concerned - that what might be perceived by an outsider as "occultism", is to the practitioner quite possibly religion. This difference of perception serves to underline the only definite link that can clearly be demonstrated between these disparate 'occultisms': all were (or are) belief systems which existed (or exist) either on the margins of, or altogether outside, the mainstream religious or philosophical orthodoxies of the cultures in which they evolved." Link< /a>

CIA exhibit shows off miniature spy
gadgets

CIA exhibit shows off miniature spy
gadgets 10/29/2003 11:26 AM

Apple to exhibit at BETT 2004

Apple to exhibit at BETT 2004 11/05/2003 01:25 PM
Apple will be an exhibitor at the 2004 BETT, the exhibition for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Education that takes place at London's Olympia from January 7-10. Pre-registration is now underway.

A Thrilling Exhibit in an Empty Room

A Thrilling Exhibit in an Empty Room 03/29/2005 02:05 AM
People eager to immerse themselves in three-dimensional digital art may get their chance in a virtual reality room of the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, opening later this year.

Magicians Take Sides Over Houdini
Exhibit (AP)

Magicians Take Sides Over Houdini
Exhibit (AP) 06/02/2004 06:33 PM
AP - How did Harry Houdini do his signature "Metamorphosis" escape, where he was handcuffed inside a sack and locked in a trunk and yet somehow managed to switch places with an assistant on the outside?

Human body exhibit opens in L.A

Human body exhibit opens in L.A 07/08/2004 08:37 AM
globetechnology.com Jul 8 2004 1:24PM GMT

N.Y. Chapel Hosts Exhibit on 9/11
Workers (AP)

N.Y. Chapel Hosts Exhibit on 9/11
Workers (AP) 05/01/2004 06:53 PM
AP - The pews of St. Paul's Chapel still bear scuff marks from the boots and heavy equipment of bone-weary relief workers who found refuge there in the days and weeks following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Two MUGs to exhibit at Mac Design
Conference

Two MUGs to exhibit at Mac Design
Conference 05/28/2004 12:45 PM
There will be two user group booths at next week's Mac Design Conference in Chicago...

Extreme Textiles article and exhibit

Extreme Textiles article and exhibit 04/12/2005 11:51 AM
David Pescovitz: Today's NYT has an article and nice online slide show about innovative new textiles, from electrically conductive rope to carbon fiber building materials. The article is pegged on a current exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum called Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance. Pictured here is polymer skin (photo by Cary Wolinsky/Aurora):

A process called electrospinning makes fibers out of an electrically charged solution containing dissolved polymers and sticks them onto an electrically charged surface. The fibers fall randomly but form a uniform layer, even on a three-dimensional surface. "It's sort of like spray-on Gore-Tex," said Dr. Heidi Schreuder-Gibson of the Army Natick Soldier Center. "It's very breathable, just like skin."

Link (Thanks, Mark Riedy!)

Sharon Backs Diplomat Who Damaged
Exhibit (AP)

Sharon Backs Diplomat Who Damaged
Exhibit (AP) 01/18/2004 11:27 AM
AP - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon praised Israel's ambassador to Sweden on Sunday for vandalizing a Stockholm art display about a Palestinian suicide bomber, saying the "entire government stands behind him."

ProactiveNet to Exhibit at SIA
Technology Management Conference

ProactiveNet to Exhibit at SIA
Technology Management Conference 06/17/2005 04:31 PM
Market Wire Jun 15 2005 3:29PM GMT

"LGF: Israeli Ambassador Smashes Swedish
Art Exhibit"

"LGF: Israeli Ambassador Smashes Swedish
Art Exhibit" 01/18/2004 09:15 AM

WWDC Exhibit Fair nears capacity

WWDC Exhibit Fair nears capacity 06/10/2004 07:46 AM
Apple indicates that the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) Exhibit Fair is nearing capacity. The Exhibit Fair has sold out for the last three years, according to the company. The company's annual developer gathering comes back to San Francisco, Calif. from June 28 - July 2, 2004. It'll be the venue Apple CEO Steve Jobs will use to unveil Mac OS X "Tiger," the latest major upgrade to Mac OS X. Vendors interested in exhibiting at the event are encouraged to e-mail or call Susan at 805.435.1004; less than 15 spaces remain and exhibit sales close on Friday, June 18. Turnkey packages start at US$2,495.

Plastinated fetus stolen from the
Bodyworlds exhibit

Plastinated fetus stolen from the
Bodyworlds exhibit 04/07/2005 10:17 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Lorna says: "A plastinated fetus was stolen last week from the Bodyworlds exhibit in Los Angeles.

"There's a pair of Goth-looking ladies caught on security camera who are believed to be the theives. Could you guys help spread the word to your readers to help ID these people?"
Link

Apple to exhibit at Bio-IT World
Conference & Expo

Apple to exhibit at Bio-IT World
Conference & Expo 02/10/2004 03:00 AM
Apple will be an exhibitor at the upcoming Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, which is scheduled for March 30 through April 1, 2004 at Boston's Hynes Convention Center...
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