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Been swamped lately working as the curatorial director for the Conflux Festival. Loving it though! Christina Ray is amazing to work with and we’re assembling an incredible line-up of presenters, including the Yes Men, Sal Randolph, Natalie Jeremijenko, Tianna Kennedy, Steve Lambert, » » » »

bMLS: bovine Maternal Lactating Secretion is an examination of the relationships between dairy consumption, human health, and multinational agricultural biotechnology corporations. It draws attention to the potential health risks associated with consuming milk and serves as a symbolic » » » »

After some trial and error (AKA learning the hard way), I’ve come to the conclusion that the chronological nature of my CT4CT (Creative Tools for Critical Times) blog was not the best approach for this project. I’ve thus transformed the CT4CT site into a wiki. And it seems to be working. » » » »

“But every one of us—every single one of us—knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or approving such mistreatment of them.” » » » »

Last fall, I asked the students in my Contemporary Art & Media Education class to collectively propose, design and implement a multifaceted guerilla marketing campaign for a human rights/social justice issue. This ended up being a really interesting assignment - essentially an experiment in community » » » »

As you can see, I’ve shifted things around on the site. I’ve started a project devoted to contemporary art, education and creative citizenship. I call it Creative Tools for Critical Times (CT4CT). The project is currently in open development on my new site: CT4CT.com. There’s still lots of work to be done » » » »

Over the last year, I’ve started working on a series of “digital assemblages.” These are physical objects embedded with LCD screens, microcontrollers and overlapping layers of found images, video clips, and other media. The piece featured below is called Fire-and-Forget (2007) and it is a » » » »

I’ve been busy redesigning the Thesis Project component of our Visual Art Education MA degree here at NYU. We’ve moved to a practice-based model that includes art making as a key element of student research. Students now have the opportunity to identify an issue/question that has particular » » » »

My College Confessions site is back up. This was a project I started back in 2005 when I was teaching at the University of Arizona. Over two semesters, I invited students from our “Exploring Art & Visual Culture” classes (large lecture-format courses) to anonymously create and submit postcard-sized » » » »