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Constellations Over Playas (2013)
- dfaleljadsoi 9y agoI don't get the point of this and can't seem to dig up any more info.
- aaroninsf 9y agoThe bios imply it's a cerebral art piece, of the kind people outside the domain generically call "conceptual art." The notion being to cause a more self-conscious (re)examination of what's going on in that town (which sounds kind of Atlas Obscura-interesting on its own) by trying to heighten what's absurd or upsetting or "problematic" about it, by drawing attention to it. This kind of intervention is a well-established practice; whether it's successful or interesting (or "art" in a pre-20th century sense) is a different matter. :) -- Joseph Moore is an artist and Assistant Professor of Art at the City College of New York. His work investigates topics such as perception, interpretation, and similarity. [snip] Stephanie Vella is a PhD student in Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she researches European theatrical modernism and its engagement with spatial, temporal, and racial otherness in primitivism, classicism, and orientalism [snip]
- fusiongyro 9y agoI guess in the end, http://www.constellationsoverplayas.com/atlas/ http://www.constellationsoverplayas.com/atlas/ is a parody of http://www.emrtc.nmt.edu/ http://www.emrtc.nmt.edu/ I live in Socorro and attended NMT and I'm not entirely sure what the point is of this. The words on the page seem to be different on every page load. I think the description of the project is probably more effective than the project itself. I have never been especially comfortable with the cozying-up to defense/national security of my alma mater, but it was more pronounced for me from the CS side with the Scholarship for Service and iCASA, etc., rather than EMRTC. Explosives are going to be interesting to the military.