The exhibition Seven Artists, Seven Paths is back. The exhibition reopens this week at the Morris Graves Museum of Art after a months-long virtual interlude due to pandemic restrictions on social gathering. The seven Humboldt artists whose work it features Leslie Anderson, Becky Evans, Mimi LaPlant, Sanderson Morgan, John Pound, Emily Silver and Karen Sullivan are linked through mutual acquaintance as members of a circle that has met for dinner and studio talk every two months for a dozen years. As a celebration of a long-running artists social network (not the online kind),
Seven Artists speaks to the creative potential of the face-to-face social interactions we ve all been waiting to resume.
Published 14 Apr, 2021 Crows Crows Crows, the folks working on The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, have revived their ridiculous browser MMO replacement for the Game Developers Conference and it s just as surreal as before. Oh, is it your first time at CDC? Don t worry, it s just like every other conference. You walk around trying to make small talk with people you probably don t know and everything that comes out of your mouth sounds like a bad Mad Libs sheet. If you recognise this monstrosity, yeah it sure is the same wacky browser MMO called The Club that Crows Crows Crows made back in 2019 for hosting songs made by their Discord members. For the second year in a row it s now the host of the industry leading browser MMO replacement for GDC, taking place in the the totally very real Moscrowne Center.
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, a new Vox reporting initiative on the science, politics, and economics of the biodiversity crisis.
You don’t have to look far to find signs that wildlife is in peril. And most of the news stories about it these days follow a predictable formula: Species are going extinct and, in most cases, humans are to blame.
To be clear, that’s true, and there’s every reason to be alarmed. A report from September, for example, found that the populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish have declined by almost 70 percent, on average, since 1970. Another finds that 1 million species are threatened with extinction.
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It’s Tuesday night, and I’m listening as a stranger cries through my phone. I can hear her voice as it breaks, and I want to comfort her, though she doesn’t know me, and I don’t know her. We’re in a “room” together on the drop-in audio chat app Clubhouse that s hosted by comedian Dane Cook, a nutritionist, and a music video director. This room, like many others on the app, feels like some kind of Mad Libs fever dream, where even as I’m listening, my brain is fielding an influx of questions. I’m starved for context: Who is this person? What is her life like? Where is she in the world? And yet, I remain captivated by the simple impulse to witness this fleeting moment of connection, like leaning in to hear a secret.