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Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 said the meeting addressed Evans?? concerns as well as planning oversights that plagued the Game, such as the shortage of porta-potties and overcrowding...
...pieces in Thoughts Unsaid, now Forgotten, a show of the artist Cerith Wyn Evans?? work currently up at the MIT’s List Visual Art Center, is a black chandelier hanging from the ceiling that blinks poetry in Morse code while the same poetry is simultaneously displayed on an LCD screen hanging on a nearby wall. Another piece is a looped playback of a recording (found by Evans in the MIT Museum archives) of a man engraving students’ names on their slide rules, and yet another is the original 1960s console from MIT?...
Mahan also said that the complaints about bad behavior were the result of the heightened scrutiny attending the tailgate. “It was no more rambunctious than in past years,” Mahan said. And despite Evans?? criticism, Mahan insisted that the tailgate obeyed BPD’s regulations about transporting alcohol...
Just beyond the chandelier installation, an entire room is devoted to photographs taken by Evans?? late father. The photographs themselves are not that interesting and seem out of place amidst Evans?? other more convincing statements on appropriation and originality...
...origins of the cable are spurious to begin with—and so is the plaque’s claim that Evans?? appropriation of the cable is a modern statement on Duchamp’s ready-made movement. The idea of the ready-made is to take everyday objects out of their everyday contexts. But in this piece, Evans has already admitted to believing in the extraordinary origins of the cable. Once again—a self-righteous tribute to the not so exciting or insightful...