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Despite its glass towers, sophisticated downtown eateries and swish nighttime skiing, Vancouver still has a frontier-town feel, and you can sense the culture clash in the work of artist Brian Jungen. On display in Jungen's hometown solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia...
...trying to make Internet censorship palatable by putting cute faces on its online thought police." JACKARANDA derided the "Great Firewall of China," deeming the cybercops proof that "the Net can be developed and strangled all at once." But a cautious FREECASHSPACE questioned the upside of "life in a lawless frontier, cyber or otherwise...
...course, you could envision a lot at this embryonic stage. "These are the first steps into new avenues," says Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Primetime Entertainment. "This is all a frontier for everybody." But whether the big new TV distribution medium ends up being iTunes or VOD or something else, the trend throughout entertainment is portability. Viewers can get pared-down mini-episodes of shows, including Desperate Housewives, on their cell phones through services including GoTV. Fox has created one-minute cell-phone offshoots of 24, and a mini-spin-off of Lost is forthcoming. Time Warner (TIME's parent...
...columns about what they’re up to—even economists, who might dismiss regulation for unfairly forcing the costs of US social norms upon a particular company, would probably think this inoffensive, if likely ineffective.We can also call upon watchdog organizations like OpenNet, or the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) or Human Rights Watch to research internet censorship and ultimately to take strong positions on it and call for its end. Still, China’s prominent political position makes intervention a tricky matter. Some of these organizations have thus put effort into researching technological methods by which...
...Latino community service organization in New Haven, Conn. both received an award, co-sponsored by Harvard, that recognizes top public servants under the age of 40 yesterday. Caroline B. Kennedy ’80, the daughter of the 35th president, presented the second annual John F. Kennedy New Frontier Awards to 39-year-old Lisa Madigan, Illinois’ top law enforcement officer, and 39-year-old Kica Matos, executive director of JUNTA for Progressive Action, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s Stephen Smith Center in Boston. The New Frontier Awards, co-sponsored by the Kennedy...