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Here is a podcast of Peter and Alice’s talks during ‘Information Architectures’ at The Drawing Center.

Unfortunately, our Flip camera ran out of juice at the beginning so sound is all we can provide, but I’m planning to put the proceedings together for a volume of the Drawing Papers, which will come out in the fall; so we should be able to reconsititute the presentations (at least in some form) there.

Peter Macapia & Alice Aycock at The Drawing Center for \’Information Architectures\’ (3/26/2009).

…And here’s the video of Nathan Carter’s talk at The Drawing Center during ‘Information Architectures’.

Video of Jeffrey Inaba’s talk during ‘Information Architectures’ at The Drawing Center (on 3/24).

Younger Than Jesus, The New Museum’s “Generational” opens this evening.

The approach here is an interesting one, coming as it does on the heels of an art market that appeared to fetishize youth. But the curators of the new triennial, Laura Hoptman, Mas Gioni, and Lauren Cornell, assure us that what the show is meant to offer is a “snapshot” of a specific generation that for some time now has simply existed either as a catchphrase (”Millenials,” “Generation Y”) or as a demographic group for marketers. For Gioni, Younger Than Jesus is an attempt to show this generation of artists as “producers,” ones for which, as Hoptman noted, the curators have created “no ‘ism,” which is to say no conceptual corral that might makes sense of what it is that this generation of artists is up to. (That seems like a good idea, except when you remember that the very notion of a “generation” is itself a conceptual problem, though the curators and others unpack the idea in one of the shows two accompanying catalogs; more on the second one in a moment). Hoptman demurred that they (the curators, the Museum) would “leave the assessments to the sociologists, to the marketers, and to the future,” which is a nice way of confirming that they (the curators, the Museum) believe the show (and this generation) is worthy of assessments to begin with…

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