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		<title>Dispatch Work: Pointing Urban Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a mixed media artist, I&#8217;m always on the lookout for intriguing, clever, playful, whimsical ways of using ordinary materials to bring delight to the urban experience. A few recollections came to mind recently &#8211; principally as a result of a cool project I learned about during the annual MIT IDEAS Competition retreat I attended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thrill of a Lovely Letter is Safe in Buffalo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a brief family holiday along the Erie Canal last week, I had the pleasure of stopping in at the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative. What a thrill! Why? Several reasons:  Its a bright open physical space in the heart of a city ready for a rebound. Artists know what that feeling is like: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maker Faire Africa &#8211; A Festival of Homemade Hacks and Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 11:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer the Africa-India Technology Institute (AITI) in Accra, Ghana will host Maker Faire Africa, a two-day showcase of African ingenuity and entrepreneurship. Modeled on the popular Maker Faire format developed in the U.S. by Make Magazine and O&#8217;Reilly media, the festival will include exhibitions of functional devices invented locally, artwork derived from found objects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Collage Exchange</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love this idea of the ICE &#8211; I just might have to enter for the fun of it:Artists each make 13 collages (more or less), size not bigger than A4 (about 8&#8243; X 10&#8243; or 20cm X 26cm), and send them to me in New Zealand, to arrive by 20th March, 2009. One from each artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Peace: Art and Violence &#8211; Los Angeles to Capetown</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two founder-centered arts organizations, which each address the impact of violence on youth in different ways, are profiled in this month&#8217;s issue of ODE Magazine. One, founded in Los Angeles on principles of forgiveness and victim reconciliation, works with youth already deeply involved in the cycle of gang violence. The other, founded and operating in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Orleans Risings: Mixed Media and a Biennale of Sorts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sure would like to be in New Orleans Saturday when Prospect.1 New Orleans opens in the Lower Ninth Ward and throughout the city. Its going to be, &#8220;the largest exhibition of contemporary art&#8221; in the U.S. &#8211; ever. Well, that&#8217;s according to the New York Times, with a bit of hedging with a &#8220;billed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MIT Out and Unbound</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m settling into my new role here at MIT as the IDEAS Competition coordinator. Its a great place to be &#8211; the Media Lab, Arts department, Architecture and Urban Studies &#8211; all contained within this vast engine of applied research. My role here is to support student interest in applying their ingenuity to community development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MUTO: Wall-painted Animation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to dear friend Jon for this must see international video collaboration. I am completely taken with the idea of using the urban landscape as a canvas. And even though the subject is kind of dull and reductive, the inspiration is brilliant!]]></description>
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		<title>Trash to Treasure Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great looking announcement that was passed along today. The sponsors, PBS and the creators of the television show Design Squad, are looking for some sport. Hook up with some yung&#8217;uns and pitch in &#8211; looks like fun! Click here to download the Trash to Treasure Flyer]]></description>
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		<title>Be &#8220;Green:&#8221; Drink Absinthe!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vaguely interesting article on Yahoo!News today about &#8220;scientific research&#8221; (that gets me every time) into the effects of absinthe, that drink I was turned on to by late 19th century French writers like Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire. In addition to its intoxicating effects of near-mythological proportions, absinthe cast enough artists into abject poverty that [...]]]></description>
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