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The Whitney’s recent exhibition cancellation controversy is yet another reminder that an art museum is not the same as a social history museum. Power and capital accrete to the art museum in a way that they do not to the social history museum.
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August is a cold month in Melbourne. Our rental is particularly poorly designed with only low efficiency airconditioning that pretends to be heating. N…
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Aug 18
Fifty. I didn’t expect to get to fifty of these little missives when I started writing them. When I started this writing there was no real goal in mind…
Sebastian Chan
Aug 4
I had hoped to get some of this out earlier but change is happening so fast at the moment. Things have escalated again in recent days and we are in a n…
Sebastian Chan
Jul 10
The first I knew of Kemal Enver’s work on Planetary was an excited message from Aaron. And there it was, live on the AppStore — Planetary Remastered. I…
Sebastian Chan
Jun 27
Last episode I speculated about my experience of video tours, and I totally forgot to write anything about a really fantastic video tour that our frien…
Sebastian Chan
Jun 14
“Somehow bullet holes in steel doors look like a collection of constellations trapped to catch the wrath of idiots And we are the size of constellation…
Sebastian Chan
Jun 4
Last episode I said I’d write some things about OpenAI’s Jukebox - a project that released some public samples a few weeks ago. Long time readers might…
Sebastian Chan
May 14
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