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May 15th, 2014

Pony selfie!

Forget the Met Gala. Or the fact that you weren’t invited to any after parties. You don’t need to fawn over fictitiously fabulous significant others to find true happiness. We bring you the first, truly FOMO-proof dating site — FarmersOnly!
Full disclosure: the writer of this article has an active account and therefore will guide you with first-hand experience.

At FarmersOnly, you’ll find a variety of non-diverse darlings to feast your agrarian eyes on, but only under the condition that you yourself are untouched by urban impurities. While FarmersOnly retains all the humble characteristics that sets it apart from snotty-city-snob-infested OkCupid, the one incontrovertible law that groups all dating sites under the same roof remains immutably in place: the Law of Default Profile Pictures for Most Males.

On the flip side, multitudes of milky “cowgirl” and “farmgirl” profiles are personalized with unique pictures:

kissing llama

raccoon kiss

In short, FarmersOnly is a breath of fresh, rural air from corporate rat-race city slicker guys (apparently they’re also growing in Canada), and they have some of the best branding out there. But if you do decide to sign up, get ready to receive a cow-shit ton of junk mail. As I sift through all the spam, I’m still looking for my cowgirl…

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BxMA | Beyond the Supersquare

The influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary artists will be explored by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the exhibition Beyond the Supersquare, now on view through January 11, 2015. The exhibition features over 30 artists and more than 60 artworks, including photography, video, sculpture, installation, and drawing, that respond to major Modernist architectural projects constructed in Latin America and the Caribbean from the 1920s through the 1960s. Responding to… [read more »]

May 6th, 2014

Video Bureau | The Poplar Tree and Mirror

Showcasing a cross section of three generations of Chinese video artists, The Poplar Tree and Mirror presents work from Video Bureau’s archives by Li Ming, Zhang Peili, Ma Qiusha, Zhou Tao and Huang Xiaopeng. Dealing with social causality and the interrelated, global effects of decision-making in Chinese culture, the works exhibited interrogate the role of agency in the face of the transformative political and economic forces that drive these effects. Video Bureau was initiated by… [read more »]

May 5th, 2014

Tween FOMO

Suffering from #FOMO on the next generation’s party culture? Or did you forget your fake ID to get into Pink Elephant? FUZIPOP! bridges these two negative worlds into one positive paradise: a parent-and-kid series of events organized across New York City’s most exclusive nightclubs. Contrary to posing as a potential, inadvertent gateway to premature binge drinking and hard partying, FUZIPOP! opens its doors to “experience a nightclub environment in a safe controlled daytime setting.” Plus… [read more »]

April 24th, 2014

Gay Jeans with a Straight Fit

Q: What happens if bright rainbow yarns don’t speak to my gay identity? A: You’re branded this way. Introducing Gay Jeans, a seemingly #basic pair of dark indigo denim that over time, with enough wear and tear, “comes out of the closet” to show its true colors. Financed through the crowdfunding platform BetaBrand, 10% of its profits go to the SF LGBT Center. As lead designer Steven B. Wheeler puts it, “it’s proof that some… [read more »]

April 16th, 2014

Xavier Cha | user-generated dance @ Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

The binary code rules the world, but why not dance to it? Currently ongoing at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Smart New World is dissecting the conditions of digital capitalism while channeling its structures to bring art and contemporary dance to life. You can contact Xavier Cha to have your compulsive online patterns monitored by surveillance software then transposed into movement by dancers of the Merce Cunningham Company. Transfigure your compulsive URL behavior into beautiful dance by… [read more »]

April 16th, 2014

Doctor-Recommended: Poop

According to the U.S. Public Health Service, Clostridium difficile can cause painful cramps, high fever, severe swelling of the bowel, colonic bleeding — basically, explosive diarrhea. But now there’s a solution! Doo-doo transplants, aka fecal bacteriotherapy, puts the “ex” in excrement through a peer-to-peer poop therapy procedure that may remind you of Human Centipede but without the maniacal nazi doctor. Provided with the choice between two methods of administration — a fine tube threaded through… [read more »]

April 14th, 2014

Exhibition Opening | Dark Velocity¹

Opening this Sunday at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Dark Velocity1 will feature works by Trisha Baga, Alisa Baremboym, Brace Brace, DIS, GCC, Victoria Ivanova, Seth Price, Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Ryan Trecartin. The exhibition thematically hinges on critical relationships to neoliberalism today, a rejection of former longings for ‘outside’ alternatives, and inflecting the technologies internal to current systems of power, capital, and desire. Dark Velocity1 will be ongoing from April 13… [read more »]

April 12th, 2014

Who’s Actually Gay Tho? w/ Steven Phillips-Horst

We’ve all fantasized: gay Republican, closeted Democrat, Bi-ndependent. But now we have the facts. Orientation cryptologist Steven Phillips-Horst is back with #penetrating insights into the not-so-secret lives of closeted gay politicians! The results are #SCHOCKING!

April 9th, 2014

¡Ay Dios Mio!

Introducing your new favorite Catholic pop hereditary supergroup, Flos Mariae! Based out of Spain, this sisterhood of superstars is composed of seven siblings that look like septuplets but are not, and sing mainly about Virgin Mary-related themes interspersed by really strange metaphors. Like, “As a slice of cheese / prisoner in a sandwich / you feel restless between the doubt and the fear / and you scream ‘I can’t!” Yeah, definitely screaming “I can’t”, though… [read more »]

April 2nd, 2014

Feast of the Falleros

Every year in the wonderful world of Valencia, Spain, a traditionally local yet (starting now) globally coveted festival known as Fallas takes place in March to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Blooming and blossoming like the season itself, the Fallas and its participant falleros come together to rejoice collectively in the streets and set fire to monuments constructed exclusively for the festival. If that doesn’t make Burning Man sound like… [read more »]

March 31st, 2014

Grand Century | ٩١١,000 B.C.

Grand Century, a new art space popping up and popping off in the LES, is presenting its inaugural show this Saturday, March 29th. It’s first exhibition, “٩١١,000 B.C.”, groups 14 international artists exploring the notions of marking, chaos, meaning, and expressivity. Curated by Agatha Wara, ٩١١,000 B.C. will remain open for the day following the inauguration. Grand Century is an artist-run space presenting exhibitions, performances and screenings for one weekend a month. Grand Century is… [read more »]

March 24th, 2014

Discussion

Planet Grcic

Konstantin Grcic is full of surprises. What is probably his best-known product, Chair One, was as much a challenge to the possibilities of aluminum die-casting as it was to the notion of a seating surface. Before its release by Magis, in 2004, the 48-year-old German industrial designer was associated with the clean, rational aesthetic demonstrated in plastic products for authentics, and the playfully proletarian character of Mayday (Flos, 1999), a multifunctional lighting object modeled after… [read more »]

March 19th, 2014

Arca & Jesse Kanda | TRAUMA

After the release of his earth-shattering &&&&& last year, Arca teamed up with visual artist Jesse Kanda to present a mystifying audio-visual experience at MoMA PS1 which left everyone TRAUMAtized. The first scene of the film, part of a longer project titled TRAUMA, is now available for you to stream in the discomfort of your own home. Next time you’re conducting a candlelit seance or taking a dark oath with some friends, make sure you… [read more »]

March 18th, 2014

INFRA_SPECTION Residency Program

SPACE RESIDENCIES 2014: OPEN CALL Are you up on your #stacktivism? Do you belong somewhere along the intersections of art, technology, and sustainability? Then SPACE is opening its doors to you and all other emerging artists and creative technologists! Applications are now open for five residencies in their dedicated studio at the White Building, Hackney Wick. INFRA_SPECTION Thematic: #stacktivism is a term that draws a critical line of inquiry around infrastructures and our relationships to… [read more »]

March 18th, 2014

Smack Mellon | In Plain Sight

Keep your eyes peeled this Saturday, March 15th, for In Plain Sight, a multimedia exhibition focusing on culturally climactic events in recent history, curated by Sarah Lookofsky. Featuring cinematic and photographic works by Bani Abidi and Bruno Serralongue, In Plain Sight explores the production of cultural symbolism through media saturation, the relationship between the overexposed and the underrepresented, and the potential of documentary practice to reveal what is hidden in plain sight. The result is… [read more »]

March 11th, 2014

4REAL Global Launch Event!

Announcing the official launch of next level creative agency 4Real! Need web design or digital consulting for a cross-platform product? Or brand curating for a mobile launch? Then 4Real is your go-to agency — and tonight you have the chance to meet them in person! 4Real is responsible for shaping projects such as DISimages, Gifpumper, and The Digit. They also provide real time analytics of global Bitcoin exchange rates on their site. Follow / Like… [read more »]

March 10th, 2014

Camille Henrot | The Pale Fox

If you’re in London, don’t miss the first UK solo exhibition by French artist Camille Henrot, entitled The Pale Fox, consisting of installation work that builds on her previous film featured in the 55th Venice Biennale. Demonstrating the breadth of Henrot’s output, this exhibition comprises an architectural display system, found objects, drawing, bronze and ceramic sculpture, and digital images. The spirit of the exhibition draws its energy from multiple, heterogeneous systems of thought and mythology,… [read more »]

March 10th, 2014

Interview: Holly Herndon with Simone Niquille and Adam Harvey

As she describes it herself, Holly Herndon’s music is perfectly situated in 2014: hovering around popular and obscure genres of electronic music, never committing but always expanding and exciting, while exploring both the sense of personal freedom and surveillance felt as we increasingly exist within our personal computers. Last month we featured the video for Holly Herndon’s “Chorus” before her Chorus EP was released on RVNG Intl. Tomorrow DIS will be hosting a brand new site that allows visitors… [read more »]

February 27th, 2014

Bye Bye, Hard Threesomes!

Feeling bored and restrained by Tinder? Frustrated by the limitations of the conventional monogamous dating app? Now there’s a solution: 3nder! Where sextech meets pro-poly lifestyles, 3nder (we’re pronouncing it “thrinder”) brings site-specific social media into the hands of swingers who linger, all under a socially progressive agenda to boot. Advancing a platform of solidarity with swingers — “newbies, curious, experienced” — who are “all discriminated by society the same way gay people were 15… [read more »]

February 26th, 2014