For two years, students, alumni and community members have been organizing to raise public awareness about Cooper Union, a historically tuition-free institution that is currently at risk of beginning tuition-based programs. A Day of Action will take place outside the Cooper Union and will include garderie boisbriand performances, speak outs, and free classes to continue bringing attention to the growing crisis of student debt and rising tuition costs nationwide. The Summit on Debt and Education… [read more »]

Tangibly Untitled. Significantly Nothing. A substantive vacuum. In the void, empty space is all that matters. Xavier Cha’s Untitled, 2012 opens Friday, November 30th at 47 Canal in New York. Untitled, 2012 4 channel video Sound by Jonathan Coward “There’s nothing… there seemed like there was something and it could be lifted off, but it’s just me and I’m still here.” “I have a lot of ocular damage, like those clouds. I have some really… [read more »]

Croatian-born artist duo Dora Budor and Maja Cule (otherwise known as D+M) share a studio in New York where they collaborate on all kinds of mixed and new media projects and performances that incorporate advertising and modeling imagery, product design, and manipulations of bodies and cultures. Coming from a design background, their work is influenced by the methodology and psychology behind the creation of products and advertising. Their practice of data-moshing, DJing, and appropriation takes… [read more »]

All photos by Harry Griffin. Late December 2011, I was approached by Bjarne Melgaard who, for a collaboration project, was offering to share his personal studio with artists without formal art education or contact with contemporary art world. I did not really know what he was talking about but like a bullet my heart reached out to find them: Joe, Ruben, Roberta, Richard L, Jessica, Eric, Richard B, Uman, Janet and Peter. Within 3 days,… [read more »]

Who knew that camel is not only Khaki’s sophisticated cousin but the color of Saturn, signifying authority, and enhancing career and success? For those seeking to activate Chi in a specific sector of their star chart, astrology guru Susan Miller has curated a collection of cashmere for Calypso in 13 colorways connected with the planets that are guaranteed to update one’s energy. Say you need to feel more assertive and energetic? Choose cayenne the color… [read more »]

Shitty Youth (2012) from adam humphreys on Vimeo. [Transcript of Erik Stinson’s (ES) interview for DIS Magazine with Adam Humphreys (AH) in Erik’s Bushwick Brooklyn basement apartment re: the new film Shitty Youth (dir. Adam) and the film’s subject, Zachary German (ZG).] ES: I want to talk about ZG and then I want to talk about how you built him up. AH: I didn’t build him up. He built himself. ES: How did you first… [read more »]

Who wore this [3D / sea punk / Tumblr / new aesthetics / dump.fm inspired] background better? Rihanna used a virtual backdrop on November 10th for her performance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Azealia Banks worked a Tumblr landscape in her Atlantis video, which went live November 11th. You tell us! @dismagazine

With just hours before we ring in four more years of Barack O’Drama (SPOILER ALERT: he probably wins), what better time than now to look at what made us laugh and cry in the wonderful world of political badvertising in the 2012 election season.