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Vera List Center exhibitions.

300+ Million Year Old Coal from Kayford Mountain, West Virginia (Kanawha Coal Field). Approximately 67% of The New School's energy is supplied by fossil fuels. From "Carbon Trading Across the Eons (Thingness of Energy)", Jamie Kruse 2011-2012 (photo Elizabeth Ellsworth)

Jamie Kruse: Thingness of Energy

* Artist Project

February 2 through April 23, 2012
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, lobby
Parsons The New School for Design
2 West 13th Street (off Fifth Avenue)

Exhibition hours: Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Exhibition reception
Thursday, February 2, 2012,…

Posted on January 18, 2012

Left to Right. Mobile Unit at 66 West 12th Street; PowerPoint coup staged by the Theatre of the Oppressed; Sunset rooftop reading with analog updaters, Ghana ThinkTank, 2011.

What’s Wrong with Digital Education? Ghana ThinkTank has the Solutions!

Ghana ThinkTank at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Problem Solution
PowerPoint is ruining our minds => Do social theater.
(El Salvador)
How can we maintain relationships when everyone is online? => Force a tech-free time. Blackouts increase intimacy. (Gaza)
How do we prevent technology from destroying the pleasure of reading? => Force a tech-free time. Blackouts increase intimacy. (Gaza)
How do…
"Remember. Remember." Photograph by Haimy Assefa

#searchunderoccupy

#searchunderoccupy is an exhibition that explores the implications and ambiguities of Occupy Wall Street as a “living archive.”

Occupy Wall Street (OWS), like other social and political movements of our time, is instantly archival. Continually documented by traditional and new forms…

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