Sep 1, 2014
Governors Island Art Fair 2014
Here's an image of the work in progress:
Feb 28, 2014
Exhibition at Montalvo
I have an artwork in the exhibition L O V E : CREATIVITY, CONNECTION, COMMUNITY at Montalvo Arts Center. It was created in collaboration with Andrea Lauermannowa during my residency at Montalvo.
You can see more of my artwork at my website, www.jonmeyer.com.
Apr 8, 2013
The clinamen
Apr 4, 2013
Mar 12, 2013
America in the 1930s-40s
Commuters in Lowell, Mass, 1941.
The US FSA black and white photos are well known, but personally I love this old and quixotic photo set of color photos from the 1930s-40s.
Oct 24, 2012
Twitter journalism
“I live and breathe this stuff, and I’m bored,” she wrote on Twitter.
How is this good journalism? We can all type queries into a search box and pull empty quotes like this. But how does this tell us anything new? Similarly, quoting measurements of Internet hit counts or post frequencies does not turn those numbers into real statistics. What happened to in-depth journalism? This used to involve research, interviews and analysis, so as to present newsworthy events along with carefully drawn insights and commentary. No longer. "For the record" is being replaced by "according to Google". Hey, I should post that to my twitter feed.
Update: Data from Pew research shows that, in the case of TV news, news reportage has dramatically dropped in favor of opinion shows.
Sep 20, 2012
Art and activism in Bushwick
Autonomous Organization is opening a free space that will be a resource center for sharing and creative economies in Bushwick. They have started a Kickstarter campaign to help raise money for the space. Worth checking out.
Jun 15, 2012
Mar 8, 2012
New chains
I saw a poster on the wall with this quote:
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains -- Rosa Luxemburg.
Later the same day I went to a lecture where Nietzsche was quoted:
"Free will" really means nothing more than the absence of feeling of new chains. -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow, 1880.
Strange coincidence.
Feb 6, 2012
Pecha Kucha Berlin
I am giving a short talk at Berlin's Pecha Kucha night. What is Pecha Kucha? Around 200 people come to hear between 10 and 15 short talks. Every talk is the same format: 20 images, 20 seconds per image, 6 minutes 40 seconds. The talks cover a range of topics and are in English and German. I will give an overview of some of my research for my PhD.
Pecha Kucha #27
Festsaal Kreuzberg
Skalitzer Str. 130 • 10999 Berlin,
Einlass / Beginn: 19:30h / 20:20h,
Eintritt / Entrance: 6 Euro.