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	<title>Miriam Simun</title>
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		<title>Creative Disruptions</title>
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Talking about the value and design of Creative Disruptions, including the Human Cheese Project.  At LUCID NYC June 2011.
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		<title>The Lady Cheese Shop</title>
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The Human Cheese Project at Michael Mut Gallery
97 Avenue C &#124; New York City
Hours: Thursday April 28, 7pm-10pm OPENING TASTING EVENT
Friday, April 29, 5pm-9pm
Saturday April 30, 1pm-5pm
Sunday May 1, 2pm-6pm 4PM-6PM CLOSING TASTING EVENT
&#8220;From one perspective, a cyborg world is…about the final appropriation of women&#8217;s bodies in a masculinist orgy of war. From another perspective, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Cheese</title>
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Tasting at Postmasters Gallery 2010
Human Cheese Lifecycle Analysis
STATEMENT:  Work in Progress

We are designing life to an extent never before possible.   Science speeds ahead while people attempt  to catch up to understand the implications, and legislate how we want  our world to be.  This is especially true with biotechnology (consider  the GM food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>interact!</title>
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Interaction is all the rage these days.


photo credit: Jeff Howard
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		<title>Visceral Switch #1</title>
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VISCERAL SWITCH (#1, LIGHT)
“Automatism amounts to a closing-off, to a sort of functional self-sufficiency which exiles man to the irresponsibility of a mere spectator”
- Jean Baudrillard, System of Objects
To design an interface is to materialize a metaphor. I look around at my life with machines, and wonder, where has all the poetry gone?


1. We come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind Your Medium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MIND YOUR MEDIUM!!!
&#8220;What our bodies are like and how they function in the world…structure the very concepts we can use to think.&#8221;
- Lakoff and Johnson


A little software runs in the background of your computer. It captures you, alone with your machine, at work and at play.

“I think, therefore I am” Descartes said all those years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Aesop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[with Natalie Jeremijenko and Betsy Medvedovsky
A response to Columbia&#8217;s Journal for Literature and Art call: &#8220;How do you create  a warning system to prevent an accidental unearthing  of 200 million pounds of  radioactive nuclear waste?&#8221;



Thousands of pounds of nuclear waste piling up besides reactors around the world remind us that despite the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cemetery_Safari</title>
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Photography by Jonathan Ystad
Graphic Design by Betsy Medvedovsky
A re::design of our cemetery ritual.
Attend to memory (of those passed).
Attend to nature (of the cemetery life).
Attend to health (of yourself and the environment).
Cemeteries are biodiversity hotspots in urban areas.  In New York City, one can look to cemeteries, especially the older cemeteries were established without the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Together for Napping</title>
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&#8220;an object to improve your journey that fits on your body&#8221;

&#8216; Design an object that improves your journey.&#8217;
Cities can feel huge, manic, and overwhelming &#8230;sometimes it can be oppressing. have a pleasant interaction with a stranger &#8211; a funny exchange of glances, a random conversation, a shared joke &#8211; and sometimes, it all seems worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>+ Youth, Creativity, and Copyright in the Digital Age</title>
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Youth, Creativity, and Copyright in the Digital Age
John Palfrey, Urs Gasser, Miriam Simun, Rosalie Fay Barnes
International Journal of Learning and Media,    Spring 2009, Vol. 1, No. 2,          Pages 79-97
(doi: 10.1162/ijlm.2009.0022)
ABSTRACT
New digital networked technologies enable users to participate in the consumption, distribution, and creation [...]]]></description>
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