Looks at contemporary American culture through austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption)
MySpace users often from immigrant, Latino and Hispanic families, the teens not part of the "dominant high school popularity paradigm...ostracised...as geeks, freaks, or queers." Facebook users "are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom"...
Moral progress isn't beingTrue, Good, or Right...Whether our ideas correspond to some fundamental reality isn't key; it's whether they help us carry out practical tasks to create a fairer, more democratic society.
"An American Self-Portrait. This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something."
Technological information segments, dissolves and transposes social life to digital marks. Once a description of reality, it is increasingly becoming reality itself.
ASN would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet... to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society... an infrastructure for trusted relationships across the [web]...enabling innovation in democratic governance, alternative
Dream Anatomy shows off the anatomical imagination in some of its most astonishing incarnations, from 1500 to the present. We regard the anatomical body as our inner reality, a medium through which we imagine society, culture and the human condition.