1000 Languages
The Mandarin word for “www” is wanweiwang, a loan translation meaning literally “10,000 connections net”.
- from a review of Peter K. Austin’s new book One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost in The New Scientist.
“We are the Web…We are teaching the machine…The machine is us…We’ll need to rethink a few things: copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetoric, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves.” — Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropologist @ Kansas State. Watch his highly informative and entertaining 5-minute video for the whole deal.
Kristy Edmunds, from 12 Words One Should Never Step On
Going back to the part in the previous post about Leslie Durst commissioning 10 artists over the last decade to make 12 works each, which then get gifted — Well it turns out I am one of the recipients of this year’s gifts! I was supposed to find out at the party, but apparently in failing to see the whole exhibition (at one point Leslie came round and stressed we should see the whole thing) I missed the part revealing this year’s recipients.