Do-It at E-Flux

Are You Meaning Company’s Island Project asks the participant to email them with their contact information and their choice of a small model house. Then, I presume, add your house to their island, therefore, joining the community on the island. I liked the quote after the brief description because it seems like an ideal place where it is always sunny and everyone has neighbors in a closed off society. It’s an interesting concept where you could control the social interaction between actual people through your design of where their houses would be placed on the island. I sort of imagined it like a real life installation of the Sims games except without the complete customization of houses and people.

The Are You Meaning Company is a Japanese artist from Nagoya. Her artwork provides a more light-hearted atmosphere inspired from where she lives.

http://www.lucymackintosh.ch/artiste.php?id=meaning

This link provides some installation pictures as well as a biography of the artist.

Tim Etchells’ Rules of the Game is similar to drinking games for shows on TV except that it is for the news channels. The actions required by certain things broadcasted on the news range from single drinks to sexual activities. The game ends when no one can drink anymore or there is no more news to watch. At first, I thought this was just another drinking game and was amused because of how often I saw the triggers on the list on the news when I’m at home. But considering how many 24-hour news channels are out there, these games are less likely to end without dangerous intoxication. This set of instructions shows how often we see these horrible events on the news and the irony of how the news can be narrowed down to a small list of generic stories. I did find it entertaining to read through the whole list except I would probably never do it in my life.

http://www.timetchells.com/