Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

May 7, 2017 · Collusion

Contamination at Pace

The Chocolate Heads came slithering through Pace Gallery’s pristine white corridors like they’d been unleashed from some wild ritual, all limbs and fabric swaddling their skulls, moving against David Hockney‘s lurid iPad Yosemites like beautiful vandals crashing a country club. This wasn’t some precious dance meets art dialogue. This was collision, the kind where you can’t […]

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May 4, 2017 · Industries

Shooting The Events: Documenting What Can’t Be Fixed

David Greig took the 2011 Norway massacre, where some kid walked into a summer camp and shattered everything, and decided to make a play that doesn’t give you easy answers or comfortable catharsis. Because there aren’t any. And Shotgun Players at Berkeley’s Ashby Stage produced it. I photographed this thing for set designer Angrette McCloskey. […]

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May 2, 2017 · Wanderlust

Steep Ravine

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it. Dorothea Lange I descend into Steep Ravine in Mount Tamalpais State Park following Lange’s ghost down the same trail she walked every summer, […]

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March 15, 2017 · Engineering

Limited Means, Maximum Stakes: When Theory Crashes Into Practice

You walk into the Stanford d.school, this temple of design thinking, this cathedral of sticky notes and whiteboards where tomorrow’s disruptors learn to disrupt, and you’re expecting the usual performance art nonsense. The kind where someone stands in a corner for three hours. The kind where someone wraps themselves in cellophane while reading Foucault through […]

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March 5, 2017 · Industries

remembering Carl Weber

Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm. “Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht?” – “Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht? Den Erlenkönig mit Kron und Schweif?” – “Mein […]

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February 14, 2017 · Resistance

Wired and Tired: How Berkeley’s Data Warriors Became Magazine Ready Revolutionaries

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn art introduced me to the Revolution! Albert Einstein Nobody sets out to document the end of the world with a camera. But there I was at Berkeley, at The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) and DataRescueSFBAy hackathon where the word “data” gets thrown around like it […]

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February 5, 2017 · Industries

Space is substance

The lobby at Bing Concert Hall is all soaring glass and clean California geometry, the kind of space that makes you wonder if anyone’s actually allowed to breathe wrong in here. I’m here to photograph which means I’m basically a voyeur, trying to freeze what shouldn’t be frozen: movement, breath, sculpture, sound, the precise moment […]

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