On the Silver Couch: Joanne McNeil

Writer Joanne McNeil

Tell us your story of your life in 140 ch

Books, books, books.  boston ✈ prague ✈ dc ✈ <3 boston="" chicago="" nbsp="" span="">nyc. ✈✈✈ still books, books, books (but inside a kindle now)

What is the most interesting thing about our era now?

That everyone has access to internet/ digital technology —or at the very least awareness of it. It is no longer an elite subculture. It is culture.

How do you see the future of the internet?

I never got into things like LambdaMOO or Second Life and regret missing out. But I think there is a great longing still for the internet to offer make believe as much as representations of reality. It might start to happen in social network spaces as it already has been part of the gaming community

From Russia with Love

Last week I was in Moscow

The Polytechnical Museum hosted the show "Mythologies Online"

in which I participated,

It was curated by Nadezhda Sergeevna and Katya Sinitsina

One of my favourite things in Moscow is the Metro

 with it's super retro-futuristic stations

I was losing the perspective of space all the time. 

So Silver

and spacey.



Some postcards I found

There are still remnants of the past

 

and super posh details

Shopping in the underworld


Products and places with weird word games especially if you are Greek.

 

I found out a new way to see myself: Mirror Screens

and loved the futuristic clothing label Cyberdog worn by Nik Kosmas

Accidentally encountered the scary headquarters of KGB

 

Next day we went to the Mayakovsky museum 

 

paid through the plexi-glass ice

checked some old revolutionary art

a weird photo inside the museum 

 

The bust of the poet outside the museum

and some other versions.

 

The main attraction: the Red Square is smaller than I expected

here with artists Travess Smalley and Jeremy Bailey

At the exhibition I showed
TwilightOfTheIdols.com comprised also by it's mega mousepad and 

the Google Street View monuments in different parts of Moscow

Joanne McNeil from Rhizome in front of Rafael Rozendaal's piece

Artist Jeremy Bailey

During the press conference