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Suspicious (Real) Anatomy: The Hemangioblast
From Wikipedia: The hemangioblast was first hypothesized in 1900 by Wilhelm His. Existence of the hemangioblast was first proposed in 1917 by Florence Sabin, who observed the close spacial and temporal proximity of the emergence of blood vessels and red blood cells within the yolk sac in chick embryos. In 1932, making the same observation [...]
Baudrillard Mornings
“We’ve overstepped the threshold of critical mass with respect to populations, events, information, history, politics”
Panel Discussion on Para-Academic Publishing & Book Party
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Admission: FREE Presented by: the Hollow Earth Society, The Public School New York, and punctum books The term “para-academic” captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustrates the academic from a position of intimate exteriority. Para-academia is that which is beside academia, a place whose [...]
Post-Space
Post-Space Conference at the Elsewhere Collaborative Virtual Para-Academic Conference on the Future of the Physical presented by the Hollow Earth Society, Kamomi Solidum, and Elsewhere GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA What is the future of the museum, the library, the university? All these spaces are changing rapidly thanks to the technologies of tele—of distance. With Kamomi Solidum [...]
Announcing Elsewhen
We’re headed back to North Carolina in mid-April for a month-long residency all about time travel, libraries, and the future of space. Stay tuned!
The Pop-Up Museum… Go see it!
THE POP-UP MUSEUM of the Gowanus Canal Curated by the Hollow Earth Society and Radio Transmission Ark March 3 – April 22, 2012 Progress Party showcasing the evolved work of the Pop-Up Museum: 8:00 PM, Friday April, 6th. See our inspirations on Tumblr >> Say hello on Twitter >> A museum’s mission involves the categorization, preservation, and contextualization [...]
The Pathological Sublime & Anatomical Unconscious With Mark Dery
Part 3 of Cornelia Street Observatory: BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR Celebrating the publication of his essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams cultural critic and cult author Mark Dery will lecture—with unforgettable slides—on the hallucinatory Crypt of the Capuchin monks in Rome, the uncanny wax mannequins at La Specola in [...]
Class at Genspace! Genetically Modified Storytelling
Genetically Modified Storytelling: Can Science Fiction Prognosticate Our Biotech Future? Classes will be held Tuesdays at 7:30pm, March 6, 13, 20. Never before attempted! Genspace will cross a literature course on science fiction with an intro to biotech. Get ready. It’s hands on. Sci-fi writers write our future. Jules Verne gives us Captain Nemo and [...]
Parasites: A User’s Guide at Cornelia Street Cafe
So excited to host our second talk at Cornelia Street Cafe: A Short Film Screening with Filmmaker and Ecologist Sharon Shattuck At The Cornelia Street Cafe as part of the BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR series Sunday, February 26 • 6 PM • $10 (includes a drink!) Presented by Hollow Earth Society and Ted Enik Originally presented by Morbid Anatomy Parasites challenges [...]
Observatory’s Lunar-Themed 3rd Anniversary Fundraiser Party
Come celebrate with us, and help support your favorite interdisciplinarian art, science, & occult event space. Saturday, February 18th • 8pm Admission: $20 Check out our art show, Lunation: Art on the Moon, and then trip out to a Moon Phantasmagoria show by VJ Fuzzy Bastard. We’ll also be screening episodes from the Midnight Archive, a show [...]
Baudrillard/Future/Truth/Meaning/Real
From “Baudrillard in the 21st Century (and after)” by Dr. Gerry Coulter: IV. Is Poststructuralism Forever? One thing that is likely to advance Baudrillard’s writings further into the future is the seeming permanence in theory of what we might term a post structural condition. While some will continue to ignore the loss of faith in [...]
Our Next Observatory Show: LUNATION!
LUNATION: Art on the Moon Observatory’s first group-curated show • January 7 – February 26, 2012 Opening Party: Saturday, January 7th, 7–10 PM, FREE Artists and scientists have always been attracted to the moon… Our closest celestial neighbor, the earth’s little sister, the moon creates the tides and illuminates the woods at night. For centuries, [...]
The Society Goeth… Elsewhere
Elsewhere is a fantastic “living museum” in Greensboro, North Carolina, that Ethan and I have been invited to work with next spring. We recently went down to check it out, and here are just a few iPhone images (hopefully Ethan will supply much better photos soon) of the constantly morphing gallery-museum-organism that is Elsewhere. The [...]
