Design and Architecture
Zuckerberg Testifies, House of Dust, Bombay Beach Biennale
Facebook has tweaked its design to give users clearer control over their information. Can these changes help the social media giant become “friends” again with its users? The Bombay Beach Biennale has come to the Salton Sea.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m ListenBombay Beach Biennale has come to the Salton Sea. Photo by Jennifer Swann.
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3 storiesShould Facebook’s users “like” the company again?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled by Congress Tuesday and Wednesday about political consulting group Cambridge Analytica and its harvesting of the data of tens of millions of unwitting Facebook users.
Read the story11 minFifty years later, CalArts revisits ‘House of Dust’
Back in the purer, simpler days of computer science, an artist named Alison Knowles teamed up with an electronic composer named James Tenney and together they created an early example of a computer-generated poem.
Read the story8 minBombay Beach Biennale shakes up town at toxic Salton Sea
You’ve probably heard of the Venice Biennale. How about the Bombay Beach Biennale? This is offbeat art festival that just took place on the banks of the Salton Sea, the polluted artificial lake south of Palm Springs.
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