The Mattress Factory will be liveblogging its opening reception tonight for PREDRIVE: After Technology featuring Takeshi Murata, Brody Condon, Paper Rad, Gretchen Skogerson, and Antoine Catala.

Brody Condon just won a Rhizome award to adapt Neuromancer at a “red barn theatre in rural Missouri with a local, former political activist in the role of the protagonist.” This could be very wonderful or completely terrible, either way I want to see it. With the news The Fly is the source of an upcoming musical, maybe Broadway is next for William Gibson’s book. The full list of Rhizome Commissions Program winners includes several interesting projects, especially “Marfa Webring” by artists Claire Evans, Jona Bechtolt and Aaron “Flint” Jamison. It is described as an “attempt to alter the Google search results for the town of Marfa, TX by creating a Webring and, then, (with the cooperation of the town’s permanent residents) investigating the results of this action on the daily life of the town.”

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