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.”
Would you take up an offer from a company called Fake Design addressed “Dear Mr/Ms Architect”? A hundred architects were called to build houses in Ordos, China’s “Texas” with “wide open spaces, the frontier attitude and the seemingly endless flow of money (an annual economic growth rate of 40 percent) from natural resources.” Artist Ai WeiWei organized the project. It either meant, as Lebbeus Woods explains, a promising project like Weissenhofsiedlung or stage as accidentals players in Ai’s performance art. (Slideshow)
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