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This work symbolizes the blue filter used for hiding lights during the Cyprus War.


  

 
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Social Disturbance:
A Public Service Performance at Starbucks,
Astor Place
by John Plenge
 

The sign at the window of Starbucks.


"Sitting down in the Astor Place Starbucks two days after a Sunday performance in which I and a group of friends attempted to construct a public narrative in protest of the misuse of digital prosthetics in public spaces, I am still noticing things about this particular café’s resident story. For instance, while standing in line for one of the many overpriced beverages in Starbucks’ product family, I realized that it is possible to see a line of equal distance forming behind a sidewalk vendors kiosk across the street on the sidewalk next to Astor Wines and Spirits."
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Time and its Objects by Yesim Ozsoy - A theoretical journey into the concept of time.
 
Cybernetics by Genco Gulan - A critical essay challenging cybernetics defined as 'the science of communication and control in animal and machine.'


 

 

 


 

 
 

Highlights:  
HIP HOP NATION Aysim Turkmen discusses the first Hip Hop exhibition at the Brooklyn Arts Museum.

Social Disturbance : This is an interpretation on John Plenge' s public performance in a Starbucks cafe. The performance involved underlining the extensive usage of electronic equipment in public.

in Transit Lisa Pasold's poem deals with the concept of nationality and the sense belonging as she skillfully uses the tools of the web in favor of her 'web literature.'

Time and its Objects:   A theoretical meditation on the Concept of Time. Time as a social construct through an analysis of a mentally disabled sister and the writer's own experience.
 

MUSIC!
A lullaby composed by John Plenge for his son John Adams. Guitar.