One Laptop per Child

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We are the lucky and happy recipient of a XO laptop. The laptop very cool anyway one breaks it down. It runs Sugar OS, a custom version of Red Hat’s Fedora Core 6, and only comes with free software. It is aimed at kids, mainly outside the US and Europe, as an educational tool. But OLPC has a ‘Give one Get one’ program; so when someone buys a laptop for a child in the US, OLPC ships one to child in Haiti, Peru or Africa.

I think OLPC, exposing kids to Linux, programming language and free software, has the potential to inspire a generation of kids to be non-consumers and innovator. I am thinking of a generational difference between Gates and Jobs as opposed to the dudes who started Google. Gates and Jobs defined themselves against IBM and simply wanted to sell their products; the Google dudes, who probably owned computers as a children and were familiar with unix, programming language and computer clubs, seemed to be concerned with innovation aimed at computers users and not just consumers.

An so I hope OLPC coninues this program long enough to see its effects.

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some whitney biennial press

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KH has posted and commented on some of the whitney biennial press.  Here are some links.

Jerry Saltz for the New Yorker magazine.

Carly Berwick for the New York magazine.

Leslie Camhi for the Village Voice.

Holland Cotter for the New York Times.

Peter Schjeldahl for the New Yorker.

Claudia La Rocco  for wnyc news.

Simon Houpt for the Globe and Mail.

Alexandra Peers for Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com.

And one about/of Bert Rodriguez.

the whitney biennial

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I really enjoy the show; works by Leslie Hewitt, Rashawn Griffin, Amanda Ross-Ho, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Ellen Harvey, William Cordova, Heather Rowe, Rachel Harrison, Rita Ackerman, DJ Olive, Gardar Einarsson, Louise Lawler, Olaf Breuning, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Neighborhood Public Radio and Michael Queenland were especially memorable.

There is plenty of blog (flickr), magazine and newpaper coverage.

new york city

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I was in New York City, last Wednesday, to install my work at the Whitney Museum.  The weather wasn’t too mean (38 high and 20 low).  It was uncomfortable but not untolerable.  I got to see my first snow; it was from last week’s storm.

So, I am happy with the show.

Tomorrow, we head to new york city for the opening of the Whitney Biennial, to see some friends and to see some art.  It should be fun.  So stay tuned.