http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w Oliver Herring is a Brooklyn-based artist who works relatively traditionally, in photography, sculpture, and video. But since 2002, he also has had something on the side: something called Task. Task is an event involving volunteers who come together in a public place for an entire day and give each other tasks to do for the whole time they're there. While it's happening a mini-society forms. All Herring does is choose the volunteers, start things off, and then observe. This happened in Seattle June 28; my on-the-scene reporting on the first part of it is here; a longer essay considering it... Copyright 2008 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 -0800 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:51:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss That young woman isn't napping, she's yapping on her cell phone right there in the libray

]]> Non http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1065393 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1065393 Visual Art Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:46:50 -0800 Thanks for the coverage, Jen. As someone who was a participant, it's cool to read a non-participant's perspective.

]]> kurt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1065426 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1065426 Visual Art Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:03:02 -0800 Fun times if you're trying to study.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1065594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1065594 Visual Art Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:37 -0800 Anybody remember Koolhaas insisting in a public Q&A that the exterior skin of the library would not throw light-and-shadow patterns on readers? (But I'm not complaining!)

]]> dvnms http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1066270 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/invisible_is_up_oliver_herring_the_man_w#c1066270 Visual Art Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:51:42 -0800