Link About It: This Week’s Picks

A kaleidoscopic church installation, edible beer packaging, and how Venmo is making you stingy in this week's look at the web

1. The Most Important Era of Innovation A recent article in The New York Times asks, “What Was the Greatest Era for Innovation?” It’s a difficult question to answer—if there even is an answer—as everything from plumbing to airplanes, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and smartphones have shaped the evolution of American life. Instead, The Times surfaces some of the most notable inventions and ground-breaking ideas of …

WiFi Whisperer at Moogfest 2016

In his art installation, Kyle McDonald shows how easy it is to digitally eavesdrop on festival-goers all weekend

Our first run-in with Kyle McDonald was his talk at INS-INT 2014 in Minneapolis. (The Eyeo team really loves him and he’s spoken at quite of a few of their conferences). But really, we should be checking in on him at least twice a year to see what he’s up to. The Brooklyn-based media artist and adjunct assistant professor at NYU’s ITP always seems to …

Meet the 22-Year-Old Who’s Building ‘The MoMA of China’

22-year-old Michael Xufu Huang is a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate currently pursuing degrees in art history and marketing. He’s also a co-founder of one of Beijing’s brightest new museums: M WOODS. During a recent trip to New York, Huang visited the offices of Artspace to discuss the pros and cons of being so young in the art industry and how he plans to establish M …