The Feeble Strength of One
7’x14’x8”
found wood & clothing, fabric, lights

A sign to highlight the modern power structures built on the decaying memory of power struggles.

“All the world that’s owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. It is ours, not to slave in,…

Artist Audrey Hasen Russell takes part in the group exhibition “Your Own Fairytale” at About Glamour gallery. Other artists included in this show are: Cynthia Ruse, Joshua Field, Lisa Olson, Roland Lusk, Wei-Hui Hsu and Yura Osborn.

5/8-6/21/2009
Opening Reception: 5/8/2009 Friday 7-10pm
103 North 3rd St.
btwn Berry+Wythe Ave. Brooklyn, NY11211
718.599.3044

Ubiquitous pervasive computing, networked products, embedded devices and their connections to interactive electronic communications, websites and networked software applications captured my interest this year. This emerging direction promises to further blur the distinction between product, communication and service. It is becoming difficult to decide whether an electronic networked experience is a website, a software application or a product interface. Today we still sit down at our computer for our interactive connective experiences, although increasingly we use our Palm Pilots. Soon it will be our refrigerator,…

The best thinkers in graphic design have long held that information and persuasion were oppositional modes of design, representing the competing cultures of graphic design and advertising. But I have been considering the possibility that this long-cherished notion is no longer pertinent, especially in this new era of interactive electronic communications. In fact, many boundaries seem to be blurring these days, including work and play, entertainment and information, education and games, with commerce permeating everything.