miranda july

intro’d to Miranda via Blake posting about her original book/website:

find/follow Miranda:

her site:

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Miranda Jennifer July was born in Barre, Vermont in 1974, the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. Her parents, who taught at Goddard College at the time, are both writers. In 1974 they founded North Atlantic Books, a publisher of alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles. Her father was Jewish and her mother was Protestant. July was encouraged to work on her short fiction by author and friend of a friend, Rick Moody.

Miranda grew up in Berkeley, California, where she first began writing plays and staging them at the all-ages club 924 Gilman. She attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland for high school. She later attended UC Santa Cruz, dropping out in her sophomore year. After leaving college, she moved to Portland, Oregon and took up performance art. Her performances were successful; she has been quoted as saying she has not worked a day job since she was 23 years old.

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one of her short films..

on distraction:

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a random post found while looking for an image of Miranda..

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interview:

 I have a performance called New Society that I tested out at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art two weeks ago. At the beginning I ask the audience to stay with me in this theatre forever and form a new society. I won’t go into detail, but it’s interactive. Someone makes our national anthem and sings it, and then we all sing it together. We make new money. We make a constitution. People are born and die, and people read letters out loud that I wrote, but then as if they had written them, to people they left on the outside before entering this contained, new society. 

a people experiment... ness

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http://www.makers.com/miranda-july

video interview of her story

the faith in myself to let myself be vulnerable

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aug 2014:

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/aug/28/first-look-miranda-july/

Miranda July’s messaging service Somebody is presented as part of First Look, the New Museum’s ongoing series of digital projects, now co-curated and copresented by Rhizome. Because the app relies on face-to-face interaction, the New Museum (along with other sites around the world) will serve as a “hotspot” for users of the app.

July’s new iOS application, Somebody™, which the New Museum is proud to copresent as part of a distributed international launch with multiple international partners (see list below), continues these profound investigations into the ways technology mediates our interpersonal communications.

Texting is tacky. Calling is awkward. Email is old. Next time try Somebody — an app created by Miranda July with support from Miu Miu. When you send your friend a message through Somebody, it goes — not to your friend — but to the Somebody user nearest your friend. This person (likely a stranger) delivers the message verbally, acting as your stand-in. Somebody works best with a critical mass of users in a given area; colleges, workplaces, parties and concerts can become Somebody hotspots simply by designating themselves as one (official hotspots on somebodyapp.com). The most high-tech part of the app is not in the programming, it’s in the users who dare to deliver a message to stranger. In this sense Somebody is a far-reaching public art project, inciting performance and twisting our love of avatars and outsourcing. The antithesis of the utilitarian efficiency that tech promises, here, finally, is an app that makes us nervous, giddy, and alert to the people around us.

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metamodernism

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