Caught My Eye

An Interview with Artist Swoon — Gothamist

Street art photographer Jake Dobkin interviews Swoon about her Swimming Cities project, Jeffrey Deitch leaving New York, her recent project in Zambia, and her new book.
Tracking memes on their native turf: Viral anthropology at ROFLcon — Nieman Journalism Lab

Joanne McNeil reflects on memes and I particularly loved this line, “The huckster with a formula for making your brand ‘go viral’ is the Brooklyn Bridge salesman of our time …” and this tweet she includes about the conference is really insightful, “unlike most conferences, the audience are the experts & the panelists are outsiders. And *they* are the creators.”
Coptic Symposium in Toronto to Reveal Ancient Egyptian Graffiti — Heritage Key

“What can graffiti tell us about ancient cultures?That’s just one of the questions being explored at a Coptic Studies symposium to be held on May 29 at the University of Toronto.” Nice to see my alma mater doing awesome things. /via c-monster.net
Rethinking Packaging — Big Think

Maria Popova writes about two projects (one by the Puma corporation) to rethink the utter waste that is packaging. Both of these are innovative, beautiful, and I hope this sort of thing catches on.

Hrag Vartanian