The Best Friends Learning Gang is back and ready to CUT, PASTE, & REPLICATE! We will be hosting an Amateur Hour as part of HOMEBODIES, AWAY TEAMS, a group show curated by Earl Gravy at UMOCA (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art) from January 26 to May 12 with some really fabulous folks, so please check it out if you can!

And if you feel like playing with mutant genetics, please come by UMOCA from noon to 3 and join

the Best Friends Learning Gang
for Amateur Hour
on DIY Gene Editing and the Cannibal Pharmacon:
A Cookbook for Irrational Medicine 

In this expertless, unguided workshop, we'll try out the new gene editing technique CRISPR in order to produce resistant bacteria; splice the genetics of yeast with jellyfish to make it glow; and compile a cookbook of home remedies from participants' personal experience, cataloging cures and palliatives that are considered illegitimate or unproven by the scientific community.

Check out Opposable Thumbs-- a podcast by Rob Ray and Taylor Hokanson, in which the hosts engage a guest each week to address a creative challenge across a broad range of topics spanning Stand Up Comedy to Security Crafting... I was invited to talk about Homemade Chemicals. You can listen to the podcast I was on here!

Kyle Johanson Bellucci and Matthew Lax organized a really exciting show at Human Resources, which I reviewed for Temporary Art Review in April. You can read it here.

I recently wrote Wired! Expanding! for the ICP museum, as part of the Private, Public, Secret exhibition curated by Charlotte Cotton. This essay looks at concurrent colonial and technological developments in the 19th century, namely global telegraphic networks, imperial territorial expansion, and the corporate gaze. www.icp.org/perspective/wired-expanding

'Extraordinary but not quite Magic: what makes the War on Terror so damn medieval?' is part of the latest issue (wrong) of N-o-nS...e;nSl/c::::a_L
Available here.

I am very excited to be in conversation with the brilliant Margo Bistis, Norman Klein, and Tom Leeser about the wonder roman The Imaginary 20th Century by Norman Klein and Margo Bistis.

The Best Friends Learning Gang wrote an art review of the 2016 Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum, which has been published in Temporary Art Review. It is an assemblage of diverging thoughts under a collective nom de plume... You can read it here!