Kenan Rubenstein on Imperfection in Art, the Intersection of Objects & Content, and Solving Problems in Self-Publishing

Posted by Magdalena Georgieva

Jun 9, 2014, 1:09:00 PM

Kenan Rubenstein is a comics and web design artist and also the creator of Decision Bot and Homebase, among other projects. In fact, Kenan is running at least a thousand different projects at all times, so we got together with him to learn where he draws all his energy and inspiration from!

When did your interest in comics start?

When I was nine, I would sell subscriptions to my mom and dad’s co-workers. I photocopied them and stapled them, and once every month I’d give everyone a comic. Each one was a hodgepodge of different stuff that I consumed at that time - there were comics based on nintendo games and comics based on the Mets because I loved baseball. There were a lot of me and my friends with superpowers - it is really hard to tell what we were doing... I guess at the time I knew, but it looks like we were blasting things with our arms.

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Topics: art

Zhanina Boyadzhieva on Collective Individuality in Architecture

Posted by Meghan Keaney Anderson

Jun 9, 2014, 1:07:00 PM

Zhanina Boyadzhieva is a Bulgarian-born architectural designer who now studies and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  A graduate of Harvard School of Design, she recently self-published Collective Individuality: Reconstructing the Public Realm, a thesis that Zhanina calls, "a year-long fascination" with the comparison of socialist and post-socialist cities with a focus on Eastern Europe. I caught up with Zhanina just as she returned from giving a TedX talk in Sofia, Bulgaria on the topic. 

 

Is architecture art or science?

My initial definition of architecture has expanded tremendously especially with my thesis project to include politics, culture, social practices and I'm getting more and more interested in this. The link between architecture and urbanism, so cities, and different social practices within them.  

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Topics: science

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