Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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There's no doubt that neither Watts nor Kaprow would have intended a museum retrospective such as _Experiments in the Everyday_. Kaprow's happenings and Watts's mail-order catalogues, newsletters and consumer items were conceived to bring art out of the galleries and the audience into art. To place...
"[The report calls for] important steps but falls far short of increasing the consumer power of individuals," said Councillor Marjorie C. Decker. "You must look at a baseline wage."
Perhaps video art is so difficult to categorize because it hasn't been around for long. In 1965, Sony began marketing consumer video equipment. It was almost immediately picked up by the Korean artist Nam June Paik, and other artists followed soon after, to see what they could do with...
Until now, air bags and seat belts have been tested on dummies modeled after an average-size man, a practice, critics charge, that has put smaller adults and most children at risk. When an air bag deploys, its force is directed into what would be a grown man's chest...
Why this rash of new regulations? Ask the manufacturers of the products in question. "The genetically modified food industry recognizes that they need to have consumer confidence in order to push ahead," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. In addition, the stakes are high: Biotech crops already account for about...