Category Archives: Opinion

You Can’t Ride the Bus for Free Forever – Place lease discontinued

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Joshua Berger

  Place Gallery has been a vital and important part of the Portland creative community for a number of years. I have appreciated not only the diversity of the programming, but the location as well. I had the honor of … Continue reading →

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Meaning Clouds

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Joshua Berger

I had a very nice lunch earlier this week with Marty Neumeier. I thoroughly enjoyed our wide-ranging philosophical conversation. Marty was talking about semiotics and symbols. How the way we communicate today, everything has become a symbol for something larger. The … Continue reading →

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State of Wonder

Posted on February 7, 2014 by rachelr

This Saturday at noon Plazm Art Director Joshua Berger and co-editor Tiffany Lee Brown will be interviewed on OPB’s State of Wonder program with April Baer. OPB will be having a love-fest this week in honor of Valentine’s Day. There … Continue reading →

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22 years of Plazm / 10,000x edit

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Joshua Berger

This version takes about two minutes to watch. If you’d like to enjoy the full-length version, please visit the post prior to this. That one takes about two hours to watch. I guess it’s like a Hollywood movie preview. It … Continue reading →

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Plazm 1991–2013 with an E*Rock Soundtrack

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Joshua Berger

A few months ago Alfredo asked me if I could fill the lobby of the Liquid Agency offices in Portland with a history of Plazm. Some of you may have stopped in during the Design Week Portland open house and … Continue reading →

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Sooner or Later: the Neo Boys get their due.

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Joshua Berger

It’s hard to know how influential a band like the Neo Boys are. For those who don’t know, the Neo Boys were a young all-female punk band from the late 70s in Portland, Oregon. Their first show was opening for … Continue reading →

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100×100 art gallery

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Joshua Berger

I last wrote here on May 18th, the anniversary of my bike accident. A few months prior to that there was an event at PICA to both help offset a mountain of medical bills and to celebrate my recovery. It takes … Continue reading →

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Plazm editor Tiffany Lee Brown’s Easter Island Project at the Cooley Gallery

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Joshua Berger

Plazm editor Tiffany Lee Brown at The Cooley Gallery Reception & one-day video installation: Saturday, June 15, 1–4 p.m. Conversation with the artist, 3 p.m. Reed College Library Lobby Anakena: The Easter Island Project Anakena: the Easter Island Project is the … Continue reading →

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May 18

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Joshua Berger

Hi friends It’s been about two months since my last post following the 100 x 100 event at PICA. I aspire to be as productive as I once was, but the level of energy is slow in coming back.  I wrote … Continue reading →

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The future is going to be weird.

Posted on April 6, 2013 by Joshua Berger

The complexity of the brain’s connections comes from the complexity of our experience. Not only does our brain create our thoughts, but our thoughts create our brains. Have a listen to these twenty-two minutes with futurist Ray Kurzweil interviewed on … Continue reading →

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