February 2012
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January 2012
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Coffee, Nicotine Gum, and David Graeber
Jean-Luc Godard, Masculin, féminin (1966)
I woke this morning to find an e-mail in my inbox announcing an upcoming lecture at SVA’s Art Criticism Program by David Graeber with the description:
DAVID GRAEBER, On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time
The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort...
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Melancholy, Down, and Historicity
Paul Klee - Angelus Novus/Angel of History (1920)
Albrecht Dürer Melancolia I (1514)
Thinking today about the treatment of Durer’s Melancolia I engraving and Paul Klee’s etching Angelus Novus in Giorgio Agamben’s “The Melancholy Angel” (from The Man Without Content) I ended up running into and remarking upon the somewhat slippery, ill-defined and shifty temporal...
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Retromediation Revisited, Material and Film...
So, I kinda-sorta ended up trying to answer my own question that I suggested a few weeks ago regarding the possibility of there being something I called ‘retromediation.’
I ended up defining retromediation as the intentional return to an earlier or old(er) form of media for the very material qualities of production that such a medium possesses.
In so doing I hit upon the work of...
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Counterfactual History and Speculative Futures →
The Golden Institute, by Sascha Pohflepp, not only explores the energy issue through the lens of an alternate history of the USA, but also attempts to examine how visions of the future are being created and how they can make us reflect on contemporary issues.
May 2011
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April 2011
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Digital Nostalgia
Cory Arcangel, Super Mario Clouds (2002)
I find it particularly intriguing that artists who choose to confront the role of technology in society (either as a subject or as a medium) often take a retrogressive stance. This type of work predominantly takes two forms: repurposing (to make something new out of old) or retro/nostalgia (to look towards the past from the present).
On the one hand,...
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Glitch Architecture
Glitch architecture is a heretofore unexplored approach to looking at architecture. It draws on the concept of glitch art that explores often-unintentional disruptions that can occur when using technology. These disruptions are all-the-more disturbing in the context of architecture given our...
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WatchGlitch Architecture
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http://abstrakt.vade.info/
March 2011
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Punctuation in Prose by Gertrude Stein →
“When I first began writing, I felt that writing should go on”
#mediahistories
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February 2011
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January 2011
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November 2010
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September 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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I got interviewed on I MADE THIS FOR YOU →
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May 2010
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新世代アーティスト宣言-Artists' Manifestos: Voices of the New...
I just picked up the June issue of 美術手帖 or Art Notebook and in it are included short manifestos by some of my favorite Japanese artists, including:
Tanaka Koki 田中功起 http://www.kktnk.com/koki_tanaka_works.html
Suzuki Hiraku 鈴木ヒラク http://www.wordpublic.com/hiraku/
SHIMURA BROS. http://www.shimurabros.com/
Wada Ei 和田永 http://crabfeet.blogspot.com/
Also, if you get a chance, go to Bank Art...
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Between Play and Politics: Dysfunctionality in... →
Interesting article about the meaning of intentional and unintentional dysfunctionality in media art
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