October 2011
14 posts
The Deal With Occupy Wall Street.
…Since then it’s been all clamor: MoMA’s always been a play thing for the rich, how’s this gonna change it? Have “voices of dissent” actually been silenced by BIG money? And my favorite: Why aren’t they targeting something else? (Libraries were tabled at Gothamist, Chelseagalleries and Sotheby’s everywhere else).
These are all reasonable questions, but they respond to a single artist’s...
Art Fag City's Reid Singer Interviews David...
GOTH, GLASGOW, AND GALLERIES
RS: A lot of my favorite drawings of yours have something to do with death, graveyards, etc. There’s got to be something virile and attractive and sexy about being really into death, maybe even doing things that might be perceived as goth, like Ian Curtis. Did you ever draw with the idea that people are going to be impressed by how dark you were?
DS: No. Well, it’s...
Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the...
The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be tricked into accepting a corrupt hierarchical system based on false scarcity and propaganda concerning absurd elevation of one individual genius over another human being for the monetary gain of the elitest of elite. For the...
2003 interview with the 2channel founder Nishimura with Japan Media Review Q: Why did you decide to use perfect anonymity, not even requiring a user name?A: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only...
KYLE CHAYKA: Things I Learned About Ryder Ripps... →
kchayka:
A few things gleaned from Paddy Johnson’s profile of Internet art star Ryder Ripps for Print magazine:
The only way to succeed on the interwebs is “honesty.”
Ripps has “two Tumblr and three Twitter accounts,” which somehow doesn’t seem like nearly enough.
He feels the emotional pull of Monster Energy advertising (who can deny those claw marks?) and is obsessed with “pubescent...
September 2011
10 posts
The Definition of Context Collapse
“…an infinite number of contexts collapsing upon one another into that single moment of recording. The images, actions, and words captured by the lens at any moment can be transported to anywhere on the planet and preserved (the performer must assume) for all time. The little glass lens becomes the gateway to a blackhole sucking all of time and space – virtually all possible contexts –...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a new website. →
veken:
Not as sexy and dynamic as MOMA’s, but it’s simple, straightforward and worth checking out.
And since I can’t ever find what I need on MoMA, that’s a good thing.
The idea of an aesthetics of process draws from the consideration of technology as a social practice. It sees artistic creativity, particularly an art practice that thoughtfully and self-consciously engages advanced technologies, as a form of social praxis enmeshed in an ever morphing web of human social relations. It sees technology not as finished products to be used, but as works in progress to...
[T]he rush to stuff content into interactive media has drawn our attention away from the profound and subtle ways that the interface itself, by defining how we perceive and navigate content, shapes our experience of that content. If culture, in the context of interactive media, becomes something we “do,” it’s the interface that defines how we do it and how the “doing” feels. Word processors...
The apparently neutral space of the gallery is in reality a highly produced space. Control of environmental factors such as heat, humidity and natural lighting, that of artificial lighting, security and observation features, exhibition barriers, display cases and crowd flow management systems are all important considerations in the control and management of gallery space. Clearly, it takes a...
August 2011
9 posts
