Category Archives: art
1st 3 pgs of Chapter 3 – Why?
The word dummy has more than one negative connotation, ranging from sheer stupidity to a fake stand-in. How is it that as a viewer we allow ourselves to be equated with a dummy in any way? For that matter, why … Continue reading
More than Man Ray's lover
According to e-flux, there is a show of Lee Miller prints going on in Germany … doesn’t do me any good here in the desert, but the link to her archive site proved interesting. That woman was gorgeous. I knew … Continue reading
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how many hits a day?
From an e-flux ad about ArtReview’s new November issue: Power in the digital age: Google and Flickr 2005 TOP 10 1. Damien Hirst, artist, Uk 2. Larry Gagosian, dealer/ gallerist US 3. Francois Pinault, owner of Christie’s /collector, France 4. … Continue reading
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Jeannie stamp-of-approval
These video logs (vlogs) at youtube should not be missed. This was rec’d by my learned friend John; it is an old man telling stories: recollections of going to art school in the late 1940’s, his teachers, impressions of Hockney’s … Continue reading
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anybody have a record player?
I take it back; it’s not a piece of a record, but a very flimsy whole record, the size of a single. And this is no average exhibition catalog, but a monumental historical record of sound in art (organized around … Continue reading
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Roland Barthes' quote
This is what I am writing about right now: (Like a bad concert hall, affective space contains dead spots where the sound fails to circulate. – The perfect interlocutor, the friend, is he not the one who constructs around you … Continue reading
is there justus?
Only one page further in the thesis – but I pause a moment to give a Justus Motter update, as I see there has been a mild interest in my hi-desert test sites post, since “guest’s” new comment. Jus is … Continue reading
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of auditory interest
This website posts one-minute audio vacations. Just an audio snapshot of some other place (likely to be very exotic) for one minute. There was another artist too, I can’t think of his name, but he simply placed a recording mic … Continue reading
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writing=nausea
I am roping my sixteen tracks on intimacy into four, more substantial chapters. I. Intro (Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller – who they are and how they’ve been received – define intimacy) II. Why I think it’s about this … Continue reading
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procrastination meets the power drill
At lunch last week (great Korean food in Inglewood, exit Western on the 405), Corrina innocently asked me if I was going to use the same process of organization for this rewrite of my thesis, You know the one you … Continue reading
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