Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Common as Air: To Whom Does Art Belong?

At The L Magazine:

Lewis Hyde can just cut right through culture, as when he says, "Carried over time [irony] is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage...

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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Dicking Around: Vivienne Dick at Artists Space

At The L Magazine dot com:

The 1970s saw the institutionalization of experimental cinema, as celluloid seers and weirdos left their day jobs (or lack thereof) and took up teaching positions at various state universities (namely Binghamton and Buffalo) and art schools (namely the San Francisco Art Institute)...

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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Code Eroded: At GLI.TC/H

At Rhizome:

In the inverted world of glitch art, functionality is just a sterile enclosure of creative space and degradation an agent of renewal.

Such was the spirit in the air at GLI.TC/H, a five-day conference in Chicago organized by Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman and Jon Satrom that included workshops, lectures, performances, installations and screenings. Intuitively, most people involved with new media know what glitch art is...

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