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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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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Cast Glances: Thomas Comerford’s The Indian Boundary Line and the Contemporary Landscape Film

At Cinema Scope:

Although he has been making a name for himself as a director of exquisitely quiet, meditative avant-garde films since 1997, Thomas Comerford has remained a relatively unsung figure on the experimental scene, partly because he often prefers to bypass film festivals and instead organize DIY tours to various microcinemas around the US...

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Freedom

At The L Magazine:

''Always with you this freedom! For your walled-up country, always to shout 'Freedom! Freedom!' as if it were obvious to all people what it means, this word. But look: it is not so simple as that. Your freedom is the freedom-from: no one tells your precious individual U.S.A. selves what they must do...

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Market Forces

At Moving Image Source:

In “Why Bother?” a thoughtful, searching essay on the place of literature in contemporary society, author Jonathan Franzen frets that whenever books attempt to critique modern society, they only ever find an audience already in agreement with them, and then he offers this aside...

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Madness and Civilization

At Moving Image Source:

When Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was released in April 1947, its director was already on his way to becoming persona non grata in American culture. On top of personal scandal...

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Elizabeth Hardwick Shines On

At The L Magazine:

Hardwick, who died in late 2007, is most famous as a critic, and perhaps the most remarkable aspect of her essays was her cutting psychological insight. The first eight stories here, written between 1946 and 1959, are penetrating, richly detailed character sketches...

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