Milking It

At Moving Image Source:

The most significant meme of the year probably wasn't an epic fail caught on a cell cam, nor a gonzo Japanese commercial, nor a ridiculous cat, nor anything particularly funny or ironic or Schadenfreude-ish or any of the other qualities we've come to associate with self-proliferating online distribution. It was, rather, a series of earnest, crowd-sourced videos telling LGBT youth that It Gets Better.

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Bruce Conner, Cultural Psychic

At The L Magazine:

It makes sense that the artist once hailed as the progenitor of the MTV aesthetic should also, 30 years later, be hailed as the progenitor the YouTube mash-up...

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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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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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