Since we didn’t have much opportunity in our last class to discuss Brown’s “Thing Theory,” I thought I’d post a few potentially useful resources that
Read moreAnalog Pamphleteering – 2/28
Night School: Analog Pamphleteering with Luke Bulman Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6:30-8:30pm Studio-X NYC (map) Free and open to the public. No RSVP or special
Read moreJoshua Simon’s Neo-materialism Blog
You can find it here. And here are parts 1 (The Commodity and the Exhibition), 2 (The Unreadymade), and 3 (The Language of Commodities) of
Read moreexhibition review: pippinbarr.com
According to Kant, we perceive, and, in turn, appropriate, the things we phenomenologically experience in an effort “make sense” of the world. The “make” in
Read more“The Beauty of the Printed Book”
Here’s a link to a terrific article in today’s NY Times about how some publishers of art books are resisting the temptation to go digital.
Read moreExhibition Review: Welcome to Pine Point
“Welcome to Pine Point” is a website by Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons of The Goggles and Adbusters. It tells the story a mining town
Read moreFancy a Trip to London?
There’s an upcoming exhibit at the Saatchi in London called “The Power of Paper” that seems on the surface to hit a lot of what
Read more“Abandoned” Interactive Fiction
Deep in the catacombs of “abandonware,” old computer programs that run on obsolete systems and/or have unclear copyright ownership, you will come across a genre
Read moreDeliver, Document, Destroy
This program at the Machine Project in LA is inaccessible to us, unfortunately, but quite interesting! D3 is an artist-run service specializing in object divestment.
Read moreApropos of Last Night’s Discussion of Textual Materiality:
via DanCohen.org (Cohen is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media):
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