January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“What’s the second credit crunch? It’s the content crunch. It’s when the lights...”
– You are reading Dan Fox’s Frieze missive from 2008, Debit or Credit, which resurfaced on the Twitterzverse today. Right now. Then, you’re settling in to watch The Wire boxed set straight through—because that’s what you (and me, and all of us) should’ve been doing in the first...
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An Acceptable Approximation
… is the title of an essay I wrote—in the first person, no less—for Never Odd or Even, a book designed by Project Projects and featured in the exhibition We would provide complete darkness, curated by Alfons Hug and Sarah Demeuse for the Goethe Institut. Contributors include myself, Heike Baranowsky, Alejandro Cesarco, Angie Keefer, Christoph Keller, Adam Kleinman, Kitty Kraus, Jorge Méndez...
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WatchI do have a minor obsession with online “trailer” videos made to promote things that are not films. Artist Joanna Neborsky made this piece (music by Cleaning Women) to announce the publication of Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Volume 1, a printed compendium of the online magazine designed by Project Projects. Visual Good Times are Had By All here, but it also manages to...
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Another Yvonne Rainer GIF (and also, a reading)
Badlands Unlimited’s Minister of Information just issued this GIF, designed for Yvonne Rainer’s reading at St. Marks Bookshop on December 6th. Her new book, Poems, was recently published by Badlands in print and e-book form, the latter of which features awesome embedded performance documentation; audio recordings of Rainer reading her own work; and an interview between she and BU...
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Yvonne to Marina: Deal With It
I happened to post Jeanette Hayes’s Marina Abramović GIF from Dump.fm a few days before Yvonne Rainer publicly denounced Abramović’s plans for MOCA’s fall gala, which happened on Saturday. “Don’t you think this dust up calls for a ‘Deal With It’ GIF, too?” I said in a note to Jeanette, who I hoped might make one to mark the occasion. Yes, it most...
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October 2011
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On Digital Fundraising: join me at the #ArtsTech...
Are you interested in digital fundraising? You don’t say.
Join me, my Whitney Museum colleague Briana Lowndes, Cindy Au of Kickstarter, and Farra Trompeter of Big Duck for a conversation on that very topic on November 9th at 7 pm, hosted by the inimitable Julia Kaganskiy at Pivotal Labs. I suggest registering now, while we’re here, talking about it.
Bri, the Whitney’s...
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Book-as-Content Management System? →
“It’s a book as content-management system, a new design for reading, etc.” says Triple Canopy of its first anthology—#olds!—Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, designed by Project Projects and available for pre-order now. If PP designed it, that book-as-CMS must purr like a kitten.
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Museum Nerd Alert: #MCN2011
On November 17th, I’ll be speaking at the 2011 Museum Computer Network conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on a panel called Beyond the Blog: New Waves in Digital Arts Publication, which I co-organized with Elisabeth Neely, Director of Digital Information and Access at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sam Quigley, Vice President for Collection Management, Imaging and Information Technology /...
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Just Launched: TC LABS →
Congratulations to the team at Triple Canopy, who have announced the official launch of TC Labs, a project that “draws upon and helps sustain Triple Canopy’s expansive network of artists, writers, designers, and developers.” Good things to come, surely.
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“And yet, the structural model of the art world remains relatively unchanged. In...”
– You’ve all emailed/”@” replied/donated to Rhizome/sent good vibes to Lauren Cornell in order to thank her for writing this, right?
+ In the Nostalgia District (Frieze)
July 2011
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Come Hangout
with me, Rhizome’s Senior Editor Joanne McNeil and New York Times tech reporter Jenna Wortham. Tonight. 8 pm. On Google+—the universally-available Facebook 2.343624. There will be rose and kale salad and talk of the Internet. Beyond that, I can’t make promises.
June 2011
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Artists' eBooks Unbound: An Interview with James... →
I interviewed publisher and cultural polyglot James Bridle for Rhizome. He did not want to talk about images. I, however, do. Next time around, perhaps!
SH: The role of the image in electronic book publishing is a complicated one, as each e-reader presents a particular set of challenges in terms of color, resolution, and scale. Given the primary role of the image in many artist-produced...
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“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing...”
– Susan Cain’s op ed “Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?” is one of the more careful considerations of introversion I’ve seen published in the the mainstream media. While the differences in social perception of shyness in men and women is merely implied within the piece (and...
Happy Birthday, Frank O'Hara →
Via anticipatedstranger, Frank O’Hara’s “To the Harbormaster” (1957):
I wanted to be sure to reach you; though my ship was on the way it got caught in some moorings. I am always tying up and then deciding to depart. In storms and at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide around my fathomless arms, I am unable to understand the forms of my vanity or I am…
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Into the White: MGG kindly sent along some live...
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YouTube Time Machine →
Personally, I’m into the 1960s.
jeffdtaylor:
Only a matter of time before someone developed this web app. I’m having a blast playing around with the year 1995.
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WatchMay I kindly rally the troops (a.k.a. you) to back Triple Canopy/Light Industry/The Public School’s 155 Freeman project on Kickstarter? This fall, the triumvirate moves to a new space at 155 Freeman Street in Greenpoint. Help support their first year of programming by backing the project at any level for incentives by Cory Arcangel, Paul Chan, Rivka Galchen, and R. H. Quaytman. (NB: a $150...
May 2011
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WatchJust in time for The Rapture, we released a series of videos on whitney.org in celebration of the museum’s new building in downtown Manhattan which oh, hai! we’re breaking ground on this coming Tuesday. Wyeth Hansen and Ryan Dunn of the creative firm Labour designed and directed these five shorts—Reflections, above, is my personal pick (here, I can play favesies!)—and Ben Sterling of...
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E-Books and the Museum Machine →
This isn’t a ploy to see how many times I can jam the word “museum” into a headline in a given day! It’s link to a field report on this year’s Museums and the Web conference that I wrote for for Triple Canopy!
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“People don’t read in museums.”
– To be fair, Benjamin H. D. Buchloch didn’t aim this flip dismissal toward the general museum-going public at Sunday’s U.S. premiere of The Forgotten Space, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch’s documentary on the so-called containerization of global capitalism-at-sea. More precisely, his frustrated...
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