February 2012
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When The Object Presents Itself: An Interview with... →
I currently see performance in a very simple (yet useful) way: performance is nothing other than the process through which an object is translated into a version of itself able to be experienced by another object. By translatable object I don’t only mean a musical score, a theatre play, an idea, or even a person; rather, an object (like Graham Harman demonstrates) is anything that has an...
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Imagining the Image: Photography, Psychoanalysis... →
Still, there is something of interest for us in sticking to photographic tradition that is beyond historical nostalgia and the ideals of pedagogy: that is how the drawn-out process of accomplishing the image, culminating in the work of photographic development and its ritualistic bathings, builds up a momentum of expectancy that indexes the photographer’s desire to see the image. Here, memories...
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my grandmother's artist resume is absolutely...
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someone may be trying to tell me I should move...
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What I Photograph and How
how do I shoot still-lives?
how do I shoot portraits?
how do I shoot landscapes?
and when I photograph those things, is that really what I’m doing?
perhaps i’m being slightly less than coherent.
“A photograph works best when the formal aspects such as light, colour and...”
– Rineke Dijkstra on popphoto.com (via lostinpublications)
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“Interview of Lise Sarfati by François Adragna”... →
François Adragna: What is a photographic series?
Lise Sarfati: It is a set of photographs which are linked to each other and which create a whole. Something which shuts us in and in which we cannot find the exit. It is also a way of thinking. A form.
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FA: Finally, why not a movie?
LS: Because of the silence and stillness, because of the power of the fixed image and its...
“Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of...”
– Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher in This Will Make You Smarter, a fantastic collection of short essays by 151 big thinkers, who each answered the question, “What scientific concept will improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?” (via curiositycounts)
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"It's interesting you sent the link about image...
Is The 'Right To Be Forgotten' The 'Biggest Threat... →
a really interesting article. and argument.
Jeffrey Rosen of George Washington University said the proposed European legislation will seriously alter the structure of the Internet, damage companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook, but much more important, this legislation in its present form, he says, “represents the biggest threat to free speech on the Internet in the coming...
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Recall (memory) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“The truth is that an artist’s appraisal of his own work, in terms of how much...”
– Andrew Hussie, author of MS Paint Adventures (via sillywillyver)
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Google Glasses Will Be Powered by Android -... →
later this year, Google is expected to start selling eyeglasses that will project information, entertainment and, this being a Google product, advertisements onto the lenses. The glasses are not being designed to be worn constantly — although Google engineers expect some users will wear them a lot — but will be more like smartphones, used when needed, with the lenses serving as a kind of...
EXCAVATION/MEMORY Opens SATURDAY Feb 25th 6-9pm
edvarie:
This is the second of a three part series of exhibitions from the Pratt MFA Program.
Opening Reception for this new batch of artists will be held on Saturday Feb 25th 6-9pm.
EXCAVATION/MEMORY will be on view through March 1st. Gallery hours as follows:
Sunday 12-5 Monday closed Tuesday 12-6 Wednesday 12-6 Thursday 12-8
xx EV
"In certain settings the act of looking feels a...
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A Brief History of the To-Do List and the... →
…In fact, our brain appears to be wired to nag about unfinished to-do list items as uncompleted tasks and unmet goals continue to pop up into our minds. This is called the Zeigarnik effect and explains phenomena like earworms — when you hear only a portion of song, the song is likely to run through your mind at odd intervals as your brain struggles to finish it. Originally, the Zeigarnik...
Life-like art vs. Art-like art
“To us, the Web is a sort of shared external memory. We do not have to remember...”
– We, the Web Kids – an essay by Polish political writer and commentator Piotr Czerski lays out a manifesto for the generation nursed on the web. (via curiositycounts)
“The uneasy truth is that we can shift time around all we like, if we like, and...”
– Time zones are fluid. What are the implications for time itself? Some related mind-bending in these 7 essential books on time. (via)
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i just need to shoot through it.
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Conscientious | Feeling Social Enough Yet? →
There is no way anyone can win the social-networking arms race. It’s time to scale back. It’s time to realize that social-networking sites come with only one guarantee: You’re going to spend a lot of time on them - time that you could have spent on your own photography.
ugh, I know Joerg, I know.
Watch(via New Scientist)
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yes, liminality, exactly
liminal and fragmented
- the words people keep saying to me.
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There’s a phrase I’ve been repeating to myself
“non-temporal things, temporally”
i want to trademark that.
which I think is a good description of my world: stepping out of time a minute, but still maintaining awareness of the fact that it was/always is passing.
the fleeting moment is the amount of time it takes to turn the page.
that one too
and I spend significantly less time per page I...
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Derailment (thought disorder) - Wikipedia, the... →
thanks Isalala
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Club Kids: The Social Life of Artists on Facebook... →
We live in a time when young artists look at each other’s Facebook pages more than each other’s art. The affect of Facebook may be why so few artists online actually make much art–because they aren’t being rewarded for anything so much as the performance of their own personal brand online. Thus, the strongest ties artworks in today’s group shows often share are the Mutual Friends the artists...
“Q: If every photograph should contain one key element, what would it be in your...”
– INTERVIEW #49: MARINA RICHTER (via lukewinter-inspirations)
“This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is...”
– “Toy Fatigue”, Alec Soth (via tokyo-camera-style)
“If you mean how does an artist build a business while also finding time to...”
– Brian Sherwin: Galleries Will Make A Big Push To Embrace the Internet — The Abundant Artist (via photographsonthebrain)
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.( J ) / ( MARX ).: The Business of Photography is... →
jessicaemarx:
Wilgus is hosting an event called The Business of Photography on February 19th, 2012 (TOMORROW MORNING) in the basement of the Main Building. This event is dedicated to creating awareness and enhancing the knowledge of the business of photography. Highlighted topics include but not limited …to developing your brand as a photographer thru networking, building professional practices,...