There’s a write-up in today’s Wall Street Journal about Thom Kubli’s installation at Marian Spore. The opener ought to show you just how hard it is to get a Wall Street Journal reporter across the bridge: I went to Brooklyn Wednesday evening to think. And not just about anything, but to think political thoughts. Why [...]
I contributed an essay about Melanie Crean’s project ‘The Luminists’ to a publication just released by Art in General.
New article on The Take! This time I talk about Steina and Woody Vasulka and their conception of video as a medium composed of ‘signals’ rather than images and sounds per se.
There’s an interesting review in the Varsity of an installation by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy that I curated as part of the Toronto Film Festival.
I have a new post on The Take, the Guggenheim’s new blog about video and the Internet. Called ‘The Transmission of Art by Television‘, it looks at the Fernseh-galerie and how it dealt self-reflexively with TV as an artistic medium.
My review of the 2010 Berlin Biennial is now up on Rhizome.
Cornerhouse commissioned me to write this article about the role of the curator in an age of Social Media; it’s been published online on a website called Write to Reply that allows users to comment paragraph by paragraph.
Here’s some info on a talk I’m doing at apexart next week. I honestly don’t know what it will be about, and it promises to be either hilarious or incredibly awkward, or both. ser·en·dip·i·ty (srn-dp-t) n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties 1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident. 2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries. [...]
The Beall Center has just published a new catalog about the work of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy on Lulu. The catalog includes an essay I wrote about their piece The Constant World. My essay looks at the work’s relationship to artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, Godard’s film Alphaville (watch the full video online here), and the Atomium [...]
If you’re in Philly this Saturday and you love Beanie Babies, go check out the premiere of Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s new standup comedy video ‘Live at Space 1026: Art Jokes.’ The screening is at Space 1026 at 8PM and it’s free. The video is on sale after the screening (signed edition of 100). I even [...]