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Marian Spore in the WSJ

Michael — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:50:34 +0000

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 Brooklyn, Manhattanites might wonder? Hasn’t the Upper West Side traditionally been on the cutting edge of political discourse?

Here’s the link.

Melanie Crean Publication

Michael — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 16:42:26 +0000

I contributed an essay about Melanie Crean’s project ‘The Luminists’ to a publication just released by Art in General.

The Vasulkas: Video as Pure Signal

Michael — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:45:02 +0000

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.

Review in The Varsity

Michael — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:36:29 +0000

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.

Fernseh-galerie and Jan Dibbets’ TV as Fireplace

Michael — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:55:03 +0000

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.

Berlin Biennial Review on Rhizome

Michael — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:25:20 +0000

My review of the 2010 Berlin Biennial is now up on Rhizome.

A Manual for the 21st Century Gatekeeper

Michael — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:20:43 +0000

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.

Talk at apexart

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:04:59 +0000

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.
3. An instance of making such a discovery.

Current apexart resident Rebecca Key and curator/media historian Michael Connor meet for the first time in person. What can you learn about a person in the first meeting? What will they talk about? Anything…..everything……or nothing?

Objects, characters, events, TV, lectures, apexart, Liverpool, art, narratives, life, film, New York, fabricated situations, confusions, residency, authors, journeys, memories, artists, and randomness may be discussed.

Come and witness their first encounter at apexart.

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The Constant World on Lulu

admin — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:31:42 +0000

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 building created for the 1958 Universal Exhibition in Brussels.

Here’s a picture of the Atomium to whet your appetite:

Andrew Jeffrey Wright Video Release

admin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:19:20 +0000

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 have a tiny writing credit!