Art Under Surveillance

I’ll be speaking at a symposium at the Columbus Museum of Art on May 1 and 2. Tying in with the CMA’s George Tooker exhibition, the symposium “addresses the ways in which the visual arts confront or collude with surveillance, and the particular effects of surveillance that the visual arts might be best at revealing [...]

ArtAsiaPacific Review – Yeondoo Jung

My review of Yeondoo Jung’s Handmade Memories at Kukje Gallery in Seoul is online and in print in this month’s issue of ArtAsiaPacific. The exhibition is now on view at Tina Kim Gallery in New York through 28 March. [Link]

Death in Fenwick

Adelaide Film Festival Talk

I’m going to be traveling to Australia at the end of this month to speak at the Adelaide Film Festival’s Art & Moving Image Symposium. My session is monochromatically entitled ‘White Cube Black Room’. It’s really about moving image installations in the gallery. I’m going to talk about some past project, but I’m also going [...]

Interview with Harwood

An interview I did last year with Harwood (above, in ‘ADDICT’ baseball cap) was published today on Rhizome. Here is my favorite part: Can you give me an example of one of the stories you might find on Telephone Trottoire? Well, there might be something about childhood witches, or about how – Childhood witches? Yeah, [...]

Interview by Laure Prouvost

My friend Nick just e-mailed me: I think he is talking about a video interview I did with London artist Laure Prouvost for the Fresh Moves DVD – Laure just uploaded it to her site.

Labor Party

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I’m visiting the Daegu Photo Biennial in Korea this week as a portfolio reviewer. You can see photos from the trip on my Flickr page.

Westport’s Barking Dog Problem

[This report was sent in by Christopher Robbins of Ghana Thinktank, which has been working on solving Westport's problems as part of the Optimism exhibition.] “My neighbors think my dog barks too much, but he doesn’t.” This problem was submitted anonymously to Westport Arts Center by a local resident , and produced some pretty diverse [...]

Westport Dandelion Festival

(Read more here about how Ghana Thinktank is solving Westport’s problems as part of the Optimism exhibition). The following note was dropped in the ‘Problem Box’ at Westport Art Center for Ghana Thinktank to solve: