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Read More: Life in a Clock on a ScreenWho knew? The YouTube indie-movie Life in a Day is the freaky feel-good twin of the art-world movie The Clock: they construct dogmatically linear narratives with staccato marches forward to…
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Read More: Re-Organize Our Future?
The second section, Isolation/Connection, of PerpiTube, my show with Pato Hebert, has ended with an uplifting set of provocations from Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Center: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQEPw1x9E&w=425&h=349]…
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Read More: Hi-Ways and Low-Roads: PerpiTube Reflections
We’re two weeks and eight videos into PerpiTube. The distractions have been largely technical—email problems, DVD drives, compression rates—and easily fixed. The depth has been humbling and surprising: demonstrated in…
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Read More: It’s a Mystery to Me: les clesThe third day of my show PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces brought this remarkable and unexpected video by Shu Lea Cheang. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk7TOUiQ7-Q&w=425&h=349] Unexpected in two senses. First, I had…
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Read More: Share Your DepthWe opened PerpiTube with Natalie Bookchin‘s brilliant piece about isolation within community and the public nature of private pain: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFhEdht5bo&w=560&h=349] Pitzer Galleries curator, Ciara Ennis, noted how the depth…
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Read More: Christian Marclay’s “The Clock”: Time CompressorDarling of the art world, Christian Marclay’s The Clock, like so many pieces of conceptual art, was for me as giving in the reading and anticipatory thinking about it as…
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Read More: YouTube in the GalleryCiara Ennis, the curator of Pitzer College Art Galleries, interviewed Pato Hebert and I about our upcoming YouTube art show, PerpiTube. One of her questions was about the differences between…
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Read More: PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces
I am very pleased to announce the art show that I co-curated with Pato Hebert, PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces. It will be held July 12 – September 6, 2011…
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Read More: The Putative Black Lesbian Speaks
As it is wont to do, the blogisphere will tackle, pin-down, chew-up, devour, and spit out the story of the phony “lesbian blogger Amina” and her pseudo-lesbian editor, “Paula Brooks.”…
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Read More: Diverse Publics and their (Un)Necessary Safe SpacesOn Friday I was honored to participate in a day long symposium at the Getty, Questioning the Standard, an event anticipating Pacific Standard Time, their impending year-long, city-wide opus on…