Archive for January, 2009
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The Art Life- New Work Friday #37 November 19, 2009"In my work there has always been a direct relationship between two components: the idea and its production. The production apsect is the result of my fascination with the technical nexus between stills and video, and the failure of either medium to capture either an elusive truth or the essence of my front-of-lens collaborators. In my current show I […]
- New Work Friday #37 November 19, 2009
- Ballardian
- Pillars of Wisdom November 16, 2009Arriving in Abu Dhabi, Paul Williams's initial reaction, standing on the balcony of his hotel room on the 20th floor, was disorientation and near-vertigo. Laid out before him was a building site on a scale he had never seen before; a small island was under construction. He filmed what he saw...
- Pillars of Wisdom November 16, 2009
- Cabinet
- A Dry Black Veil - Brian DillonBy the last decades of the nineteenth century, an obscuring perplex of ideas regarding dust hung above the inhabitants of the European city like overlapping clouds, variously threatening or inspiring with the weight of knowledge, quantity of filth, or degree of infection they contained. London, especially—having only lately escaped a mid-century chol […]
- A Dry Black Veil - Brian Dillon
- The Guardian Culture
- Lost masterpiece to go on show November 24, 2009 Charlotte Higgins
- Albums of the decade No 7 November 24, 2009 Sarah Boden
- Wakey wakey! November 24, 2009 Lyn Gardner
- Infosthetics
- Life Without Buildings
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to see how much the very principle of the spectacle – nonintervention – is linked to the alienation of the old world. Conversely, the most pertinent revolutionary experiments in culture have sought to break the spectators […]
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists
- New Shelton Wet/Dry
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –ShakespeareIs it our experiences or our genes that make us who we are? Studying twins has revealed unexpected, and often unnerving, insights into the nature versus nurture debate. Imagine receiving a phone call out of the blue. You find the voice on the other end eerily familiar as it tells you some life-changing news: you are, [...]
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –Shakespeare
- Quiet Babylon
- Hacking With Pictures1. In 2008, Australian show A Current Affair broadcast an episode that included a brief hypnotherapy session. The segment was called Think Slim and the idea was that it would help viewers lose weight. This was found to be in breach of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice which specifically forbids broadcasting shows “designed to [...]
- It was Always an Internet of Thingsphoto credit: Spanish Flea I remember the first moment, a few years ago, at which I began to take the Internet seriously. It was a very, very silly thing. There was a guy, a computer research student at Carnegie Mellon, who liked to drink Dr Pepper Light. There was a drinks machine a couple of [...]
- Hacking With Pictures
- Triple Canopy
- Thinking Through Images #1“A screaming comes across the sky.”
- Thinking Through Images #1
