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Link Cory Arcangel Goes Old School
Arcangel’s conflicted relationship with technology drives his artistic practice and pervades Pro Tools, the artist’s first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At 33, Arcangel will be…

June 6 2011, 3:11pm | Comments
Link GlitchBot
GlitchBot is an automated glitch creation / distribution program and persona. GlitchBot maintains an active presence on flickr, including a profile and photostream, with new images created and uploaded daily.…

May 30 2011, 2:17am | Comments
Link We are as gods and have to get…
The shift that has happened in 40 years which mainly has to do with climate change. Forty years ago, I could say in the Whole Earth Catalog, "we are as…

April 28 2011, 3:27am | Comments
Link Post-Digital Aesthetics and the return to Modernism
What is it that constitutes (a) post-digital art, and how can it be thought in terms of aesthetic theory – or even post-aesthetic theory? In one sense, post-digital(1) refers to…

February 27 2011, 5:57am | Comments
Link In Defense of the Poor Image
by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image,…

October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments
Link On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth
This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film “Lessons of Darkness” on the fires in Kuwait. He was…

October 17 2010, 2:33pm | Comments
Link Cave Painting: Videogames as Art
Lanchester allowed that computer games would never tell us as much about character as other forms of narrative, but pointed out two great virtues of the form: “The first is…

September 3 2010, 6:29am | Comments
Link "The Ignorant Schoolmaster" by Jacques Rancière
We are all here to speak about the virtue of masters. I wrote a work called The Ignorant Master. Therefore it falls to me to defend on this subject the…

June 23 2010, 9:48am | Comments
Link The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan…
Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger.…

May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments
Link Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise
Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my…

January 15 2010, 5:38am | Comments
Link Beauty, Art, and Darwin
It is possible that we have a kind of built-in moral resistance to the runaway pathologies now visible in the arts. Where did that resistance come from? Judging from his…

November 1 2009, 4:37am | Comments
Link Who’s afraid of the avant-garde?
There's a reason why we find it easier to "get" modern art than avant-garde music, and it's not just about our natural conservatism and love of Mozart... Arts & books…

October 27 2009, 11:53am | Comments
Link The Art-Work of the Future
AS Man stands to Nature, so stands Art to Man. When Nature had developed in herself those attributes which included the conditions for the existence of Man, then Man spontaneously…

July 22 2009, 4:37pm | Comments
Link Adorno on Mimesis in Aesthetic Theory
Art is imitation only to the extent to which it is objective expression, far removed from psychology. There may have been a time long ago when this expressive quality of…

July 13 2009, 7:19am | Comments
Link Presentation Zen: Making presentations in the TED style
TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked…

May 12 2009, 3:06pm | Comments

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