From the yearly archives:

2009

Light, Sound, and Time

December 29, 2009
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I wrote the following essay for my class on ‘Art of the 60’s & 70’s’ at The New School.  The assignment was to create my ‘dream exhibition’ using 3 artists of the period. This was the most fun I’ve had writing a paper in a long time….my choices were Robert Wilson, John Cage, and Dan [...]

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Media Hot & Cold Revisted

November 30, 2009
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My reaction to Eduardo Navas’ excellent article posted on Remix Theory, about how McLuhan’s ideas about “Hot & Cold” media apply to a contemporary media landscape that is vastly different from the milieux in which McLuhan was writing in the 60’s.

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De-douching America

August 2, 2009
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This weekend, I’m catching up on my Daily Shows & Colbert Reports that I missed while in SF. I just watched Wednesday’s Daily Show, and was blown away by “So You Think You Can Douche”, taking on the talking heads on cable news networks. It’s not that it was so much better than the typical Daily Show bit, but just that it seemed to encapsulate perfectly the ways in which TDS is an essential corrective to today’s media.

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Art Stars: The Children of Jack Smith

August 1, 2009
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This is a short, 9-minute microdocumentary that I made last spring for my Art/Core class at the New School. The basic thesis is that cinema – underground films from the 60’s and 70’s, as well as mainstream cinema – has had an effect on the kinds of work contemporary performance artists in NYC today are producing. It consists of interviews with 3 artists: Reverend Jen Miller, Robert Prichard, and Velocity Chyalld.

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Love Fungus

February 2, 2009
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I made a DVD this evening of one of the first of the “Grindhouse-A-Go-Go!” shows at Surf Reality, called “Tinea Tricolore: The Love Fungus”, written by Doug Black (aka The Purple Organ). I’m bringing it to school tomorrow at the request of my Art/Core professor, and thought I’d share it here as well.

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