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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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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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Irreversible Thriller

January 22, 2009
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On New Year’s Eve this year, I got into a heated discussion about the film Requium for a Dream. The guy I was talking to was a 20-something privileged kid who works at an opera company, and asserted that the film had absolutely no artistic merit simply because it “manipulated” him and made him feel “horrible”. I argued that maybe that’s exactly WHY it has merit, but he was stating his opinion as obvious artistic FACT.

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