Rhizome: Interview with John F. Simon

This interview took place in January 2002 on Rhizome, on the occasion of the Guggenheim’s acquisition of John Simon’s Unfolding Object. + + + Jon Ippolito: You’ve been working on or near the cutting edge of digital art since the mid-1980s, when you were programming image-processing routines for CCD [charge-coupled device] photography. Yet you often [...]

Susan Blackmore – Memes and Temes

The Perfect Human

The Perfect Human 13:00 – 3 years ago The Perfect Human by Jørgen Leth. This is one of the finest short films of all time. One of the finest films of any lenght, for that matter. .

The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?

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Artist Pablo Helguera on Social Interaction, Research, and Pedagogy.

LECTURE INTRODUCTION Artist Pablo Helguera provides an introduction to his work while discussing emerging art practices that involve social interaction, research, and pedagogy. ABOUT PABLO HELGUERA Pablo Helguera is a New York-based visual and performance artist originally from Mexico City who has exhibited widely internationally. He is the author of five books including The Pablo [...]

Is Ambient Creativity Killing Our Ambition?

Originally Posted by Hyperalleric Social media has brought the art community huge benefits, chief among them the ability to easily share artistic creations, whether it’s through Twitter, Facebook or a group Tumblr. But is the possibility of easy creation and publishing diminishing our drive for making more ambitious works? Are iconic masterpieces rarer in this [...]

Cory Arcangel: 500 Words

Cory Arcangel talks about his exhibition at the Barbican in ArtForum. Cory Arcangel, Various Self Playing Bowling Games (aka Beat The Champ), 2011, fourteen video game consoles and fourteen video projections, dimensions variable. Installation view. WHEN I WAS A KID, I didn’t have a Nintendo. So I’d go over to my friend’s house, because he [...]

Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy

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Sal Randolph: Notes On Slack

Sal Randolph: Notes On Slack Slack is extra – extra line in the rope. Slack is not keeping things tight. It means not pulling, or at least not pulling so much that you use up all the slack. In animal training, slack is a reward. When a horse does what you want, you give it [...]

It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future

Guest Contributor: Seth Ellis It’s 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future Click Here to view “Scenes From An IBM Slide Presentation”