September 2011
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Oakland Art Murmur
On Oakland Art Murmur’s fringes the unofficial artists make a presence, pinning their works up on chain-link fences, laying them on the sidewalk, or performing with their feet in the gutter. They don’t have the empty spaces and white walls found in the galleries outside of which they squat, or the refined sensibilities (learned from Art Forum and MFA programs) of the artists who work inside them,...
January 2011
5 posts
July 2010
1 post
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June 2010
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Responsibility is my muse
December 2009
10 posts
Yusuf Sevincli
Maybe blame it on Ryan McGinley, but photography of vacuous beauty is very cool right now. This, however, is some truly compelling work.
http://www.tinyvices.com/gallery/106674-yusuf-sevincli?page=portfolios
My monuments
Links to the online monuments are on the right side of the page.
Destroy your work
For my final project I will destroy (with documentation) all my works from this semester and then erect online monuments to each one. What are the implications of this kind of project? For some reason, all of my recent considerations of art have begun with the premise that its value is tenuous and short lived. Certainly my art. I can’t hold an interest in it for long at all, and when you no...
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I THOUGHT NEVER.
Monument Brainstorm
I’d like to try to incite the public to destroy a work of art — art into effigy and then into monument. A monument stands in place of something that no longer exists except in spirit and mine will commemorate the vanquished art. If I can’t compel people’s hatred for the work then I want to at least test their attitude toward its destruction. Art is often considered sacred...
October 2009
2 posts
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Vannevar Bush- As We May Think
Vannevar Bush’s prediction of the what we would now call a hyper-text technology (i.e. the internet), a system modeled after the human mind, in which information is stored and linked according to the specific paths of reasoning (associations) desired by the user, is a remarkable conceptualization. The “Memex,” as Bush named this fictional machine, would function as an organic...
September 2009
3 posts
August 2009
2 posts
Dash Snow (conceptual artist?)
Hello CIA.
Dash Snow (July 27, 1981 - July 13, 2009) was maybe a conceptual artist, although certainly not according to the criteria Sol Lewitt laid out for conceptual art. Snow did not rigorously “conceptualize” his projects. He created with a vision stoked by spontaneity, with scant regard for “art” that did not result as a side-effect of living. In this sense the...
