about emoticons
:þ about emoticons 4 When I find myself about to use one, Il stop and ask myself if there isnt a better way for me to convey my thoughts. Am I expressing myself clearly? Am I belabouring the obvious? It also causes me to rethink my relationship with my audience. If I need an emoticon [...]
trading dirt
trading dirt: “Stories can be used to obfuscate or inflate an item’s value- as in the pitch of a used-car salesman- but Kaprow’s telling of how meaningful the contents of his bucket were had to be trustworthy for a fair trade to take place. Since all fair trades are based on a mutual trust, “the [...]
after microsoft
In “After Microsoft”, Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby searched for the photographer of the standard Microsoft desktop image, and had him photograph and photoshop the scene once more
david schnell
“By leaving perspective lines visible on the canvas the artist has flattened pictorial space with the very means used to create it, freezing the moving objects within it and suggesting a visual world where space and time have become artificial. This artificiality extends to nature itself: the giant conifers in Poles in May (2004) haved [...]
nathaniel mellors
Nathaniel Mellors “There’s an imersive quality to installations, you’re completely within something,” he explains. “But there are puncturing devices designated to unsettle that, which create the sense of awareness that you’re inside and outsie something at the same time. My work is contantly throwing off different frequencies, dissonant harmonies, things that are technically wrong but [...]