MTAA-RR:
May 27, 2011
Wide Wide World
posted at 14:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
friday post 05-27-11
posted at 14:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Getting ready for All the Holiday All At Once in June and my kitchen is getting full. permanent link to this post
May 26, 2011
Restless Crowd Control
posted at 21:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
SUMMEr oF HTML
posted at 21:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 25, 2011
Black (Soap) Box
posted at 20:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 23, 2011
Ego Surfing Hot Heads
posted at 22:55 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 20, 2011
friday post 05-20-11
posted at 13:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
hey. look what i got in the mail yesterday. i’m so ready for the end of the world on saturday. permanent link to this post
Jetty Home Movies
posted at 12:51 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Hoopers and Dervishes
posted at 02:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 18, 2011
Spiral Jetty IPA
posted at 22:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2011-05-17
posted at 02:00 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
MTAA’s Tour of the Backwaters of the Internet: (part II)
May 16, 2011
mtaa at lee walton’s blog day 1
posted at 16:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 14, 2011
Manual Zoom Mirage
posted at 13:39 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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The first piece in this little nostalgia trip is 2003’s IN PREPARATION FOR THE SUMMER AIR IN BROOKLYN TO RISE FROM THE CONCRETE IN A MANNER WHICH DISTORTS ONE’S ABILITY TO JUDGE DISTANCE AND MEANING (AKA MANUAL ZOOM MIRAGE).
We did this in the early summer of ‘03 for our friend Dan’s gallery, Rome Arts. The gallery was in a storefront on Havermeyer St. in Brooklyn.
It was a solo show! The catch? The gallery couldn’t really be open all summer so the show had to be viewable from the sidewalk. You’re thinking and we said at the time, “you must be joking.”
Yeah, anyway.
We decided the show would consist of 1 image. The image would be printed on a postcard announcing the show. The postcard WAS the show.
The piece was very formal in a way. It was very interested in where the digital image lies, where does it exist? We put a big print of the image in the gallery, yet everyone had the *exact* same thing on the postcards they received. In the gallery it was just printed bigger. It was also on the web, freely-licensed (Creative Commons licensing was very new at the time).
It’s purpose was to try to get the viewer to question their relationship to a digital, infinitely-reproducible image. To try to get them to notice that that the image exists in a sort of invisible blur across time and space. Except, it doesn’t. You and it are here and now. So in point 8 in the text in the image:
Due to the fact this artwork contains a 1:8 scale model card, the “actual artwork,” the prediction of the hottest temperature ever, and an act of looking through the window into Rome Arts, we need to note that the “really, really actual artwork” is the accumulation of all these objects and moments.
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Once I started thinking about doing this post I decided I’d like to release something new to go along with it. To that end, I’ve created a new black and white SVG version of the ‘hot head’ illustration in Manual Zoom Mirage. Click on the GIF preview below to download the SVG version.
(SVG; 49KB) permanent link to this post
crashing on walton’s virtual couch this month
posted at 11:08 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
friday post 05-13-11
posted at 00:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 06, 2011
friday post 05-6-11
posted at 14:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 05, 2011
Super nice Beuys gif
posted at 01:54 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
