removing the text makes this wonderfully composed photograph all but abstract:
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/05/untitled_projec_1.html
Information Aesthetics is a good blog to watch.
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New Art & Language Show
A&L are back at the Lisson with new work, old films of performances with The Red Crayola, and a Karaoke bar.Altogether now:
“Jackson Pollock was the artist of the Marshall Plan
He broke ice for artists when the Cold War began…”What do you mean you don’t know the words? Everyone knows the words to “A Portrait of Lenin In The Style Of Jackson Pollock (Part I)”!
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Chris Ashley on MANIK on Chris Ashley
The excellent Chris Ashley links to the excellent MANIK’s essay on his HTML table work, and to various items regarding them online:http://www.chrisashley.net/weblog/archives/week_2005_05_08.html#000785
Disclaimer: I helped edit the essay.
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Poem For The Day
If you really love me,
choose a younger wife;for I, being older,
could not bear to live
[with a younger man…]– Sappho, c.600BC.
(Translation: Josephine Balmer, buy her book published by Bloodaxe). -
Lemon Harangue
You can’t say what we think, by Jingo!To paraphrase: how dare a foreigner complain about “Art Since 1900”, criticising pseuds is anti-intellectualism, never mind the ridiculousness feel the earnestness, think of the children, etc.
Update: It’s not just me, then:
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Randomness
One definition of a random system is one that cannot be more concisely described than giving a complete account of it.
Aesthetics may require a complete account of (human) consciousness to account for it. Aesthetics would therefore be random in this sense. But randomness would not, of itself, be aesthetic… -
Art Since 1900
Good review in the Grauniad :this book is the final ludicrous monument to an intellectual corruption that has filled contemporary museums and the culture they sustain with a hollow and boring, impersonal chatter
But I think that A&L did better in the 1970s:
On the Material Necessity that the Editors of October, its Contributors, Supporters and Relatives, and Particularly, the Arch Fool, the Illiterate Liar Jeremy G. Rolfe, be Sought Out, Their Hands Smashed, Their Eyes Put Out, Their Offices, Ateliers Destroyed, Burned and Portions of the Bloodstained Ashes Sent to the Towering Wretches of French Structuralism