Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
sx-70 self-portrait | 1983
Back in the ’70s Polaroid gave SX-70s to artists to see what they could do with the camera and the process. Lucas Samaras, mentioned in a previous post, mucked with the emulsion as the print was developing — here is one example. I had an SX-70, was in art school and learned about Samaras’ work and tried it myself. I was interested in African masks at the time as well as Robert Ferris Thompsons’ book Flash of the Spirit, which led me to the above.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
so i was thinking . . .
What if during a show opening at a gallery or a museum everyone who entered the show was given a wireless microphone. All the microphones would be fed into a computer that would recognize the words and then display the words like this or this or some other form of data visualization, on a giant monitor in another room. According to a word's frequency it could grow in size, change hue or rise to the top. Or it could take another form altogether, like a bubble or a 3d object that would be extruded. Or it could grow something like this. A visual verbal petri dish of instant criticism.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
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