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“ambience is a novel with a logo” by Tan Lin

In Collage, Poetics, Practice, Termite, Uncategorized on 17 March 2011 tagged ambient, tan lin, writing with no comments

After being gently knocked over by “Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking”, I ordered “ambience is a novel with a logo.”. I recommend you scroll through my little video reading to get acquainted with Tan Lin.   click to play Lin remixes networked and print reading/writing practices into something dense, beautiful, [...]

forms of attention

In Uncategorized on 11 February 2010 with no comments

It’s a black and white, high contrast afternoon. I have a half hour at a local cafe before I go pick up the kids from school. I want to write something and dignify the place of the writing with images.  I am capturing photos with my iphone. With the same phone, same finger, I compose a [...]

Sebald on the iPad

In Poetics, Portland, Uncategorized on 3 February 2010 tagged ipad, photo, Publishing, sebald with no comments

Many of us know what to do with a web page filled with different media. There is no longer a “web of attractions” where text next to image next to video carries an inherent fascination. What is left of the web’s mystery is just a weary awe at an expanding network of data. So much [...]

217 Views of the Tokaido Line

In Uncategorized on 21 January 2010 with no comments

In the spirit of the great Japanese travel artists – Hiroshige, Basho and Hosai – I captured 217 video and text fragments from a trip to Japan with my 9-year-old daughter. Rather than sharing my personal anecdotes, I wanted to evoke the impersonal experience of contemporary travel with its ephemeral jolts and folding repetitions. Maybe [...]

We Are All Publishers Now

In Uncategorized on 5 March 2009 tagged Doctorow, Publishing with no comments

publishing = making public “Today, many of the key functions that we think of as publishing are actually done by outsource firms, consultants, and freelancers…. So, if big publishers can hire all these people to work for them, can’t writers, co-ops, and scrappy indies?” via Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: In Praise of the Sales [...]

Art and the Long Tail

In Uncategorized on 2 October 2007 with no comments

Some thoughts from Ivan Pope’s art blog: The ‘Long Tail’ of Contemporary Art The more artists and curators and gallery workers and museum staff and writers and teachers blog, the more power the movement will have against the usual art press. No Artforum can cover more than a tiny subset of the global exhibition scene. [...]