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Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson

Thursday, May 16, 2013

A Q&A between Amy Fung and Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson. By: Amy Fung Fung: Your collaborative team appears aware of problematic representation and dominant/centralized discourses raging in the field of animal studies surrounding moral authority, how do you think art methodologies, especially photography/video works, can steer the discourse into alternative ways of relating with animals/nature/Other? Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: In the [...]
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Politics In Sound; Politics Of Sound

Thursday, May 16, 2013

By Tom Kohut Christof Migone, Hit Parade (Winnipeg), 2011, performance, courtesy of the artist. That sound art should have a politics is something which is not immediately obvious. Nor is it a claim that is often made by its practitioners. Of course, it would be too sweeping and implausible a claim to assert that all [...]
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Improvising Sound Art

Thursday, May 16, 2013

By Jesse Stewart Over the past half-century, there has been a strong connection between musical improvisation and the visual arts in Canada. Numerous creative practitioners in this country including Michael Snow, Nobua Kubota, John Heward, and John Oswald (to name only a few), have had successful parallel careers as both visual artists and improvising musicians. [...]
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A Critical Perspective on Circuit-Bending

Thursday, May 16, 2013

By Jeff Morton “Bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumptruminahumptadumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup!” – James Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake That might sound to you like a cappella noise music, or you might find a few recognizable words and get some sense of what it can mean. The similarity to noise music, and more specifically to the sounds we might associate with circuit-bending, is only superficial, but [...]
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Fiona Annis and The Wound Incarnate

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

By Matthew Hall The most enveloped and consequential threat to the ontological is the fear that death dominates the primacy of life. Spatial and emotive trajectories exist in flux, a patternment discernible to desire, a lived topography of the apprehension of life, as leaving itself bared out and open to a minute but enveloping ritual. [...]
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Apr

Watch a short history of the animated Gif

This video produced for PBS’s online series Off Book is very interesting but doesn’t get to the bottom of the age old question: Is it pronounced [G-if] or [J-if]? Also this Gif mashup they created is pretty cool too:

Mar

See Keith Haring’s journals one page at a time

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Keith Haring’s journals have been scanned by The Keith Haring Foundation. They are posting one page per day for the duration of his exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. The above page shows a cipher chart created by Haring in from what appears to be a 1971 journal when Haring was 13 years old. Check out [...]