Data Photography
The photographer Deborah Baker — a colleague — and I have both been wondering what to call a kind of photography that 1.) cheerfully ignores any responsibility to be “true” to vision or history...
Category: art
Studying Graffiti
Can you “study” images? One of the photography students carries a camera at all times, and makes very consistent, composed “notes” about visual messages — graffiti — she finds, well everywhere… She finds these–some...
Drawing and magic
I did the second Mediascape lecture today–the title was drawing, although the idea was broader–prehistoric media, that is, media before writing. It was meant to include carving, modelling — probably “performance” (some kinds). But...
Art and Obsolescence
I gave the first in a (short) series of lectures at College today, an attempt to make some sense of the media typically available in the contemporary art college. A few “soundbites” seemed to resonate....