Site Writing
Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to write posts and tweets. I hate it, but don’t see any way around it if you would like at least a few readers. The writing itself...
Category: art
Weather Stations
Yesterday, I set out to add a weather report to a friend’s website. She is serious about gardening, and her garden is in a seriously windy location. In short weather — especially wind — is always...
family projections
Flusser insisted that photographs project possibilities, rather than “capturing” or “recording” or “reproducing” anything. So all those lovely shots you may have of yourself as a very young child, smiling at the camera–or not...
Art as Ritual
Flusser felt that the term “art”– in the West — was almost always understood either as “work”–intended to change the world—or as “communication”—intended to share something with another person. He thought both were wrong....
Revolution/Revelation
The image is a still from Paolo Ciregia’s project Perestroika, an account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. It was shown as part of the Diffusion 2017 festival in Cardiff, 1 –...
How to See the World
Introducing a distinctly academic field to general readers is not easy. In his new book How to See the World, the eminent theorist of visual culture Nicholas Mirzoeff undertakes the task of introducing visual...