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...
Wittgenstein and site-writing
Wittgenstein’s short paragraphs, with their relative self-sufficiency, economy, variety, even the implied have a certain resemblance to blog posts!
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...
Translation
Flusser himself treated translation as a form of creativity, a means of generating new thoughts from others he had already written down. He wrote in four languages, consciously choosing one as the most appropriate...
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....