I just read the philosopher Alain Badiou’s essay in the new book Intersubjectivity Vol. 1: Language and Misunderstanding, published by Sternberg Press. There is lots to chew on in this exciting volume – and I am sure to return to it. It includues Cory Arcangel on misunderstanding, another ‘variation from Paul Chan’s New New Testament […]
For today’s post, since it is exam week, I pose the following question: Do you need to read Homer’s Odyssey to fully appreciate the net art classic My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (or MBCBFTW) (1996), by Russian artist Olia Lialina? Answer with reference to other digital art forms and projects, including the idea […]
You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I’m telling you why Zeus is coming to town Zeus is coming to town Zeus is coming to town He’s making a list, Checking it twice; Gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. Zeus is coming to town Zeus is coming to town […]
While I have had Los Angeles on my mind in general recently, there have been two reasons in particular. First I encountered the luscious catalogue for Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only exhibition at the Wexner Store and secondly I participated in the LACA benefit auction (there is a small connection between the […]
As part of the Art 4004/5005 Drawing Ideas course that I taught this semester with Suzanne Silver the students had a project in which they had to use copies of Plato’s Republic either as their sketchbooks throughout the course or as singular work of art (an altered book project). I will explore the tension between […]
Today is the last day of classes here at Ohio State – not that we’d notice after suffering assault-weapon ‘educators’ on campus on Monday, the legislature sneakily passing the terrifying ‘heartbeat’ bill yesterday and then twittering Mr. Twump descending on us tomorrow. As one of my colleagues puts it, “OSU is under siege!”. I agree […]
I am still not really up to discussing my confrontation with the gun-wielding ‘educators’ on campus yesterday. Sure there have been a few reports of the interaction in local media and friends have told me that I was on the news last night, but for the purposes of this post I am still processing the […]
I am not quite ready yet to describe – in words – what happened today. Maybe I’ll try again tomorrow, maybe even then it will be too soon. In the meantime, here are some of my images interspersed with some pertinent works by Ian Hamilton Finlay:
