Interventions, Volume 01, Issue 02: Framing the Internet As a web-based platform, Interventions Journal is predicated on the gathering and circulation of immaterial text and art. It takes the Internet as its site and, in this case, as its very subject. This issue, “Framing the Internet,” looks precisely to the implications of an increasingly web-centric world … Read more
Framing the Internet
Framing the Internet, which took place at Columbia University on October 4, 2011, represents the first in a series of panel discussions – collectively entitled Exit Strategies – that will focus on paradigm shifts in contemporary curatorial practice. Exit Strategies is organized by Ceren Erdem, Jaime Schwartz, and Lisa Williams as a part of an … Read more
Notes on Immaterial Labor
by Burak Arıkan and Deniz Gül * In the context of Temporary Office for Contemporary Art, “-1″ on Saturday, 25th April 2009 17.00 within the exhibition program of Relative Positions and Conclusions, Arcade of Syria in Istanbul, Turkey with the invitation of Anna Heidenhain, Borga Kantürk, Kristina Kramer, Önder Özengi with the participation of Banu Cennetoğlu, Burak Arıkan, Deniz … Read more
Artist’s Project: Nostalgia For The Future
by Jeremy Couillard* Nostalgia for the Future “…we are condemned to the imaginary and nostalgia for the future.” -Jean Baudrillard I. What I Thought the Internet Would Be Like: a) II. What I Thought Religion Would Be Like: a)Wizard Juice: III. What I thought Science Would Be Like: a)Taxus Brevifola: *Jeremy Couillard is a second year MFA … Read more
RMB City: Spectatorship on the boundaries of the virtual and the real
by Ceren Erdem* RMB City is a virtual city in the online world of Second Life, planned and developed by the artist Cao Fei, who was born and raised in Guangzhou, China and is currently based in Beijing. Launched in 2008, and open to the public since January 2009, RMB City is a platform for experimental … Read more
Indexing
by Cat Kron* Indexhibit is, amongst a certain circle, a well-known and widely used tool that goes mostly unnoticed outside that group. Designed in 2001 by Daniel Eatock, it has emerged as one of the primary open-source programs for artists who want to create online portfolios. Of the 20 sites most recently generated using Indexhibit … Read more
Artists’s Project: Reality Check
by R. Lyon* *R. Lyon is a second year MFA student at Columbia University School of the Arts.
From Here On: Neo Appropriation Strategies in Contemporary Photography
by Joseph Gergel* “NOW, WE’RE A SPECIES OF EDITORS. WE ALL RECYCLE, CLIP AND CUT, REMIX AND UPLOAD. WE CAN MAKE IMAGES DO ANYTHING. ALL WE NEED IS AN EYE, A BRAIN, A CAMERA, A PHONE, A LAPTOP, A SCANNER, A POINT OF VIEW. AND WHEN WE’RE NOT EDITING, WE’RE MAKING. WE’RE MAKING MORE THAN … Read more
Digital Narrative: Notes on Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir
by Tamar Margalit* When Michael Snow’s film Wavelength came out in 1967, it was lauded for being “at once one of the simplest and one of the most complex films ever conceived.”[1]A 45-minute single shot of a room, Wavelength was the most reduced form of film that had ever been made and remains the paradigmatic … Read more
Sharing the Museum: Social Media and Curatorial Practice
by Michela Sarzotti* The exhibition For the exhibition Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, on view at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) from July 24 through November 7, 2011, Senior Curator Paola Antonelli and Curatorial Assistant Kate Carmody selected nearly 200 projects centered on interaction in an effort to … Read more
Touching on Reusable Parts/Endless Love
by Jess Wilcox* A single dancer is at the far end of the stage, obscured from the entrance sightline by white wall-like rolling partitions. Wearing yellow wireless headphones, he (or she?) speaks into a standing microphone phrases describing the interaction of lovers, “left hand on right thigh”, “his hand grazes her cheek”, and “they kiss”. … Read more
Artist’s Project: 2011
by Korakrit Arunanondchai* Using Columbia Open Studios as a model and an opportunity, I created “2011” as a fictionalized version of what an open studio could be. As you enter the studio, you find yourself in an all white room with a monolith sculpture made from bleached denim, computer prints of fire, and mirrored mylar. There … Read more
Yvonne Rainer
by Cecilia Thornton-Alson* Yvonne Rainer Dia: Beacon Riggio Galleries October 22-23, 2011 In the vast white expanse of the Riggio Galleries at the Dia Art Center in Beacon, New York, some of the most celebrated contemporary art works from the last century stretch through long, carefully curated rooms. In the basement below the exhibition space, … Read more
Recent Thoughts
by Anton Vidokle* On a certain level I think that art is primarily a public, social thing; something that moves between people. I am not very interested in exhibitions of art these days. In part this may be caused simply by an exhaustion brought about by over-proliferation of shows. We are living in a time of … Read more
