2013-05-14
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What if pixels weren’t necessarily supposed to look like little squares and sit in the so-called “right order”? What if what we call “real” or “true” images were not the only way the World around us can be represented? What if photographic data was just… data? What if it could be reinterpreted?
Free on the App Store. Images from Fast Co Design, via George Oates.
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Yes, really. “Official tumblr for the publication of the Ed Ruscha Catalogue Raisonne of paintings.”
2013-04-14
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Tanya Auerbach’s 50/50 Floor and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Homographies at SFMOMA’s Field Conditions exhibition, late 2012.
Photograph from a review at Unmaking Things, by Matthew Millman. (via (uncredited))
2013-04-08
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Steven Morgana’s “How Much Does Your Building Weigh”, via iamdanw.
Oddly I saw this being installed at a Shoreditch gallery when I was in London last May, and took a photo specifically to send to Dan. More than likely I never got around to posting it, but he seems to have found it anyway, which is good. Serendipity! Internet! &c
2013-04-03
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Jenny Holzer, ‘Private Property Created Crime’, 1985. Times Square, New York.
2013-03-19
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Apollo 11 Moon Shot, Cape Kennedy, Florida by Garry Winogrand.
Being watched watching them watching the launch.
SFMOMA is currently hosting an exhibition of Winogrand’s work, including this. I popped in at lunchtime and it turned out to be remarkably dense (small prints will do that, I suppose) and pretty busy.
To make the most of it, I think I’m going to have to go back. The exhibition runs until 2 June, 2013.
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Computers by artist Richard Hamilton. Hamilton designed two computer exteriors; the OHIO computer prototype (for a Swedish firm named Isotron, 1984) and DIAB DS-101 (Dataindustrier AB, 1986).
The blurring of these computer designs into the fine art world is intriguing, the image below is titled Study for Isotron Computer, 1984 and sold at auction for £21,250, and the computer above is known as the sculpture titled Diab Ds-101 Computer, 1985 - 1989, (materials: functioning computer, aluminium support, cellulose and anodized aluminium) and sold at auction for £79,250.
The Diab DS-101 Computer is held by Tate, after a donation by Eddie Thordèn in 1996.
(How did I not know about this?)
