Collective Notions

January

12

Triple Canopy:

Shall I compare thee to a pixel…

UbuWeb’s Kenneth Goldsmith experiments with splicing Shakespeare’s portrait with the bard’s digitized complete works.

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December

22

Chris Burden’s Beam Drop at the Brazillian Inhotim Instituto de Arte Contemporânea e Jardim Botânico, as documented by Pablo Lobato.

From the (Google) translated Portuguese on this listing, with some guesswork:

[This] video documents the performance made ​​by the artist Chris Burden [at the Inhotim Institute of Contemporary Art and Botanical Gardens], which resulted in the work Inhotim Beam Drop (2008). Directed by Pablo Lobato, the video was produced [for] the Web.

Beam Drop (2008) is a large-format sculpture — located on top of a mountain — made of 71 construction beams thrown by a crane from a height of 45 meters into a ditch full of wet cement during a period of 12 hours. The random pattern of fallen beams formed the work, an interpretation of the gestures of abstract expressionism, while proposing a deconstruction of modern sculpture. This piece is the recreation in larger format of a work originally installed in 1984 at the Art Park in the State of New York, and destroyed in 1987.

(via hyde or die)

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December

15

Hey, our project Station Identification was listed in the most recent issue of Forecast’s Public Art Review (under “Recent Projects”). I’ll take that!

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December

13

Anyone who has imbibed in the fermented fruits of Ubuweb might not know they owe their art-drunken joy to the proxy efforts of one Kenneth Goldsmith. Mr. Goldsmith is a ‘conceptual poet’ and exhilarating art-theorist whose efforts push boundaries-freeing information and nurturing thought–the legacy of which we can only begin to grasp. It’s a rare soul who can break down a door and then prove it never existed in the first place. He is one such soul.

The Believer magazine interviewed Mr. Goldsmith for their October 2011 issue. We strongly encourage you to give it a read. It’s gripping.

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October

05

Here’s to the crazy ones.

The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

Rest in peace, Steve. Thanks for Everything. (via ckck)

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