Warm Not ColdSome of Daniel Johnston’s drawings are included in the every-other-year show at the Whitney. What this has to do with the contemporary art scene, I’m not sure. Is Daniel Johnston meant to stand in for outsider art, for the cassette mythos of the ’80s, for the spirit of Amercian lo-fi diy? Let’s hope not, let’s […]
In “The Aesthetics of Failure†Kim Cascone writes about emerging glitch-based music. …it is from the ‘failure’ of digital technology that this new work has emerged: glitches, bugs, application errors, system crashes, clipping aliasing, distortion, quantization noise, and even the noise floor of computer sound cards are the raw materials composers seek to incorporate into […]
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This text is excerpted from “Operational Media” by Jordan Crandall. Or you can go ahead and read the whole thing at ctheory.net. These images are stills from “Return 2 Burn” As Ryan Bishop and John Phillips write, the integrative history of military technology — a history of prosthetic extension, especially that of sight — has […]