Man, what a treat. The good folks at the Austin Film Society‘s Avant Cinema series are presenting a posthumous "career retrospective" of the amazing films of Bruce Conner. From AFS’s…
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The Texas Biennial people just launched a redesigned website. It looks much nicer than the previous one. I wasn’t a big fan of the color scheme, it made…
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You might remember I wrote, quite excitedly, about Totally Wreck Institute‘s FUTURE PROLOGUES: The Compression of Post-Pop Narratives into Non-Space and Pre-Time at Creative Research Labs , in…
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Once again, thank you In What Respect, Charlie? for this one: Fun With McCain And not to jinx it but… Go…
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Filling an Experimental-shaped Hole, Part 2: Eros, Fluxus, Jacobs, VanDerBeek
by Ivan Lozanoby Ivan LozanoLately, I’ve been finding some really interesting things online regarding film/video. I’ll start off with a choice quote by Bradley Eros from Millenium Film Journal ("There Will Be Projections…
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I’ve developed an unhealthy obsession with Sarah Palin. Here is a roundup of videos that have kept me from tearing my eyes out: THANK GOD FOR BRYAN BOYCE!!!! (remember him?)…
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The Blanton continues in its apparent path of rediscovery of under appreciated artists in Park Place: Reimagining Space. Similarly to The Geometry of Hope, their Latin American abstract art…
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FICTITIOUS REALITIES / REALISTIC FICTIONS: Elaine Bradford and Seth Mittag
by Ivan Lozanoby Ivan LozanoThis next week is your last chance to see Elaine Bradford and Seth Mittag‘s really top-quality show FICTITIOUS REALITIES / REALISTIC FICTIONS at Art Palace. …
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Here are a few Net Art pieces that have been replaying in my mind a lot. I’m Online Animated GIF montage, 2008 by Ben Aqua (via Aquabotic ) HUGE…
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(DRILL BABY DRILL by heathendude via Delicious Ghost) This is how I feel this election season. I feel like I’m about to be trapped in a vampire rave and…
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There has been a lot of talk recently about Damien Hirst‘s upcoming auction at Sotheby’s, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, where he is slated to offer up 223 new works…
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There has been a lot of talk recently about Damien Hirst‘s upcoming auction at Sotheby’s, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, where he is slated to offer up 223 new works…
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[UPDATED, a couple of times…] There have been surprisingly few blog hits regarding the 2009 Texas Biennial selected artists list. As far as a cursory 7-page Google results search…
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I got the list of artists selected for the Texas Biennial Group exhibition, and from what I understand, a couple of the four artists selected for individual shows will…
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"Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure" at Art Palace, curated by Katie Geha, former curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita…
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The first time I saw Arthouse’s NAT23 (read Angella Emmett’s review) I loved it. It was at the opening and quite frankly whenever something didn’t catch my eye immediately…
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I wasn’t surprised to hear that some of the fireworks seen during the broadcast of the opening of the Beijing Olympics were CGI, though it was still somewhat shocking.…
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Something strange is going on in China. The New York Times website live-blogged the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. I found this picture of the event on their site.…
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Not that long ago, Rainey posted a Newswire item about Gallery Lombardi’s Erotica 2008. I haven’t seen the show and this entry isn’t really about that. It’s about the…
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Filling an Experimental-Shaped Hole, Part 1: An Introduction
by Ivan Lozanoby Ivan LozanoSomething very interesting has been happening on a quarterly basis over at the Austin Film Society. However, unless you are personal friends with the artists I’ll mention, or you’re a…