Belated Recap of Final Projects
Just as the New York Public Library released plans for their renovation of the grand 1911 Carrère and Hastings building, we wrapped up another semester of my Archives, Libraries & Databases class. We started off the semester by historicizing “information…
Keeping Performance Alive: The Radical Archival Practice of Marina Abramovic
Performance artist Marina Abramovic Performance artist Marina Abramovic is a radical. She approaches her artwork with a seriousness and commitment that has entranced audiences all over the globe. She is the creator of arguably the most compelling pieces of performance in performance art history. Her recent exhibition at the MoMA in New York in…
Final: Paperclips & Other Paper Fasteners: Holding The Archive
Since I will not be attending to our final class (sorry guys!) I’m posting information about my project on this post. As mentioned in the previous post I was accepted to present this project (and soon will fully develop into a…
(Re)Activating Objects: Social Theory & Material Culture
I submitted my final proposal to the (Re)Activating Objects: Social Theory & Material Culture student conference at Western University in London, Ontario Canada and was accepted to present. I will be presenting my project Paperclips & Other Fasteners: Holding…
Application: The Debby-Downer Disposition toward Indiosyncratic Libraries
In “Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books,” Georges Perec addresses the particular concerns that result from “…conserving certain objects (books) and arranging them in certain ways” (148). This subject might initially appear to be a…
Tauba Auerbach’s RGB Colorspace Atlas
Auerbach’s work often explores a wide range of what might be called the aesthetics of data, or at least what and how information is visually encoded. Her early work centers heavily on semiotics, and includes studies of alphabets, anagrams, vexillology,…
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