The Internationale Daily is out! http://t.co/C3qqxkR8 ▸ Top stories today via @rhizomedotorg @gamesmonitor @monoskop @juspar @mckenziewark # http://t.co/xz4BbW5Z thinking about the difference between contact sheet object and the Lightroom/Aperture database object. #OOPh # (I) object. Just grabbed a JPEG of it. http://t.co/uAeHy1G4 #quadJPEG # RT @DrStu2012 Don't touch the f-ing clock! #9nov http://t.co/6Di93cnu # A …
Author Archives: praxis
Eugène Atget: Object-oriented photographer
“It has justly been said of him that he photographed them like scenes of crimes. A crime scene, too, is deserted; it is photographed for the purpose of establishing evidence. With Atget, photographic records begin to be evidence in the historical trial [Prozess]. This constitutes their hidden political significance. They demand a specific kind of …
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The Digital Charabanc’s shoebox
I use Evernote for my research as well as teaching. As the Digital Charabanc I collect case stories, stats and other rag ‘n refuse as I surf the Web (can we still use that metaphor?). I think of Evernote as a shoebox. Through stuff, objects, rags ‘n refuse in there and let the algorithms sort it with …
I formally object
Victor Burgin identifies two “pitfalls awaiting the art theorist with no grasp of semiology, ‘the temptation to treat the work of art as a purely formal construction’ [… and a] focus[..] on the internal life of the autonomous object”{%Burgin 1986@1} Burgin picks up on a powerful tradition of anti-formalism that arguably has a new relevance …
Tweets for the week :: 2011-11-06
Thinking some more about my career. http://t.co/6Xn0hrsD # … that was devil’s advocate BTW. Of course it’s an object! # “Abstracting a JPEG-object from the flux of protocol becoming, isn’t pinning a butterfly to the page so much as a blancmange to the ceiling” # Great to see @cgrltz. Putting me to shame with her …
Excellence in Teaching… er, fine in theory
As I mentioned here, Birkbeck awarded my an ‘Excellence in teaching Award’ for the work developing the Birkbeckmedia site and #birkbeckmedia tag. I had to produce a report and also give a staff development seminar open to the University staff. I duly turned up yesterday with iPad and presentation and hand… Two staff turned up! As …
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