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Dealing with-Some Texts, Images, and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co.
The New York gallery American Fine Arts, Co.—whose name today is largely synonymous with that of its gallerist, Colin de Land (1955–2003)—represents a gallery practice in which a decided deviation from conventional models overlaps with successful activities within the framework of the art market. Today, American Fine Arts, Co. and de Land figure as uncontested projection screens for the desire for independence from or bohemian resistance against the dictate of the market. Particularly in retrospect, a consistent image of the gallery is not discernible. Faced with the obvious risk of romanticization, it appears all the more important to pursue an understanding of how American Fine Arts,...
Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life
Digitization is the animating force of everyday life. Rather than defining it as a technology or a medium, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life argues that digitization is a socio-historical process that is contributing to the erosion of democracy and an increase in political inequality, specifically along racial, ethnic, and gender lines. Taking a historical approach, Janet Kraynak finds that the seeds of these developments are paradoxically related to the ideology of digital utopianism that emerged in the late 1960s with the rise of a social model of computing, a set of beliefs furthered by the neo-liberal tech ideology in the 1990s, and the popularization of networked computing. The result of this ongoing cultural worldview, which dovetails with the principles of progressive artistic strategies of the past, is a critical blindness in art historical discourse that ultimately compromises art’s historically important role in furthering radical democratic aims.
Resonant Alterities
»Resonant Alterities« bridges the gap between sound studies and literary criticism. A queer ghost story by Vernon Lee, an occultist novel of psychic adventure by Algernon Blackwood, a dystopian science fiction tale by J.G. Ballard and a post-traumatic short novel by Don DeLillo are its primary objects of analysis. Each is explored within the context of its contemporary cultural debates on sound. Meanwhile, all four theory-enriched readings focus on intersecting and desire-laden processes of meaning making, knowledge production and subject formation. Focal points are aurally/audio-visually structured phenomena expressive of both collective and individual anxieties.
Kitty Kraus
Adept in her skilful engineering and practical manipulation of rudimentary materials, Kitty Kraus created a mesmerising installation of mirrored light boxes for 'Inside the White Cube'. Kraus' work draws upon aspects of minimalism, but further pushes the practice of economy, or purity, of form to the extent of negating or even obliterating the object altogether. In this installation, a series of rectilinear shaped boxes were constructed with sheets of mirrored glass, precariously balanced and adhered by sticky tape. In each box was a 100 watt light bulb, its cord snaking away in the darkness. There is a tension and vulnerability in the construction of this installation that is evident in much of Kraus' work. The perfunctory joint edges of the mirrors allowing multiple bands of refracted light to be cast at various angles around the space, produced a spectral line drawing in light on the surrounding walls. Upon entering the space, visitors were greeted with an enigmatic text: 'The reflection angle is a right angle, thus the light does not reach the lamp'.
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