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“I try hard never to forget that art is essentially a game of signification, and that in our capacity as artists, we always endeavor to ask questions, to search, and to play.”
- Joseph Kosuth
In the June issue of WIRED, Clive Thompson asserts that,
“Automatic-translation software has long been treated as a joke because of how hilariously it mangles phrases. But in the past few years, something has shifted: The technology is now surprisingly mature.”
Read the full article here.
Bittersweet, it is. Leaving Chicago.
Lots of good friends, and good times, and good laughs.
But then there were the winters, the hangovers, and the joblessness.
So that’s that.
As a farewell, we decided to stack all our stuff up in the windows of Fishbowl.
Enjoy.
An article by Ivan Moreno in the Associated Press (Denver):
“Colorado artists want to give a futuristic makeover to the rustic sheep wagons used by immigrant workers across the West.
Immigrants from Peru, Chile, Mexico and Nepal who come to the U.S. sometimes live in worn-out one-room trailers in desolate landscapes, including in Wyoming, California, and Utah. The working conditions caught the attention of Colorado lawmakers this year, but no legislation materialized…”
Read the full article here.
There are so many reasons. Here is one, quoted from the blog Metro Times:
“Fluxus artists were irresistible art flirts and menaces. They refused tickets to snobs, patronized critics and dared the public to find a point to art. They pushed the boundaries of what is considered art and, as Fluxus artist Nam June Paik wrote, turned you and me into the same clowns as Goethe and Beethoven. In short — they leveled the playing field.”
Early poster from the ballet
“Three years ago Ben Huh visited a blog devoted to silly cat pictures – and saw vast potential…Sensing an Internet phenomenon, Mr. Huh solicited financing from investors and forked over $10,000 of his own savings to buy the Web site from the two Hawaiian bloggers who started it.”
Read the full article here.
Beautiful installation by Diane Cooper
“What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”
~Winslow Homer
We find ourselves in Salina, KS tonight.
Sunset to sunrise.
In silence with implements of the pioneers.
Join us at The Warehouse.
8:30 pm to 6:15 am
