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From Chronicle.com:
A federal judge dismissed criminal indictments on Monday against an art professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo who was charged four years ago with mail and wire fraud after receiving bacteria through the mail that he said he planned to use in his art projects.
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This week: Moneygami
I didn’t realise before I had the idea that others had had it first… unsurprising. There is an especially impressive range of dollar bill moneygami on the internet, some samples shown here. I’m not sure if this is because of the design (status, cultural cachet) of the dollar bill or the particular inventiveness of its crafters.. my own efforts in euro weren’t nearly as impressive.
My recent work has involved making objects that use ‘technologies of their time’ in order to reflect on questions of memory, nostalgia and the gaps in collective histories. This has sometimes involved recording a sound or image digitally and ‘translating’ it into an analogue technology. (I know I’m treading all kinds of fine lines here).
Typically this gives the recorded image or sound a much more ‘thing’-like’ quality: unreliable memories, expressions and conversations suddenly become more solid and weighty. Vinyl acetates, 35mm slide film, magnetic VHS tape - all these technolgies are thrown into a kind of sculptural relief when imagined alongside the floating ephemera of mp3s, tiffs and jpegs. Read the rest of this entry »
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