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Review: "Architecture of Life at BAMPFA" My take on the extravagantly poetic exhibition curated by Larry Rinder to open the new Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archives, published on Square Cylinder, February 2016.
Monthly Archives: September 2012
Ghosts in the Machine, III
Pre-amble If we were to catalog our age by its temptations, surely it would be called “The Age of Dreams”—and not because we’re sleeping well. Our big vice is the small screen, or so it seems to me when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Ghosts in the Machine, Marguerite Wertheim, Massimiliano Gioni, Movie-Drome, Robert Rauschenberg, Stan VanDerBeek
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Ghosts in the Machine II
Remote Viewing Living in this “global” art world, I think quite a lot about exhibitions that I will never see. I read catalogs, and look at websites, and talk to people who made it to Kassel, or Havana, or Gwangju. … Continue reading
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Tagged Getulio Alviani, Ghost in the Machine, Grazia Varisco, New Museum, Philip Linhares, Richard Hamilton
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Ghosts in the Machine
The Elaborately Signaled Landscape of Desire You don’t have to be human very long to know that there are desires that are explicable and then there are the other kind. Sometimes we are indifferent to “good things” and intensely drawn … Continue reading
Posted in Art Writing
Tagged art and technology, attribution theory, behavioral priming, cognitive dissonance, Crash, Ghosts in the Machine, Harley Cokeliss, J.G. Ballard, mirror neurons, New Museum, self-perception theory
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