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Meet the Season 5 Artist: John Baldessari
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
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Hybrids
Vesna Jovanovic, "New Mitosis," 2008. Ink spills, graphite, pencil. Courtesy the Artist. In an exhibition currently on view at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, artist Vesna...
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New Flash Points topic: Systems
John Baldessari, "Two Person Fight (One Orange): With Spectator," 2004. Three dimensional digital archival print with acrylic paint on sintra, dibon and gatorfoam panels, 84 x 79 inches. © John...
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Barbara Kruger interviewed by Richard Prince
Barbara Kruger, 1981, photo montage. Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we stepped back into our...
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Fabricating the DNA Fingerprint
Paul Vanouse's “Latent Figure Protocol" was produced with the DNA of bacterial plasmid pET-11a. Enzymes used to process the DNA are listed in each column. Image produced December 06, 2006. Courtesy of...
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Pictures at the Met
Richard Prince, "Untitled (four single men with interchangeable backgrounds looking to the right)," 1977. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York As summer officially...
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Meet the Season 5 Artist: Kimsooja
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
View ArticleKrzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno
Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Kimsooja’s videos and installations, we’re revisiting the...
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Meet the Season 5 Artist: Allan McCollum
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
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Harrell Fletcher interviewed by Allan McCollum
Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we’re switching it up again and featuring an interview by an Art21...
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Meet the Season 5 Artist: Julie Mehretu
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
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Julie Mehretu interviewed by Lawrence Chua
Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to an Art:21 Season 5 artist. This is our final week before the official premiere of Season 5. We’ve...
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Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread
John Baldessari, "Yours in Food" book jacket image. Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. This...
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Scenes from a Globalized Art World
Patrick Andrade for The New York Times I’d like to start my guest blogging with Art21 by bringing up a series of questions surrounding globalization and artistic representation. My primary research...
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Making It Happen
Blogalogue Mania Sweeps the Nation! I have “email balls.” I sit behind my computer screen, protected by a Gmail-cloak of anonymity and I email whomever, whenever, whatever. I landed my first job out of...
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EcoArtTech Reflections…
My conversation with Eco Art Tech left me feeling a wee bit in the throes of an existential nihilistic crisis. Were systems and networks so radically out of our control? Was I always going to be...
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Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam
ETeam is comprised of Hajoe and Franziska. They were introduced to me by Cary Peppermint, who met them at an exhibition they all participated in, called Ebay. ETeam’s work includes mainly long-term...
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Blogalogueing with ETeam
Preface: The following conversation took place in Second Life, at ETeam’s Second Life dumpster. I am Salty Clarity; ETeam is Lothar Apfelbaum and Tempo Strom. Tempo Strom is Online Lothar Apfelbaum is...
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ETeam Reflections…
In case you didn’t notice, ETeam did a pretty good job of turning the tables on me. It would seem that systems and networks are tricky and unpredictable that way… ETeam’s take on systems and networks...
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Blogalogueing with Kristin Lucas
Leave it to a web artist to push the boundaries in interview formats! Keep reading to experience mine and Kristin Lucas’s systems vs. networks conversation, Twitter style… Nikksters: How do you define...
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Blogalogue, Part 4: Lee Montgomery
Picture taken from Switch22 Lee Montgomery got his BA in Film at Bard College, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. As the founder of Neighborhood Public Radio, Lee has...
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Blogalogueing with Lee Montgomery
LeE: this is me.. LeE… the one I told you about. You: Hi Lee! You know I just realized I could have probably been doing the interview this whole time, just set a deadline and you coulda responded at...
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Turkish and Other Delights | Burak Arıkan
Photo by Nursel Kaymaz. Burak Arıkan is a busy guy. When we met in Istanbul two months ago to discuss his work, he had recently returned to the city from a net art conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was...
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Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Jani Leinonen I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had been gripped with...
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5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
"Tate Modern: Tomorrow Is Another Day (After the Economic Crisis)" installation produced by Not An Alternative for the Tate Modern’s 10th anniversary show “No Soul for Sale: A Festival of...
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A Problematic Introduction
It’s complicated. Last year, over 3 million Facebook users willingly adopted this dubious relationship status even after the drop-down menu expanded to accommodate eleven statuses, including newer...
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Turkish and Other Delights |Şener Özmen
Şener Özmen with Erkan Özgen, "Tate'e Giden Yol (Road to Tate Modern)," video, 7'13" (still), 2003. Courtesy the artist and Outlet-Istanbul. While preparing to travel to Diyarbakır, the largest city in...
View ArticleActivist Archiving with Mona Jimenez
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qh6jRzjmcY] The oft-repeated cliche about the early video movement in the United States is that it was driven by groups of people who came together with a...
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Creative Rebuild: Theaster Gates in Hyde Park, St. Louis
Theaster Gates leading a tour of a once-abandoned home that is now central to his creative rehab efforts in Hyde Park, St. Louis. Image courtesy of the Rebuild Foundation. Artist Theaster Gates likes...
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Community Arts Training Institute: A Conversation with Roseann Weiss
Stan Chisholm, "WaitingForAMountain," 2010. Installation at Art Dimensions Gallery, St. Louis. Chisholm is a graduate of the CAT Institute. During my time as a guest blogger for Art21, I’ve examined...
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Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Lucas Blalock, untitled (crystalline screw), 2009 Lucas Blalock’s only plan is to work… preferably in the evenings. He deals with a set of parameters that his tools provide and brings things he...
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