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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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