1. 7 May


    MEDIA BURN by ANT FARM (1975)

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    “Original version of Ant Farm’s classic video art piece examining and satirizing the media, particularly the impact of television. On July 4, Independence Day, 1975, what a TV newscaster described as a “media circus” assembles at San Francisco’s Cow Palace Stadium. A pyramid of television sets are stacked, doused with kerosene, and set ablaze. Then a modified 1959 Cadillac El Dorado Biarritz, piloted by two drivers who are guided only by a video monitor between their bucket seats, smashes through the pyramid destroying the TV sets.

    Preceding the event are clips from various TV news broadcasts that covered it (many of the TV reporters make the comment that they “didn’t get it”). The tape includes interviews with invited guests, a speech given by Doug Hall as President John F. Kennedy explaining the message of Media Burn, the dramatic unveiling of the Phantom Dream Car, several sequences of the car smashing through the TV sets, and its triumphant return from the end of the Cow Palace parking lot.”

     

  2. 3 May


    “Astrological sign? Eye color?” *Checks my BAC with a defunct breathalyzer* C O O L I N G T H E B A B Y L O N M A T R I X by B B Y A M A (Lily Gottschalk, OC ‘13) Photo feat. Zoe Darsee & Abby Ryder (OC ‘13)

    “Astrological sign? Eye color?” *Checks my BAC with a defunct breathalyzer*

    C O O L I N G T H E B A B Y L O N M A T R I X by B B Y A M A (Lily Gottschalk, OC ‘13)

    Photo feat. Zoe Darsee & Abby Ryder (OC ‘13)

     

  3. 3 May


    I N F I N I T E H A L L W A Y  A T L E A S T T H E D O O R S A R E O P E N I N G

    I N F I N I T E H A L L W A Y 

    A T L E A S T T H E D O O R S

    A R E O P E N I N G

    (Source: the27thfloor, via iheartmyart)

     

  4. 3 May


    Misplaced Reliquary (2005) by Paul Catanese Commissioned in 2004 by Rhizome.org, Misplaced Reliquary is a handheld curiosity cabinet containing the holy relics collected by an eccentric curator. The relics are contained within a virtual repository taking the form of a gameboy advance ROM that can be “played” online and/or downloaded to any gameboy advance (with the correct transfer hardware).

    Misplaced Reliquary (2005)
    Commissioned in 2004 by Rhizome.org, Misplaced Reliquary is a handheld curiosity cabinet containing the holy relics collected by an eccentric curator. The relics are contained within a virtual repository taking the form of a gameboy advance ROM that can be “played” online and/or downloaded to any gameboy advance (with the correct transfer hardware).

     

  5. 2 May


    Rani Molla (Oberlin College, Class of 2008) writes about the about the Tate Modern’s #TateTour twitter tour of their Lichtenstein show - and starts with her memories of Art Rental.  Image: Lichtenstein, Boot on Hand, 1964. Art Rental Collection at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH.  To learn more about Art Rental at Oberlin ($5 per work/semester!), visit the AMAM website… Or read Nicole Gutman’s (Oberlin College, Class of 2016) first-hand account of renting art: Oberlin Review

    Rani Molla (Oberlin College, Class of 2008) writes about the about the Tate Modern’s #TateTour twitter tour of their Lichtenstein show - and starts with her memories of Art Rental. 

    Image: Lichtenstein, Boot on Hand, 1964. Art Rental Collection at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH. 

    To learn more about Art Rental at Oberlin ($5 per work/semester!), visit the AMAM website…

    Or read Nicole Gutman’s (Oberlin College, Class of 2016) first-hand account of renting art: Oberlin Review

     

  6. 2 May


    who-wore-it-better: Ai Weiwei Bicycles  ::  Gabriel Orozco Four Bicycles (There is Always One Direction) First submission to Who Wore It Better, an ongoing visual research project presenting associations and common practices in contemporary art. The platform was created to promote formal and conceptual dialogue over originality.

    who-wore-it-better:

    Ai Weiwei Bicycles  ::  Gabriel Orozco Four Bicycles (There is Always One Direction)

    First submission to Who Wore It Better, an ongoing visual research project presenting associations and common practices in contemporary art. The platform was created to promote formal and conceptual dialogue over originality.