By Jason Hoelscher
Technologies become socially interesting only when they become technologically boring, to paraphrase NYU new media professor Clay Shirky. That is, people marvel at a new gadget when it debuts, because its rarity causes it to stand out. At that point it is technologically interesting but socially dull. It is only [...]
Laura Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University - Morgantown, W.V.
By Jason Hoelscher
Amy Schissel has a lot to say, show, reveal and connect in her recent exhibition, titled “#everythingthathappensatonce.” This name is apt in that, although the paintings lack the unity and right-here presentness of, for example, a monochrome, the sheer volume of visual incident [...]
Philosopher Sylvère Lotringer talks with Jason Hoelscher about networks of networks, art worlds, meaning, and whether resistance is still possible.
Sylvère Lotringer is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, and Professor of Ethico-Aesthetics at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Founder of Semiotext(e) and organizer of the seminal Schizo-Culture Conference that introduced [...]
“Because no work of art exists outside the linked sequences that connect every man-made object since the remotest antiquity, every thing has a unique position in that system. This position is marked by coordinates of place, age and sequence. The age of an object has not only the customary absolute value in years [...]
By Jason Hoelscher
“All true feeling is in reality untranslatable…That is why an image, an allegory, a figure that masks what it would reveal has more significance for the spirit than the lucidities of speech and its analytics. This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of [...]
