Monthly Archives: June 2012


Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt

‘Swamp’, a film by Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt (1969)

Robert Smithson said of the film :”it’s about deliberate obstructions or calculated aimlessness”. This was attained by having Holt walk through the swamp while simultaneously filming, only seeing where she was walking by looking through the lens of her Bolex camera, as Smithson gave her verbal instructions which he recorded as he spoke them.


Timm Ulrichs

Timm Ulrichs, ‘Ich: im Rahmen’ (‘Me: in the frame’) (1993-98)


Richards Jarden

Richards Jarden, ‘Facial Angle’ (1970)

“The angle formed on the face by two straight lines drawn from the base of the nose, the one to the base of the ear, the other to the most projecting point on the forehead. In antique statues the facial angle is usually 90 degrees. As a general principle it may be said that intelligence is proportional to the facial angle. It is at any rate an incontestable fact that the lower one descends in the human race the more the facial angle diminishes.” Jules Adeline, The Adeline Art Dictionary


Hans-Peter Feldmann

Hans-Peter Feldmann, ‘1 pair of Old Paintings’ (2011)


Cornell Creative Machines Lab

AI vs AI : Two chatbots talking to each other, by Cornell Creative Machines Lab


Cory Arcangel

Cory Arcangel, ‘Permanent Vacation’ (2008)

Two computers hooked up to the Internet, sending “Out-Of-Office”-Email responses to each other.


David Shrigley

‘Lost filofax’ by David Shrigley


Michael Crowe & Lenka Clayton

Mysterious Letters‘, by Michael Crowe and Lenka Clayton, is a large scale writing project with the goal of sending a letter to everyone in the world.

In November 2009, 620 letters were sent to each home in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, USA.


Mauro Cerqueira

‘Colores’ by Mauro Cerqueira


Sietes

The Sietes (sevens) village in northern Spain, painted in the trademark palette of Windows 7,

to coincide with the launch of the new operating system. (2009)

Photos by Jacinta Lluch Valero