Comments for Virtual Pigment: Blog http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog experiments in living in the digital age Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:49:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 Comment on Jack Hanley, David Zwirner & Bitforms galleries by jeff brown http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=537#comment-89 jeff brown Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:49:11 +0000 http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=537#comment-89 Roberta Smith had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/adel-abdessemed-whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolf.html?_r=1&ref=arts" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">a review</a> today of the Abdessemed show at D. Zwirner. She pretty much hated it. I guess I haven't seen enough "extreme taxidermy" to realize it's already a tired trope. I can agree that the show as a whole doesn't seem to have a clear concept. Roberta Smith had a review today of the Abdessemed show at D. Zwirner. She pretty much hated it. I guess I haven’t seen enough “extreme taxidermy” to realize it’s already a tired trope. I can agree that the show as a whole doesn’t seem to have a clear concept.

]]> Comment on Interactivity by Dana Pasila http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=488#comment-39 Dana Pasila Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:08:39 +0000 http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=488#comment-39 Hey Jeff - your typewriter is a cool looking machine! great I thought this might be oddly inspirational: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzEB_CJLNY&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLFBB809A9AC20B96B Hope you are all back in order after the storms! Best, Dana Hey Jeff – your typewriter is a cool looking machine! great
I thought this might be oddly inspirational: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzEB_CJLNY&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLFBB809A9AC20B96B

Hope you are all back in order after the storms!
Best,
Dana

]]> Comment on Alone Together (Sherry Turkle) by jeff brown http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=477#comment-35 jeff brown Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:56:33 +0000 http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=477#comment-35 I did not know about the interview-- thank you, Mr. Velazques! I did not know about the interview– thank you, Mr. Velazques!

]]> Comment on Alone Together (Sherry Turkle) by sergio http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=477#comment-34 sergio Thu, 04 Aug 2011 13:56:36 +0000 http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=477#comment-34 had come across this series a few months back, you may have already come across it but... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/interviews/turkle.html had come across this series a few months back, you may have already come across it but…
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/interviews/turkle.html

]]> Comment on A rhetorical question about art by Jeff Brown http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=24#comment-2 Jeff Brown Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:43:24 +0000 http://www.virtualpigment.com/blog/?p=24#comment-2 To partly answer my own question, I think we can expect more than spectacle from art, which is what might differentiate capital-A Art from laser shows or fireworks. But if one can combine a bit of both, as in the gunpowder drawings of Cai Guo-Qiang, then we can eat our cake and have it too. Critically speaking. The question gets more involved when there is a reverberating emotional impact from a piece that goes beyond sentimentality or bathos, and resonates in a way that cannot be entirely verbalized. Verbalization being necessary for critical discussion (and progress towards an MFA), but somehow superfluous for truly revealing visual and aural art. To partly answer my own question, I think we can expect more than spectacle from art, which is what might differentiate capital-A Art from laser shows or fireworks. But if one can combine a bit of both, as in the gunpowder drawings of Cai Guo-Qiang, then we can eat our cake and have it too. Critically speaking.
The question gets more involved when there is a reverberating emotional impact from a piece that goes beyond sentimentality or bathos, and resonates in a way that cannot be entirely verbalized. Verbalization being necessary for critical discussion (and progress towards an MFA), but somehow superfluous for truly revealing visual and aural art.

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