WORD OBJECT ACTION ART UNART A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.”

LIST | WORD OBJECT

Kenneth Goldsmith. is rewriting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as something set in New York in the 20th century, using Benjamin’s original chapter heading’s (called convolutes), collecting and organizing his material in sheaves identical to Benjamin’s “Convolutes. As of today, these are the convolutes I’m working with.I’m only half way through — the book will be

done

WORD | WORD OBJECT

A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.” WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SOUNDS I would like to do a comparison of words in other languages that describe sounds for example the word swoosh is the equivalent for the word in papiamentu zjègèrè. and boom is bidim. READING: J H PRYNNE, RESISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne's remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, "Resistance and Difficulty," originally published in Prospect 5, (Winter 1961), pp 26-30. Resistance and Difficulty J. H. Prynne Behind a wide range of recurring situations and problems in the fields of human STATEMENT OBJECT: BOXES FOR MEANINGLESS WORK Statement Object: Boxes for Meaningless Work. “I will have built two small boxes. I put small things in the boxes. A sign explains the boxes to anyone who should approach them. It says “Meaningless work boxes.”. Throw all of the things into one box, then throw all of the things into the other. Back and forth, back and forth. LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge. 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here. Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here. STATEMENT OBJECTS: 7 SOL LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS 7 Sol Lewitt wall drawings installed at Magasin 3 Stockholm in 2010: ”Wall Drawing #51”, June 1970 All architectural points connected by straight lines. Blue snap lines. ”Wall Drawing #85”, June 1971 Four color composite/pencil. A wall is divided into four horizontal parts. In the top row are four equal divisions, each with lines in LISTS: GREEN EGGS AND HAM The entire 50 word lexicon of Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house WORD OBJECT ACTION ART UNART A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.”

LIST | WORD OBJECT

Kenneth Goldsmith. is rewriting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as something set in New York in the 20th century, using Benjamin’s original chapter heading’s (called convolutes), collecting and organizing his material in sheaves identical to Benjamin’s “Convolutes. As of today, these are the convolutes I’m working with.I’m only half way through — the book will be

done

WORD | WORD OBJECT

A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.” WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SOUNDS I would like to do a comparison of words in other languages that describe sounds for example the word swoosh is the equivalent for the word in papiamentu zjègèrè. and boom is bidim. READING: J H PRYNNE, RESISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne's remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, "Resistance and Difficulty," originally published in Prospect 5, (Winter 1961), pp 26-30. Resistance and Difficulty J. H. Prynne Behind a wide range of recurring situations and problems in the fields of human STATEMENT OBJECT: BOXES FOR MEANINGLESS WORK Statement Object: Boxes for Meaningless Work. “I will have built two small boxes. I put small things in the boxes. A sign explains the boxes to anyone who should approach them. It says “Meaningless work boxes.”. Throw all of the things into one box, then throw all of the things into the other. Back and forth, back and forth. LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge. 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here. Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here. STATEMENT OBJECTS: 7 SOL LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS 7 Sol Lewitt wall drawings installed at Magasin 3 Stockholm in 2010: ”Wall Drawing #51”, June 1970 All architectural points connected by straight lines. Blue snap lines. ”Wall Drawing #85”, June 1971 Four color composite/pencil. A wall is divided into four horizontal parts. In the top row are four equal divisions, each with lines in LISTS: GREEN EGGS AND HAM The entire 50 word lexicon of Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house

WORD | WORD OBJECT

A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.” ACTION | WORD OBJECT The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free

WORD OBJECT

It’s Ada Lovelace day. Here’s her table-format code for Babbage’s Difference engine: “Again, might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism

WORD OBJECT

Word Object Action Art Unart. The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free ACTION: WATCHING THE WATCHER Over the past several days, artist Jonathan VanDyke has spent 40 hours looking at the Jackson Pollock painting Convergence, 1952 at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, in a performance he calls The Long Glance.. Here are a few notes I took while watching a live feed of the performance. The feed was configured as a series of changing still images, pulsing into view every second or so. ACTION: UNGUARDED MONEY Action: Unguarded Money. October 3, 2011 § Leave a comment. In 1956 Miklós Erdély placed open suitcases, primed with 100-florint notes, in the streets of Budapest to collect money for the widows and orphans of the Hungarian revolution. “On 23 October 1956, spontaneous student protests in Budapest erupted into a general uprising against

the

CODE AESTHETICS: ADA LOVELACE It’s Ada Lovelace day. Here’s her table-format code for Babbage’s Difference engine: “Again, might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism SOCIAL FORM: OCCUPY WALL STREET’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free WORD OBJECT ACTION ART UNART A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.”

LIST | WORD OBJECT

Kenneth Goldsmith. is rewriting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as something set in New York in the 20th century, using Benjamin’s original chapter heading’s (called convolutes), collecting and organizing his material in sheaves identical to Benjamin’s “Convolutes. As of today, these are the convolutes I’m working with.I’m only half way through — the book will be

done

READING: J H PRYNNE, RESISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne's remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, "Resistance and Difficulty," originally published in Prospect 5, (Winter 1961), pp 26-30. Resistance and Difficulty J. H. Prynne Behind a wide range of recurring situations and problems in the fields of human WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SOUNDS I would like to do a comparison of words in other languages that describe sounds for example the word swoosh is the equivalent for the word in papiamentu zjègèrè. and boom is bidim. TEXTILE | WORD OBJECT June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment. From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness . “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here . A history of boro, related textiles anf

Japanese

STATEMENT OBJECT: BOXES FOR MEANINGLESS WORK Statement Object: Boxes for Meaningless Work. “I will have built two small boxes. I put small things in the boxes. A sign explains the boxes to anyone who should approach them. It says “Meaningless work boxes.”. Throw all of the things into one box, then throw all of the things into the other. Back and forth, back and forth. POETRY | WORD OBJECT More from Erik Kwakkel, a book written on an ostrich egg. “ The shell is covered with quotations from the Koran and poetry: ‘It describes the soul’s journey from death to life,’ says historian Dionisius Agius, of the University of Leeds, who is analysing the text. Dionisius Agious also says: “Writing on an egg may be attributed magical significance; there is an old belief that the LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge. 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here. Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here. LISTS: GREEN EGGS AND HAM The entire 50 word lexicon of Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house WORD OBJECT ACTION ART UNART A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.”

LIST | WORD OBJECT

Kenneth Goldsmith. is rewriting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as something set in New York in the 20th century, using Benjamin’s original chapter heading’s (called convolutes), collecting and organizing his material in sheaves identical to Benjamin’s “Convolutes. As of today, these are the convolutes I’m working with.I’m only half way through — the book will be

done

READING: J H PRYNNE, RESISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne's remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, "Resistance and Difficulty," originally published in Prospect 5, (Winter 1961), pp 26-30. Resistance and Difficulty J. H. Prynne Behind a wide range of recurring situations and problems in the fields of human WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SOUNDS I would like to do a comparison of words in other languages that describe sounds for example the word swoosh is the equivalent for the word in papiamentu zjègèrè. and boom is bidim. TEXTILE | WORD OBJECT June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment. From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness . “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here . A history of boro, related textiles anf

Japanese

STATEMENT OBJECT: BOXES FOR MEANINGLESS WORK Statement Object: Boxes for Meaningless Work. “I will have built two small boxes. I put small things in the boxes. A sign explains the boxes to anyone who should approach them. It says “Meaningless work boxes.”. Throw all of the things into one box, then throw all of the things into the other. Back and forth, back and forth. POETRY | WORD OBJECT More from Erik Kwakkel, a book written on an ostrich egg. “ The shell is covered with quotations from the Koran and poetry: ‘It describes the soul’s journey from death to life,’ says historian Dionisius Agius, of the University of Leeds, who is analysing the text. Dionisius Agious also says: “Writing on an egg may be attributed magical significance; there is an old belief that the LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge. 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here. Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here. LISTS: GREEN EGGS AND HAM The entire 50 word lexicon of Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house

ART | WORD OBJECT

From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness. “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here.. A history of boro, related textiles anf

CODE | WORD OBJECT

Posts about Code written by salrandolph. Michael Mandiburg’s From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!, an attempt at a 7600 volume print edition of Wikipedia’s entire contents, is a data visualization of Wikipedia’s huge, even impossible, size.. More on Mandiburg’s Print Wikipedia here.. A history of attempts to print Wikipedia here (many wonderful projects).

STATEMENT OBJECT

7 Sol Lewitt wall drawings. installed at Magasin 3 Stockholm in 2010: ”Wall Drawing #51”, June 1970 All architectural points connected by straight lines. Blue snap lines.

WORD OBJECT

It’s Ada Lovelace day. Here’s her table-format code for Babbage’s Difference engine: “Again, might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism TEXTILE | WORD OBJECT June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment. From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness . “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here . A history of boro, related textiles anf

Japanese

WORD OBJECT

Word Object Action Art Unart. Derek Holzer, on (among other things) failure & experiment, in Vague Terrain: “Schematic as Score: Uses and Abuses of the (In)Deterministic Possibilities of Sound Technology” “I consider it axiomatic that, for any art work to be considered experimental

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free STREET | WORD OBJECT William Burroughs’ Color Walks “Another exercise that is very effective is walking on colors. Pick out all the reds on a street, focusing only on red objects–brick, lights, sweaters, signs. ACTION: UNGUARDED MONEY Action: Unguarded Money. October 3, 2011 § Leave a comment. In 1956 Miklós Erdély placed open suitcases, primed with 100-florint notes, in the streets of Budapest to collect money for the widows and orphans of the Hungarian revolution. “On 23 October 1956, spontaneous student protests in Budapest erupted into a general uprising against

the

SOCIAL FORM: OCCUPY WALL STREET’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free WORD OBJECT ACTION ART UNART A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.”

LIST | WORD OBJECT

Kenneth Goldsmith. is rewriting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as something set in New York in the 20th century, using Benjamin’s original chapter heading’s (called convolutes), collecting and organizing his material in sheaves identical to Benjamin’s “Convolutes. As of today, these are the convolutes I’m working with.I’m only half way through — the book will be

done

READING: J H PRYNNE, RESISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne's remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, "Resistance and Difficulty," originally published in Prospect 5, (Winter 1961), pp 26-30. Resistance and Difficulty J. H. Prynne Behind a wide range of recurring situations and problems in the fields of human WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SOUNDS I would like to do a comparison of words in other languages that describe sounds for example the word swoosh is the equivalent for the word in papiamentu zjègèrè. and boom is bidim. TEXTILE | WORD OBJECT June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment. From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness . “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here . A history of boro, related textiles anf

Japanese

STATEMENT OBJECT: BOXES FOR MEANINGLESS WORK Statement Object: Boxes for Meaningless Work. “I will have built two small boxes. I put small things in the boxes. A sign explains the boxes to anyone who should approach them. It says “Meaningless work boxes.”. Throw all of the things into one box, then throw all of the things into the other. Back and forth, back and forth. POETRY | WORD OBJECT More from Erik Kwakkel, a book written on an ostrich egg. “ The shell is covered with quotations from the Koran and poetry: ‘It describes the soul’s journey from death to life,’ says historian Dionisius Agius, of the University of Leeds, who is analysing the text. Dionisius Agious also says: “Writing on an egg may be attributed magical significance; there is an old belief that the LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge. 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here. Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here. LISTS: GREEN EGGS AND HAM The entire 50 word lexicon of Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house WORD OBJECT ACTION ART UNART A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. “Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.”

LIST | WORD OBJECT

Kenneth Goldsmith. is rewriting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project as something set in New York in the 20th century, using Benjamin’s original chapter heading’s (called convolutes), collecting and organizing his material in sheaves identical to Benjamin’s “Convolutes. As of today, these are the convolutes I’m working with.I’m only half way through — the book will be

done

READING: J H PRYNNE, RESISTANCE AND DIFFICULTY Below, the full text of the poet J. H. Prynne's remarkable (and difficult to find in a useful form) short essay, "Resistance and Difficulty," originally published in Prospect 5, (Winter 1961), pp 26-30. Resistance and Difficulty J. H. Prynne Behind a wide range of recurring situations and problems in the fields of human WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SOUNDS I would like to do a comparison of words in other languages that describe sounds for example the word swoosh is the equivalent for the word in papiamentu zjègèrè. and boom is bidim. TEXTILE | WORD OBJECT June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment. From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness . “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here . A history of boro, related textiles anf

Japanese

STATEMENT OBJECT: BOXES FOR MEANINGLESS WORK Statement Object: Boxes for Meaningless Work. “I will have built two small boxes. I put small things in the boxes. A sign explains the boxes to anyone who should approach them. It says “Meaningless work boxes.”. Throw all of the things into one box, then throw all of the things into the other. Back and forth, back and forth. POETRY | WORD OBJECT More from Erik Kwakkel, a book written on an ostrich egg. “ The shell is covered with quotations from the Koran and poetry: ‘It describes the soul’s journey from death to life,’ says historian Dionisius Agius, of the University of Leeds, who is analysing the text. Dionisius Agious also says: “Writing on an egg may be attributed magical significance; there is an old belief that the LISTS: WORDS COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE SMELLS A growing list of words associated with scents & smells. acrid, aged, airless, airport, alkaline, aromatic, bacon, baking, banana, barbeque, barnyard, beachy, beery TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE Text: Su Hui’s matrix poem, Star Gauge. 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here. Translator David Hinton on the poem here, and his translation here. LISTS: GREEN EGGS AND HAM The entire 50 word lexicon of Green Eggs and Ham: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house

ART | WORD OBJECT

From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness. “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here.. A history of boro, related textiles anf

CODE | WORD OBJECT

Posts about Code written by salrandolph. Michael Mandiburg’s From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!, an attempt at a 7600 volume print edition of Wikipedia’s entire contents, is a data visualization of Wikipedia’s huge, even impossible, size.. More on Mandiburg’s Print Wikipedia here.. A history of attempts to print Wikipedia here (many wonderful projects). TEXTILE | WORD OBJECT June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment. From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On Slowness . “In Slowness Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’”. More on boro here & here . A history of boro, related textiles anf

Japanese

WORD OBJECT

It’s Ada Lovelace day. Here’s her table-format code for Babbage’s Difference engine: “Again, might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism ACTION | WORD OBJECT A group of teenagers talk and sway. A cart with striped umbrellas, red and yellow, blue and white, is selling ices across the street. There’s a pawnbroker, “buy, pawn, sell” and “LOANS” in big letters on the awning, framed by fistfuls of dollars. An ice cream truck pulls up in front of the park. 4:01 PM.

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Word Object Action Art Unart. Derek Holzer, on (among other things) failure & experiment, in Vague Terrain: “Schematic as Score: Uses and Abuses of the (In)Deterministic Possibilities of Sound Technology” “I consider it axiomatic that, for any art work to be considered experimental

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free STATEMENT OBJECTS: 7 SOL LEWITT WALL DRAWINGS 7 Sol Lewitt wall drawings installed at Magasin 3 Stockholm in 2010: ”Wall Drawing #51”, June 1970 All architectural points connected by straight lines. Blue snap lines. ”Wall Drawing #85”, June 1971 Four color composite/pencil. A wall is divided into four horizontal parts. In the top row are four equal divisions, each with lines in ACTION: UNGUARDED MONEY Action: Unguarded Money. October 3, 2011 § Leave a comment. In 1956 Miklós Erdély placed open suitcases, primed with 100-florint notes, in the streets of Budapest to collect money for the widows and orphans of the Hungarian revolution. “On 23 October 1956, spontaneous student protests in Budapest erupted into a general uprising against

the

SOCIAL FORM: OCCUPY WALL STREET’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY The Wall Street Occupation is as much a social form as it is a protest. Like Egypt’s Tahrir Square, it attempts to be a society in miniature, a practical guerrilla version of a Utopian vision. The evolving physical organization of Zuccotti Park with its public library, kitchen (three free meals a day, ranging from peanut butter to indian dal, biryani, and samosas), comfort station (a free

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COLOR: KEES GOUDZWAARD July 9, 2015 § Leave a comment Oil paintings of collages of tape, acetate, and colored paper by Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard . More on Goudzwaard and his method here

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SOUNDS: ORDINARILY UNHEARD July 7, 2015 § Leave a comment ORDINARILY UNHEARD: AN EVENING OF PERFORMED SOUND Thursday, July 16, 7-9pm Calico Gallery, 67 West St. #203,

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Sal Randolph, David B. Smith, and Audra Wolowiec will each present a performed sound work integral to their broader practices, which include visual, textual, and sculptural projects dealing with themes such as language, imagination, and memory. SAL RANDOLPH _AIRPORT SCORES FOR _DRIFT These Airport Scores are part of an experimental novel, Drift , being written on Twitter and other social media, with elements distributed in real space and on the web. They are “ambience scores,” transcriptions into language of the ordinarily unheard sounds of place; from this alphabetically rendered sound composition, places may then be performed in voice or

imagination.

DAVID B. SMITH _FORGETTING YOUR NAME (EXTENDED VERSION)_ Smith will lead a participatory ceremony where members of the audience are invited to speak a name of their choice as raw material for an electronic sound composition. The composition will unfold organically and unexpectedly and will waver between found sound and music, and between evolution and deterioration. The words the audience speaks will, like memories, fade in and out of legibility, repeating and building, yet obscuring and changing original meanings and intentions. AUDRA WOLOWIEC  _(         )_ (         ) is a language based short film with two slide projectors and sound components. Held by punctuation, signals from two lighthouses begin to flash across the screen, communicating through fragments. As the sound of breaths continue to locate each other, waves allude that geometry is of no use to calculate a proximity that is felt. This work was first performed at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Jan 2015. SOUNDS: THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD July 6, 2015 § Leave a comment A description of the sounds of the Great Molasses Flood of 1919

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“Witnesses reported, variously, that as it collapsed, they felt the ground shake and heard a roar, a long rumble similar to the passing of an elevated train, a tremendous crashing, a deep growling, or a thunderclap-like bang! and, as the rivets shot out of the tank, a machine-gun-like rat-tat-tat sound.” TEXT: PRINTING WIKIPEDIA July 3, 2015 § Leave a comment Michael Mandiburg’s From Aaaaa! to ZZZap!,

an attempt at a

7600 volume print edition of Wikipedia’s entire contents, is a data visualization of Wikipedia’s huge, even impossible,  size.

More on Mandiburg’s Print Wikipedia here

.

A history of attempts to print Wikipedia here

(many wonderful

projects).

TEXTILE: EMBROIDERED WIKIPEDIA MAGNA CARTA June 28, 2015 § Leave a comment Artist Cornelia Parker’s _Magna Carta_ – the Wikipedia entry on the Magna Carta collectively embroidered by prisoners, judges,  art world luminaries, and members of the embroiderers guild.

Cornelia Parker’s _Magna Carta_ on view at the British Library.

TEXT: SU HUI’S MATRIX POEM, STAR GAUGE June 26, 2015 § Leave a comment 4th century poet Su Hui’s embroidered, 29 x 29 character, 5 color grid-matrix poem, Star Gauge. Read an interview with artist Jen Bervin about the poem here

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Translator David Hinton on the poem here

, and his

translation here

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COLOR: JAPANESE BORO CLOTH June 24, 2015 § Leave a comment

From Vestoj – The Journal of Sartorial Matters – Issue Five – On

Slowness .

“In _Slowness_ Milan Kundera, the Czech writer, remarks that ‘there is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting’…”

More on boro here

&

here

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A history of boro, related textiles anf Japanese indigo dyeing here

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