Author Archives: sarah
randomness
I got this heads up from random.org
and this sequence of dots from LavaRnd.
Seems that randomness is a thing of beauty to computer geeks; the Sublime for people out in code land. The truly Random is a territory that’s hard to find, a land….oh, anyway, I tried to take this test. It asks if I can [...]
street library, 08.29.10
Any street librarians out there? MLS degree preferred, but not required.
Leica Gallery’s amazing gallerist duo in Soho
Profiled in the monthly column I write for Photograph Magazine (in which photo dealers and other bigwigs get their closeup).
You can start to read it, here.
…here’s the link to the rest of the article, if you wanna keep reading. they just don’t make gallerists like Jay and Rose anymore! a true pleasure to interview them; [...]
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Article on “TheNineDays”
…by me, about me. Yeah, people do this all the time, right?
But do they rub synagogues every day? Link provided, below.
“Rubbing My Temple, Looking for Redemption” by Sarah Schmerler.
My thanks to my editor at CJ for making it happen.
Augmented Reality meets Art Criticism
This is what I wanna do, only with killer content, and for art.
Be the first “Augmented Reality Journalist.” That’s my term.
thoughts?
(image from geeeeeky website courselistings at RPI. thanx. maybe that tablet device could, instead, be an issue of “Art in America.”)
Sol LeWitt’s “Sentences on Conceptual Art”
Long a fan of numbered statements, I commit a no-brainer post and give them to you here (they were first published by the amazing artist in 1969). Why? I came upon them in reprints of Vito Acconci’s publication “0–9″ today and couldn’t resist. Enjoy.
1. Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions [...]
“Guerilla Television” anticipates Information Age
This book is a real find. Here’s the quotes on flyleaf page:
Guerilla Television was written in 1971 by Michael Shamberg & Raindance Corporation. It has chapters with titles like “Meta-Service Economy” and “Techno Evolution” and Info-Structures.”
Now, here we are, back in 2010. Check out the Daniel Langlois Foundation, which funded this project
—thanks to which [...]
My first QR; Guerilla Television; the Raindance Corporation
Hey you 21st-century kids: the cool tech-future that you can envision now is brought to you courtesy of your predecessors; guys like the Raindance Corporation and this amazing book I discovered at my brother’s house called Guerilla Television. I think I’m gonna have to reproduce some of it for you on the blog (guerilla style) [...]
Meanwhile, at P.S.1 (nobody wants to play?); I thought Greater New York was supposed to be…ballsy.
“Greater New York” still rules the airwaves and byways at P.S. 1. All that’s fit to hang that’s hip. Or some phrase like that applies. Still…
I wish the vibe there encouraged cooperation. Nobody really wanted to come out and play (and help me figure out how to get all those balls off the nets and [...]
Jonathan Franzen: reads good books; writes on a defunct tombstone of a laptop.