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artybollocks generator Do you hate having to write your own artist statement? Generate your own artist statement for free, and if you don’t like it, generate another one. Feel free to use the statements with funding applications, exhibitions, curriculum vitae, websites, … Instant artist statement: Arty Bollocks Generator h/t Martha Rosler
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As a writer who works with visual artists, I was inspired to address Iris Jaffe’s recent post, “The Anti-artist-statement Statement.” “I hate artist statements,” Iris began. “As an artist, they are almost always awkward and painful to write, and as a viewer they are similarly painful and uninformative to read.” No! I disagree!
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Writing the Artist Statement
ninedotarts: We can’t tell you how often we come across artist statements that trytoo hard to be analytical, clever, academic or progressive. It’s so often, in fact, that the majority ofus artsy types forego reading statements entirely. Art critic Roberta Smith says, “I think the work of art, whatever form it takes, is the artist’s…
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spacettf: Comet on 9 March 2015 – NavCam by europeanspaceagency on Flickr.
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p-dpa: The man who agreed-Apple EULA, Florence Meunier (2014) For this project we had to re-design and interpret the Apple ICloud EULA (End User License Agreement), perhaps one of the most overlooked and ambiguous agreement we make. By clicking “I Agree”, we accept rather odd conditions that we are not aware of because the very design of it…
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As universities are beaten into the shapes dictated by business, so language is suborned to its ends. We have all heard the robotic idiom of management, as if a button had activated a digitally generated voice. Like Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four, business-speak is an instance of magical naming, superimposing the imagery of the market on…
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Literature’s business model explained, with special reference to the age of the Internet
mostlysignssomeportents: What is particularly crucial to understand is that books were not dragged kicking and screaming into each new area of capitalism. Books not only are part and parcel of consumer capitalism, they virtually began it. They are part of the fuel that drives it. The growth of the chain model in books offered everyone…
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reluctantconquistador: Day 219: I’M SO PROUD OF MY PINK-TIED, VERY-HAIRED BRO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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Hello Barbie: Hang on, this Wi-Fi doll records your child’s voice?
Hello Barbie: Hang on, this Wi-Fi doll records your child’s voice? Toymaker Mattel has unveiled a high-tech Barbie that will listen to your child, record its words, send them over the internet for processing, and talk back to your kid. It will email you, as a parent, highlights of your youngster’s conversations with the toy.…