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Like Ebert, you might consider Dead Poets Society “a collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something” and “shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.” The thing is, though, if you’re a bookish 14-year-old girl, you haven’t yet seen a hundred “other stories in which the good…
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Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first
Before we give doors and toasters sentience, we should decide what we’re comfortable with first Well, as author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow explained to me when I interviewed him last year, imagine an Arab Spring-type situation in a country with very cold winters, universal Nest thermostat adoption and a dictator with no ualms…
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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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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…