| The Scent of Belle Haleine |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-27-11
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Can the smell of Duchamp's famous perfume be reconstructed? The blog "Olfactory Art" tells all. Unfortunately, even OSX Lion doesn't come with scent-receptors.
Time for Steve Jobs to team up with William Gibson...
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| Picabia's 391, up for sale, sold. |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-26-11
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Francis Picabia's magazine, 391, showcased the one time dadaist's eroto-mechanomorphic diagrams and his anti-aesthete's wisdom. (It still exists in fact, in bastardized digital form http://www.391.org/) Three of the more historical issues went on the market recently, and were offered for around $900
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| Indifference: the Musical Score |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-25-11
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This composer and nonsense aficionado Gary Bachlund sets a short, meaningless verse (cited, or curated, by Douglas Hostfadter in his excellent Metamagical Themas), to a tongue-in-cheek arrangement of chromaticism and diatonic sextuplets.
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| Surrealist Lab: In Search of Automatism (part 1) |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-24-11
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In a recent post, "With A Lunatic Gesture We Forsook Jujitsu" (Automatism A), I tried my hand at some automatic writing. This was a practice codified by the Surrealists under the direction of Andre Breton, but its provenance dates to long before that. Its purpose has depended on the histor
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| Cao Fei's "Whose Utopia" |
By Eli Epstein-Deutsch
posted: 07-23-11
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Among contemporary world artists, the Guangdong new media and video artist Cao Fei is among the most intriguing explorers of the boundaries between the fantastical, the global/political and the everyday. Her recent work "Whose Utopia" unquestionably steals the show at the new Deutsche Gugg
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