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SFUMATO OR, PRINT: LIKE A VANISHING POINT GROWN OVER BY ITS PICTURE PLANE

Jan 01, 2008; Armstrong, David Scott ... Abstract In turning toward that which has fallen out of use, one approaches the threshold between presence and passing; between knowing and forgetting. It is the place, perhaps the unexpected pause, where language and loss meet. This essay speculates on the particular apparatus of print, ...

AFTER THE GRAVE: LANGUAGE AND MATERIALITY IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Jan 01, 2008; Armstrong, David Scott; Mahon, Patrick ... Abstract The introductory essay highlights a double sense of the word grave which is brought together in this issue as a means of getting at an aesthetic and a material zeitgeist: the prevalent feeling is that our current cultural moment harbors material and virtual means of artistic and ...

XU BING, ED PIEN AND GU XIONG: LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION

Jan 01, 2008; Mahon, Patrick ... Abstract The works of contemporary artists Xu Bing, Ed Pien and Gu Xiong are involved in bringing to light some of the factors inherent in social, cultural and linguistic translation. In doing so, each artist is also engaged in the nuanced activity of moving between historical and ...

AFTER THE DEATH OF FILM: WRITING THE NATURAL WORLD IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Jan 01, 2008; Takahashi, Tess ... Abstract This essay argues that the North American cinematic avant-garde's interest in celluloid film's materiality goes to the heart of our culture's current anxiety about the digital ability to seamlessly transcode, endlessly reproduce and recklessly disseminate images of all stripes ....

SUBVERTING A CARIBBEAN 'NATURAL' HISTORY

Jan 01, 2008; Gardner, Joscelyn ...... unsettling brittle pages from the past ... probing between stiff lines of official text to divulge unspeakable narratives concealed within ... liberating ghostly traces of Creole women whose lives have been reduced to mere footnotes in the recording of an oppressive colonial plantation ...

A WRITER'S MANUAL

Jan 01, 2008; Balfour, Barbara ... Textual quotation and stylistic mimicry, in addition to my own writing, recur throughout my art production. In making words visible, I have used my handwriting-transcribed manually or printed by hand, as well as computer fonts-printed commercially or in a newspaper. My text-based artwork is made ...

ALLMUSIC ASPIRES TO THE CONDITION OF IMAGE

Jan 01, 2008; Merritt, David ... I am interested in embodied aspects of the visual, particularly its material and performative possibilities. A good part of my work is drawing based. I approach drawing less as a historically determined medium than as a temporalized material practice. As such I see drawing as an ...

EXCERPTS FROM THE DRAWN LIKE MONEY SERIES

Jan 01, 2008; Mahon, Patrick ... The Drawn Like Money Series is a group of drawings, made with pen and ink, based on my own photographic images of the Canadian Arctic. The works are intended to resemble the conventional engraved syntax found on paper currency. Drawn Like Money, which was occasioned by a collaborative project ...

TURNING, TURNER, TURNED

Jan 01, 2008; Armstrong, David Scott ... Entering and exiting, that is what makes the image: appearing and disappearing. Not first representing, but first being or making a time ...the time [temps] of making or taking an image, the time of time itself, which opens the eyes. Jean-Luc Nancy, The Ground of the Image Much of ...