Tag Archives: Media

Resisting Reductivism & Breaking the Bubble: An Interview with Barbara Kruger

by Ian Forster | Jan 26, 2018

Resisting Reductivism & Breaking the Bubble: An Interview with Barbara Kruger

by Ian Forster | Jan 26, 2018

In this rare interview accompanying a new Art21 film, Barbara Kruger shares her media diet, what she sees as art’s role in contemporary society, and the inspiration behind two of her earliest works.

Artist Introspectives

It Is, It Isn’t

by Iké Udé | Jun 6, 2016

Artist Introspectives

It Is, It Isn’t

by Iké Udé | Jun 6, 2016

In this personal essay, artist Iké Udé discusses the development of illusion in his work from the 1990s to today.

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Seth Kim-Cohen: “I move to the left, and back to my right, step behind the amplifier, and I disappear into the darkness”

by Amelia Ishmael | Mar 5, 2013

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Seth Kim-Cohen: “I move to the left, and back to my right, step behind the amplifier, and I disappear into the darkness”

by Amelia Ishmael | Mar 5, 2013

Projects by Seth Kim-Cohen “initiate a listening about and around rock music as a cultural signifier.” Amelia Ishmael interviews the artist for her column “Transmission.”

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Lori Felker: amplified sprocket holes, light passing through celluloid, bumping into dirt and tape and emulsion

by Amelia Ishmael | Feb 5, 2013

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Lori Felker: amplified sprocket holes, light passing through celluloid, bumping into dirt and tape and emulsion

by Amelia Ishmael | Feb 5, 2013

Columnist Amelia Ishmael interviews filmmaker and performer Lori Felkner about her “amazing” piece “Light Makes Music.”

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth

by Amelia Ishmael | Jan 3, 2013

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth

by Amelia Ishmael | Jan 3, 2013

Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Nader Sadek: the Lexicon of “In the Flesh”: Petroleum, Death Metal, Masks, Hair, and Sulpher

by Amelia Ishmael | Jul 3, 2012

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Nader Sadek: the Lexicon of “In the Flesh”: Petroleum, Death Metal, Masks, Hair, and Sulpher

by Amelia Ishmael | Jul 3, 2012

Amelia Ishmael talks to Nader Sadek about the visual lexicon that informs his art and music.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The New Aesthetic

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Apr 25, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The New Aesthetic

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Apr 25, 2012

His thesis is due in two weeks, but Antonius Wiriadjaja takes time out to talk about the New Aesthetic, a nascent art movement that blurs the digital and the real.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Frames and Filigree

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Mar 14, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Frames and Filigree

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Mar 14, 2012

Antonius Wiriadjaja on GIFs, shadow puppet theaters, and how he wants to frame his future post M.F.A.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Broadcasting Nostalgic

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Feb 15, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Broadcasting Nostalgic

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Feb 15, 2012

Wiriadjaja takes a break from thesis writing to visit Luminance, an exhibition that explores how we interact with digital media in the physical world.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Pool, the Pants and the Performance

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Dec 21, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Pool, the Pants and the Performance

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Dec 21, 2011

Antonius Wiriadjaja highlights the cutting-edge projects currently on view at Tisch’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program).

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Le Fils du Gong

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Nov 16, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Le Fils du Gong

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Nov 16, 2011

I am riding on the adrenaline rush of playing at the Lincoln Center’s Walter Reader Theater to a sold-out audience with my classical Javanese gamelan orchestra, Kusuma Laras. I wasn’t …

EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS

by Din Heagney | Jun 15, 2011

EVERYTHING TRANSFORMS

by Din Heagney | Jun 15, 2011

I first met Maya Kramer at a dinner party she was hosting at her home in one of the tree-lined compounds of the former French Concession in Shanghai. But it …
Jeff Martin

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: a Conversation and a Colloquium

by Richard McCoy | Feb 16, 2010

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: a Conversation and a Colloquium

by Richard McCoy | Feb 16, 2010

IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jeff Martin, who organized the upcoming colloquium “Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art” (March 17th and 18th at the Hirshhorn).

Flash Points

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. I

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 4, 2010

Flash Points

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. I

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 4, 2010

As a northerner recently transplanted to the Greater Houston area, I admit to having reservations about all things Texan. I have found this a tough place to love at first …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

by Richard McCoy | Dec 15, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

by Richard McCoy | Dec 15, 2009

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy discusses the installation “The Ethics of Dust” with Columbia University professor & architect Jorge Otero-Pailos.

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton

by Richard McCoy | Oct 20, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton

by Richard McCoy | Oct 20, 2009

IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses the methodology and the process of interviewing artists with MoMA conservator Glenn Wharton.

Flash Points

The Simpsons Family (Art) Values

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

Flash Points

The Simpsons Family (Art) Values

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

It seems The Simpsons has something to say about everything, including the value of art. In “Mom and Pop Art,” a treasure of an episode from 1999, Homer is discovered …

Feline Theatricality

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

Feline Theatricality

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

I stumbled on this YouTube video today, and immediately stopped to think about how much Michael Fried has given me. Sometimes a critic’s description of a phenomenon can be truly …

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNBn4wX8AU] Invisible Threads, Double Happiness Jeans by Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse In continuing the thread (no pun intended with Double Happiness) of Play and it’s relationship to newMedia art, …

Sketches from/of Cleveland

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 21, 2009

Sketches from/of Cleveland

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 21, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3Vez4tm8k] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U36pZu17dk] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTywDyK0T4] I was in Cleveland this past weekend for Notacon and Blockparty two hand-in-hand conferences concerning Hacker, DIY Electronics, and early web cultures (in a cursory nutshell). I …

Obsolescence as Cultural Production

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 20, 2009

Obsolescence as Cultural Production

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 20, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Cq_JFzv2I&feature=channel_page] Thinking about this topic often reminds me of a section of Invisible Cities, where Marco Polo is describing a city to Kubla Kahn in which its center is made …

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 30, 2008

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 30, 2008

It was a rainy Saturday and it was the kind of day that amplified the bizarrely romantic quality of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. During the popular Art Under the Bridge festival …

Laurie Anderson takes “Homeland” on tour

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 24, 2008

Laurie Anderson takes “Homeland” on tour

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 24, 2008

Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson (Season 1) will be taking her new politico-musical on global tour starting March 26th with a kick-off at Carnegie Hall. As previously mentioned by Art21 guest …

Whitney Biennial Model Tees

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 14, 2008

Whitney Biennial Model Tees

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 14, 2008

The Whitney Museum has collaborated with the Gap on a series of t-shirts designed by past Whitney Biennial artists, including Art21 artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger (her design is pictured …

Gilbert & George in San Francisco

by Kristin Farr | Mar 7, 2008

Gilbert & George in San Francisco

by Kristin Farr | Mar 7, 2008

A huge retrospective of work by dynamic artist duo, Gilbert & George, has landed in San Francisco at the de Young Museum. Organized by the Tate Modern in London, the …