Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

In her discussion of the relationship between Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend and assistant, the writer Johann Peter Eckermann (the German Boswell), Avital Ronell develops a theory of dictation which can be expanded to describe several important aspects of the machinic assemblage I’m calling “typewriting.” While the overall tone and focus of Ronell’s […]

Since the industrial revolution we have struggled to reconcile the now twined notions of progress and obsolescence. Consider Rilke’s 18th Sonnet to Orpheus, written in 1922:
Do you hear the New, Master,
droning and throbbing?
Its prophesying promoters
are advancing.
No hearing’s truly keen
in all this noise;
still, now each machine
part wills its praise.
See, the Machine:
how it spins and […]

As TCR 2-50 contributor Jim Andrews writes in his essay The < body > of Net Art: “Works of software art always make use of services available not remotely over the net, but rather from the operating system of the local computer. These range from tapping the computer’s graphic display device to its input/output devices […]

interstitial
interstice
(suture) (itch)
mathematied
mathematizing
mathematamachine
David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. It does not attempt to sentimentalize nor deconstruct these issues. Death is death; life is life. He defines Interstitial art as any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or […]

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How to ‘turn out’ the return of the shape/specter
(“the instability of the imaginary, the uncanny,
ghosts always appearing on the periphery”)

Are you trying to make me believe I am unreal standing here absurdly on the green pavement?
Kafka
Is the virtual-real (‘seamless virtual interface and reality’)
trans-planting/placing (plating) the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real?
simulated exposures
the migration of consciousness
away from a […]

“Language [as] an effect of neural
processing / learning, rather than a
ground or ur-grund” “fading-objects”
“translucencies that shatter” (at the touch)
(glance of the eye) your reading eye
‘my’ so-called reading eye
how it seizes on the ‘part-object’
geared toward foreclosure
the eye (my eye) its hatchet job
the violence of the seizures
among this book or that
“Writing may be made between the ear […]

Laura U. Marks’s essay Taking a line for a walk, from the Abbasid Caliphate to computer graphics, or, The Performativity of the Vector follows important continuities in what at first may appear as disparate traditions in art history: classical Islamic art, European modernism and contemporary new media. Comparing several tendencies shared by both classical Islamic […]

TCR 2-50 contributor Sharla Sava emphasizes, in her essay Gridlock: Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project, that both the form and content of Antonia Hirsch’s World Map Project attest to social transformations brought about by the advent of a post-industrial, globalised world system. Rather than stressing the sovereignty of the individual nation-state, Hirsch’s art mobilizes data […]

David Jhave Johnston’s Interstitial work deals with the fundamentals of existence: life and death. Poets of all ages have played with the polemics of life and death and the afterlife, ever attempting to blur or redefine the fine line between what we little know of this life and the massive unknown that is death beyond. […]

In her essay, Of Molecules and Matter: The Promises and Perils of Biotech Art, Sandra Seekins writes: “Biotechnologies reveal that bodies are composites of replaceable parts, open to reorganization, surveillance, and psychological and physical modification or augmentation. This can be an unsettling proposition, but one that is faced by artists concerned with the metaphors and […]