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I am a PhD student examining the relationship between communication patterns and group processes in information diffusion through an online community.
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"There is no such thing as intuition, only habit. A scroll bar is intuitive only if one has seen a scroll bar before. If one has never seen a scroll bar, good luck."
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Check out the hott URL and the lo-fi design. Many cool projects.
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Her exhibition "This Stage of Motherhood" is up @ Robert Mann gallery now. Interesting work, similar themes and techniques to Mara Bodis-Wollner's work.
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The tripod that attaches to everything! (via Popgadget.)
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November 2006
Paddy Reviews the Brice Marden Exhibition
Brice Marden, Cold Mountain 6 (Bridge) 1989-91, Oil on linen
I know that Paddy and I are like the sick-making mututal admiration society and wouldn't we just shut up already, come on... but I freakin' love her smart, sharp and insightful review of the Marden retrospective at MoMA. I wish that there was more criticism like this in print medai. What's the dealio, yo?*
An excerpt, which was particularly interesting to me because as a gallerist I obsess over presentation and don't find this type of discussion mind-glazing at all:
I know it sounds like the ultimate in tedium to discuss such matters as exhibition display and framing quality, but you really can’t avoid talking about it when it lends such weight and authority to the drawings and prints section of the exhibition on the third floor. I won’t bore you all with the technical details, except to say that work is all housed in the same cream frames and float mounted, and hung using a method used by the collector and curator David Whitney which involves hanging the bottom third of the work at 43 inches (which is low). I’m quite certain Marden would not appreciate the analogy, but because the works are hung at roughly the same height as the dividing Venetian trim on a wall, the viewer has a much more intimate relationship with the work, and is forced to consider the each drawing and print individually.
You should read the whole thing, because it's great and because it makes you want to go see the show even though it's not a resoundingly positive review. (Which is refreshing unto me as Mr. Marden has received oh so much slavish coverage about the retrospective to date.)
* I have a lot to say about this issue, with print media criticism and the moribundity thereof, and I'm going to say it at some point soon even though it's probably ill-advised. But you know, I am a woman with opinions and I've got some ideas about solutions because I'm the sort to speak up about issues and do something about it too.
Primpin '
Chelsea Hotel 1982 by Claudio Edinger
I'm off to the Chelsea to commiserate with legends living and dead and... get my haircut. I'll be back this afternoon, freshly coiffed (and with tales to tell) til then you can read up on the Chelsea via Living With Legends, peruse my voluminous del.icio.us links or check out all the buzz that's buzzing about tomorrow night's artists talk at the jb. (Don't forget to RSVP if you wanna come!)
Artists Talk @ the jb this Wednesday (11/29) Evening, 6pm - 8pm
We'll be hosting a what-promises-to-be-excellent artists talk @ jen bekman this Wednesday evening, November 29th, from 6pm -8pm. (We'll mingle and have refreshing beverages til 7pm, and the artists talk will last til about 8.)
Moderator Marisa Olson, an artist and the Editor and Curator of of Rhizome.org, will lead a casual conversation with James Deavin and Eva + Franco Mattes. The discussion will be about their respective projects documenting Second Life.
Deavin's Photographs from the New World, mostly landscapes and interior shots, is on view at the gallery through Saturday December 9th and in Second Life at jbSL, the gallery's virtual location, through the end of December.
The Matteses' portrait series, 13 Most Beautiful Avatars, is showing now at Ars Virtua Gallery in conjunction with the Time Shares series co-presented by Rhizome and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and will be in a "real world" show opening on 11/30 at the Italian Academy, at Columbia.
We have a limited amount of space, so please RSVP if you'd like to attend: rsvp AT jenbekman DOT com.
jen bekman
6 Spring St
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
NYC 10012
Image: Untitled by James Deavin | 30" x 40" C-print
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