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Sincerely wish I had some shred of knowledge about this, but alas, I am not an art history major. And besides, it's 2011; that would be missing the point.

They defined their collectomania as art. The art of what? They seemed to think that their art, in posting a barrage of truly luscious images on the Internet, involved "explain[ing] in a new way the world unknown to you." The problem was that those luscious images were just that, and nothing else. Just pretty pixels. No content, contextual indicators, knowledge, or anything of real intelligible value could be gleaned from [their] contributions to the World Wide Web -- and that's the way they intended it!

TransCosmic Geometry

Caught this a few months ago as part of a film series loosely based on "static, feedback, interference and reception," plus live film deconstruction with tin foil and bug zappers.

More from Edwin Rostron here.

Can't remember what was shown by this guy, Yoshi Sodeoka, but there's a killer collection of videos, stills, and prints here.

Crocodile Tears

Distressing piece on the future of a liberal arts education in America:

"In a response to last week’s column on “Howl,” the movie about Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem, Charlie from Binghamton asked, “What happened to public investment in the humanities and the belief that the humanities enhanced our culture, our society, our humanity?” And he speculated that it “will be a sad, sad day if and when we allow the humanities to collapse.”

What he didn’t know at the time is that it had already happened, on Oct. 1, when George M. Philip, president of SUNY Albany, announced that the French, Italian, classics, Russian and theater programs were getting the axe.

It is the job of presidents and chancellors to proclaim the value of liberal arts education loudly and often and at least try to make the powers that be understand what is being lost when traditions of culture and art that have been vital for hundreds and even thousands of years disappear from the academic scene. President Philip cries crocodile tears. Real tears are in order. "

Cleanse the Bacteria

OK, so I "like" Pushead on Facebook. Doesn't get me a free lunch or anything, but it's cool to see a photo of the guy at his current age since there's only like one, maybe two, photos of him in his youth. Man, the internet is a crazy place.