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"The installation is a reenactment of ten séances held between 1910 and 1914 with the French medium Eva C. These events were extensively documented by prominent scientists and researchers from the Nobel Prize winners to Houdini"
Add-Art is a free FireFox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. The art shows are updated every two weeks and feature contemporary artists and curators.
"Eddie's shark has not previously been considered art because it was displayed by a businessman pursuing his hobby. Damien's shark has been considered art because it was displayed by, erm... a businessman pursuing his hobby."
"A major current critical fallacy is to assume that the display of an object, which is an intrinsic part of an experience, in any way interprets a theme or deals with the issue of that experience."
"Against conceptualism, hedonism and the cult of the ego-artist"
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a collection of books that have fallen out of mainstream circulation. Outdated and discarded, (...) given new life as resource material for artists, writers, and other cultural archeologists.
"We take all the images posted to sketch blogs from around the internet and dump them here."
i don't really like it.. but it's curious
"Blogging resource for the Interactive Arts and Media department @ Columbia College Chicago"
"Why are numbers beautiful? It's like asking why is Beethoven's Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don't see why, someone can't tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is." aww <3