All you need to know about the Library of Congress Twitter Archive. Sort of. Who has access? Will commercial interests be allowed to mine the data? FBI? CIA? Is there a Facebook archive hidden away somewhere in some Cloud? Can you shield your tweets? Who can access my list of borrowed library books from the County Library mesh? Is pruning allowed?
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Twitterverse Exposed!
All you need to know about the Library of Congress Twitter Archive. Sort of. Who has access? Will commercial interests be allowed to mine the data? FBI? CIA? Is there a Facebook archive hidden away somewhere in some Cloud? Can you shield your tweets? Who can access my list of borrowed library books from the County Library mesh? Is pruning allowed?
San Antonio All-Digital Library System
Texas leads the way. Bexar County Library System to be entirely digital; U. of Texas San Antonio Library has been bookless since 2010. Beginning of the end? Next: E-books must no longer be treated like physical books with limited access, as in my local library. Publishers? Get a new business model!
TM Daily Post> http://tinyurl.com/bd6vp6n
Friday, January 18, 2013
Free Artist-Statement App
Belgian artist Jasper Rigole's creates free artist-statement generator, "500 Letters." Try it, you'll like it:
"John Perreault ( New York City, United States) makes paintings and performances. By replaying the work for each exhibition and pushing the evocative power of the work a little further, Perreault tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface...."
story via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/a34pq78
http://www.500letters.org/form_15.php
"John Perreault ( New York City, United States) makes paintings and performances. By replaying the work for each exhibition and pushing the evocative power of the work a little further, Perreault tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface...."
story via hyperallergic> http://tinyurl.com/a34pq78
http://www.500letters.org/form_15.php
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Is Hirst the Worst?
Hirst-bashing spreads to Esquire. Kick him, kick him again, kick him while he is down.
The End of Art as Pure Money> http://tinyurl.com/aurrzzh
Van Gogh Self-Portrait Photo
What is the opposite of Photo Realism? Lithuanian artist turns Van Gogh self-portrait into a "photo." Is Rembrandt next?
Via theatlantic> http://tinyurl.com/bapnjgb
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Brit Awards Statuette: Hirst or Kusama?
Who put the dots on this year's Brit Awards (Pop Music) statuette? Is it Damien Hirst or Kusama? Can you tell their dots apart?
Richard Serra Attacked by Met Curator
Conservative art coverage on Huffington Post links to same at the conservative The Art Newspaper. Does Richard Serra have the right to restore or alter his own art? Of course! Curator of his Met. Museum drawing show turns on him!!!
The Art Newspaper story: http://tinyurl.com/bjpbhbl
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