In recent years a number of artists have produced works that are tours or ask the viewer to become a tourist. Much of this work presents itself as ‘critical,’ despite decades of scholarship examining tourism as a means ...
Critical Daytrips: Tourism and Land-Based Practice
Writing
Over the last several years, a loose and shifting group of artists, activists, and thinkers has been exploring and creating work about the various forces, both top-down and grassroots, that shape neighborhoods, cities, and ...
Notes on Affective Practice: An Exchange
Writing
For nearly two hundred years, the figure of the naturalist—the enthusiastic observer of birds, soils, insects, plants, and animals—set the bar for dedicated, non-professional scholarship of the non-human world. With his ...
A Post-Naturalist Field Kit
Writing
The radio spectrum, regulated in the US since 1927 for the “public interest, convenience, and necessity,” has long been viewed by artists as an unrealized, utopian public space. Today, many artists use FM radio, ...
Take It to the Air: radio as public art
Writing
In light of constantly exploding bandwidth and nearly limitless digital storage, FM radio may appear an anachronistic means of communication. However, many new media artists are using this most ephemeral, unindexable, ...
Transmissions Between Memory and Amnesia
Writing
After over a century of official silence, the City of Chicago dedicated a new monument to the Haymarket Affair, one of the central events in the history of labor activism and radical politics worldwide, in 2004. The monument ...
Performing Haymarket
Writing
Based in Los Angeles, the Center for Land Use Interpretation describes itself as an independent, non-profit, educational organization “dedicated to the increase and diffusion of information about how the nation's lands are ...
Touring the Archive, Archiving the Tour
Writing
A increasing number of popular documentary films are employing prankster tactics for political effect. With a heritage stretching back to the Yippies, the Situationists, and beyond, prankster activists harness broad ...
Cooing Over the Golden Phallus
Writing
Publications grouped here are intended for a non-art audience, are short-form reflections on a creative work, or are commissioned and unrefereed. PDFs are supplied for all refereed publications, though editorial rather than ...
Additional Publications
Writing
All content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Website design based on Simple Grid Theme © 2012 by Dessign.net