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Kevin Sweet Intervals Series in the Brant Gallery through April 21, 2013Written by David Tames on April 17, 2013
Filed Under Art, Events & Screenings, Films
Now through Sunday, April 21st, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. each night in the Brant Gallery (3rd floor, South Building) at MassArt, filmmaker Kevin Sweet is orchestrating an { installation | performance | workshop } that is part of... Continue Reading...
Installation: Reflective SpaceWritten by David Tames on December 17, 2010
Filed Under Art
I’m going to be taking an intensive two-week course over the winter-intersession at MassArt called Installation: Reflective Space. I’m wondering if there are other media makers in the Boston area that would be interested... Continue Reading...
Fluid Screens, Expanded CinemaWritten by David Tames on December 15, 2010
Filed Under Art, Books, Critical Theory, New Media
Among my favorite books is Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema, in spite of originally being published in 1970, it still offers a fresh perspective on the possibilities of new media art. Imagine a collection of essays that... Continue Reading...
Cartographies of TimeWritten by David Tames on December 4, 2010
Filed Under Art, Books, Narrative
I love St. Mark’s Bookshop, every time I go to New York I make it a point to make the trek to Third Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets and spend time browsing there, especially through the new book section, where I came across Cartographies... Continue Reading...
Cinema will eventually become a flexible means of writingWritten by David Tames on November 22, 2010
Filed Under Art, Camera, Critical Theory, Filmmaking, Music Video, New Media, Sticky, Writing
In 1948 Alexandre Astruc, a filmmaker and theorist, suggested the notion of caméra-stylo (camera pen) in his essay, “The Birth of a New Avant-Garde: La Caméra-Stylo,” which appears in the book, The French... Continue Reading...
provocative.objects: the extradition (Fri., Nov. 12, 2010)Written by David Tames on November 9, 2010
Filed Under Art, Events & Screenings, MassArtDMI, New Media
You are cordially invited to attend provocative.objects: the extradition, a cybersurreal exhibition + event on Friday, November 12th at MassArt in the Patricia Doran Gallery. The event is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. and end around... Continue Reading...
Digital imaging throws documentary into ontological crisisWritten by David Tames on August 20, 2010
Filed Under Art, Camera, Critical Theory, Documentary, Photography
Scholars have long discussed the ambiguity and subjectivity inherent in photographic representation with its seductive verisimilitude. Bill Mitchell’s The Reconfigured Eye: Visual Truth in the Post-Photographic Era (The MIT Press,... Continue Reading...
Expanded Cinema: Still fresh after forty yearsWritten by David Tames on August 17, 2010
Filed Under Art, Books, Filmmaking, New Media, Sticky
A few months ago I pulled Gene Youngblood’s classic Expanded Cinema (E.P. Dutton & Company, 1970, available online) off the shelf and read it again. The pages in my well worn softcover edition were falling out, the glue... Continue Reading...
Memory and the end of realityWritten by David Tames on August 11, 2010
Filed Under Art, Critical Theory, New Media, Sticky, Writing
The transformation from media as a form of cultural production to media as entertainment has lead us into a crisis as we enter the fifth phase of history. Marshall McLuhan (1962, 2005) divided history in four phases: 1. culture of... Continue Reading...
2010 Bumpkin Island Art EncampmentWritten by David Tames on July 27, 2010
Filed Under Art, Documentary, Events & Screenings, Filmmaking, New Media, Photography
If you live in the Boston area, here’s an idea for what to do this weekend: The 2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment! Consider making a day of it and come out and visit on one of the public visitation days, Saturday, July 31st... Continue Reading...
