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IMG MGMT: Freddie and St. Cosmas

by Jaimie Warren on July 14, 2016
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These images are pulled from my personal database of thousands of saved jpgs, gifs and video clips from Internet memes, pop culture, and art history, collected over a ten-year period. Deceased saints and celebrities, horror movie victims and victims of plague, pop culture monsters and cartoon characters form a cast of silly and somber subjects who cameo in my large-scale community reenactments of art history.

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IMG MGMT: Pixel-Shaming

by Endam Nihan on June 28, 2016
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Turkish media fetishizes stories of sexual abuse, and that sensation is drummed up by manipulating imagery of victims, obscuring their faces with pixels and the black censorship band. Found covering the eyes of women, animals and even objects under sensational news headlines, the band creates an aura of authenticity around the spectacle of sexual violation, and even conjures shame.

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IMG MGMT: Land Art and the Nuclear Landscape

by Eric LoPresti on June 21, 2016
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Imagery of atomic test sites loomed large in public consciousness during the 1960s and 70s, when weekly atomic tests made front page news in the New York Times and in Life magazine. During the Cold War, the US detonated detonated over 80 devices between 10kt and 1200 kt each, for a total explosive yield of around ~50,000,000 tons: an overabundant earthmoving that happened to coincide precisely with the birth of Land Art.

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IMG MGMT: Ruin Value

by Aaron Williams on June 14, 2016
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I keep a folder of images on my desktop, culled from internet searches and random meanderings around the net. There isn’t much curation involved in these images, and I’m not always sure why an image calls to my collection, but themes arise nonetheless. A unifying quality is the bleak reality that’s laid bare by the breakdown of a system– bygone expressions of power like Brutalist architecture, panopticons, and military camouflage. I feel ambivalent about these images, uncomfortable with taking pleasure in the aesthetic forms that hides insidious subtexts.

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IMG MGMT: Pinch-to-Zoom

by Jeremy Bailey on May 24, 2016
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Really when you think about it, artists like me are a lot like inventors; we bring new ideas to life that change the world. But world-changing inventors, both good and evil, are currently at war. Big mean tech companies like Google, Apple and Samsung are being granted hundreds of patents that encroach upon the free spirit of the altruistic artist. At risk: the future of self expression. Now more than ever, the world needs us all to be inventors.

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Hi, Artists! Autumn 2015 IMG MGMT Application Now Open

by The AFC Staff on July 6, 2015
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We’re now accepting applications for our autumn 2015 IMG MGMT series! Deadline is August 1.

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IMG MGMT: A Reflection on the “Spiritual Archeologist” Klaus Dona

by Nicholas Cueva on March 23, 2015
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I find his work annoying and frustrating, the presentation simple and slight. The ultimate aim is to misinform the already mindless—yet I love every one of these objects. I shouldn’t, but I do. To me, they represent the confusion and insanity of life, and give me hope that anyone’s misguided psychology can have something redeeming. I see a reflection of myself in Klaus.

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IMG MGMT: Things Behind The Sun

by Carolyn Salas on February 5, 2015
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“Let go of the spirit of the departed and continue your life’s celebration” –Allen Ginsberg

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IMG MGMT: Cosmetic Masochism, Metal on Flesh

by Faith Holland and Seth Watter on January 27, 2015
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A number of years ago, at the height of the torture porn cycle, we discovered a parallel, if underappreciated, genre: the instructional makeup video. Both are premised on the remodeling of human bodies. Both offer grueling spectacles of metal on flesh.

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IMG MGMT: Breathe In

by Jeanine Oleson on January 22, 2015
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This month, we reintroduce IMG MGMT, our annual series of essays by artists. Founded in 2008 by Paddy Johnson, the essay format was inspired by folders of images which artists keep on their computers. This week’s artist is Jeanine Oleson.

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