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IMG MGMT

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by Peter Burr and Porpentine on February 25, 2015
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Editor’s Note: IMG MGMT is a series of image-based essays by artists. This week’s artists are Peter Burr and Porpentine. We recommend viewing this essay in “Dark Mode” , a new feature that changes the default background on the blog to black. It can be turned off and on by using the button just above our ads.

Burr is a current NYFA fellow in Digital/Electronic Arts whose work has been shown in a range of spaces over the past decade including floating cinemas, cartoon schools, semi-legalized squats, libraries, and national museums. This includes MoMA PS1, Le Centre Pompidou, and The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Porpentine is a fem organism whose games and curation have contributed to the popularity of accessible game design software Twine. She’s won the XYZZY and Indiecade awards, had her work displayed at EMP Museum and The Museum of the Moving Image, and been profiled by the NYTimes.

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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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IMG MGMT: 110

by Ben Gocker on January 14, 2015
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This week, we reintroduce IMG MGMT, our annual series of essays by artists. The essay was founded in 2008 by Paddy Johnson and was inspired by folders of images which artists keep on their computers. This week’s artist is Ben Gocker.

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IMG MGMT: Getting to Know Len

by Cam Archer on December 30, 2013
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I never met my grandmother. Her name was Len and she died before I was born. It had something to do with smoking.

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IMG MGMT: The Greatest Story Ever Told

by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech on November 22, 2013
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“The artist’s experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke

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