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Massive Links! Geometric Abstraction Makes Great Material for Netart!

by Karen Archey on July 30, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Rafaël Rozendaal, electricboogiewoogie.com, 2009. Screencapture AFC Rafaël Rozendaal’s new Mondrian-inspired website electricboogiewoogie.com prompted our list of netart inspired by geometric abstract painting. While most of these links are taken from the ultra-sophisticated Mondrian, Lewitt or Albers, we hope to see netart inspired by painters Francis Bacon, H.R. Giger or Odd Nerdrum. [...]

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Promised Notes on Notes: Ed Halter’s After the Amateur

by Art Fag City on July 9, 2009

Chris Reid‘s Super Soaker Collection. Via: Guthrie Lonergan When it rains, it rains. Coinciding with The New York Times‘ tiresome obsession with the perils of professionalism in the art world, Rhizome’s Ed Halter produced a text this April describing the professional, the amateur, and a new category he calls the sub-amateur. The paper is amongst [...]

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Portrait, Portrait on the Wall, Who’s the Weirdest of Them All?

by Karen Archey on May 27, 2009

POST BY KAREN ARCHEY Image via: Awkard Family Photos Lately at AFC Headquarters we’ve noticed a stunning array of weird portraits. Running in the form of blogs and fine art projects, we’ve compiled a selection of the finest oddities. Jamie Diamond, “The Hiltons,” 2008. Archival pigment print, 40 x 60 in. Image via: Moeller Snow [...]

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on February 21, 2008

YES & NO by MTAA Related to the new piece: “When we talk about online art practices and someone asks, ‘What is your art about in one sentence?’ the answer is that our art is about communication. There’s always a dialog or a conversation…” M.River tells me last year in an interview for icommons.

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Fresh Links!

by Art Fag City on August 31, 2007

Cory Arcangel, Sailing I love this piece because it so perfectly sooths American sensibilities, while agitating those of the Middle East. A translation of the Arabic text in Arcangel’s piece can be found at Abstracted Labor.

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Massive Links! Calling All Rich Benefactors

by Art Fag City on October 16, 2006

Screengrab AFC There are very few venues for experimental video and indi film in the city, and with the reported financial troubles over at the Pioneer, and now MonkeyTown announcing that if they can’t find 300K in the next month they will have to close up shop, the scene is in danger of experiencing two [...]

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