Over the course of the opening pages A Humument is given many descriptive monikers, and each of them sheds a bit of light on the sundry qualities the book possesses, the method with which it was created, and its dual nature as both an intertextual and intermedia work.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Literature, Writing
Tagged: A Humument, intermedia, intertextuality, Tom Phillips
This statement by Wittgenstein refutes the assumption that there is a necessary, one-to-one relationship not only between representations and the things they represent, but also between things represented and the media used to represent them.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Language, Philosophy
Tagged: Ludwig Wittgenstein, representation
“When I wrote the Imaginary Landscape for twelve radios,” Cage explained, “it was not for the purpose of shock or as a joke but rather to increase the unpredictability already inherent in the situation through the tossing of coins. Chance, to be precise, is a leap, provides a leap out of reach of one’s own grasp of oneself.”
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Music, Radio
Tagged: electronic music, indeterminacy, John Cage, radio art, sound collage
Peter Schmidt’s watercolor still-lifes and landscapes embody what I find most interesting about his work: its indifference to the monumental and the superlative, and its focus on the quiet, the “insignificant,” the intimate.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Internet
Tagged: Brian Eno, interesting blog, Oblique Strategies, painting, Peter Schmidt, watercolor
This gallery contains a selection of water color paintings by Peter Schmidt.
Categories: Art & Aesthetics, Gallery
Tagged: Brian Eno, painting, Peter Schmidt