Cinematic Time Replayed
The newly redesigned Millennium Film Journal No. 54 is out. It includes my essay “Cinematic Time Replayed” – a review of two shows: Hubbard and Birchler’s Méliès at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and Christian Marclay’s The Clock at Paula Cooper Gallery. It compares the way the pieces re-engage cinema’s inherent relationship to time, one looking to socially inscribed place and space (the trace), the other organized around the algorithm, accumulation and omission (the cut).
Oyster City
Oyster City is an augmented reality walking tour and game about the history of oysters in the New York City area that I am working on with Meredith Drum and Phoenix Toews. The project is being built for the iOS platform (iPhone and iPad) with software that Phoenix developed. Oyster City will make visible relationships between ecological, social and economic histories as players interact with virtual objects and narratives placed in the landscape. We will be presenting a workshop on using augmented reality along with an early demo of our project at Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit at the New School in October.
The Family Analog
Here is proof, from the V18 blog, that I presented my orphan photo archive project The Family Analog with a talk called Borrowing and Ordering the Many at the excellent Visible Evidence 18 conference.
The World According to New Orleans
An excellent first trip to Marfa, Texas has spawned this review of the show The World According to New Orleans curated by Dan Cameron at Ballroom, Marfa. The review is here at …might be good online journal, Issue #169: Nutrients to the Cultural Soil.
The Way Home, Dawn Dedeaux, 2008
Visible Evidence 18
This August I will present my orphan photo archive project The Family Analog at the Visible Evidence 18 conference hosted by NYU, along with some musings about late 20th century theory on photographic archives vs. ideas on instantaneous online archives or image commons, contemporary “system(s) of accumulation, historicity and disappearance…,” the uncanny, semantic categorization, searching, sorting and filtering.