Brandon Getting, Sell It Yourself, 2012. A collection of anonymous ebay sales photography
A Brief History of John Baldessari (Narrated by Tom Waits)
Anne de Vries, Katanga Bub, 2012. Installation
Emilio Gomariz, The Internet Makes Me Happy, 2012. Via Hyperallergic
Anonymous asked: what is the exhibition? was there an installation? and photos?
Sure! See the Flickr set below
Brad Troemel, Arbitrage, 2011. Stock images turned into memes turned into stock images.
davidzehnder asked: Hey, Where did you find this citation of John Baldessari? - There are some mistakes: f.e. "I had already been appropriating photographs, and not "I had already been an appropriation of photographs", or "I gives back life".. I'm wrong?
No, you are right. It comes from a private newsletter I get by email, where the owner is quoting a French newspaper, Le Quotidien de l’Art. So the original is in French, and it reads this way:
“Les images du passé ont tendance à perdre leur sens, à force de répétition, d’être vues et revues. C’est comme lorsque vous recevez un bouquet de roses. La première fois, vous êtes enchanté. Mais si vous en recevez tous les jours, vous ne réagissez plus, vous dites juste : « mettez les là ». Vous ne vous en occupez pas. Le travail d’un artiste, c’est de redonner vie aux images. Je suis comme le Docteur Frankenstein, je redonne vie aux images inanimées. J’ai commencé ce travail l’an dernier. J’avais déjà fait une appropriation des photos, l’approche est la même pour la peinture. Ce que je veux, c’est ralentir le spectateur, qu’il prenne le temps de regarder, au lieu de tirer des conclusions hâtives. J’aime créer en lui une confusion. Le rôle d’un artiste est de rendre le spectateur intelligent. Et pour cela, il faut jouer un peu avec lui.”
The sender also includes an “enhanced Google translation”, and since I don’t know French, I kept it as it is even if there are mistakes. Also, not having the reference, I don’t know if there is an English original…
Guthrie Lonergan, Girl Morph, 2012. Via vvork
The images of the past tend to lose their meaning, through repetition, of being seen and reviewed. It’s like when you receive a bouquet of roses. the first time, you are enchanted. But if you receive some every day, you no longer react, you just say “put them there. “You do not take care of them. The work of a artist is to breathe new life into the images. I’m like Dr. Frankenstein, I gives back life to lifeless images. I started this work last year. I had already been an appropriation of photographs, the approach is the same for painting. What I want is to slow the viewer, that he takes time to look, instead of jumping to conclusions. I like to create in him a confusion. The role of an artist is to make the viewer clever. And for that, you have to play around with him.
—John Baldessari, 2012
Amelia Zhang, Another, 2011. Video Collage
“Another is a metaphor depicting our relationship with news media. I strived to emphasize the quality ‘randomness’ through the process of creating the artwork: I randomly combined images (sourced via google images) and headlines (sourced via google news and mixed up by the poetry generator).”
(Source: ameliazhang.com)
Linder, Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation, 2011, collage, 27.4 x 41.9 cm / 10 3/4 x 16 1/2 ins. Via Vvork
Krist Wood, screenshots from Human Civilization, ongoing
Evan Roth, Skymall Liberation, 2007. Collage on acid free archival paper, 18in x 12in. Ethnographic data visualizations of the Skymall catalog made in flight with non-sharp objects.
Evan Roth, Skymall Liberation: White vs Non-White, 2012. Collage made in-flight using found materials
(Source: evan-roth.com)
Photo documentation of the exhibition “Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age” at the House for Electronic Arts Basel.
