I have seen a large room done by Holzer at the DMA but none of the outdoor or in situ public works. She was an inspiration when I was a 19yr old college student studying video and computer art in the 80's on the Amiga at UTA in Arlington. We all liked to do little text scrolling pieces which were take-offs of her sign work.
the piece itself is an essay in the material transduction of language within the domain of culture-as-code. through this kind of gesture mark is able to realize pierce's indexicality or thirdness, of language. by grounding the mechanics of referentiality within the instrumentality of code, we are able to not only grasp concretely the materiality of language but the pervasive cultural paradigms which haunt our every thought once it has become externalized and entered into the eternal circulation of images which has become capitalism's informatic schitzo- polis. I thinks its an excellent little bit of conceptual formalism. very "cleanly" cut parameters, as usual w/ mark. lq > considering the public spaces that holtzer's truisms occup(y)ied, the > pop nature of these images is very rich. family dog, family photo > internet porn, video games . . . > > what's there not to get? input processed to output. an equation right? > > jUStin > > On 7/18/05, Joel Weishaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't get this. > > But then, I never got Jenny Holtzer either. > > > > -Joel > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "mwp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 3:30 PM > > Subject: Rebus 01 > > > > > > Rebus 01 > > 2005 > > > > Words are replaced with the first image that appears in Alltheweb's > > image search. If a word appears more than once, the next image in the > > list is selected so that there is no repetition of images. > > > > For this initial experiment, I borrow one of Jenny Holzer's most famous > > Truisms, to see what comes out: > > > > ABUSE OF POWER COMES AS NO SURPRISE > > > > http://www.kunst.no/bjornmag/mpphp2004/abuseofpowercomes.jpg > > > > > > mwp > > >
