P #20
Abstraction and Everyday Life
12.01.17
How does contemporary art, especially politically engaged art, move beyond an already co-opted critique of capitalism and the nation-state? How do artists and intellectuals contend with the worst refugee crisis since World War II?
P #19
The Social Media President: Donald Trump’s Visual-Rhetorical Strategies On Instagram
08.31.17
Most of the global public considers Donald Trump’s use of social media a means of politics. How does his visual communication on Instagram look like and what does it accomplish? Here are some preliminary thoughts from a semiotic point of view.
P #18
On Making Graven Images: The Racial Meanings of Death in a Walker Evans Photograph and Its Double
06.09.17
Two Depression-era texts reproduce the same Walker Evans photograph: in one, the image represents the grave of a white tenant farmer, and in the other, it appears as that of a black sharecropper. Through its “translation” across the color line, Evans’s image indexes a complicated history of representation, race, and appropriation.
P #17
Lean In, The Statue
03.20.17
Once again, the best of our intentions and most well-meaning of our identifications have been turned into the cruelest of weapons against us.
P #16
The Pig and the Algorithm
03.04.17
Computer vision technology has developed an ability to both caption and describe photographic images, prompting the question: what makes human vision distinct?
