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Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Songs Left Out of Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Aperture Foundation NY

Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency started as a slide show with music.  To mark the third printing of Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency Aperture has put online a piece by Greil Marcus on the soundtrack to Goldin’s original slideshow presentation of the work. Originally printed in Aperture #197 Winter 2009.

They have also assembled a YouTube playlist based on the soundtrack for Goldin’s slideshow, listen here.

Also, see interview and article @ Top Photography FIlms

Nan Goldin – Matthew Marks Gallery

This Tumblr User Shows Her Horrific Anonymous Messages In A Powerful Art Project

This Tumblr User Shows Her Horrific Anonymous Messages In A Powerful Art Project.

Bottos, a photography major and gender studies minor, runs a Tumblr page where she often uploads selfies as well as pictures of her work.

Since starting the Tumblr in 2010, she has received hundreds of cruel anonymous messages. Last week, she turned the words of hate into a feminist art project; Bottos screencapped some of the messages and posted them over pictures of herself. [link to project]

 

Christian Marclay

Tape Fall by Christian Marclay, 1989Over the past 30 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into a visible, physical form through performance, collage, sculpture, installation, photography and video. more

Christian Marclay - David Bowie, 1991

Image to right from Body Mix series, early 1990s

Image below: still from from Video Quartet, 4 channel video installation, 2002

watch Telephone video and then see how Apple copied his project

Excerpt from The Clock

MORE info:

New Yorker Profile

Critics discuss the Clock on Culture Vulture

Some inspiring Media History

Viral Videos Patient Zero – On The Media
A great story from On the Media

In 1995, roughly a decade before YouTube ushered in the age of the viral video, a couple of upstart young film-school grads created an underground, analog video sensation.  Producer JP Davidson brings us the story of that video and its unlikely role as viral video’s ‘patient zero’.