Yo. Still no progress on writing that galleryfuck essay (as I previously bitched about) but I did see Jenny Holzer talk last week, which was nice because of course she does exactly that type of shit, notably up in the guggenheim, which (the guggenhiem) seems to provde for the best object lessons in galleryfucking. So. Erm. One “bullet point” on that essay down, of many many. Fuck yes.

Anyway so yeah, I purloined all her slides with a digital camera, which if you have any info about these pieces, you should lend me a helping hand and put it in there in the flickr comments, cuz I don’t rightly know all about ‘em. Yet! Because I also taped the whole lecture. I say “taped”, but in fact I used an olympus-brand “dictaphone” which contains no tape, only flash RAM, but there is no convenient verb for “to record audio using a tapeless dictaphone”, really… “Dictaphoned” sounds like you are trying to say you fucked a telephone, so no. But yeah I haven’t transcribed that shit yet so I dunno.

I have been all about the “reportage” these days, cuz of my independant study. Did I not tell you about that?!? Haha, it appears not. The deal is I am sitting in on crits in all the other departments at RISD: glass, architecture, textiles, digital media, et cetera, one new department a week, and taping them, as well as taking pictures and acquiring any other ancillary info I can. Then I transcribe the crits and typeset them all up, and look for all-new, all-singing all-dancing bullshit patterns… it’s pretty awesome so far, except for the fact that transcribing all that shit is kind of painful. But the information to be had is truly eye-poppingly fantastic. I am still in shock that all the faculty I tell about this are into it. Not only are they permissive but encouraging. It’s kind of hillarious.

But so yeah I’m doing that under the tutelage of David Sokol, who is awesome. I made a poster for his panel discussion here last week, see?:

Figure one: 24x36 on bright-white toothy inkjet paper

Figure two: newsprint version, inkjetted directly onto the new york times

… which is the first thing I did this semester I am at all proud of, really, yeah. It cost me too much sleep last week, tho, so now I am in a rather shitty mode. Also I am broke. So send me food. Fuck yes! Food! OK.

-fish