SIMPARCH is an American artist collective that was founded in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1996. Presently this group is organized and maintained by Matthew Lynch and Steve Badgett. Their practice involves large-scale, usually interactive installations and works that, as the group’s name suggests, examine simple architecture, building practices, site specificity and materials that may [...]
Roger Conover is Executive Editor at MIT Press, where he is responsible for the publication of nearly 1000 titles in art, architecture, and related fields. The publishing program he began at MIT Press in the 1970s has attained legendary status, not only within the context of academic publishing, but contemporary art and architecture at large. [...]
Margin Release: New Media Lectures presents RICK PRELINGER at Oberlin College and Conservatory, on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2009.
EVENTS:
Noon, @ Cat in the Cream: Rick Prelinger will give a presentation about his ideas and his work
8PM @ West Hall: Rick Prelinger will present a film screening entitled The Archives Meet the People
All events are free and [...]
Please post your responses to our first three readings here. (Walter Benjamin, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, and Mark Tribe, Art in the Age of Digital Distribution.)
MARGIN RELEASE:
DISTRIBUTABLE MEDIA and SITE-SPECIFICITY
Professor Julia Christensen
M/W 10AM-NOON
In this class we will focus on the duality of distributable media and site-specificity. We will consider these forces as “intertwined” AND “opposite” ways of thinking about and making art. To this end, we will begin with a focus on the emergence of various distributable medias, from the [...]