In Time Out New York, Jackie Saccoccio’s show at Eleven Rivington gets four stars. “Jackie Saccoccio�s latest paintings, titled ‘Portraits,’ have the beauty and menace of an explosion or an oil spill. Bits of pictorial information are both obscured and revealed as layers of pigment accumulate and spread across the surface; drips and fingerlike tendrils of viscous liquid flowing in all directions are evidence that the canvases were repeatedly turned or rotated while the colors were still wet. These parts of the compositions possess an anxious energy offset by ethereal, atmospheric veils, threatening to swallow the pictures whole.”
I admit it: I’ve never warmed to Instagram, the app (pictured above) that let’s you share phone photographs across social networking platforms. All the hokey image filters remind me of overused Photoshop effects from the late 1990s, and user photographs are stored on Instagram servers rather than on users’ individual phones. The announcement last week that Facebook had bought Instagram for a billion dollars made privacy-conscious users uneasy. At PC World Ed Oswald, Matt Peckham, Sarah Jacobsson Purewal, and Alex Wawro tackle the privacy concerns, suggest Instagram alternatives, and give advice on retrieving images.
Check out Amanda Mantach’s thoughtful review of SQUEEZE TIGHT (Hold that Thought), my show with Allison Manch at SEASON in Seattle. “Robert Yoder’s exhibits at SEASON are always a visual feast. Yoder’s eye
for pattern, color (like Elisabeth Kley’s watery, color-saturated
earthenware or Peter Scherrer’s dense brushwork) and a taste for wittily
debauched humor (think Ian Toms or Mike Simi) make for just the right
mix of entertaining, thoughtful exhibits….” (Image courtesy of CityArts)
Anna Barham has recently installed a new QR Code piece in the London Underground. “For her new work WHITE CITY, Anna Barham has embraced both the
functional side of QR codes and their pixelated form. Barham has inserted
images in place of the solid colour of which the codes are usually made
up. The images are linked to the location: an Iris flower called White
City and Tyche, the Greek goddess of chance and fortune, often depicted
with a mural crown or a �white city� on her head.”
Locking on the codes with a smart phone will connect viewers to anagram text animations, and I understand conceptually why so many artists have adopted QR Codes in their installations, but wouldn’t it be better for commuters if they could just watch the animations on ceiling-mounted flatscreen TVs instead of having to drag out their smart phones to connect through the QR Code? (via FAD)
on every street, it was also gathering information about local wireless
networks to improve location-based searches. But the Google engineer wrote a program for the project that went beyond
what was originally envisioned. Using this program, Google collected
unencrypted data sent by computers….”
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