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Ben Rubin's Typewriter

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 9, 2011 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



random art notes

Ben Rubin's video sculpture Anecdotal History (2011) types out excerpts from Wikileaks. This was my favorite piece at this year's Armory Fair in NYC, shown by the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery.




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Agnotology, Audits and (Un)Certainty

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 8, 2011 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



theory: DIGITAL CAPITALISM

This is a theory fragment:

The various demands occasionally heard both before and after the crises of 2008 about "audit the Fed" or "audit Fort Knox" or "audit ________" have a basic problem: it is not what the results from the audit might be, but the credibility of any result produced with those making the demand; this is not a "post-modern" plurality or relativity of values, but representative of something else, a different process, whose action superficially resembles relativity of values, but is not.




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Gresham's Law and Immaterial Commodities

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 8, 2011 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



theory: DIGITAL CAPITALISM

Here is an interesting development about the US mint (from Zero Hedge).

This sounds a lot like Gresham's Law in operation: a so-called "flight to quality."




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Here I am...

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 7, 2011 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



MICHAEL BETANCOURT NEWS

at the Jose Parla dinner following the opening of Walls, Diaries and Paintings. Writer Rachel Wolff with artist Chris Mendoza and writer Michael Betancourt.


Photo from ArtInfo. Photo by Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com.






 
Eigengift (updated)

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 6, 2011 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  Print



movies: NEWS & REVIEWS

Eigengift is a short video prepared using the taxonomy for abstraction that was published by Leonardo magazine.

Update: Abstracting the External: iotaSalon 2.11 screened this movie at UCLA's Broad Art Center on February 21, 2011.




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