#catvidfest Great Wall of Oakland - Walker Art Center - blast.
Observatory gallery at the new Exploratorium. Complete with docked NOAA ship outside. Yeah.
From the Machine Drawing & Dissection Workshop - part of the Great Calculation at Southern Exposure.
In other words, are attitudes about the public value of the arts really about the arts or about how people feel about the role of government??
— - Margaret Wyszomirski from the arts research and data blogathon
We want to touch these photographs, a desire that Wagner astutely stokes by rendering each title in dimensional Braille dots in the lower right corner. That we cannot actually touch these prints, which are framed under glass, is a visceral challenge to the access of knowledge, and a key ingredient of the work’s success. This detail resonates with the current shifts in publishing, from analog to digital, from weighty tomes to virtual libraries accessed on thin electronic tablets with smooth, touch-activated interfaces. Blind readers, it is reported, currently opt for more inexpensively produced books on tape than Braille editions, the latter fast becoming a literary equivalent of an eight-track tape.
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Glen Helfand, writing about Catherine Wagner’s photographs at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery, SF
http://www.wirtzgallery.com/exhibition/2013/wagner_photograph.html
Best smelling exhibit award: ginger bread house contest at arkitektur museet, Stockholm.
Every visit should end this way. Especially if you’re the Nobel Museum.
