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Marisa Olson: Background Information

This image taken from Marisa’s Blog. The following is a transcript of a telephone conversation I had with Marisa Olson.Feel free to download the podcast if you prefer to listen, but I must warn you that the quality of the audio is appallingly bad. The first question I asked was supposed to be “What is New Media Art?”, a question Marisa, classified as a new media artist herself and also curator-at-large and staff writer for the new museum’s new media component; rhizome.org, is in a better position then most to attempt to answer. However, I forgot to turn on the ...

Machine, man and life: Michael Grothusen’s Life’s Joys, Life’s Disappointments

Michael Grothusen, Life’s Joys, Life’s Disappointments, detail, at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery. The two structures look like duplicates of one another but because they’re each hand-make they of course have their idiosyncracies and are not exactly alike. Michael Grothusen‘s welded metal structures Life’s Joys and Life’s Disappointments are as far from today’s anti-matter assemblage art as Gustave Eiffel‘s Tower was foreign to the streets around it when it debuted in 1889. Eiffel’s Tower , which took 2 years, 2 months and 5 days to complete and is composed of 18,038 pieces fastened with 2,500,000 rivets is of course a completely different ...