Scott Rettberg » art

Not I

Scott — Sat, 26 May 2007 08:13:40 +0000

From the Samuel Beckett exhibition at the Pompidou in Paris.

Ulcharmin

Scott — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:52 +0000

For my birthday, Aurora made a drawing of “Ulcharmin,” my WoW avatar (level 57 Orc Hunter). An appropriate gift, since I’m currently working on my essay “The Corporate and the Quotidian in World of Warcraft” for the World of Warcraft seminar we’re having here at UiB later this week

Fluxus Projects

Scott — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:42:07 +0000

Fluxus Event: Confused Puppets

This semester I’m teaching a class called Art, Games, and Narrative. We’re just wrapping up a unit on Fluxus. My students all created Fluxus events and Fluxus kits, many of which were inventive, creative and amusing. I’ve posted a gallery of captioned photos on Flickr documenting many of their projects.

The Illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow

Scott — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 04:00:43 +0000

I recently ran across this ambitious and obsessive illustration project: Zak Smith’s Illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow includes an image for every single page of Pynchon’s masterpiece. All the images are available on the site. The whole collection was exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial and is now in the permanent collection of the Walker Museum in Minneapolis.

Implementation at Cube2 Gallery during Provflux

Scott — Mon, 30 May 2005 18:04:55 +0000

PiPs did an excellent job with the Implementation display, including a wall of photos and a DVD running on a monitor in the storefront, at the Cube2 Gallery in Providence as part of Provflux 2005. It was a real pleasure to see Implementation among like-minded projects, and I really enjoyed watching people wander up to study the pictures and take home sticker sheets of their own.

You Are Beautiful

Scott — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:53:36 +0000

Yes you are!

“You Are Beautiful” is a meme-type sticker and installation art project, centered in Chicago but distributed around the world. The most cool thing about this project is how its creators taken a simple idea, a phrase that many people like to hear, and distributed it across multiple media, and then created a well-designed network photo archive of its many manifestations; a kinder, more affirming version of the “Andre Has a Posse/OBEY” idea. I was also pleased and waxed nostalgiac when I saw that most of the installations have occurred in my old neighborhood in Chicago. Spread the words.

With Hidden Noise

Scott — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 00:35:18 +0000

With Hidden Noise

My Unknown amigo Dirk Stratton wrote an excellent story about this readymade, published as a book and website by Spineless Books. I should also mention the excellent Tout-Fait: Marchel Duchamp Studies Online Journal.

Dali on the Steps

Scott — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 22:05:01 +0000

Dali on the Steps

Dali on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Splotch by Sol LeWitt

Scott — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:05:49 +0000

Sticker Art in Amsterdam

Scott — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:16:00 +0000

Last night I was stranded in Amsterdam after the connecting flight from Bergen had mechanical difficulties, resulting in a 2 hour delay, which resulted in me missing the only flight they had scheduled back to NYC, resulting in the loss of a full day. It wouldn't have bothered me much (there are worse places to be stranded) were it not for the fact that this is the second time in as many trips to Europe where KLM/Northwest has stuck me for 24 hours in a different city than the one I was supposed to be in (last time it was an airport hotel in a suburb of Detroit). This time it resulted in me having to cancel three classes, which ticks me off. It was fun notheless to spend a few hours wandering in Amsterdam, which, among other things, is a kind of sticker art paradise.