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Penelope Umbrico, Mirrors (from Catalogs and Home Decor Websites), 2001 - 2011

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CODED GEOMETRY is an anti-disciplinary collective mapping the digitally expanded terrain. Research towards a FUTURE COMMUNISM

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Site        |        Nonsite 1. Open Limits        |        Closed Limits 2. A Series of Points        |        An Array of Matter 3. Outer Coordinates        |        Inner Coordinates 4. Subtraction        |        Addition 5. Indeterminate Certainty        |        Determinate Uncertainty 6. Scattered Information        |        Contained Information 7. Reflection        |        Mirror 8. Edge        |        Center 9. Some Place (physical)        |        No Place (abstract) 10. Many        |        One

Dialectic of Site and Nonsite | Robert Smithson 

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Berndnaut Smilde, Until Askeaton has streetview, (2009 [completed by Google in 2012]) 

(via Berndnaut)

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Robert Rauschenberg, Autobiography, 1968, Bowdoin College Museum of Art

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Hasan Elahi, Tracking Transience (on-going)

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So it’s not about object-ontologies but image-actions, image-gestures, thing-affinities, chains of reaction of objects, forces, and pixels, that manifest in scars and bruises, but also sometimes in the liquid harmony of the floating world of images.

Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Steyerl and Daniel Rourke | Rhizome

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The call for a more substantial updating of the condition for art requires not the negation of ‘phenomenological object-particulars’, but the operationalization of a movement between these two realities, where neither modes of describing the world on their own are sufficient–where we can only achieve a more accurate grasp on reality when we are able to synthesize the two.

Patricia Reed in For a Nontrivial Art