Category: Art
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Christopher Alexander, Peter Eisenman, Minimalism
In response to a recent post by Ryan Singer at 37signals, I learned a lot about the architect Christopher Alexander. I explored this site about his work and his legacy quite a bit, and was particularly interested in his 1982 debate with Peter Eisenman. The debate repeatedly seemed to boil down to a debate between…
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Politics and War Games
Hezbollah has published a video game called “Special Force“, in which the player’s job is to, well, kill Israeli Jews. Many are surprised to see politics injected into the fantasy world of video games. To me this isn’t surprising nor is it new. Any game which simulates real-world events is inherently political. A typical example…
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Conceptual Art ROCKS!
(This is a rebuttal to Curt Cloninger’s essay “Conceptual Art Sucks“, which you should read first.) CURT: “I figured it was about time I write an article explaining why conceptual art sucks, since every time I encounter conceptual art, I start to twitch.†Curt, your “Conceptual Art Sucks†essay has a bitter seething tone that…