Collections Policy Survey
“The Collections Policy Survey” is a public document that will be sent out to all modern and contemporary art museums approved by the American Association of Museums (AAM); the document asks museums about their policies toward collecting new media. Currently, many modern and contemporary art museums refuse to collect new media, as recorded in written collection … Read more
Get Closer, Go Blind: 1970s Video Art Against Vision
Excerpt from a longer essay published in Motherwell Journal: Blindness is deviance, an aberrance from a normative mode of knowing. What these artists do not want to know, Derrida’s “unwillingness,” and what has caused their bad will, is a disbelief in the truth of vision in its all-at-onceness as a route to knowledge. It … Read more
