Red meat for technology ephemera fetishists: LACMA has put online its 400 page catalog on a project pairing artists with science and technology programs: Art and Technology, Project 1967 – 1971. Found on if:book, who summarizes, “John Baldessari wanted to work in a botany lab coloring plants; George Brecht wanted IBM & Rand’s help to move the British Isles into the Mediterranean; Donald Judd seems to have wandered off in California. And some of the collaborations worked: Andy Warhol made holograms; Richard Serra worked with a steel foundry; and Jackson Mac Low worked with programmers from IBM to make concrete poetry, among many others.”
“Letting process take precedence over results does not necessarily guarantee that something new will emerge. Transgression is difficult to visualize, let alone conceptualize. Recognition takes time. No matter what form your thoughts take, follow them. If you don’t care to follow through, others will not take you seriously. There are not going to be a lot of free rides or life savers out there. Most of you are going to leave this privileged bubble and enter the reality of your worth” — Richard Serra addressing the Williams class of 2008. Laurie Anderson delivered the commencement address at RISD. She also received an honorary degree. (via.)
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