Lindsey French and Willy Smart Cautionary Signage in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. 7 January 2016. Water becomes more saline as it approaches the Salton Sea. It is a lake with no outlet and no input either, other than what is…
Author: avantika
EAT (y)OUR SIDEWALK: an interview with SPURSE
Alex Young The Civil Appetites, 2013, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY. Alex Young: I want to start by asking what might seem like a fairly simple — yet perhaps-not-so-simple — question, namely: how would SPURSE describe itself to someone…
Indexing the Unwanted: A Conversation with Colin Kippen
Courtney Kemp Colin and I are both trained metalsmiths who choose to work in other media: it is this foundation that has been the bedrock of our conversations over the past five years. We have both arrived at studio practices…
Epicurean Endocrinology: an advertisement
Liz Flyntz and Byron Rich Epicurean Endocrinologyâs next project is a meal kit delivery service in the style of Blue Apron or Hello Fresh, with an important distinction: we allow customers to sample the ingredients and send samples back to…
How To A Thick Surface
Charles G. Miller How To A Thick Surface, in the idiom of a tutorial video (For Capital) OR, How to conceptualize a z-axis extrusion in a material / geographic vector plain in the early part of the 21st century (5…
Terroir (formally Lubbock City Eternal)
Caleb Lightfoot and J. Eric Simpson Project Statement: Terroir (French pronunciation: [tÉÊwaÊ] from terre, “land”) is understood as the unique set of environmental factors â climate, soil type, geomorphology, and living organisms (animal, plant, microbes, etc) that affect a cropâs…
Ecology of Bad Ideas
There is an ecology of bad ideas, just as there is an ecology of weeds, and its characteristic of the system that basic error propagates itself. Gregory Bateson, Pathologies of Epistemology, 1971 The ecology of bad ideas is the product…
Diagram
What is a diagram? How do maps, charts, plans, DNA sequencing, weather mapping, computer glitches and Internet cartography blur the boundaries between âartâ and âinformationâ? This issue of Drain presents artworks, thought experiments, essays and reviews that explore how data…
Diagrams: Art as Information
Jakub Zdebik Recent art historical scholarship is actively engaging with artâs relationship to information, data, and algorithms by looking at the visual rhetoric of diagrams used by artists to express how they relate to the contemporary world. This issue of…
Organized Time: Temporal Representations and the Possibilities of the Database
Ryan Stec Aaron Koblin, Flight Patterns , 2005-2009. Image courtesy of the artist. Introduction Most digital and electronic technologies are not singular things, but rather complex and sophisticated combinations of other technologies. This is the case for mobile phones and…