Greimas Square Explains All Once Again

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Artnet's Ben Davis recently posted the above chart but forgot to add filetypes so I plugged a few in (in red). I was being snotty (I don't think Davis actually knows what an animated GIF is or why an artist would use one), but this annotated chart actually kind of works. Read Davis's piece if you want to see what the art world thinks of media artists, social and new. (hat tip bill)

Update: See also: visual explanations

Update 2: Got a little carried away on the ad hominem tip--this post has been dialed back to semi-polite status.

Gysin Book Review Plus YouTube

Dick Headley on Brion Gysin, with a YouTube showing Gysin at work in his painting studio.

On Gysin's book The Process:

Gysin is no Burroughs, Bowles or Castaneda. He’s good at creating allusion, he uses lots of tricks but The Process rambles and goes nowhere. None of this makes the book unreadable. The attempts at humour don’t come across well, Gysin doesn’t seem to have had much time for self-deprecation, but there are some interesting details about traveling in the Sahara once you get used to the tone. There’s also something fascinating about watching a self-absorbed individual trying to get away from his own self. And it is a very unusual book…there are points where it seems to read the reader.

(hat tip mark)