48 - Performance Art & iPhone X

The week Rafael asks why performance art has to be so cringe worthy and Jeremy argues that Apple’s recently announced iPhone X represents the biggest innovation for performance art in years. iPhone X https://www.apple.com/iphone-x/ PrimeSense https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/primesense#/entity Johnny Lee http://johnnylee.net/ Faceshift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLfAmNDNgHk Face Tracking with ARKit https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/fall2017/601/ Kinect fastest selling device on record http://www.bbc.com/news/business-12697975 Sony Portapak http://experimentaltvcenter.org/sony-av-3400-porta-pak Portapak ad of man with baby birds http://rebrn.com/re/sony-tape-recorder-ad-1743082/ Fluxus http://www.widewalls.ch/what-is-fluxus/ Chris Burden “Shoot” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26R9KFdt5aY Nam June Paik’s actual video art invention story (jeremy got a couple details wrong) https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/the-take/the-year-video-art-was-born Boomerang by Richard Serra and Nancy Holt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc6Meui6GWM Martha Rosler, semiotics of the camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm5vZaE8Ysc Tino Sehgal https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/tino-sehgal Carolee Schneemann https://hyperallergic.com/232342/forty-years-of-carolee-schneemanns-interior-scroll/ Ann Hirsch http://therealannhirsch.com/ Amalia Ulman http://amaliaulman.eu/ Petra Cortright https://www.youtube.com/user/petracortright Animoji https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16290210/new-iphone-emoji-animated-animoji-apple-ios-11-update Kaprow’s Happenings http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/performance-art-101-happening-allan-kaprow ** Commercial Break ** http://www.trytriggers.com Cindy Sherman’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/_cindysherman_/ The Aesthetics of Narcissism https://people.ucsc.edu/~ilusztig/176/downloads/reading/rosalindkraus.pdf David Foster Wallace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace Sherry Turkle, connected but alone? https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together Important Portraits https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jeremybailey/important-portraits Marx, Das Kapital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital:_Critique_of_Political_Economy Krug, Don’t Make me Think https://www.sensible.com/dmmt.html Chris Burden Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74 https://vimeo.com/3302101