what is this "haptics" I keep hearing about?
KS
2009/1/26 Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
> "The First 100 Days of President Obama" is a new, current project on my
> blog, including haptics & commentary, etc. The texts vary, but here is the
> start of yesterday's text - from "Obama: Day Five" to give a brief clue of
> some the range of interests:
>
> This afternoon I went to a poets' panel at the San Francisco Museum of Art
> (Joinery: Poems on the occasion of Martin Puryear)
> . Subject: Martin Puryear, an African-American sculptor who works
> primarily in wood. (Go to the SFMOMA website, among others to see
> photographic samples of the work). The poets included:David
> Levi-Strauss (moderator & poet & critic), and poets, Norma
> Cole, Aaron Shurin, Susan Thackery, and Michael Palmer. All of whom
> spoke well about interpreting the work, some from the point of view of the
> ways in
> Puryear's practice of 'joinery' mirrored various aspects of the ways in
> which their own poetry - in terms of collage, and/or the translation
> process of working or joining English to another language. Others spoke
> directly to the psychological experience of responding and
> incorporating the work in the process of both looking...
>
> To continue go to: http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
> Stephen Vincent
>
> By the way, if you are visiting or living in San Francisco, my show,
> "Haptics" just opened at the Braunstein-Quay Gallery, 430 Clemintina Street,
> SF - 3 blocks South of Market, between 5th and 6th. Samples of the work
> are through out the blog, as well as on the Braunstein-Quay webstite.
> http://www.braunsteinquay.com/archive/access_vincent2008.html
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