BitStreams.WHITNEY MUSEUM Of AMERICAN ART Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). "Exploring the reverberations of digital technology in contemporary art and culture" is like counting the fish in the Mississippi: pointless unless there's an insightful a priori a priori In epistemology, knowledge that is independent of all particular experiences, as opposed to a posteriori (or empirical) knowledge, which derives from experience. focus to the project. Thus "BitStreams" is likely to be of interest as much for indicating the tastes of Lawrence Rinder Lawrence R. Rinder is the Dean of the College at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Previously, he was the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he organized exhibitions including “The , the new curator from Berkeley who came to the museum via his participation in the most recent Biennial biennial, plant requiring two years to complete its life cycle, as distinguished from an annual or a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves (e.g., the cabbage) and a fleshy root, which acts as a food reserve over the winter. , as for showing us what "new creative tools" artists are using these days. Rinder is considered a multimedia maven. He's also been known to write rhymed verse for public consumption. We can't wait to see if the bard is as big as his byte. Mar. 22-June 10. |
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