Amanda Wasielewski
 

Writing

Contemporary and historical art essays and writing since 2005
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Grains of Gold in All This Shit:
Web 2.0, Crowdsourcing, and Participatory Art (2010)

Art and the internet in the post Net.art world - Download PDF [7.12MB]

testimage Exploration of Changing Urban Space (2009)

Looking at the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Elmgreen & Dragset, Laura Oldfield Ford, and Emily Richardson in the context of gentrification - Download PDF [4.16MB]

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Adorno Manifest Politics: Adorno's Commitment and Politics in Contemporary Practices (2009)

Looking at the work of Bob & Roberta Smith, MediaShed/ Mongrel, and Katie Paterson in the context of Adorno - Download PDF [9.29MB]

Film
Psychogeographic Mapping Through Film: Chantel Akerman's News From Home and Patrick Keiller's London (2008)

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  Derive From the Urban Dérive to the Internet Dérive: Deterritorialized Capitalism in the Guise of a Digital Utopia (2007)

Looking at Net.Art movement of the 1990s, in context of Situationist International, Deleuze and Guattari, and others - Download PDF [3.15MB]

Woodlawn Visualizing Urban Decay: The Demolition of the 63rd St “L” in Woodlawn, Chicago (2007)

Looking at urban aesthetics, perception and urban change in Chicago - Download PDF [20.57MB]

 
  Greek
Experiencing the Parthenon Frieze: Physical location in relation to the visual communication and aesthetic understanding of the controversial sculptures (2007)

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Internet Challenging The Authority of The Physical: Internet Art in Exhibition (2005)

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  Rhizome Curating in the Rhizome: The Role of the Curator in Web-based Activist Art (2005)

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testimage Liberation and Limits: Contemporary Painting and its Questionable Triumph (2005)

Written in response to Saatchi's Triumph of Painting - Download PDF [4.47MB]

 
  Antidote
The Antidote to Capitalist Power: Rhizomatic Networking on the Internet as a Framework for the Success of Anti-Capitalist Minority Groups Against the Schizophrenic Capitalist Machinery (2005)

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Dunhuang
Esoteric Representations of Avalokitsevara at Dunhuang: Amalgamated Descriptive Mode (2005)

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  Cows
Occupied Landscape: Dutch Cattle Painting in the 17th Century (2005)

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