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Diagram of Visual Research at the ICI
Over the last decade, many thinkers have attempted to diagram the interlocking processes of studio-based research in an attempt to clarify the need for a PhD degree in studio art...
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ICI Technic: Miniaturization
The Institute in a Box, c. 1994 As Susan Stewart has proposed, the miniature operates at the place of origin—the childhood of the self—creating an “interior temporality of the subject,” a place for...
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ICI Technic: The Gift
Sue-Na Gay gives away buttons during FORGET FOUCAULT, 2011 We began to create projects to bring focus to the AIDS pandemic over 20 years ago. Born out of feelings of loss and rage, these projects...
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ICI Technic: Incantation
Day of the Dead Celebration at the ICI, 2006 In a memorial service for one of our founding associates, cigars, food, money, and a healthy shot of whiskey were used to conjure up Papa Legba, the spirit...
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Interviewing the Dead: Sebald’s Words
Passages from a Sebald Interview, cut into words The Searching for Sebald project was a landmark event for the ICI because it opened the door to a whole new toolbox for doing creative research....
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ICI Technic: Discovery
Discovery is the cornerstone of all we do here at the ICI but is especially important to our processes of visual research. Almost all our projects have emerged from a small disruption or an...
View ArticleZeitschrift Physiologie
In 1902, Max Verworn began the Zeitschrift für allgemeine Physiologie (Journal of General Physiology). In 21 years, the Zeitschrift amounted to 20 volumes full of pictures, diagrams, graphs, and...
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Artistic abstraction, which came into public view circa 1911, is currently undergoing a broad reassessment. At mid-century, Clement Greenberg argued that modernist painting’s exploration of line,...
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