Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your MySpace Intro Playlist; it does seem that the piece has always embodied the conditions/problems of (re)framing, so it stands ...
Then there's this - http://bit.ly/bpUGZ3 - which I kinda like (even though it's a thrice-removed, bloodless "reconstitution" rendered à la Longo, but compact and w/grid). Though I'm sure ...
I agree "that comprehensive engagement is a critic's job, too," and it seems that such a belief is what prompted other commenters to respond to Davis' article ...
And this exhibit http://bit.ly/cy3nhq looks like a similar project by Lonergan (and Paul Slocum and Max Goldberg) where "social media" becomes "social media art" by being represented ...
Also, if Lonergan's list is meant to serve as a kind of archive (I feel that it is), then reducing it to just videos strips it of its essential referential ...
Lonergan's MySpace Intros were "originally" collected to be viewed as a YouTube playlist, correct? In that context, I think they'd definitely fit into the "social media art" category ("social media" ...
Thanks for the Rrose GIF, Mr. Cloninger. If one is going to liberally contextualize "social media art" (and I agree that the term - and especially Davis's semiotic-squaring of it - is ...
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your MySpace Intro Playlist; it does seem that the piece has always embodied the conditions/problems of (re)framing, so it stands ...