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		<title>Potters and academia, and related reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my studiomates from the Lillstreet days shared this on Facebook:
Had a very disheartening discussion about grad school with a professor. Apparently being a noble Artist (yes, that is a capitol A) is much more important (read: academically acceptable) than being a lowly potter.
These are some thoughts and observations in response, based on my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2012/02/potters-and-academia-and-related-reflections/</link>
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		<title>A bit on New Harmony, IN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Harmony, IN. Topic of my (group) presentation tonight for Practicing Utopias. Summary, history, thoughts, reflections.
Summary
The town was founded by one utopian group &#8211; the Rappites (followers of George Rapp, and we might compare them with the Shakers). When the Rappites changed locations, budding idealist and reformer Robert Owen bought the town. His community attracted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2012/01/a-bit-on-new-harmony-in/</link>
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		<title>Artist: Willy de Sauter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like so much of my writing that is ostensibly about an artist, this is not a summary of an artist&#8217;s work, but my thoughts as I&#8217;m looking through it. All images are from the artist&#8217;s website, willydesauter.be. 

It&#8217;s no secret that I like white, so when I came across Willy De Sauter &#8211; probably through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2012/01/artist-willy-de-sauter/</link>
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		<title>Bleeding Piece I and Bleeding Piece II</title>
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Bleeding Piece I:
I cut my ankle in the shower, while shaving. I watched my blood run until the water was too cool to be pleasant.
Performed in the evening of 18 January 2012.
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Bleeding Piece II:
When you cut yourself while shaving in the shower, watch your blood run until the water is too cool to be pleasant.
Additional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2012/01/bleeding-piece-i-and-bleeding-piece-ii/</link>
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		<title>Museum of Non-Visible Art, and more on &#8220;anybody could do that&#8221;</title>
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The problem with &#8220;anybody could do that&#8221; art is just that &#8211; anybody could do it. (Not everybody does, of course.) But the ease can make a viewer skeptical. (This from me, one of those who tends to do &#8220;anybody could do that&#8221; art.) James Franco makes me dubious &#8211; especially after reading part of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2011/12/museum-of-non-visible-art-and-more-on-anybody-could-do-that/</link>
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		<title>Artist: Barbara Kasten</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Belatedly got a look at Barbara Kasten&#8217;s work. To be fair: I missed her show in Chicago, and am looking at images on the Internet. It certainly isn&#8217;t the same, and it&#8217;s worth thinking about what happens to art when it&#8217;s reproduced in the various formats that are so typical today. Art is mostly NOT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2011/12/artist-barbara-kasten/</link>
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		<title>Movie: The Window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few fragments on a beautiful movie called The Window (amazon link). It&#8217;s in Italian, subtitled in English: 
Visually rich, subtle, beautiful, and ordinary. Well-composed shots that are like moving stills. Abstract shots, landscape shots. Soft colors (the kind that I love). Rolling terrain. Lots of diffuse light. So much of the familiar and ordinary. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2011/12/movie-the-window/</link>
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		<title>The codified language of academia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Three thoughts in response to a post that follows a debate that discusses the questionable necessity of the MFA, particularly to this quote:
&#8220;Anything is art as long as you can justify it using the codified language of academia.&#8221;  
Thought #1:
The &#8220;codified language of academia&#8221; is just that &#8211; a unitary language. It necessarily evolves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2011/11/the-codified-language-of-academia/</link>
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		<title>Artist: Jenny Holzer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bit of time spent looking at her work (I&#8217;ve seen several in person) and some time spent reading interviews with her. Reviews can be interesting, but interviews let the artist have a voice. Here are a few things, neither objective nor complete. 
This interview was my favorite of what I read. Her position is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://design-realized.com/adventures/2011/10/artist-jenny-holzer/</link>
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		<title>Research: Space, Authorship/Authority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading Gaston Bachelard&#8217;s The Poetics of Space (amazon link). It&#8217;s a beautiful, sometimes strange, sometimes abstract, sometimes Freud-and-Jung-laden meditation on spaces. He starts with domestic spaces, musing on the associations of the basement, living spaces, and attic. The next section gets into drawers, but I&#8217;m just getting into that. This is nice, what with [...]]]></description>
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