June 26, 2017
What Text and Image Have to Say to Each Other
I have been bewitched by the bringing together of text and image in art for as long as I can remember. A film or photograph can convey something that words […]
November 28, 2012
Reading a Legible Reality: Barthes and the Infinite Text
While perusing the KR blog archives this past week, I came across a great post by Hilary Plum about the Occupy movement, social vicissitudes, and the trouble with the “us” […]
August 7, 2012
A Humument in the age of mechanical reproduction (iv)
(This post is a continuation of a series. Italicized lines in this piece are sourced from Walter Benjamin’s essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, and […]
July 27, 2012
The matter of the word: a conversation with Peter Koch
The sleepy, industrial building on Berkeley’s 4th St. in which the Codex Foundation resides belies the international significance of its residents. Were it not for one meek sign, I might’ve […]