On this special date—the Monday after Frieze Week LA—I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers. We made it through. I did it all this week, or as close to all of it as I could with merely a press pass.
That was too much! I’m so tired! But I went as hard as I felt obligated to—as someone who was not cool/hot in high school and has to get it all in now. I can’t offer any wisdom, but I do feel I have the authority to create a definitive top ten list:
2) Harry Gould Harvey IV’s drawings at Post-Fair
With the tech right so ascendant and the tech left doing Zizian stuff, it seems like a good moment to remember that computer interfaces didn’t have to be the way they are today…cybernetics and systems theory once offered a way that thinking-about-thinking might be beautifully reflected in our technology.
Perhaps that is why Harry Gould Harvey IV’s tentative, exploratory, spiritual drawings of systems spoke to me at Post-Fair.