Obama's State of the Union 2010 Visualized

Brad Borevitz — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:14:54 +0000

President Barack Obama's State of the Union address has been analyzed and visualized at the State of the Union website. The address was delivered to Congress and the American people by the President on January 27th.

Soft Monkey

Brad Borevitz — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:32:52 +0000

Animal painting is popular again; the evidence is on YouTube. But it was popular in the Fifties and Sixties too and taken seriously by some in the art world and certainly by some biologists. Congo, the painting chimpanzee was a star.

Britain Apologizes for Castrating Alan Turing

Brad Borevitz — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:16:56 +0000

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologized for the treatment of Alan Turing and praised his contributions to the defeat of Fascism through breaking the German Enigma code.

Video Portfolio

Brad Borevitz — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 19:56:57 +0000

This video is a ten minute overview of my recent work and thinking about my art practice. It is a good quick introduction to what I do.

Published in Vague Terrain

Brad Borevitz — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:39:04 +0000

My Inscription of the Girly Man piece was published in the online journal Vaugue Terrain this month (January 2009). The journal included my essay "The Language of Machines."

Abu Ghraib

Brad Borevitz — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:11:29 +0000

The infamous photos of Abu Ghraib came to light in 2004. Now, four years later, we are still debating the ethics of torture, and are still apparently unable to really process the contents of the images we received from the American dungeons of Iraq.

Journal of American Thought Crime

Brad Borevitz — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:37:30 +0000

The question of what it is possible to think under the current regime of the United States, and what it might be possible to think sheltered from the threat of government surveillance is the journal's main concern. The Journal of American Thought Crime distributes a literary magazine in the form of an encrypted mailing list.

Inscription of the Girly Man: The Politics of Stupidity in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Brad Borevitz — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:03:17 +0000

This set of texts constitute the catalog for the installation "Inscription of the Girly Man." It's essays cover topics which range from language and machines, to the function of material metaphor in art, and finally to the vagaries of contemporary political rhetoric.

Rules, Games, Theories

Brad Borevitz — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:28:45 +0000

These essays are from the catalog of "The Rules of the Game | The Game of the Rules." They attempt to frame the constellation of game, software and political allegory that were at the center of that project. An edition of 100 copies of the catalog were printed and distributed at the Whitney ISP exhibition at Artist Space.

Contest: War and Peace

Brad Borevitz — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:03:39 +0000

There is a new archive of photography, and the photograph itself is changed. The archive is the structured columnar accumulation of endless banality to which any- and everyone contributes, and from which we all can also retrieve at will, and through those same worn channels, not just the singular image, but a stream of categorical similitude.