VISA 1800S S01: New Genres: Time Deformations

A few notes and links from today’s discussion

Ceal Floyer’s Monochrome Till Receipt

Linda Montano – Did seven year performance project, one color per year as part of her Seven Years of Living Art project.

Sophie Calle – Conceptual artist that made The Blind, a piece that showed what a group of people who are blind since birth thought was beautiful.  Also made a set of meals organized by color called The Chromatic Diet.

The House of the Scorpion – SF novel about a drug lord and his clones.

Discussion on the benefits of raising your own clone. This is not much different than arguing about how many days there are in a week.

Olafur Eliasson – artist that deals the the nature of perception, among other things.

There doesn’t seem to be a whole breast milk restaurant, but there is this.

Walter Murch – well-known film editor who often edits to the pacing of actors’ blinks.