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Ruth Sackner delivered this lecture at the opening of Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You." It focused on the relation of Mathew Abess, the curator of the exhibition and the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Goldsmith provides the history of his web site, UbuWeb and examples of 'appropriations.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The sculpture is shaped like a closed book with poetic, calligraphic, jig-sawed out text on its recto adapted from the title of a book by the American revolutionary of the sixties and seventies, Abbie Hoffman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The sculpture is shaped like a closed book with poetic, calligraphic, jig-sawed out text on its recto adapted from the title of a book by the American revolutionary of the sixties and seventies, Abbie Hoffman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Contains lists of Rap phrases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book was written during a stay in Poland in collaboration with Polish students. Goldsmith indicates that he wrote a 1500 word work in Polish without understanding the language but the Polish audience did and appreciated it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is described by Charles Bernstein as"The Borscht belt meets concept art in this delirious digest of obsessive gaiety, this useless collection of perishable information, this wily catalog of everyday life, this alphabetic bestiary of the ribs, joints, sinews, and bones of language's alluring lore. {This] could be the longest, and maybe the last, list poem of the 20th century. On the way, Goldsmith has reinvented prosody - conting by 1's 2's 3's, and up - as he inventories the raring rush of rippling, or is it ripping?, words: inchoate yet coalescing, a fractal romp on just this side of virtual reality." All the phrases end in sounds end in the sound R and are organized alphabetically by syllable-count beginning with A, aar, air and ending with a "7,228 syllable tour de force of astonishing proportions. But in the spirit of George Perec...Goldsmith uses these rules to expose the reader/listener/viewer to the marvels and vagaries of language in the late twentieth century....

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The Sackners lent several books to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This volume was published as a joint project of the ICA and the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania as a spoof on the exhibition of Rodney Graham works taking him as a female not male artist. Matthew Abess, an intern at the Sackner Archive, was one of 16 students of Kenneth Goldsmith who participated in writing this book. He contributed a permutation poem and signed the pages where he made his contributions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poems were composed to be read in a Rap style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the series of Andy Warhol paintings by the same name, Goldsmith recasts the mundane as the iconic, creating a series of prose poems that encapsulate seven pivotal moments in recent American history: the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lennon assassinations, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the Columbine shootings, 9/11, and the death of Michael Jackson. While we've become accustomed to watching endless reruns of these tragic spectacles"”often to the point of cliche"”once rendered in text, they become unfamiliar, and revealing new dimensions emerge. Impartial reportage is revealed to be laced with subjectivity, bias, mystery, second-guessing, and, in many cases, white-knuckled fear. Part nostalgia, part myth, these words render pivotal moments in...

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This book was first published in a limited edition by Editions Bravin Post Lee in 1997. A signed copy of that volume is held by the Sackner Archive. Goldsmith records his conversational life from April 15, 1996 to April 21, 1996 in a stream of consciousness style. The personal aspects of his daily routine, working for an all night, avant garde radio station, creating Web sites, talking with Cheryl Donagan, his wife, attending lectures and art openings, and meeting Marjorie Perloff are all obsessively recorded by the artist /poet. Goldsmith describes how he went to RISD and used to make sculptures of books and then carved language onto the wooden books. Although he felt the sculptures were really beautiful, Goldsmith became much more interested in the language than in the actual form of the book object itself. The Sackner Archive holds one of these early pieces, "Steal This Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Goldsmith records his conversational life from April 15, 1996 to April 21, 1996 in a stream of consciousness style. The personal aspects of his daily routine, working for an all night, avant garde radio station, creating Web sites, talking with Cheryl Donagan, his wife, attending lectures and art openings, and meeting Marjorie Perloff are all obsessively recorded by the artist /poet. Goldsmith describes how he went to RISD and used to make sculptures of books and then carved language onto the wooden books. Although he felt the sculptures were really beautiful, Goldsmith became much more interested in the language than in the actual form of the book object itself. The Sackner Archive holds one of these early pieces, "Steal This Book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mangan reviews a performance by Joan La Barbara including her "magnum opus, 73 Poems" by Kenneth Goldsmith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the last of Kenneth Goldsmith's trilogy (The Weather, Traffic and Sports). It consists of Goldmith's parsing of the complete radio transcription of the longest nine inning major league baseball game on record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this book, Goldsmith transcribes one year's worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City AM radio station. The engravings have been described by Siena as visual algorithms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.