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  • Memories of Theresa
  • Play Theresa Duncan's Video Games Free Online
    Rhizome has preserved Theresa Duncan's visionary video games and they are now available to be played for free at http://archive.rhizome.org/theresa-duncan-cdroms/
  • Chop Suey
    "Developed in 1994 and published the following year, Chop Suey was a cunning piece of multimedia edutainment, suited just as well to grown-ups — smirking hipsters and punk rockers, probably — as it was to the prescribed “girls 7 to 12” crowd. But it wasn’t a computer game. It was something else: a loosely-strung system of vignettes; a psychedelic exercise in “let’s-pretend”; a daydream in which the mundanity of small town Ohio collides with the interior lives of its two young protagonists." Jenn Frank
  • Smarty
    Smarty was Theresa's second award winning video. This is a film version used to demonstrate the game for potential distributors. Art direction by Jeremy Blake
  • Theresa Duncan's The History of Glamour
    The History of Glamour “In the film, the main character is looking for an identity, and glamour becomes for her a potent form of self-expression. She finds it very liberating, because she’s from a small town. But by the end of the story, glamour becomes limiting, then imprisoning, so she becomes a writer, chooses grammar over glamour.” Theresa Duncan on The History of Glamour in Salon. ~ The History of Glamour, is a music-based animated film, it aired at The New York Video Festival, The Women Make Waves International Women's Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Montreal Film Festival, the Channel Hopping Festival in Austria and was selected for inclusion in The Whitney Biennial 2000. Glamour also aired on Channel 4 in the UK, on Canal + in France, and in Japan. * ~Writer and Director Theresa Duncan; Art Director Jeremy Blake; Art work by Jeremy Blake and Karen Kilimnick; animation by Eric Dyer.
  • Memorial Film
    This film was shown at a memorial for Theresa in New York, December 2007. A special thanks to Wilbur King for the use of clips from his film “Charlotte Goes Swimming” and Raymond Doherty, editor.
  • In a Land of 90's Barbieland Wreckage Chop Suey Got Everything Right
  • Memories Of Theresa Tumblr
  • The Lovely Theresa by Baron Von Luxxury
  • Eric Dyer

Worthy of Mention

  • Spoon -

    Spoon: Girls Can Tell
    This is a great, understated album that merits repeated plays. Spoon have made a literate, rocking, breakthrough record that occupies a funny place--the songs are not unconventional, per se, yet they're somehow really special. Girls Can Tell displays the emotional resonance and big rock power of, say, Thin Lizzy and Mott the Hoople; the sonically referential, indie-rock smarts of a band like Versus; and amazing hooks that recall Colin Blunstone of the Zombies. Like Jennyanykind, Moviola, and the Lilys, this Austin, Texas, trio has chosen to work on perfecting their craft without paying much heed to mainstream or trends. In spite of (but mostly because of) wrenching breakup-centered lyrical material delivered in a very real, matter-of-fact way, Girls Can Tell is one of those life-affirming pop albums you know you'll return to in years to come. --Mike McGonigal (*****)

Books

  • Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

    Michael Hardt: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
    Empire (2000)—the surprise hit that made its term for U.S global hegemony stick and presciently set the agenda for post–9/11 political theory on the left—was written by this same somewhat unlikely duo: Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political scientist and sometime inmate of Rome's Rebibbia prison. This book follows up on Empire's promise of imagining a full-blown global democracy. Though the authors admit that they can't provide the final means for bringing that entity about (or the forms for maintaining it), the book is rich in ideas and agitational ends. The "multitude" is Hardt and Negri's term for the earth's six billion increasingly networked citizens, an enormous potential force for "the destruction of sovereignty in favor of democracy." The middle section on the nature of that multitude is bookended by two others. The first describes the situation in which the multitude finds itself: "permanent war." The last grounds demands for and historical precursors of global democracy. Written for activists to provide a solid goal (with digressions into history and theory) toward which protest actions might move, this timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor, major accomplishments in and of themselves. (****)

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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Jerry Saltz And Roberta Smith, The Toast Of Vichy France

Roberta_smith_and_jerry_slaOne of our more urbane friends arrived at Castle Wit the other night to share a snifter with us, and also the news that some Quisling had been spraying crumbs at a Rothschild-financed art world dinner table to the tune of New York Times art critic Roberta Smith and her creepy microcephalic critic husband Jerry Saltz having the art world "locked up."

Now "locking things up" would be a strange ambition for a contemporary art critic anywhere, except of course occupied New York City in 2007. The odd and continuing saga of their vampirish interest in promoting the careers of masochistically available female art students aside, their perhaps unwitting but nonetheless enthusiastic recent participation in an actual Right Wing CIA op in the art world (see "Trouble with Gaskell" below) points to an even deeper engagement with invisible systems of manipulation and control that even we of Wit ever suspected.

That Jerry Saltz recently took a job at New York magazine--the only magazine that can manage to make the most exciting city in the world seem like Seattle--may be the clue that finally reveals the mysterious longevity of the hateful duo as the result of a Bush White House-financed Black Op.

We of Wit were completely prepared to finger them here as the charmless bureacratic tools of Operation Mockingbird, but alas, the creepy twosome have never evidenced any loyalty to anything other than their own zombie-like continuation past their Totally Awesome Eighties expiration dates.

Therefore, in the interest of liberty, the Wit Of The Staircase War Council invites all gallerists and artists (it's too late for curators, we're afraid) to snub, ignore, insult, refuse review illustrations to, and otherwise hinder each of the operatives until they and their reactionary influence are driven from our midst.

Do it for yourself, do it for the kids, do it to free things up and not lock them down.

Down with Smith and Saltz. U.S.A. Out Of N.Y.C.!!

Link: Operation Mockingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thursday, May 17, 2007 in Art |

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