NOAH FISCHER IN CONVERSATION WITH JOANNA WARSZA AND FLORIAN MALZACHER
from the website of the 7th Berlin Biennial
http://www.berlinbiennale.de/blog/en/projects/occupy-a-museum-near-you-2...
Joanna Warsza and Florian Malzacher: You are the initiator of the Occupy Museums group, associated with...
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Andy Ness, MFA Sculpture – 2006, current fellow, Fine Arts...
By Ravenna Koenig for Columbia Spectator
Noah Fischer is a Brooklyn-based artist who graduated from Columbia’s School of the Arts in 2004. Fischer has often focused on alternative and public space as subject for his works, and so, this past October, he instigated the “Occupy Museums” movement. Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, the group hoped to both create awareness about...
By: Paddy Johnson
Last week Internet commenters took to counting the reasons why Occupy Museums is so ill-conceived. A splinter faction of The Occupy Wall Street movement, the group announced its plans Wednesday to travel from the Frick to The New Museum in protest of economic disparity in the museum world. The original call to action outlined their schedule for the next day and describes an “absolute equation of art with capital” and museum shows “meant to inflate these markets”,...
Catherine Spaeth: I am interested in both of your practices in the context of Third Mind. There is Ann Hamilton’s commissioned piece, but the show really stops at 1989. So I’m interested in how the practices and ideas that are coursing through this exhibition relate to your work, as Buddhist artists who are practicing now. What I notice right away in both of your practices is an interest in meaning that I don't think the artists in Third Mind...
This interview with Noah Fischer occurred at his gallery exhibit, “Monitor,” at...
Conversation/Chat on Technological Trash and Related Ideas between Noah
Fischer and Gene McHugh.
11:31 AM Gene: so -how did you get interested in thinking about technology and junk?
your new pieces seem to be a sort of post-apocalyptic depiction of high tech gone bad.
11:32 AM Noah: yes, I saw the two extremes of the tech/design process: the i-phone of
desire on one hand (and all the advertising that goes with it) and the 7 year-old beige
monitors in trash piles...
Between 10 and 19 March, the Kunstenfestivaldesarts held a discussion with Noah Fischer via e-mail. The following text is an excerpt from that e-mail exchange. Both Rhetoric Machine and Pop Art are discussed in it.
In the first few days the e-mails centred on the types of rhetoric Fischer used and arranged in Rhetoric Machine and Pop Ark. The following excerpt opens with Noah's reflections on the question as to whether there can be...