
Tag: found art
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Friday Photo: ‘Jazzmen’ by Villeglé

“Jazzmen,” Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé, 1961, torn posters mounted on canvas, on view in “Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980” at The Met Breuer, on loan from the Tate -

A secret message from my treadmill?
Here are some shots of the TV screen on the treadmill at my gym.
What does it mean? Is it random? Is it a self-critique about the difficulty of what meaning can be derived from images and sound out of a treadmill screen, when the gym is a noisy place and my concentration should be on things like form, breathing, and effort? Were the screens responding to my workout? Is this a new form of participatory video art? Participatory found art?