From March 2007, we will be developing an online analysis of Tony Oursler's work, including discussion of recent exhibitions, past work and key publications.
As part of this, we will be publishing a series of interviews on presence with Tony Oursler. The first of these were recorded by Nick Kaye in New York in October and November 2006.
In this project, each analytical, documentary or interview text presented in its own right will also act as a map of key terms, ideas, and works, linking to pages of analysis, documentation, quotation, and comment. These pages will form the deeper structure of the site, offering a series of annotations on Presence and Tony Oursler's remarkable body of work.
A menu of annotations is under construction below, allowing the site to be read in any order.
This process will provide the basis for an ongoing engagement with Tony Oursler's work through the Presence Project.
Tony Oursler, Painting + Paper: Ooze
Media Entities and a Politics of Presence
Tony Oursler: Interviews
...to come...
TONY OURSLER, Bluerealisation with Head, 2007
aluminium, acrylic, LCD screen, DVD player
92 x 42 x 4.5 inches
233.7 x 106.7 x 11.4 cm
COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LEHMANN MAUPIN GALLERY,
NEW YORK
Annotations (under construction)
aura
Blue Invasion, 2006
Blob, 2004
colour
empathy test
deep media structure
image
media critique
media entity
migration
mimetic systems
mirror and surrogate
MMPI
objectness
outer space
painting
self
Six, 1996
Sound Digressions in Seven Colours,
Spaced, 2006
The Influence Machine, 2000
Thought Forms, 2006
transmission
Underwater (Blue/Green), 1996
vernacular
video grammar
video space
Tony Oursler's extensive website, including image and video documentation, is at [link]. His major online project TimeStream, hosted by MOMA New York, is at [link]
For an introduction to Tony Oursler's work, go to Some notes on Tony Oursler, by Gabriella Giannachi
