{"id":400,"date":"2004-08-14T17:27:11","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2005-02-04T08:58:15","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T06:58:15","slug":"why-text-charlotte-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/14\/why-text-charlotte-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Text? – Charlotte Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Text? – Charlotte Frost<\/a>: from furtherfield, a really interesting article on how text has become the dominant medium for expressing, and thinking about, net.art (and perhaps conceptual art at large). I think I like it in how Derridean it actually is – we think in writing, nothing happens outside of text, for we cannot leave the symbolic order of which we are always already a part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why Text? – Charlotte Frost: from furtherfield, a really interesting article on how text has become the dominant medium for expressing, and thinking about, net.art (and perhaps conceptual art at large). I think I like it in how Derridean it actually is – we think in writing, nothing happens outside of text, for we cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-6s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5352,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/how-to-write-an-artist-statement-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":400,"position":0},"title":"how to write an artist statement, part 2","author":"nathaniel","date":"13 September 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote this post on how to write an artist statement back in June 2009, and it is\u00c2 still, to this day, in the top five of visited pages on my site every month. 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