Cipher Blueprint
Cipher Blueprint (2023) is a sound installation featuring Patrick W. Vogel, Ruoyi Shi, Wesley Larios, Norman M. Klein, and Fía Benitez. Informed by their research and practice, collaborations with each other, as well as time at the institute, artists’ contributions span email correspondence, original works, and critical theory. Organized by Patrick W. Vogel and Fía Benitez. Sound edited by Caleb Craig.
Patrick W. Vogel reads Andrew Berardini, How To Be an Unprofessional Artist, 2016; Manny Farber, White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art, 1962; Douglas Huebler, Crocodile Tears: The Great Corrector and Crocodile Tears: The Signature Artist, 1984.
Ruoyi Shi reads Michael Ned Holte, TL;DR, Artspace NZ, Auckland, 2014; Barbara Creed, The untamed eye and the dark side of surrealism: Hitchcock, Lynch and Cronenberg, 2007; Cambridge University Library Twitter, Kidney Bean, August 5th, 2021; Alex Pope, Charles Darwin's dwarf kidney beans cleaned and catalogued, 2021; Pauline Oliveros, Software for People, 1984; Tom Lawson, Email for Writing About Art, 2021.
Wesley Larios reads Wesley Larios, Selections from The Journals of Fernando Bravo, 2022, and Siegfried Kracauer, On Boredom, 1924.
Norman M. Klein reads Norman M. Klein, The Unreliable Narrator, 1995, and Dead Reckoning: The Endless Rediscovery of America, 2013.
Fía Benitez reads Frederic Jameson, Preface to Marxism and Form, 1971, and Enrique Dussel, Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures), 1993.
Cipher Blueprint is part of Happenings, a celebration of CalArts’ 50 years.
Photography by Ruoyi Shi and Coffee Kang. Poster by Fía Benitez with Patrick W. Vogel.
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Patrick W. Vogel reads Andrew Berardini, How To Be an Unprofessional Artist, 2016; Manny Farber, White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art, 1962; Douglas Huebler, Crocodile Tears: The Great Corrector and Crocodile Tears: The Signature Artist, 1984.
Ruoyi Shi reads Michael Ned Holte, TL;DR, Artspace NZ, Auckland, 2014; Barbara Creed, The untamed eye and the dark side of surrealism: Hitchcock, Lynch and Cronenberg, 2007; Cambridge University Library Twitter, Kidney Bean, August 5th, 2021; Alex Pope, Charles Darwin's dwarf kidney beans cleaned and catalogued, 2021; Pauline Oliveros, Software for People, 1984; Tom Lawson, Email for Writing About Art, 2021.
Wesley Larios reads Wesley Larios, Selections from The Journals of Fernando Bravo, 2022, and Siegfried Kracauer, On Boredom, 1924.
Norman M. Klein reads Norman M. Klein, The Unreliable Narrator, 1995, and Dead Reckoning: The Endless Rediscovery of America, 2013.
Fía Benitez reads Frederic Jameson, Preface to Marxism and Form, 1971, and Enrique Dussel, Eurocentrism and Modernity (Introduction to the Frankfurt Lectures), 1993.
Cipher Blueprint is part of Happenings, a celebration of CalArts’ 50 years.
Photography by Ruoyi Shi and Coffee Kang. Poster by Fía Benitez with Patrick W. Vogel.
