3/6/2024 0 Comments Art made from text messages![]() ![]() "Your materials have arrived at the venue but you'll need to bring your laptop." If you have an urgent message, a change in logistics or a deadline, a quick text can be the perfect way to ensure your colleague gets the information they need. It can be a good 12 hours before they get a chance to sit down and trawl through their emails. More and more people are working in consultant style roles, attending meetings, delivering pitches and working remotely. Including how do you sign off from a text without the traditional ‘xxx'. I don't think I need to tell anyone reading this blog that vowels are in (‘please' instead of ‘plz'!) and MEGALOLS are out, but I have encountered a number texting tips that I think you might find useful. So since January I've been compiling my own do's and don'ts for texting at work. No, what I stumbled across was a whole range of dating text advice sites, not exactly what I had in mind. I naively assumed there would be a ‘Manager's Guide to Texting', a huge wealth of tips and tricks around using texts in a more formal setting. My first port of call was my old friend Google. So in 2013 I have made the bold decision to text. As you can imagine, our trainers are often travelling to and from workshops, so quick and concise communication is always something I crave. These happen up and down the country, any day of the week, at a range of times and locations. ![]() More recently, Holzer has projected lit up words onto the surface of water, building facades and even mountainsides.The art of the text message: can texting be a useful tool at work?Īt the Centre I'm responsible for managing our in-house training events. For her retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York from 1989-90, Holzer designed a site specific LED sign that travelled round the parapet of the building’s rotunda, projecting statements from throughout her career. Later in the same decade Holzer began working with LED signage. In the early 1980s, Holzer produced a series of engraved marble and granite benches and stone sarcophagi featuring her trademark direct, provocative statements. While her early art was generally low-budget and lo-fi, she has since gone on to work with more ambitious materials. Holzer has produced text art in a huge range of media throughout her career. Holzer Has Produced Art in a Huge Range of Media Jenny Holzer, Untitled (from the Washington Series), 2007, via The Royal Academy, London. She has created public art for many major cities around the world, ranging from Times Square in New York to Piccadilly Circus in London, focusing on high traffic areas where her art can speak to a wide audience. ![]() Used/reprinted with permission from Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.įollowing the success of her early work, Jenny Holzer has gone on to become more ambitious in the scope of her art. ![]() Jenny Holzer Has Made Art for Locations All Around the World “To the Forty-third President” from Blackbird and Wolf by Henri Cole, copyright © 2007 by the author. Inflammatory Essays One of Jenny Holzer’s Inflammatory Essays, 1979-1982, via Public Delivery. Statements such as “artificial desires are despoiling the earth,” “abstraction is a type of decadence”, and “boredom makes you do crazy things” were intended, as Holzer put it, to be an antidote to “the usual baloney (we) are fed.” She then distributed them to the public via a series of printed items including stickers, t-shirts, flyers and posters. In the series Holzer produced a series of hand-typed, self-authored short statements. Holzer’s first series of text art was titled Truisms, and made from 1977-79. This breakthrough work launched an ongoing fascination with the personal and political ramifications of language, and its power to undercut perceived truths about the systems of power that keep society under control. Jenny Holzer made her first text-based art in 1977. Holzer Made Her First Socially Engaged Text Art in 1977 Jenny Holzer, Truisms, 1977-79. Later Holzer moved to New York, to train in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. From there she studied an MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 1977. Born in 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio, Holzer earned a BFA in printmaking and painting from Ohio University in 1972. While Jenny Holzer is best known today as a text artist, she originally trained as a painter and printmaker. Jenny Holzer Trained in Painting and Printmaking Portrait of Jenny Holzer, 2019, via Artnet. ![]()
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