In Cold Song

By: Edrie

Mali Sastri is the singer of the Boston and New York-based band Jaggery . I sat down with her to chat about an obsession that has taken her from the deepest archives of the New […]

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Frame by Frame

By: Edrie

If you build it (to look real) they will come, seems to be the mantra of current big budget animation. Think blow-out live action mixed with fantastical worlds like Avatar and the upcoming Alice in […]

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Who’s Afraid of Edrie Edrie

By: Edrie

A visual representation of what the next month of Artist in Residence posts will bring. I was having a beer one night, and I saw “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap, I suppose, […]

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Artist In Residence: Edrie

By: Edrie

Once More With Feeling Hilo­brow.com asks you kindly to forgive us our Buffy reference, but it couldn’t be more appropriate here as we introduce our second Artist in Residence: Edrie, who combines ninja-like zombie/vampire fighting […]

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Jump!

By: Peggy Nelson

Happy New Year! [Jump! dir. Peggy Nelson, 2006, vocals and guitar by Jeff Stern] *** Artists in residence archive.

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Discontinue Normal Program

By: Peggy Nelson

This concludes the Portrait of the Artist as Attention Span I started at the beginning of the month. [Salvador Dalí, 1947, photo by Bob Sandberg for Look Magazine] There’s been some buzz recently about how […]

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I, Avatar

By: Peggy Nelson

The last time Pandora opened the box there was kind of a problem. All sorts of uncontrollable wild things got all over the place, everybody started yelling and panicking, and Pandora got into lots of […]

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Effloresce and Deliquesce

By: Peggy Nelson

The aura of ambiguity beckons in refusal; you can sense but not quite see. Something is out there. [Jackal Project, Andrew Sempere and Tangentlab, 2001-3] Every work of art is an attempt to bring something […]

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Augmented Realities

By: Peggy Nelson

“You’ve entered this space in the middle of a slow implosion, of things, text, faces, videos, access, egress… There is an Enclosure that a wide-open space contains, including rooms and traps, and internalized mechanisms of […]

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Serpentine Fire

By: Peggy Nelson

Alchemy has long since made the transition from practice to metaphor. And while this may have disturbed Sir Isaac, it’s fine with the artists: metaphors are our practice. For contrast, look at this elegant equation. […]

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Island of Misfit Toys

By: Peggy Nelson

The HiLo elves have been busy, busy, busy. In addition to the wonderful books and stories featured previously in our gift shop, we also offer a selection of toys. And it doesn’t matter whether you’ve […]

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Society of the Spectacle

By: Peggy Nelson

Megan Archer is court painter to our modern aristocracy of celebrity. Like the subjects of Velazquez, Sargent and Warhol, her famous faces are a mirror of importance and power, but not their own: ours. [Beauty […]

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Becoming Animal

By: Peggy Nelson

Reeling and writhing and fainting in coils formed the core curriculum at the seaside school in Wonderland. But it takes more than the necessities to navigate today’s media soup; we need conceptual art. [John Tenniel, […]

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