The exhibition "Jim Jocoy: Order of Appearance," which was held at the Casemore Kirkeby gallery in San Francisco from June 16 to July 29, 2017.

The show featured a "revealing selection of images" documenting the San Francisco punk club scene between 1977 and 1980. This exhibition coincided with the launch of Jocoy's book of the same name, published by TBW Books.

• Artist Background: Jim Jocoy was born in South Korea in 1952 and moved to California in 1969. He was a student at UC Santa Cruz in 1976 but dropped out in 1977 to focus entirely on documenting the burgeoning punk scene.
• Obsessive Documentation: Jocoy photographed his subjects in intimate and gritty locations, including bedrooms, bathrooms, strip clubs, alleyways, and bars, as well as venues like Mabuhay Gardens.
• Artistic Style and Context: His work is noted for its intimacy, capturing quiet moments of youth "diving full stop into the dark of night". The sources compare his style to the work of Nan Goldin, Katsumi Watanabe, and Karlheinz Weinberger. Notably, his photographs are described as unknowingly foreshadowing the AIDS epidemic that would later devastate these underground communities.
• Historical Significance: For decades, Jocoy's work was rarely seen in public. His first major recognition came years later in 2002 when Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) and fashion designer Marc Jacobs collaborated to produce his first book, We’re Desperate.
• The Subject Matter: The exhibition image, titled "Friends in a Gold Car, 1978," highlights the focus on the influential fashion and raw energy of the era. Despite the passage of 40 years, Jocoy remains in the Bay Area and maintains friendships with many of the people he photographed.

• Location: 1275 Minnesota Street, #102, San Francisco, CA.
• Events: The opening included a book signing, and a special "artist in conversation" event was scheduled for July 15, 2017.
• Professional Background: Outside of his photography, Jocoy had a career working in the UCSF Therapy Department.

To understand the collection, imagine it as a time capsule that was buried in the loud, chaotic dirt of a 1970s punk club and unearthed decades later to reveal the vulnerable, human faces behind the leather jackets and safety pins.

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Since 2015, our Digital Archive has gathered scanned material from exhibitions we have visited. These scans are available through our⁠⁠⁠⁠ Link Tree⁠⁠⁠⁠ so you can view the PDFs, and are also uploaded into the ⁠⁠⁠⁠Google Notebook Learning Model⁠⁠⁠⁠, where the material can be discussed, annotated, and studied collectively.

From these sources, the LM generates conversations with two AI hosts. We call these podcasts a “Deep Dive”: a chance to explore art, history, and criticism through active dialogue.

The exhibition "Magic Object," curated by Rico Gatson, was displayed at 99¢ Plus in Brooklyn, NY, from July 10 to August 23, 2015.

The show featured works by five artists sharing a magical and evocative sensibility. These pieces draw on specific historical references and wide-ranging subjects, including Jungian psychology, traditional Inuit carving, and imagery inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining.

Key works exhibited include:

• Rico Gatson’s "Panel Painting #1" (2015), inspired by traditional African plank masks.
• Alex Lee Harris’s "CAGED Ringtone" (2015), a suspended instrument based on a wind chime that provided a mysterious soundtrack.
• Roxanne Jackson’s porcelain sculptures, "Snake Eyes" (2014) and "Chrome Cats" (2013), which explore the internal duality of beauty and beastliness.
• Mary Kate Maher’s "Spire" (2015), a freestanding sculpture resembling totems and cairns, is inspired by Inuit carved forms.
• Aaron Williams’s "History Painting I" and "History Painting II" (2015), Formica panels carved with patterns based on designs from The Shining, which contrast Native American culture and European imperial powers.

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Since 2015, our Digital Archive has gathered scanned material from exhibitions we have visited. These scans are available through our⁠⁠⁠ Link Tree⁠⁠⁠ so you can view the PDFs, and are also uploaded into the ⁠⁠⁠Google Notebook Learning Model⁠⁠⁠, where the material can be discussed, annotated, and studied collectively.

From these sources, the LM generates conversations with two AI hosts. We call these podcasts a “Deep Dive”: a chance to explore art, history, and criticism through active dialogue.

The exhibition, "Colin Lyons: A Modern Cult of Monuments", was held at CIRCA ART ACTUEL in Montreal, Quebec, running from August 29 to October 3, 2015. The exhibit's themes, also summarized as "Colin Lyons: archéologue du futur" (archaeologist of the future), revolve around memory, ruins, and the complexities of preservation.

Artist Background and Medium

Colin Lyons, born in 1985 in Windsor, Ontario, grew up in Petrolia, Ontario, "Canada's original oil boomtown". His background informs his interest in industrial ruins and sacrificial landscapes. Lyons’s artistic practice fuses printmaking, sculpture, and chemical experiments, often pushing the role of the etching plate beyond its traditional function. Lyons explores fragility, impermanence, planned obsolescence, and the nature of what society chooses to preserve. Lyons received his BFA from Mount Allison University (2007) and his MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta (2012).

Themes and Specific Works

Lyons is sometimes referred to as an "artist-archaeologist". In the work featured in A Modern Cult of Monuments, Lyons chemically treats various artifacts collected from ruined places. Some pieces are carefully soaked in acid, while others are engraved or removed to highlight marks of corrosion. This treatment reflects the artist’s interest in the status given to industrial ruins and moving fragments from forgotten places.

Key concepts explored include:

• Planned Obsolescence: This concept, which extends beyond products to include ways of thinking, communicating, and technology, is viewed by Lyons as a contributor to the social loss of reference points, whether individual or collective.
• Time Machine: One work, the Time Machine, aims to alter objects by both preserving them from corrosion and damaging them, visually depicting their decay and assigned use cycle.

Lyons also investigated the Six-Mile Mill, a forgotten industrial site located ten kilometers from Kamloops, British Columbia. His work stemming from this site, which involved detailed research resembling detective work, includes a three-meter-long brochure printed with ferric chloride ink that captures the mill's rapid destruction.

Another installation, New Monuments/Old Foundations, is a video piece. In this work, the sounds of stones rubbing together and rustling grass contribute to an impression of physical and temporal displacement, allowing the viewer to perceive time more slowly than usual. The essay accompanying the exhibition was written by Geneviève Goyer-Ouimette.

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From these sources, the LM generates conversations with two AI hosts. We call these podcasts a “Deep Dive”: a chance to explore art, history, and criticism through active dialogue.

In this episode, our sources include:

- Luna Luna, the art amusement park

- Ravi GuneWardena

- Athena Papadopoulos

- Richard Neutra, architect

- Catherine Lescarbeau

- Yann Pocreau

- Tammi Campbell

- Megan Rooney

- Maryse Larivière

- Dean Baldwin

- Petra Collins

- Amalia Angulo

- Gaëlle Choisne

- Jol T. Arand

- Rico Gatson

- Roxanne Jackson

- Ragnar Kjartansson

- Alex Macleod

- Ryan Gander

- Sky Glabush

- Guy Pellerin

- Eduardo Navarro

- Shana Luker

- Laure Prouvost

- Camille Henrot

- Jorge Macchi

- Nicolás Fernández Sanz

- Aaron Williams

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Since 2015, our Digital Archive has gathered scanned material from exhibitions we have visited. These scans are available through our⁠ Link Tree⁠ so you can view the PDFs, and are also uploaded into the ⁠Google Notebook Learning Model⁠, where the material can be discussed, annotated, and studied collectively.

From these sources, the LM generates conversations with two AI hosts. We call these podcasts a “Deep Dive”: a chance to explore art, history, and criticism through active dialogue.

In this episode, our sources include

- Petra Collins

- Luna Luna, the art amusement park

- Amalia Angulo

- Shana Luker

- Yann Pocreau

- Ravi GuneWardena

- Eduardo Navarro

- Catherine Lescarbeau

- Sky Glabush

- Camille Henrot

- Gaëlle Choisne

- Rico Gatson

- Roxanne Jackson

- Aaron Williams

- Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

- Annie Pootoogook

- Alex Macleod

- Laure Prouvost

- Ryan Gander

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🧑🏻‍🎨 Ephemeral Project Space

Since 2015, our Digital Archive has gathered scanned material from exhibitions we have visited. These scans are available through our Link Tree so you can view the PDFs, and are also uploaded into the Google Notebook Learning Model, where the material can be discussed, annotated, and studied collectively.

From these sources, the LM generates conversations with two AI hosts. We call these podcasts a “Deep Dive”: a chance to explore art, history, and criticism through active dialogue.

In this episode, our sources include

- R.M. Schindler's King Road House in West Hollywood, California

- Tammi Campbell

- Yann Porcreau

- Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue

- Eduardo Navarro's Oído Vegetal

- Amalia Angulo

- Rico Gatson

- Roxanne Jackson

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The Digital Archive comprises of scanned material from visited exhibitions, started in 2015.

The material is scanned to our Link Tree so you can view the PDF itself and Google Notebook Learning Model to discuss and dissect the material either individually or collectively with all or the other scanned sources.

The LM's AI creates podcasts with two hosts, which they call a "Deep Dive" from selected sources.

This episode's source includes the exhibition "For time is the longest distance between two places," a project based on works from the Collection of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. 

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Henri de La Poste's Digital Archive comprises scanned material from visited exhibitions.

These are scanned to our LinkTree so you can view the PDF itself as well as our Google Notebook LM to discuss and dissect the material.

The AI creates podcasts, and this one is a Deep Dive from selected sources.

This podcast's sources include:

- Camille Henrot's Gross Fatigue

- R.M. Schindler House

- Tammi Campbell

- Ragnar Kjartansson