Artie Vierkant & Constant Dullaart at Extra Extra

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He is a rising SEA CREATURE that the TYPE OF BUSINESS (RESTAURANT, CIRCUS, ETC.) circuit can no longer do without. He is a OCCUPATION of the medium, highly ADJECTIVE on the Internet, and is an equally talented SINGULAR NOUN of himself and of his vocation of contemporary visual artist.

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Found media are a favorite subject of Internet artists, who often evoke the ACTION FIGURE of the Web by sampling oddities from its less traveled paths. Many of Dullaart's peers seek out specimens of "CARTOON CHARACTER style," a term coined by artist ROCK STAR to describe media that look naive, crude, or COLOR. Dullaart's Readymades, however, demonstrate his interest in what might be called "default" style - the bland TYPE OF FURNITURE of sans serif text and soulless stock photography that frame ads for some of the most ADJECTIVE search terms (FAMOUS PERSON, BATHROOM ITEM, pornography), baring the SINGULAR NOUN of the internet's popular use.

That is to say, to get the joke, one must get the SINGULAR NOUN that a work of time-based media could be thought of as an TYPE OF FOOD spinning in space—no easy task as time is notoriously difficult to represent as a thing.

What should be a EXCLAMATION for the eyes becomes increasingly, violently agitated--an accidental psychedelic BODY PART. This ITEM OF SPORTS EQUIPMENT is recommended to anyone who uses a digital zoom or similar enhancement features in a camera: it's a Dorian Gray portrait of that pretty, fake TYPE OF FLOWER you are presenting to the public. Instead of the aging in the Gray painting, Vierkant VERB the bicubic corruption inherent in attempts to stabilize a changing reality. Paradoxically (and unlike the Gray), the digital noise is ultimately more aesthetically pleasing than TV SHOW.

Ceci Moss is a writer, musician, DJ, and curator. Prior to her current position as Senior Editor of Rhizome, she managed the Special Projects of the New Museum of Contemporary Art and Rhizome. She presently writes and edits the online contemporary art and music blog A Million Keys. For the past seven years, she's programmed the weekly radio show Radio Heart on KALX and East Village Radio. She studied Sociology, History and French at UC Berkeley, and Critical Theory in Paris, France at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III/Centre parisien d'etudes critiques. She is currently pursuing an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature at NYU.