Word: zeitgeist
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...know these developments must be reaching critical mass when two museums decide simultaneously to look into them. "BitStreams" at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City and "010101: Art in Technological Times" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art are Zeitgeist shows, attempts to collect a few specimens of this emerging practice and let them vibrate in proximity to one another. There is not much effort in either exhibit to draw broad conclusions, no gathering of everybody into schools or "isms." The spirit behind both is to let a thousand digits bloom...
...lesbianism that left the viewer with third-degree eyeball burns. That year's Lies by Sun Woo-Jang was a sado-masochistic romance between a married sculptor and a high-school girl half his age, a class-act film that fashioned poetry from pornography and high-fived the current zeitgeist, though it is banned in Korea...
Gothic "Black Houses" to the unmistakably zeitgeist pop song "Machines...
...Ralph Nader has tapped into something, yes - but what? Vague dissatisfaction? Radical environmentalism? Some Naderites just like the guy, and when he goes, so will the Green party's place at the zeitgeist table. Vote for the Libertarians (the name, again, is Harry Browne) and the message Democrats and Republicans hear will be precise, and unmistakable. Smaller government. And if you're for that - and most folks are, to judge by the way Bush and Gore are falling all over themselves to grab the issue - consider the Libertarians a decent...
...testament to the triumphs and pitfalls of ever-changing, ever-challenging human/technology symbioses, it is also an autobiographical benchmark on Radiohead's evolutionary path. 1993's Pablo Honey saw the Oxfordians feel their way through the essence of being a so-called alternative band in a glut of Seattleites. Zeitgeist-capturing grunge-guitar riffs, perennial themes of love and loss, and charmingly obtuse self-loathing (remember "Creep?") earmarked the band for their potential in the mainstream music scene, and, more importantly, heralded the band's existence as a self-aware musical entity...