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Canopy Canopy Canopy is a site publishing essays on art, publishing, and technology, including the essay International Art English and the B-Ber publishing framework.
What HN saysHN commenters link it mainly for International Art English, an essay on art-world jargon, and in one case a generator of such text, plus a color technology reference.
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- 1International Art English4 people · 18 points · first shared 2015 · 6 comments on HN
- 2B-Ber: a framework for publications as websites, EPUBs, etc.1 people · 45 points · first shared 2019 · 15 comments on HN
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- 4Decentralized Autonomous Society1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 5How I learned to stop worrying and love the Death Star1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 6Infrastructure for Souls (2009)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 7Our Weirdness is free1 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 8Color Goes Electric1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Virtual Bowery1 people · 1 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 10Anonymity as culture1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11Anonymity as Culture: Case Studies (2012)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 12International art english1 people · first shared 2012
- 13Color goes electric1 people · first shared 2026
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szvsw · 2026-08-04
You mention a bit about the latent social forces embedded within technological development and how that has related to skin tones and the technologies of color reproduction, so I figured I would share some references:
https://canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/color-goes-electric
The Kodak “Shirley cards” and test shots are of course famous in the media theory world for how they baked notions of race and “standard” or “normal” conditions into the medium of photography. Not dissimilar from the various discussions around facial recognition from approximately 10 yr ago.
earthbound19 · 2020-03-05
It is hard for me to believe that there is an absolute imperative connection between writing International Art English and being paid.
https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/international_art_english
I coded a verbal recombobulator that generates such statements to mock such statements. Please point your friends to it if they're ever stuck.
http://earthbound.io/gibberish-artist-statements/index.php
yarrel · 2015-09-28
The language is "Artbollocks" or "International Art English", but it does match the content of the picture. Despite being randomly generated. ;-)
http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion/article/agenda-artspeak
http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/international_art_english
zachrose · 2012-11-07
See also: International Art English
"IAE rebukes English for its lack of nouns: Visual becomes visuality, global becomes globality, potential becomes potentiality, experience becomes...experiencability."
http://canopycanopycanopy.com/16/international_art_english