Brian Holmes
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Brian Holmes (1959, San Francisco) is a cultural critic who has worked with activists and artists in Europe and the Americas. He is interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley. Holmes was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, Kassel, Germany in 1997. He is a member of the groups Deep Time Chicago and Compass, and a former member of the graphic arts group Ne pas plier from 1999 to 2001, and the French conceptual art group Bureau d'études. He lives in Paris.
Publications
- Books
- Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art & Politics in a Networked Era, Zagreb: Arkzin/What, How and for Whom, 2003, 294 pp.
- Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering, Autonomedia, 2008, 187 pp. [1]
- Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society, Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, and Zagreb: WHW, 2009, 414 pp.
- with Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann, Volatile Smile, Nürnberg: Moderne Kunst, 2014, 182 pp. [2] [3]
- Driving the Golden Spike: The Aesthetics of Anthropocene Public Space, Deep Time Chicago, 2016, 19 pp. Pamphlet.
- Articles
- "The Flexible Personality: For a New Cultural Critique", transversal 1 (2002).
- "Der flexible Charakter. Für eine neue Kulturkritik", trans. Birgit Mennel, transversal 1 (2002). (German)
- "La personalidad flexible. Por una nueva crítica cultural", trans. Marcelo Expósito, rev. Brian Holmes and Joaquín Barriendos, transversal 1 (2002). (Spanish)
- "Fleksibilna ličnost: za novu kulturalnu kritiku", trans. Nataša Ilić, transversal 1 (2002). (Croatian)
Interviews
- Tünde Mariann Varga, "Political Ecology and Anthropocene Public Space: An Interview with Brian Holmes", Mezosfera, Budapest, Jun 2016.
Links
- http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/
- http://www.ecotopia.today/livingrivers/map.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101124033150/http://www.egs.edu/faculty/brian-holmes/biography
- http://www.egs.edu/faculty/brian-holmes/videos/
- http://vimeo.com/147574207
- http://aaaaarg.fail/maker/53106b43334fe0726920155f
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Holmes
