In his Superscript keynote on “Post-Descriptive Criticism,” Ben Davis posited that the image might supplant description in art criticism today. At one point, he discussed using only images rather than words, citing his (“failed”) Instagram experiments as attempts to “take images and create a form of writing with images.”
Here’s my post-descriptive response to his seminar.
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