Oct 18, 2009
Art Fag City » The Zoo Art Fair Awards! On a coffee table in the center of the booth sits a light bulb, lighter, coffee mug, Kleenex box and trucker hat inscribed with the words “Memory is Hunger.” The text refers to the contemporary desire for memory, a lost phenomenon in an age in which everything can be archived. After all, memory only works because it is fallible — it’s a natural means of selection — and as Cory Arcangel once noted in 2000, “All data is created equal.” Today the trucker hat of 2009 is just as important as it was in 2000, or in 1995, or in 1990.

Art Fag City » The Zoo Art Fair Awards!

On a coffee table in the center of the booth sits a light bulb, lighter, coffee mug, Kleenex box and trucker hat inscribed with the words “Memory is Hunger.” The text refers to the contemporary desire for memory, a lost phenomenon in an age in which everything can be archived. After all, memory only works because it is fallible — it’s a natural means of selection — and as Cory Arcangel once noted in 2000, “All data is created equal.” Today the trucker hat of 2009 is just as important as it was in 2000, or in 1995, or in 1990.

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