Author Profile: Barry Vacker
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Barry Vacker's recent publications include the text for Peter Granser’s photography book Signs (Hatje Cantz 2008) and the first three books of the "Theory Zero" series: Zero Conditions, 2008, Crashing into the Vanishing Points, 2009, and Starry Skies Moving Away, 2009 (www.theoryzero.net). He also wrote and directed the experimental documentary, Space Times Square (2007), which has been screened in galleries and festivals around the world (www.spacetimessquare.net). A native Texan, Vacker earned his PhD at The University of Texas at Austin and teaches media, cultural, and utopian theory at Temple University, Philadelphia. www.barryvacker.net.
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Lone Stars, Lost Amidst the Big BangPosted in Art, Ideas, Visual Art on 8 May 2009
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SIGNS is not about the Texas of myth and macho, nor is it about the Texas of modern capital and postmodern spectacle, the worlds of skyscrapers, suburbia, computer circuitry, celebrity film festivals, oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, and space shuttles guided by Mission Control. If there is a fundamental sense of orientation for the subjects in SIGNS, it is that these citizens are lost.
