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News, updates, and First and Last line library quotes from the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI), a non-profit focused on ‘visual technologies’ and ‘culture.'

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The ICI sadly announces the passing of its founder and director Lise Patt (1955-2019). We are currently reorganizing and will return to this space sometime in the future, change and chance permitting.

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"I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and putting their arms around me for just a few minutes."
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"First wedding night. But first mourning night?" https://t.co/J31MAWMBJh

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"We live in a time of monsters." https://t.co/ix65J8h6bh

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“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” https://t.co/Og0A6paZDn

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“White people are not literally or symbolically white, yet they are called white." https://t.co/XgPHtiL4s0

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"Knowing full well that postmodern architecture is loaded with historical gimmicks, sly references, visual puns, I will nevertheless contend that I am the brunt of one of its recent jokes." https://t.co/Y74DNfexMr

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“But she is still giddy, dancing, gliding over the muddy terrain as she watches him disappear.” https://t.co/MXhVCNsWyJ

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"Art and art related practices that are oriented towards usership rather than spectatorship are characterised more than anything else by their scale of operations: they operate on the 1:1 scale." https://t.co/aieLwttS88

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“Once that system was seriously questioned, art collapsed inwards, to create a more literal and myopic dead-centre, taking with it edges and all.” https://t.co/WwqXOfljlJ

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“Why is it that scamps and scoundrels are so often clever and generally interesting, whilst the average human being is so often dull and generally uninteresting?” https://t.co/AQVzTn4jyW

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“The means to this end then is the challenge of the next generation of educated women.”https://t.co/yIgnOOAuDu

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“Far from being resented, such criticism, so long as it is earnest and honest, must be most welcome to those whose only aim is the fearless search for truth.” https://t.co/47ui1YHPAx

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"Through her white columned halls in silence glide, nor mingling meet till she no more is seen." https://t.co/LC2kkDEVsU

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“The way of the superior man is in the ascendant, the way of the inferior man leads to grief.” https://t.co/dujjYugN6Z

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“P.S.
Sorry I forgot to give you the mayonnaise.” https://t.co/C4Cckr9JMY

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"I HAVE NEVER BEGUN A NOVEL with more misgiving." https://t.co/GUwrCeEqqv

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"The year is 1980 and it is spring." https://t.co/PLDO6V35eE

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"Marley was dead, to begin with." https://t.co/RtR7j9BPZG

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"Above all, my deepest gratitude goes to Andre Kertesz, whose visual poetry has forever penetrated my soul."https://t.co/BQlgx28XNr