Compiled for the first time here, essays by American critic, artist, gallerist and dealer John Kelsey convey some of the most poignant challenges in the art world and in the many social roles it creates. "When the critic chooses to become a smuggler, a hack, a cook, or an artist," Kelsey said, "it's maybe because criticism as such remains tied to an outmoded social relation." Kelsey's "rich texts" play the double role of explaining the art world and actively participating in it; they close the distance between the work of art and how we talk about it. These playful, elegant writings - many originally published in Artforum - embody a timelessness that strikes at the core of the contemporary art world. The newest edition from the terrific Institut fur Kunstkritik series.

Published on the occasion of Nora Schultz's exhibition Parrottree-Building for Bigger than Real, January 12 - February 23, 2014. It was Schultz's first solo museum show in the US and the first show curated at the Renaissance Society by new Chief Curator and Executive Director, Solveig Ovstebo. Nora Schultz: Parrottree is a unique and ambitious hybrid between exhibition catalog and artist's book. Along with photo documentation of the Renaissance Society installation and an essay by the curator Solveig Ovstebo, the publication also includes The Parrot Magazine by Nora Schultz, a 64-page magazine "made by parrots for parrots and for all birds that need to integrate into human society under aggravated circumstances." Additionally, experimental writing pieces by Keren Cytter and Seth Price, and a visual art project by John Kelsey were all commissioned specifically for this book.

This Recommendation specifies mechanisms for the generation of random bits using deterministic methods. The methods provided are based on either hash functions, block cipher algorithms or number theoretic problems.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Special Publication 800-90A: "Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators" specifies techniques for the generation of random bits that may then be used directly or converted to random numbers when random values are required by applications using cryptography. There are two fundamentally different strategies for generating random bits. One strategy is to produce bits non-deterministically, where every bit of output is based on a physical process that is unpredictable; this class of random bit generators (RBGs) is commonly known as non-deterministic random bit generators (NRBGs). The other strategy is to compute bits deterministically using an algorithm; this class of RBGs is known as Deterministic Random Bit Generators (DRBGs). A DRBG is based on a DRBG mechanism as specified in this Recommendation and includes a source of entropy input. A DRBG mechanism uses an algorithm (i.e., a DRBG algorithm) that produces a sequence of bits from an initial value that is determined by a seed that is determined from the entropy input. Once the seed is provided and the initial value is determined, the DRBG is said to be instantiated and may be used to produce output. Because of the deterministic nature of the process, a DRBG is said to produce pseudorandom bits, rather than random bits. The seed used to instantiate the DRBG must contain sufficient entropy to provide an assurance of randomness. If the seed is kept secret, and the algorithm is well designed, the bits output by the DRBG will be unpredictable, up to the instantiated security strength of the DRBG. The security provided by an RBG that uses a DRBG mechanism is a system implementation issue; both the DRBG mechanism and its source of entropy input must be considered when determining whether the RBG is appropriate for use by consuming applications.

Everyone loves a beautiful wooden bowl... Bowls are the heart of woodturning today Here are 14 skill-building and horizon-expanding articles for woodturners of all skill levels-expert, shop-tested insight and advice from the pages of American Woodturner, journal of the American Association of Woodturners. What you can learn from this book: How to mount turning blanks on the lathe How to manage the wood-drying process Expert safety tips covering all aspects of bowl turning A systematic view of bowl turning covering all the steps- including how to market your finished work How to turn unusual wood such as burls How to manage the bowl bottom How to add a decorative rim of a complementary wood species A clever method for making a hollow form without special tools- by turning two matching bowls and gluing them rim to rim How to design, turn and decorate wooden platters for every purpose Since 1986, American Woodturner has been the leading journal for practical and reliable information written by woodturners for their fellow woodturners. Making and Using Turning Tools, which has been extracted from this authoritative resource, is available as a 64-page printed book or as a digital e-book readable on all your electronic devices.

Master turning tools, and make new tools for yourself...you'll save money and build your skills at the lathe. Here are 21 practical, skill-building technical articles for woodturners of all skill levels-expert, shop-tested insight and advice from the pages of American Woodturner, journal of the American Association of Woodturners. Turning tools are expensive but the good news is, you can make most of them for yourself. That's because once you have learned how to sharpen turning tools, you've also acquired the skill and technology you need to make them for yourself. There's a knack to using every kind of turning tool, a set of skills and moves to cut the wood the way you want. This book shares a wealth of hard-won tool-using information developed by contemporary wood turners. This book will show you how to: Save money and build skill by making your own turning tools from rods and bars of tool steel. If you know how to sharpen, you already know how to do it Use the spindle roughing gouge for both roughing down and detailing Make and use every kind of flat-bar tool, including skews, round-nose scrapers, and negative-rake scrapers Make a set of cove tools from round steel rod, and use them to cut perfect coves What steels to use and why, and how to recognize good steel in salvage and scrap How to grind, harden and temper steel tools How to make a point tool for detailing, a thin-kerf parting tool, a plug-and-inlay tool, and micro tools for small work Why many bowl-turners prefer the side-ground gouge How to make and use a traditional hook tool Why carbide-tipped tools have taken the turning world by storm and much more.

Create great gifts and build turning skills by making holiday ornaments for everyone on your list Here are 19 delightful holiday projects for woodturners of all skill levels, shop-tested projects selected from the pages of American Woodturner, journal of the American Association of Woodturners. Holiday woodturning projects are so popular because they are skill-building and perhaps challenging to make. They are always fun to give, and they are a delight to receive. Better yet, they are unique expressions- no-one will find another at the mall. The skill-building projects in this book include: Two ingenious and lovely angels to hang on the tree or place on a holiday mantel display. Two designs for snowman ornaments, three designs for tree-themed ornaments, and four variations on the classic icicle ornament. A Santa Claus nutcracker with a jaw that really works, along with a plan for Mrs. Santa Claus. Ornamental snowflakes and a string of lights made entirely of wood. A commemorative medallion that can be unique for each recipient. Delightful acorn birdhouses, ornaments from pen-tube kits, hot-air balloons, and ingenious hollow bottles. There's something here that you can make for everyone on your gift-giving list. Since 1986, American Woodturner has been the leading journal for practical and reliable information written by woodturners for their fellow woodturners. Turning Holiday Ornaments, which has been extracted from this authoritative resource, is available as a 64-page printed book or as a digital e-book readable on all your electronic devices.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

"What do you do, exactly? I have no idea." "I reify," he answered. "It's a serious job," I added. "Yes, it is," he said. "I see," Carol observed with admiration. "Serious work, with big books and a big table cluttered with papers." "No," said Gilles. "I walk. Mostly I walk." --from "All the King's Horses" Michele Bernstein's novel, "All the King's Horses" (1960), is one of the odder and more elusive, entertaining, and revealing documents of the Situationist International. At the instigation of her first husband, Guy Debord, Bernstein agreed to write a potboiler to help swell the Situationist International's coffers. When she objected to the idea of practicing a "dead art," Debord suggested that it would be instead be "detournement"--the Situationist reuse of media toward different, subversive, ends. Inspired by the pseudo-scandalous success of Roger Vadim's filmed version of Choderlos de Laclos's "Les Liaisons dangereuses" and the adolescent Francoise Sagan's bestselling novel "Bonjour tristesse," Bernstein lampooned and borrowed from both Sagan and de Laclos, concocting a "roman a clef" that succeeded on several levels. A moneymaker for the most radical front of the French avant-garde, the novel (by its very success) demonstrated the bankruptcy of contemporary French letters and the Situationist contempt for the psychological novel, while (perhaps unintentionally) holding up a playful mirror to the private lives of two of the Situationist International's most important members. "All the King's Horses" is a slippery rewrite of "Dangerous Liaisons" with Debord playing the role of cold libertine, Bernstein as his cohort, and disguised walk-on roles by the likes of the painter Asger Jornand others. Though Greil Marcus sparked interest in this novel in his 1989 book "Lipstick Traces," "All the King's Horses" remained unavailable until its 2004 republication in France. This Semiotext(e) edition is its first translation into English.

Gracing the cover jacket of Rachel Harrison's highly anticipated second monograph is an informal monument to the man who holds the Americas' namesake. The only hint to this memorial for the 15th century Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, is an apple resting on an outcropping of neon-green cement; of course the fact that the apple is not only artificial but has a bite taken out of it suggests otherwise to the discovery of these "Edenic" continents. This slight yet important fact raises the basic conceit of if i did it: the active disavowal of art's political function as a museological testament to the "progress" of social history. By tossing off this monumental propensity, Harrison builds "antimonuments;" not so much sculptures but lumpen aggregates of pop psychology. In addition to Vespucci, throughout the book, one finds that celebrities Johnny Depp and Tiger Woods are included in a pantheon with John Locke and 18th century Corsican revolutionary Pasquale Paoli, meanwhile Al Gore checks the temperature, Claude Levi-Strauss checks the door with a taxidermied hen and rooster and a bi-curious Alexander the Great is the master of ceremonies. The title, taken from O.J. Simpson's infamous "hypothetical" account of his murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Donald Goldman, groups this role call of high- and low- brow idols into a nonhierarchical tableau where cultural and political value are allotted only where one sees fit.

Born in London in 1943, Stephen Willats is a pioneer of conceptual art and has, over the course of more than five decades, created a multi-faceted body of work. This new book, published in conjunction with Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, focuses on two key aspects of Willats' art. Cybernetics, the control of dynamic systems, in which he has taken a keen interest, serves him as method, aesthetic vocabulary, as well as a formal model. Subcultures that promote non-conformism and self-determination constitute another focal point in his wide-ranging work. The book offers a new approach to Willats' art from multiple perspectives. A comprehensive selection of both earlier and more recent works, some of them published here for the first time, is complemented by essays. The authors investigate that particular creative sphere in between cybernetics, architecture, and subculture within which Willats questions normative, regulating power structures and aims to discover personal freedom and alternative thought patterns.

Woodworking is a useful and enjoyable skill that anyone can learn. If you've ever wished you knew how to make things out of wood, this book is the perfect place to start. You'll be amazed at how simple it is to build fun and practical wooden items as you work through the easy lessons inside. Each of the woodworking projects in this book can be completed in just a few hours. Designed to teach basic woodworking skills, they require only ordinary lumber and simple hand and power tools that you may already own. Each new project builds on what you learned before, allowing you to become more self-confident as your skills increase.