The Brad Troemel Report

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Thanks to Cornell for having me. Talk is from Oct 3 2019

the long-awaited hustle report about jessica silverman is finally here xD

In this FIRST advice hotline I describe what art school actually provides so you know how to recreate those benefits without spending $30,000/semester!! I also get in to the ills of "repetition mindset" brain cancer and what you can do to MOVE ON with your art life and start making NEW work. This is a HIGH ENERGY BLOOMER motivation vid for EVERYONE– I promise you'll have something to take away and chew on after watching this video whether you have a BFA/MFA or not :-)

watch the vid for a rundown of an epic week in art/media/politics!!

a MUST WATCH for anyone who has ever endured Jerry's lectures, tweets, or writings!! CATHARSIS awaits!!

the previously released Chapters 1,2,3 all together for your viewing ease

Here it is a day early 1. Why does art cost so much? 2. Why don't galleries ever lower prices for work that doesn't sell? 3. Why do dealers bid on their own artists at auction? 4. Why aren't gallery artists allowed to sell out of their studio? 5. What does gallery representation even mean? 6. Why aren't artists paid as employees by galleries? 7. Why can only .01% of people afford art? 8. What does "protecting an artist's market" mean? 9. Why aren't artists paid for months after they sell work? 10. Why do we think price reflects art's quality? 11. Why do so many artists want to make big, expensive art? 12. Why do artists continue working with galleries? 13. Why are Funkopops the closest thing available to affordable art? 14. Why is art inclusive in message but elitist in price? 15. When can I finally redeem my hustlepoints?

Look on in abject horror as I do an artist statement for the past year's posts on my Instagram!!

A lot of studio visits I do revolve around how to create a more consistent structure for making art on your own so I wrote this report as a practical guide for how to organize your thoughts by writing a statement. Part 1 is an intro to why it's helpful to write a statement (whether you release it publicly or not!) and parts 2 - 6 are straight forward ideas for how to make writing a statement easier / actually useful to making new work. If you want to write a statement and need some feedback or help hmu on the guaranteed visit tier and we can work on it together!

Here's my full length artist talk from 2008 - 2021, covering projects from Jogging to BSTJ Etsy Store to UV Production House to the hehe:-) memes of today.

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???????????????????? For this report I go through the most famous rightwing anti-art talking points (“my kid could do that!” “Arts price is obscene!” “Art is postmodernneoMarxist snowflakesjwpropaganda!”) and break them over the wheel of logic using truth bombs made of facts, not feelings ‼️ ????????

It's finally here!!!!!!!!! My most thorough report yet, hope you enjoy!!!!!!! :-) P.S. here are some of my favorite educational materials about NFTs I found while researching for the report- 1. NFTs for n00bs with Dan Keller and Matt Dryhurst 2. Most artists are not making money off NFTs and here are some graphs to prove it by Kim Parker 3. The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt (Part 1) by Memo Akten 4. NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again by David Gerard 5. Essay: The meme economy by Kyle Chayka 6. NBC documentary explaining how pyramid schemes work

new full length report!!!!!!!!!!!!!! watch it!!!!!!

new report hope u enjoy :-) i'll probably be doing a live screening of this on Discord a little later in the month as promised, here are some of the writings that were my favorites from research: 1.) Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against The Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu 2.) The Tyranny of Terrazzo Will the millennial aesthetic ever end? By Molly Fischer 3.) WELCOME TO AIRSPACE How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world by Kyle Chayka 4.) FACEBOOK ALEGRIA ILLUSTRATIONS by JS Weis 5.) Why does every advert look the same? Blame Corporate Memphis by Josh Gabert-Doyon 6.) batshit Pepsi design guidelines 7.) Why is tech illustration stuck on repeat? Ask the overworked, underpaid illustrators. by Hirsh Chitkara 8.) The Corporate Logo Singularity by Rachel Hawley

For this report I tried to do something a little different by combining different sources to create a brief history of US government involvement in art from ~1935-1960. The end of the report features my own takeaways from the subject. Here are some of my favorites I came across while researching: 1. Frances Stonor Saunders - The Cultural Cold War this is a great book I drew on for the Cold War section of the report– highly recommended! 2. Serge Guilbaut - How New York Stole The Idea of Modernism this is a super granular account of the political motivations of Modernism's various cultural factions I drew on for the 1930's section of the report 3. Eva Cockcroft - Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of The Cold War this 1974 essay is really the original one to break the topic wide open in the art world. It's fun (and sad!) to see a time when writing in Artforum could be so thought-provoking, concise, and intelligibly written.

What’s behind our cultural obsession with nostalgia? Why’s it feel like there’s nothing new happening? How has entertainment fandom become a political identity? And what the heck is going on with men? How has masculinity become defined by either infantilizing yourself or cosplaying as a kitschy traditionalist? 1. Mark Fisher - the slow cancellation of the future 2. Contrapoints - men 3. Making Fun: the story of funko pop

BOOOMMMM!!!!! ready to get TRIGGERED?!? xD Links: 1. The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron 2. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 3. All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace by Adam Curtis 4. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff 5. Undress or fail: Instagram’s algorithm strong-arms users into showing skin 6. Touchscreen Capture by Mark Fisher 7. I Write The Songs by Rob Horning 8. Facebook Tried to Make Its Platform a Healthier Place. It Got Angrier Instead by WSJ 9. Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show by WSJ 10. FaceBook Apologizes For Psychological Experiments on Users

song id: i9bonsai - nthn reads: 1. The State of Culture 1 by Ben Davis 2. Reprivatizing Art in The Name of Equality by Angela Nagel 3. The Rise of Immersive Art by Anna Weiner 4. Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia by Richard Hertz (probably deserves a report of its own) 5. Selfies Are Not Self Expression by Rob Horning 6. Susan Sontag on photography refresher 7. DIS #artselfie archive of Instagram posts (incredible scroll esp if you're a millennial who was in the NY art world this looks like Cobrasnake now lol) 8. Against Curating by Stefan Heidenrich (my original Art Exhibitions Without Artists chapter had a few paragraphs comparing that phenomenon of #artisterasure to "The Curatorial" / 89+ as a similar process where organizers overshadow exhibitors but I figured it was too tangential. Sharing this short/fun read in case I never return to the subject) 9. International Art English by Alix Rule and David Levine (might have to do a full report on this some day)

1. International Art English by Alix Rule and David Levine 2. The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe 3. Elite Overproduction overview

in this report i talk about... -how institutional failure has led to the success of independent outlets (podcasts,substacks,patreons) as an alternative for people looking to form a media-consumption-diet-turned-peer-group -how those independent outlets are then pressured to fulfill the role of the institutions that came before them by recreating consensus worldviews/endorsement networks -how the contentious nature of building these endorsement networks leads to conflict and resentment (how the oversharing and co-signing that builds up the outlet is the same thing that inevitably causes it trouble) -formation of “Negative Fandoms”, or places where people congregate on social media to relentlessly criticize the object of their fandom -conflict is the content, all the different things made in response to a post are an inseparable extension of whatever content initially provoked them to be created -the content hierarchy of appreciation, guilt, and conflict

In this report I talk about.......... -the history of professional wrestling and how it went from a war-time sport to a carnival-inspired form of theater called kayfabe (0:00 - 16:29) -Andy Kaufman's wrestling-inspired career, how he used babyface and heel characters to get his audience to question the line between fiction and reality (16:30 - 44:43) -3 tiers of transgression and where Andy Kaufman's work fits among them (44:44 - 54:32)

research chemicals: Line Goes Up by Dan Olson Among the Reality Entrepreneurs (Urbit goes downtown) by James Duesterberg Web 3 Is Going Great by Molly White NFT ep on Trueanon The Intellectual Incoherence of Cryptoassets by Stephen Diehl NFTs: crypto grifters try to scam artists, again by David Gerard On The Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Texas Messiahs, Cognitive Dissonance by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney Tales From The Thrifts: from savings and loan banks to the crypto hucksters by Noah Kulwin Why Are Young People Pretending To Love Work? By Erin Griffith Sam Bankman Fried (wealthiest crypto billionaire on earth) openly admitting the entire industry is a Ponzi scheme via Bloomberg Reality Intrudes on a Crypto Utopia by Eric Lipton and Ephrat Livni This Social Club Runs on Crypto Tokens and Vibes by Erin Woo and Kevin Roose How Influencers Hype Crypto Without Disclosing Their Financial Ties by David Yaffe-Bellany

graphic design by Anson Nguyen video outro edited by Nick Vyssotsky music by Deftones - Change (in the house of flies)

Graphic design by Anson Nguyen Outro prod by Nick Vyssotsky Outro music by No_4mat Song title: 1992 Research chemicals: 1. Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle 2. 4chan: the skeleton key by Dale Beran 3. Chris Beiser thread on KONY 2012 4. Feels Good Man dir by Arthur Jones 5. TFW no gf by Alex Lee Moyer 6. Hillary Clinton candidacy page explaining Pepe the Frog lol

graphic design by Anson Nguyen @anonson video montage by Jak Ritger @ja_ak_rtgr Research chemicals: Experiments in Art and Technology (1967-1994) System Esthetics by Jack Burnham (1968) Software: information technology and its new meaning for art curated by Jack Burnham (1970) A Report of the Art and Technology program at LACMA by Maurice Tuchman, Jane Livingston (1970) The Multimillion Dollar Art Boondoggle by Max Kozloff (1971) Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 by Lucy Lippard (1973) Art and Technology: The Panacea That Failed by Jack Burnham (1980) NET ART ANTHOLOGY by Rhizome Dispersion by Seth Price (2004) Spirit Surfing by Kevin Bewersdorf (2008) Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments by Marcin Ramocki (2008) Post Internet by Gene McHugh (2009) In Defense of The Poor Image by Hito Steyerl (2009) The Image Object Post Internet by Artie Vierkant (2010) After Art by David Joselit (2012) The Accidental Audience by moi (2013) Athletic Aesthetics

Research chemicals: Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor Cancel Culture and Other Myths by Kathryn Lofton Art Is Not Therapy by Jasmine Hu-Hollingshead In Praise of Filth by Garth Greenwell I Don't Wanna Grow Up (and Neither Can You) by Gretchen Felker-Martin The Vulgar Wave by Paul Skallas It’s All Over Justin H. Smith The Internet Is Made of Demons by Sam Kriss Intimacy and The Machine: on Godposting by Biz Sherbert Subliminal Jihad: Aquino Pt. 1 PCU, 1994 The Satanic Panic - Historical, Mythological & Social Origins by Esoterica The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt Itchy & Scratchy & Marge S2E9 Paradise Lost Trilogy

Design by Anson Nguyen Video outro by Jak Ritger John Maus - Do Your Best Research chemicals: Anti-Social Socialism Club by Dustin Guastella Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement by Freddie deBoer Negative Criticism by Sean Tatol Toward A Socialist Minimalism by Benjamin Y. Fong Inside The New Right by James Pogue Why Can’t We Be Friends? By Brendan Mackie Maybe we don’t abolish the family? Amber A’Lee Frost on Aufhe Bunga Bunga Among The Reality Entrepreneurs by James Duesterberg Downtown 23 by Sam Kriss Cancel Me by Honor Levy

Research chemicals: 1. every Rob Horning essay about AI, including but not limited to Paralogisms of AI Three things Another three things 2. Misinformation reloaded? Fears about the impact of generative AI on misinformation are overblown by Felix Simon, Sacha Altay, Hugo Mercier 3. Mean Images by Hito Steyerl 4. Geoffrey Hinton profile by Jonathan Rothman 5. The Completion by Bifo 6. Swap Meat Blob Job by Sam McPheeters 7. Alignment Fraud by Charlotte Fang 8. the Yeerk thread mentioned 9. Potemkin AI by Jathan Sadowski 10. Art As Experience by John Dewey 11. Unmasking the Seven Fallacies of AI Art by Mike Pepi 12. Self Design and Aesthetic Responsibility by Boris Groys edited by Jak Ritger @ja_ak_rtgr graphic design by Anson Nguyen @anonson additional images by @cabronfiber

Graphic design by Anson Nguyen Video outro by Jak Ritger Song: Sky Ferreira - Everything's Embarrassing (u_tra remix) Research chemicals: 1. What Was The Hipster? a collection of essays by N+1 2. You Know It When You See it by Dayna Tortorici 3. What Was The Hipster? by Mark Greif 4. Youth Mode by K-Hole 5. The Still-Wild, Semi-Habitable McKibbin Lofts by Matthew Sedacca 6. How To Live With Bed Bugs by John Wilson 7. Was The Hipster Really All That Bad? by Ben Davis 8. Aziz Ansari's Other Music Sketch (2006) 9. Worker = Hipster by Rob Horning 10. Hooverville Williamsburg by Rob Horning 11. Resenting Hipsters by Peter Frase 12. Williamsburg history timeline by Steven Kurutz 13. Meet Your New Boss by Claudine Ko 14. The Last Relevant Blogger by Brian Merchant 15. Americans are losing faith in the value of college. Whose fault is that? by Paul Tough 16. What's the difference between art, design, and memes? by CRLS / The Hipster Runoff 17. Rock as real estate by Ian Sve

Graphic design by Anson Nguyen Video outro by Jak Ritger Song: Enigma - Return to Innocence (1993) Research chemicals: 1. The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han 2. Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han 3. The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch 4. So You Think You've Been Gaslit by Leslie Jamison 5. Tell Me Why It Hurts by Danielle Carr 6. The stars down to earth and other essays on the irrational in culture by Theodore Adorno 7. Reality shifting: psychological features of an emergent online daydreaming culture by Eli Somer, Etzel Cardeña, Ramiro Figueiredo Catelan & Nirit Soffer-Dudek 8. The Long, Strange History of ‘Manifesting’ by Tara Burton 9. The BuzzFeedification of Mental Health by P.E. Moskowitz 10. no good alone by Rayne Fisher-Quann 11. Making The Present The Enemy of The Future by Dustin Guastella 12. Prologue to an Anti-Therapeutic, Anti-Affirmation Movement by Freddie DeBoer 13. Nobody Walks Around Feeling "Valid" by Freddie DeBoer 14. Trauma M