Comments on: Behind the Scenes of an Infinite Jest-Inspired Art Show

By: Infinite Jest and Hipster Runoff « It Will Be Amazing

Infinite Jest and Hipster Runoff « It Will Be Amazing — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 05:52:46 +0000

[...] David Foster Wallace sets up mirrors against mirrors and all the high-functioning sarcasm melts and then grows extra limbs. As everyone everywhere has pointed out ages ago, he’s really good at aligning his ideas with his storytelling game. Infinite Jest is absorbing (Year of the Depends Adult Undergarment) in a fanatically careful way, and if DFW ever argues too forcefully and insistently, I can forgive him, because it seems to come from a mighty enthusiasm for being understood. I love Infinite Jest with a full heart and it makes sense that some Columbia MFA student would eventually create Infinite Jest fanfiction. [...]

By: A Series of {Various} Small Flames | Artist Bloc

A Series of {Various} Small Flames | Artist Bloc — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:47:28 +0000

[...] I was in love forever! Then I found this special Special SPECIAL!!! [...]

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:54:59 +0000

it’s “Eschatong” – the ping pong version, played by us, the K.I.D.S. You can see it on youtube here, in two parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoSzWNCZ11I

By: Readitsomeday

Readitsomeday — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:53:41 +0000

After I posted my comment, I realized why the image of Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators looks a lot like people playing Eschaton. Endnote 24 describes ‘Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators’ as a 45 minute documentary in which “children and adolescents play a nearly incomprehensible nuclear strategy game with tennis equipment against the real or holographic (?) backdrop of sabotaged ATHSCME 1900 atmospheric displacement towers exploding and toppling during the New New England Chemical Emergency of Y.W.”

The game they are playing is either Eschaton or something similar.

By: Readitsomeday

Readitsomeday — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:10:22 +0000

From those of us who could not make it to the show, thank you for the images and interview.

ps. The image “Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators” looks to me like ‘people attempting to play Eschaton’.

By: Lexington’s Bill Santen in the New Yorker «

Lexington’s Bill Santen in the New Yorker « — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:18:07 +0000

[...] you want to know more about the exhibit, check out this interview with the show organizer at Flavorwire, this shout out from his alma mater, UK, or this ACE Weekly article about his SWAP project (done in [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:35:32 +0000

Please bring this exhibit to Boston!

http://sonn-d-robots.com/dfw/

By: anechoic

anechoic — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:37:58 +0000

I curated an online sound art project after DFW passed
enjoy!
http://www.microsound.org/projects/project.php?name=InfiniteJest

By: Allan Wood

Allan Wood — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:21:42 +0000

I wish I was still in New York. Any chance of the films being collected on a DVD or uploaded somewhere?