Triple Canopy presents a discussion, The Medium Was Tedium, at the New Museum with Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov and Erin Shirreff at 7 pm on February 19, 2010. The New Museum is located at 235 Bowery, New York, New York.

Triple Canopy’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The Medium Was Tedium examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists listed above.

This event is presented as part of the New Silent series, organized by Lauren Cornell, director of Rhizome. Admission is six dollars for New Museum members and eight dollars for the general public.