Otto Piene speaking during the Visions and Projections panel at MIT in 2011; sitting next to Otto are his wife Elizabeth Goldring (right) and myself (left).
Photo: John Kennard
Otto Piene Memorial Catalogue, commissioned by The Center for Advanced Studies at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2014.
I was asked to put together a short publication for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies to be distributed at Otto’s memorial service in 2014; Otto was a great mentor to me and I was very honored.
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Cover of Ars Electronica, 1982 , featuring the Sky Poem “Aerolyric Angelic”
Exhibition poster: “Plexiglyph Roost, an installation of poems by Mark Mendel,“ December 20, 1980-January 3, 1981, Franklin Furnace, NYC.
Just before this installation, John Lennon was assassinated; in his honor, I rewrote the poem “Plexiglyph Roost” and renamed the show “Blues for John Lennon.”
Barn poem (detail), 1976, Bucksport, Maine
Commissioned by the Haystack Mountain School of Craft and the Smithsonian Institutions’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC.
Barn poem (installation), 1976, Bucksport, Maine
Commissioned by the Haystack Mountain School of Craft and the Smithsonian Institutions’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC.
March 25, 1966, Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade.
This was my first ever visit to NYC. Years later — at a used book shop in Boston — I found this photo of me at the protest. I am circled in red and am with Jimmy Jones of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , Len Chandler, acclaimed folk singer and Susan Klonsky of Students for a Democratic Society.