David Muenzer / Sylvan Plug
14 December 2019 – 17 February 2020
Jan Weenix
2600 North Altadena Drive
Altadena, CA 91001
Thou foster-child of silence and slow
time,
time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our
rhyme:
rhyme:
What leaf-fring’d legend haunts about thy
shape […]
shape […]
What men or gods are these? What maidens
loth?
loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to
escape?
escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild
ecstasy?
ecstasy?
-John Keats, Ode on a Grecian
Urn, 1819
Urn, 1819
I named it sylvan plug because I created
it with the help of Tristan Polzl just when the “sculpture” on the picture was
presented in Paris and it made me think of the deck. If people find a better
name (GB Prison? Rest of the world versus blue ?) I’ll probably change it as I
don’t like non-descriptive names. Though one can argue “Sylvan plug” being
pretty well descriptive of what the deck does.
it with the help of Tristan Polzl just when the “sculpture” on the picture was
presented in Paris and it made me think of the deck. If people find a better
name (GB Prison? Rest of the world versus blue ?) I’ll probably change it as I
don’t like non-descriptive names. Though one can argue “Sylvan plug” being
pretty well descriptive of what the deck does.
-Lejay, Thread: Sylvan
Plug (or whatever splashed Green stompy),
11-01-2014 05:24 AM
Plug (or whatever splashed Green stompy),
11-01-2014 05:24 AM
A story about strategy: Sylvan Plug emerged as
a narrow but powerful response to a family of tactics that rely on repeated
selection to reduce variance. Against agents not attempting to smooth those
peaks and valleys, the Sylvan Plug approach will do very little. Perhaps the
name is descriptive, as the inventor notes, because the prison player will find
obstruction of movement to be ecstasy in itself. Here, in and around the cabin
at the edge of the canyon, the exhibition opens under the sign of a wooded
stoppage.
a narrow but powerful response to a family of tactics that rely on repeated
selection to reduce variance. Against agents not attempting to smooth those
peaks and valleys, the Sylvan Plug approach will do very little. Perhaps the
name is descriptive, as the inventor notes, because the prison player will find
obstruction of movement to be ecstasy in itself. Here, in and around the cabin
at the edge of the canyon, the exhibition opens under the sign of a wooded
stoppage.
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David Muenzer is an artist and writer. Notable
exhibitions include Scalar-Daemon at
Reserve Ames, Los Angeles (2016) and 14
& 15 at Latham & Watkins LLP, New York (2011). He has co-directed
the artist space Full Haus since 2015, which most recently presented Storefront: The Seeld Library at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018).
exhibitions include Scalar-Daemon at
Reserve Ames, Los Angeles (2016) and 14
& 15 at Latham & Watkins LLP, New York (2011). He has co-directed
the artist space Full Haus since 2015, which most recently presented Storefront: The Seeld Library at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2018).