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Rodney Graham's The System of Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to Poe's Last Story is the most ambitious of the textual interventions that contributed to Graham's emergence onto the international art scene in the 1980s. Part 'pataphysical investigation, part Roussellian exercise, the text begins with Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim,'" which describes a waylaid traveller's encounter with an uncannily pristine landscape and cabin in the Hudson River Valley. Into this short tale, which numbers less than twenty pages in most editions, Graham inserts an entire novel centered around an annex to Poe's original structure that houses a fantastical machine. Through a complex set of nested tales, the origins of the machine become clearer but no less magical, and readers will be held rapt by accounts of architectural wonders, a mysterious cipher, and the romance of impossible science.--From back of book.; Published in an edition of 600, collection owns number 71., Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection

A poem dedicated to a tattoo artist, and proposing a tattoo for the artist’s back in a layout and typography reminiscent of the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé’s seminal work “Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard.”, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection

"This is a compilation of 37 songs from Graham’s CDs and records. The songs are transcribed into sheet music with musical notation for piano, guitar tablature and lyrics. Taking the form of a popular songbook, the book features images of the artist, his band, and new artwork. In addition the book contains a CD compilation of rare cover songs with two brand new tracks."--Taken from www.artmetropole.com.; Edited by Kathy Slade and Christoph Keller., Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection

"This book, as does the exhibition HF|RG conceived by Chantal Pontbriand, explores four of the recurring concepts to be found in their work: the Archive, the Non Verbal, the Machine and Montage" -- p. [4] of cover.

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006., Includes bibliographical references., The iLab Heat Transfer Project provides a means for students to remotely execute, via a web interface, experiments related to the topic of heat transfer. The website associated with this project provides instructors with the ability to remotely manage the performance of experiments by their students. This thesis describes improvements made to this website that are intended to grant more control to instructors. Specifically, the website has been augmented to provide remote instructors with complete control over experiment scheduling, user registration, document uploading, and other relevant administrative tasks. The interfaces by which users perform experiments have been modified to incorporate an audio and video feed of the laboratory equipment used in these experiments. In addition, the website has been extended with a feature that facilitates the viewing and analysis of questionnaire responses collected from students. The questionnaire responses provided by students have been examined to gain more knowledge about the effectiveness of various aspects of the website and experiment interfaces., by Rodney K. Graham., M.Eng.

"This is the Only Living I’ve Got (Don’t Take It Away From Me): The Rodney Graham Songbook is a compilation of 37 songs from Graham’s CDs and records including The Bed Bug, Love Buzz, And Other Short Songs in the Popular Idiom, Getting it Together in the Country, Rock is Hard, and Never Tell a Pal a Hard Luck Story. Graham‘s songs are transcribed into sheet music with musical notation for piano, guitar tablature and lyrics. Taking the form of a popular songbook, the book features images of the artist, his band, and new artwork. In addition the book contains a CD compilation of rare cover songs with two brand new tracks" -- Publisher's web site.

This unconventional catalogue contains texts by three authors - written in response to Graham's film-installation "Vexation Island" - as well as an artist's statement situating the piece within the context of his previous film-related works. Numerous references are made to the story of Robinson Crusoe, Freudian psychoanalysis, and the concept of "Island" as symbol for the modern subject/self. Biographical notes on artist. Circa 64 bibl. ref.

Johnstone examines the works of three artists who, by using pre-photographic optical devices, question the production of images and the place of the human body in a society based on technological advancement. Includes short statements by Graham, Pippin and Tomas. Biographical notes. 6 bibl. ref.

This volume contains articles about artists and writers who explore relationships between verbal and visual codes in painting, collage, site-specific installation, performance, poetry and prose. Issues such as feminism, multiculturalism, transculturalism and environmentalism are discussed in relation to modernist avant-garde practices of Pop Art, Minimalism, Earth Art and Conceptualism. Includes artist's pages, excerpts from a seminar on Emily Carr, as well as a C.D. by Blaser and Kiyooka. 142 bibl. ref.

A comprehensive analysis of Graham's oeuvre includes essays which elaborate on the resonance of Freud's concepts of "the uncanny" and "repetition-compulsion" in numerous works, the artist's mediations of the opticality of language and the tradition of modernism, and indebtness to Roussel and Duchamp. Three appendices provide detailed notes by Graham on each project, and further elaborate and exemplify the text works. Biographical notes. 48 bibl. ref.

Presentation of an exhibition of site-sensitive sculptures on the York University campus, which Kleyn discusses generally in terms of public art, urban planning and the shopping mall. Storr's personal letter on the role and relationships of art within the university is followed by artists' statements and photographic documentation of each piece. Biographical notes. 15 bibl. ref.

The authors examine the works in relation to the artists' conceptual strategies and to their use of discourses in photography, art history, museology, science, and language. Graham comments on his orchestral composition conceived as a supplement to Wagner's Parsifal.

Graham explains the origin and structure of his altered score of Wagner's "Parsifal" and Batten explains th difficulty of calculating the length of its performance.

Graham analyses Freud's description of a case of hysteria in relation to fiction and to narrative as seduction.

Treating the house as a subject for artistic production, this collection of essays and multimedia works explore the range of meanings inspired by suburban shelter. Biographical notes on the 17 contributors. Circa 20 bibl ref.

Wall's dense essay traces philosophical, historical and environmental concerns that inform Graham's work. Includes excerpts from the artist's textual appropriations: Freud, Saussure, Büchner. Biographical notes. 36 bibl. ref.