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Kyle Parry
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Excited to join v cool fellow panelists for the Curationist Metadata Summit on "subversive, unconventional, and unexpected approaches to metadata creation and use."

I'll talk on ideas from my essay "Metadata Is Not Data About Data."

www.curationist.org/news/save-th...

9/18 noon EST online/open
Curationist 2025 Metadata Summit Metadata Outside the Box
September 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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v late to this slightly awkward task, but made a webpage for the book

kyleparry.info/a-theory-of-...

my new book is now in peer review 🤞🏼
A screen capture of the webpage for A Theory of Assembly, with words from reviews at the top and part of the cover at the bottom
June 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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how soon
an advertisement that says “Ending soon. Chaos is costly. Save 50% on clarity.”
June 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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pink clouds, like a jelly fish and a long vine, only this image has been turned 90 degrees
January 6, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEUMS & the RICH. ART IS NOT BUSINESS ! It does not belong to banks & fancy investors ART IS FOOD. You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE because it is the INSIDE of the WORLD. ART SOOTHES PAIN! Art wakes up sleepers! ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPIDITY ! ART SINGS HALLELUJA! ART IS FOR KITCHENS ! ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD! Art is like green trees! Art is like white clouds in blue sky ! ART IS CHEAP! HURRAH Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 2024
January 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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i like the lines these masts make
reflected masts in wavy marina water, making for squiggly lines, about 7 of them
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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i like the lines these pearl peppers make
a collection of pearl peppers in a tray with a spoon
December 8, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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_orbital_ has me seeing this puffy blanket both better and from further above
a view of a puffy blanket of clouds with a spectrum of pools of shadow, as seen from a commercial plane
December 3, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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slightly afraid to fully embrace this message from oblique strategies
form oblique strategies, a card that says don’t be frightened to display your talents
November 16, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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how had i not come across this jeff wall photograph

“night” from 2001

wish i could see in person
night by jeff wall, a puddle, a reflection, people sleeping, a city
November 16, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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what to maintain?
November 8, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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wrote a v short essay called “A New Way of Looking at Memes” for The Humanities Institute

this essay:

- starts w secret third thing

- is meant to be v readable

- is a quick intro to my take on memes in my book aka discrete and distributed assembly

thi.ucsc.edu/technology-s...
A New Way of Looking at Memes One of my favorite memes started with a picture of a blue dog. Someone got the idea to place an odd bit of personal testimony over the dog’s seemingly very intense face: “i’m neither joking nor serious but another secret third thing.” The “secret third thing” concept proved inspiring; it became what is known as a “snowclone,” or a simple verbal formula open to endless variation. People started to tweet their own versions, only now without the dog picture, and not always polite: “not an alcoholic nor sober but a secret third thing,” “not polyamorous or monogamous but a secret third thing,” “u are not a more secret complicated third thing you are 32.”
June 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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recent reads
three books on a table: the naked tree, a writer of our time, and tell them of battles kings and elephants
March 27, 2024 at 5:22 AM
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it really was! accession tags, a tree that spewed fire after a lightning strike, absurdly compelling light
March 16, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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I forgot to do a 1 year anniversary post for the book! It's been a great 1.1 years, with thought-provoking book talk Q+As + reviews from film/visual/media/communication studies with fun / kind words like essential, expansive, timely, truly impressive.

www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisio...
The book is called A Theory of Assembly: From Museums to Memes. It sits in front of some ceramics.
March 8, 2024 at 5:46 PM
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connectivity within brains, connectivity between brains
October 6, 2023 at 4:51 AM
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i also thought this leo lionni book haha, the biggest house in the world
October 4, 2023 at 4:38 AM
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gradients!!!!
October 4, 2023 at 4:33 AM
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maybe you’ve been seen this praise at green apple @shannonmattern.bsky.social but maybe you haven’t? :)
a glowing recommendation for a city is not a computer in front of a copy of the book
September 25, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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4 year old discovers emoji, sits quietly tapping
lots of emojis
September 25, 2023 at 4:26 AM