Robert Horvitz was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts (USA) and studied art at Yale University. Upon completion of his B.A. degree he was hired by Yale to teach drawing. From there he went on to teach courses in contemporary art at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and studio art at Phillips and Abbott Academies. In the 1970s he was a regular contributor of feature articles to Artforum magazine, writing about artists like Chris Burden, Alan Sonfist and Alan Sondheim. He was Art Editor of the Whole Earth publications from 1977 until 1991 when he moved to Prague. Horvitz has exhibited his drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, the Akron Art Institute and elsewhere.
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An American who has lived in Prague since 1991, Robert Horvitz believes that what you do defines who you are. He currently spends 29.4% of his time sleeping, dreaming and snoring; 9.0% of his time writing about communication policy issues; 8.4% of his time watching television; 7.2% of his time shopping for, preparing and eating food; 4.8% of his time drawing; 3.8% of his time teaching drawing; and 3.6% of his time looking at Facebook waiting for someone to “like” something he posted. In the 1970s he wrote for Artforum magazine, in the 1970s and 80s he was the art editor of CoEvolution Quarterly and the Whole Earth Review. In the 1990s he advised George Soros on electronic media and the development of journalism in post-communist societies. In the 2000s he created and managed the Open Spectrum Foundation.
Time Traveller: Donald Burgy’s journey from the far future to the distant past
Donald Burgy has been well-known for his futuristic conceptual artworks for more than 50 years. Much less known is his recent work on the interpretation of prehistoric drawings. This essay considers his recent work as a necessary complement to the earlier work and identifies a fundamental change in Burgy’s understanding of the relationship between art and science as part of this complementarity.