Modernization, a collaborative text/photography narrative, combines Angela Xu’s images with Peter Tieryas Liu’s words.   Angela Xu is an international photographer who enjoys taking photos of the obscure. Her photography has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adirondack Review, anderbo.com, and LitNImage. Peter Tieryas Liu has work that has appeared or is forthcoming in the [...]

Yesterday, Randolph and I attended a reading to see Molly Gaudry, Michael Stewart, and William Walsh do their respective literary things. Among them, we were introduced to Michael’s Strange Sympathies website. You can submit questions to him via the website and his responses will be short stories. This is one example. You should submit a [...]

To kick off our return to regularly updated original online content, we present to you Michael K. Meyers’s short film, Prodigy. The video follows the script, seen below. Prodigy Michael K. Meyers Resist. If I could help I would. Breathing is said to be difficult in the region. Listen. Watch. Advance with caution. Watch. Let [...]

1/Your artwork in the first print issue apt is comprised of old photographs and new and your piece online is called A Reverse Chronology. Does time play a factor in how you render your work or is it just a theme for this set? Time, or at least the idea of time, tends to be [...]

1/In Were We Wireless, you employ mimicked gestures and repeated imagery–a flower stem stands in place of a cigarette, a vase becomes a dim lantern, three separate people read possibly the same book at different times. Was your intention merely to mirror settings or are these orbits insinuations that we all participate in the same [...]

Review by Randolph Pfaff What: The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl Where: Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston When: April 15 – Sept 5, 2011 Contemporary art has never shied away from incorporating the signs of the times into new work–as object, as medium, and as some combination of both. There has been a veritable explosion in the use [...]

1/You illustrated Dolan Morgan’s “Investment Banking in Reverse” delicately, but with purpose. Would you tell us about how you chose which passages to illustrate? I think this was the hardest part!  Dolan’s story was really visually and thematically complex and rich, so I was pretty spoiled for choice. I started by just reading it, without [...]

1/There’s a great amount of movement in Some Produce and Stranger Glances, which is impressive since you capture that animation in both charcoal and oil paint. Is that an effect that you strive for in all your work or was it a facet of this specific pair? It really depends on the subject of the [...]

An excerpt from Seann McCollum’s sequential art poem, Were We Wireless. To read the entire poem, purchase issue one of apt in print or PDF.

  To view additional visual art by Randolph Pfaff, purchase issue one of apt in print or PDF.