Every Ten Minutes Cassette by Robert Farber

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EK ACCESSION #: ICI 21686 TITLE: Every Ten Minutes (audio cassette tape) DISCUSSION: A project by Robert Farber for Visual AIDS on Day Without Art in 1992. There was no sound on the tape except for a gong that rang every ten minutes – the … Continue readingEvery Ten Minutes Cassette by Robert Farber

EPHEMERA KABINETT: Home Access Express Home HIV Test

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EK ACCESSION #: ICI 21523 TITLE: Home HIV – 1  Test DISCUSSION: One of the Institute’s “firsts.” Although the test made a big splash when it was released in the late 1990s (approved by the FDA in 1996) you rarely hear about home testing today … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: Home Access Express Home HIV Test

Ephemera Kabinett: Ad seeking volunteers to test HIV Vaccine

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EK ACCESSION#: ICI-21768 TITLE: Newspaper Ad in a Seattle Newspaper seeking volunteers to test an HIV vaccine. DISCUSSION: An ad found in a Seattle ‘give-away’ journal from the late 1990s. To our eyes, the visuals seemed bold and adventurous, perhaps a bit too bold  in light … Continue readingEphemera Kabinett: Ad seeking volunteers to test HIV Vaccine

Plague in Virgil’s “Georgics” Pamphlet

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A program for an exhibition organized by Daniel Cornell at the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1995 to coincide with the Day Without Art on December 1, World AIDS Day. Today, Visual AIDS prefers to emphasize the people, especially artists, who are living with HIV and … Continue readingPlague in Virgil’s “Georgics” Pamphlet