I was planning on writing about this, but have been sick in bed all day, and then T.Whid of MTAA did a much better job of reviewing the features than I would have from behind this haze of flu, so here comes a re-blog, via their site:
A superb upgrade of the new media community site
Some [...]
A continuation from The Wireframe Series: Sentimental Construction #1, performance 2 (passage) is a similarly site-specific, publicly performed architectural structure made of rope. The piece, erected in Joubert Park, Johannesburg South Africa (2007), twists the idea of ‘public space’ by its double activation: first, through the volunteers who stretch its form outward and around them; [...]
holy crap. who knew anyone remembered the dominant seven? somebody just emailed me this link via the cornell alumni magazine. a little snip:
… Nat Stern spent most of his time in Ithaca leading the town’s reigning dance band, The Dominant 7, but he also slept in Goldwin Smith with the rest [...]
If you haven’t noticed, my main site has had a massive overhaul, with which the royal ‘we’ are very pleased.
Besides the new design, some new work and texts have been added in the upgrade process, most notably the digital and traditional prints I did at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium this summer, the Johannesburg-based [...]
Moved a bunch of stuff around on my servers today, in preparation for the big update on Monday (I hope on Monday!). A simple refresh should give you exactly what you are looking for in most cases (like if images are missing), very close to it in all (like, you may be redirected to the [...]
Sorry, this has little to do with my work or art, but…
I’ve been recommending hostgator to students and friends for years - they are fantastic: never down, have a great control panel, huge amounts of space and resources, unlimited domains and traffic, and I’ve never waited more than 1 minute when entering the live chat [...]
Back in the office today, despite battling a cold. Re-reading Manovich and Paul to see what I can use in chapter 2 of my dissertation, rather than diving right back into the hard-core stuff, like Massumi and Hansen (most of which will go into chapter one, which will be an extended version of this paper). [...]
New UK community for artists and filmakers - some fees involved on parts of the site, other parts are free.
Ripple.
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It’s been re-blogged several times already, but I want to re-iterate that Paddy Johnson is really smart. Again. The former link is especially relevant to me, given my recent printmaking adventures, which touch on several kinds of expression and abstraction, through time and performance (among other things)…
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