Had a fairly productive week working on my dissertation, and am now off to Belfast for a self-proclaimed long weekend - to celebrate Sid’s 2nd birthday, Nicole and my 6-year wedding anniversary, and my own birthday (all of these in the span of 2 weeks)! We’ve never been up to Northern Ireland, and I have [...]
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hat tip: Ivan Durt (Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium)
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Fragments: GREAT ART for €40
Fragments provides a fabulous opportunity to own and collect great, new, contemporary art. All works in the series have been created by established artists specifically for this project by the Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery.
Each Fragments artist revisits his or her existing work, and takes a fragment or detail or still from [...]
ESCAPE TO ROBBEN ISLAND (2008)
On the 21st of March in 2007 Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf began their collaborative project with the somewhat austere brief ‘Build a boat, grow a beard’. Various exhibitions, events, interventions and intercessions, such as planting an apple tree in Paradise, translating Anton Szandor La Vey’s Satanic Bible into Afrikaans and [...]
The rumors have already started to float, so I might as well confirm: I’ve accepted a full-time, tenure-track post as Assistant Professor of Digital Studio Practice in the Visual Arts Department, Peck School of the Arts, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). My contract starts this August.
It’s a great department / school / university and, [...]
I’m presenting a bit from my dissertation (some writing and works from chapters 1, 2 and mostly 4 - not that it’s done) at this conference at the University College of Dublin in a few weeks. If last year’s graduate student conference on philosophy and embodiment was any indication, this year’s should be grand.
UCD Intercorporeality [...]
A few weeks ago, I watched a staged reading of David Strattan White’s play Simulations, at The Walking Fish Theater in Philadelphia. Simulations is a play inspired by the world of the computer game, The Sims. It imagines two people in the real world, two people in The Sims world and one person who might [...]
For those of you who don’t know, I’m a huge supporter of Creative Commons (CC), and more specifically iCommons. The former is an organization dedicated to open source coding and content for creative technologists, designers, artists, musicians, scientists (and more!), and promotes access and re-mixing through distribution licenses that are alternatives to copyright worldwide. The [...]
via NYT:
Robert Rauschenberg, the irrepressibly prolific American artist who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, died Monday night. He was 82….
A painter, photographer, printmaker, choreographer, onstage performer, set designer and, in later years, even a composer, Mr. Rauschenberg defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. He [...]
