Wikipedia Art launch – TODAY! SEE THE INTERVIEW A collaborative project initiated by Nathaniel Stern and Scott Kildall, Wikipedia Art is art composed on Wikipedia, and thus art that anyone can edit. Since the work itself manifests as a conventional Wikipedia page, would-be art editors are required to follow Wikipedia’s enforced standards of quality and [...]
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“Yeah, I’m the unlikely cable news host. But before that I was the unlikely Rhodes scholar. And before that I was the unlikely kid who got into Stanford. And then I was the unlikely lifeguard. You can always cast yourself as unlikely when you’re fundamentally alienated in your worldview. It’s a healthy approach for a [...]
MyArtSpace is a kind of myspace/facebook-like networked community for artists and arts workers, with online portfolios along the lines of artreview and saatchi, but US-side, and run by young ‘uns. Their best feature is probably their homegrown blog and its interviews with mostly young and emerging artists. They have a few competitions in the works: [...]
The fantabulous Marianne Petit and Matthew Belanger (Greylock Arts), along with the – also great – turbulence.org, launch a new project worth checking out…. An interactive light installation (re)connecting personal artifacts, histories, & communities. Online at: turbulence.org/works/newadams/lumens Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery51, and Turbulence are pleased to announce Lumens, an interactive light installation by artists Ven [...]
Had a great email exchange with Brian Sherwin of myartspace.com over the last few days, which culminated as an interview published on the myartspace blog. There’re bits on my work, dissertation, inspirations, even a question on Creative Commons and a few other little tidbits not published anywhere else to date. Check it out. snip / [...]
For my South African readers: ArtHeat is calling for submissions for it’s new Project page. Depending on funds this will be happening every three months on a permanent basis. Here’s the deal: ArtHeat is offering a grant of up to R1500 to any artist or group towards the production of new work. The medium is [...]
Last night’s DATA, featuring Karl Klomp, Wolf Lieser and Jane Tynan, and part of the Darklight Festival (organized by Caroline Campbell and hosted by yours truly) was extremely rad. Ben’s photos will be up soon, and in the interim, I highly recommend doing a little googling on these three – especially interesting to me were [...]
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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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 [...]
The Dublin Art and Technology Association is having a hot month! 8pm Tuesday 29 April Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin Guests: Alessandro Ludovico (Italia), Jaime Villarreal (Mexico), Ivan Twohig (Ireland) See the flyer at full size. DATA:EVENT:30 – * Special 30th Event Anniversary* Alessandro Ludovico (Italia): Alessandro Ludovico, 1969, lives and works in Bari, Italy. [...]
I had to post this beautifully understated new video work by Doron Golan. Till Joseph flies to hide the biting tears (2008, 48MB, 5.20 min.) Michael Szpakowski, also of DVblog, says (via rhizome): …this is great & quite the strangest thing you’ve ever made. The tone is quite disturbing, made me quite nervous, but it’s [...]
My hard drive died last week, which sucked. I didn’t lose anything important like art or my PhD (thank goodness), but it’s taken days just to get back to running, due to file and email jumbles on various drives, etc (still not quite there, and will have some crazy organizing to do in my spare [...]
Fantastic interview here. Snippet: Two years ago Caitlin Jones observed in NYFA Current that net artists working in multiple formats were increasingly finding venues to show. Today, the art world is still figuring out how to manage the practicalities of dealer and artist relationships. I spoke with Aron Namenwirth, of artMovingProjects, in an effort to [...]
Joel and Dave playing with openframeworks and arduino This weekend I went and took a 2-day workshop on openframeworks with Zach Lieberman and Theo Watson – the class was mostly a bunch of cool designers and artists from London – orgnanized by tinker.it at the Paddington Arts Center. These are two great guys, trying to [...]
A fantastic artist and friend, with a real sense of community, someone who knows her way around – and helps to drive art on – the internet as well as the studio (not to mention kitchen: Joy and I were on residence in Croatia together for iCommons last year, and she made some fantastic meals), [...]
I wrote this post on a long lost high school friend and current rock star a while back, and so it seems some Ingrid Michaelson fans (good taste ladies and gents) are winding up on my blog. If you are one of them, you should be aware of a live chat with Ingrid this weekend. [...]
Workshop by Benjamin Gaulon (Recyclism™), Lourens Rozema (Blue Melon), with the support of Tim Redfern (Eclectronics) for the Dublin Art and Technology Association the February 2nd-3rd at the Moxie Studio Dublin. Summary: Moore’s law dictates that the complexity of computer chips doubles each 18 months. This causes a rapid decrease in the value of existing [...]
I rarely look up a song I’ve heard on television. Maybe on a late night show now and again (I think I found Corinne Bailey Ray thanks to a meta-late night show, Studio 60), or something in a movie, but on TV, not so much. But after the third time I had turned to my [...]
