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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
Howdy all. If you remember, early last year I developed a new WordPress theme as part of the launch of SAartsEmerging.org – promoting and critiquing emerging South African artists. That site is now maintained by Bronwyn Lace and Rat Western, and you should keep an eye out for upcoming changes. Given the popularity of this [...]
The extremely underrated Greg Shakar will have a (I think his first) solo exhibition opening at the new Greylock Arts gallery in Massachusetts – an endeavor by the wonderful and wondrous Marianne Petit and her partner Matthew Belanger. The former was my supervisor when I was at ITP; she is a total star many times [...]
blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party [...]
Hey All: Been in Wales at this conference over the last 5 days or so, and lots has happened in the world since then, so this’ll be a kind of ranty catch-up of random and, depending on who you are and what you like, potentially unimportant things. Nicole and my presentations went pretty well, thanks [...]
There’s the “Body in Quotes” panel at the Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States conference in Second Life. Sponsored by Ars Virtua New Media Center, and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and hosted at the Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds). From stage left to stage right is Xerxes Druart (Stuart Bunt of SymbioticA) , [...]
The ‘Remains’ panel discussion @ Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States, from letft to right: Rubaiyat Shatner (James Morgan, Ars Virtua), JOE Languish (Laura Jones, anthropologist and archaeologist), Chloe Mahfouz (Renée Ridgway, artist & curator), Kliger Dinkin (Brad Kligerman, artist & architect). Yesterday marked my own first interaction with other avatars in SL, and, unfortunately for [...]
Thursday, Friday and Saturday will see the Borders, Boundaries & Liminal States conference in Second Life. Sponsored by Ars Virtua New Media Center, and the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, and hosted at the Amphitheater on Learning (NMC Virtual Worlds), this series of talks and panel discussions (followed by q&a), “will explore how borders are [...]
“The words were treated as a kind of incantation, as if they enveloped something of the desired event, contained its trace. Their repetition deposited a trace of the event in each of the contexts, gradually coloring the everyday world. Conversely, each context left its own trace in the words. It is as if the words [...]
This blog is 4 years old today. I don’t recall being 4, really, but according to the stories I’ve heard, I mostly enjoyed it. Lately I’ve been obsessing over scanner art on the Internet, trying to find anyone else who has been doing things on the more performative side (like Compressionism), and also remembering (I [...]
Howdy y’all. Apologies for the lack of updates on this blog or my daughter’s site over the last few weeks. I realize now that I really only cut out a few hours per week (my online teaching), but added a full-time PhD post, a daughter, a new country to learn, and (the usual) a few [...]
