Merry Christmakkah! Happy new year! The turkey is defrosting (mmmm, bourbon basting), Sidonie stayed up late (for a two year old) last night eating chocolate and playing with her new doll house from her ouma (OMG I have the cutest daughter ever), and I have little bit of morning to pound out a blog on [...]
So I’ve been in Milwaukee for three months now, nearly four, and things are finally starting to settle. My first semester of classes is over, I’m finishing up my dissertation, am all unpacked, and even have a one-night show with one of my art classes opening this Friday (more on that tomorrow). It’s time to [...]
I managed to make it to Kenilworth Studios, UWM‘s Union Gallery, Spackle Gallery and the Armoury Gallery for this Fall’s Gallery Night (and Day) in Milwaukee. Below is a slide show – I recommend full-screen mode, and hit the “info” key to see titles of works and names of artists. My best part was def [...]
There’s a brief review of the Jozi and the (M)other City net.art site on Artthrob, by Chad Rossouw. Snip on me: Nathaniel Stern, a natural on the web, produced the most engaging work. He challenged the above-mentioned Sean O’Toole to live without electricity for a day. The documentation of their correspondence is a good insight [...]
Radio silence. It is mine. But not today. In the last few weeks, I’ve turned in a draft of my dissertation, moved out of Dublin, been to Zurich, and now I’m seeing friends and family in Johannebsurg before our big move back to the states (for me and Nicole – Sidonie has never lived there!). [...]
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 / [...]
You can tell I’m uber uber busy (who isn’t? But I still used to make time for blogging…) when I am not only posting very infrequently, but also mostly / only in response to comments left here (and it’s not as if my comments section is very forthcoming). Last week it was something on my [...]
Marcus Neustetter and my net.art project / turbulence commission circa 2005, getawayexperiment.net, has been written up on the project page for artthrob this month, by their newly appointed new media editor, Chad Rossouw. Link. First, a congratulations to Chad on his new position – I’ve read some of his writings and know he can be [...]
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 [...]
LoVid gives one of their Hand-Cranked Luminescent Jewelery workshops Dublin’s new Science Gallery kicked off with HUGE crowds last Friday, and hosted international stars (and a few newcomers) of the media art scene, including the likes of LoVid, Graffiti Research Lab, portable palace and many others (these are just the ones I saw speak at [...]
A little overwhelming at first, the new artreview.com web site (currently in beta) has some really great features, the potential to pair up emerging artists with known entities (a plus), and to sustain a growing interest in the contemporary, fine and visual arts despite the upcoming American recession (whose effects people are arguing over in [...]
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 [...]
Here. 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)… Tags: Compressionism, art, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, [...]
Implicit Art, or as I more often call it, Implicit Body Art, is art that asks us to move in ways we normally wouldn’t, pushing the boundaries of performativity and affect. A different mode of thinking about interactive art – whether for critique or production or both – the Implicit Manifesto does not look to [...]
The Dublin Art and Technology Association, originally founded by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Nicky Gogan, was re-launched after a year-long hiatus, as as part of this year’s Darklight Festival, last night. Featured works / artists included: Paul Makepeace, a technologist who donates much of his income to artists, and encourages others who make decent cash to [...]
Of money, meaning and artists in residence is a lovely response to our artist talk and work by Tom Chance, while Paddy’s insightful review is slightly more critical (especially of my own work). It inspired a great conversation, actually, and I’m excited about where I might go with the next Wireframe, as I think through [...]
Forgot to blog this, an interview I did with Paddy, and also hers with Kathryn. Awesome. Actually, as you would imagine, the iCommons site is booming right now, so I highly recommend the feed. Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, iSummit07, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, reviews, south african art, stimulus, theory
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 [...]
I’ve just finished reading my friend Justine’s first trilogy, Magic or Madness – Young Adult Fiction – and it’s great. Mostly intended for teens (without condescending to them), and widely read by adults — her husband, an old friend of my wife’s, Scott, has been on the NYT bestseller list a few times – I’ve [...]
