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Great 3D animation post/job in South Africa

My old stomping ground (Wits School of the Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand) in Joburg has a 3D/animation post available. Great, small department in Africa’s coolest city. I’m happy to answer questions for anyone interested. Digital Arts is advertising for a new post in 2010. Please can you forward this to anyone you [...]

Jimmy Wales talks Art and Wikipedia

Nice to see Jimbo talk about Art and Wikipedia. It’s worth a read if only to hear how carefully Wikipedia’s figure-head thinks and speaks in relation to notability and possibilities with arts coverage on Wikipedia. I agree with all of what he says (although it’s admittedly very noncommittal – so hard to disagree with), and [...]

Night Work / Distill Life

Documentation of several pieces from Night Work, with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, is now live. Night Work, an exhibition featuring Milwaukee-based art professors and instructors at the artist-run Armoury Gallery, premiered my new body of collaborative works with printmaker Jessica Meuninck-Ganger. Playfully called “Distill Life,” this ongoing series of art objects combines hand-made works on paper [...]

Wikipedia Art madness

You probably heard about the threat of a lawsuit from Wikimedia on Wikipedia Art by now, but just in case: Here’s how we went public, on EFF: Wikipedia Threatens Artists for Fair Use Here’s the legal history on our site. And it exploded, of course, when it got slashdotted. I urge readers to make their [...]

Art Connect

Implicit Art gets a thoughtful and good review on Art Connect. It’s rare to see so much time taken to reflect what makes a good blog, or a good art site, and this space does both. Check it. Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, inbox, me, milwaukee art, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, south [...]

Milwaukee first Upgrade! Sunday APril 19th

Upgrade! Milwaukee presents Patrick Lichty and Christopher Burns! Sunday April 19, 7 – 9 PM MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave Milwaukee, WI 53204 Please come to our first-ever Upgrade! Milwaukee, featuring Chicago-based Patrick Lichty and Milwaukee’s own Christopher Burns! patrick lichty Patrick Lichty (b.1962)  is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, independent curator, animator for the [...]

Public Lectures and Exhibitions in Milwaukee and Johannesburg

Last night saw the opening of Night Work at The Armoury Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Some great responses, surprise guests, new show offers, decent sales – a really great Milwaukee debut for both me and Jessica (my collaborator). Thanks to everyone who helped, came out, etc. For those who didn’t make it, the show was [...]

What is important

Although I’ve been keeping a low profile in the public debates about Wikipedia Art, I have had a few ongoing and private discussions with its critics and supporters. With his OK, the below is an excerpt from an email I wrote to Tom Moody yesterday. —– The main issue for me is not whether I [...]

Wikipedia Art: so irrelevant we can’t stop talking about it (updated)

More 50-50, keep / delete discussions around Wikipedia Art, but now the debate is on Rhizome, and by the gatekeepers of, and participants in, the art blogosphere. I particularly love Curt Cloninger’s response to Tom Moody on Rhizome. Moody is a kind of anti-Lichty, being just as voiciferous in his dislike of the project, as [...]

Durova: Wikipedia Art and media restoration

Durova: Wikipedia Art and media restoration A worthy re-post, not really related to the Wikipedia Art project. I don’t think my own work is exactly suitable, but hopefully some of my readers might be able to get involved. Wikipedia had one of its more interesting deletion discussions overnight.  A page called Wikipedia Art lasted about [...]

Jimmy Wales likes Wikipedia Art

That’s right. The co-founder of Wikipedia has joined the Facebook Group for Wikipedia Art. How’s that for some credibility? If only these guys agreed (still marked for deletion). The group. Or click image to see that he is a member – this is for real, people. Tags: Ireland Art, Links, art, art and tech, creative [...]

Wikipedia Art

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 [...]

UW-Milwaukee Grad Student feature: Brandon Bauer

This is the first in a series of MFA student features from the graduate program I work in at Peck School of the Arts,  the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. These will be cross-posted on the MyArtSpace.com blog. UW-Milwaukee Grad Student features are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Brandon Bauer is [...]

NO, REALLY. SUPPORT TURBULENCE. SERIOUSLY.

Tis the season to be giving. Remember: net.art and digital art and interactive art would not be where they are today without turbulence.org. They don’t offer memberships, don’t have a community list-serv, don’t have comments on their site. But every other major community -with memberships or not- is constantly and consistently talking about what they [...]

‘material’ at the Kunzelmann-Esser Gallery, Milwaukee

one night only at the Kunzelmann-Esser Gallery Friday, December 12th 6-10pm Kunzelmann-Esser Gallery 710 West Historic Mitchell Street, Second Floor Milwaukee material is a one night exhibition of audio and video installation including interactive, experimental, formalistic, and political work. Artists Include Jesse Egan, Sean Kafer, Kim Ziegler, Kris Martinez, Nicholas Teeple, Matthew Dunlop and Garrett [...]

Princeton University – Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective

Princeton University – Evolution’s new wrinkle: Proteins with cruise control provide new perspective A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered that chains of proteins found in most living organisms act like adaptive machines, possessing the ability to control their own evolution. read it. Tags: news and politics, re-blog tidbits, technology

SUPPORT TURBULENCE.ORG

It only takes a sec, and even a couple of bucks (instead of that cup o’ morning Joe) helps them WAY more than it hurts you. In this time of financial crisis, we NEED to support spaces that support us. Turbulence is one of the few new media art commissioning institutions around, and the only [...]

SPRAWL: Group Exhibition in Milwaukee

[November 7-23 2008] [Borg Ward Collective] [823 W. National Ave, Milwaukee, WI] [Opening Nov 7 6-10pm] [Gallery Talk Nov 7, 7pm, Music to Follow] [Gallery Hours Fridays 4-8pm Saturdays 12-5pm, or by appointment: gridworks1@gmail.com] [http://www.master-list2000.com/sprawl/] [Participating Artists]: Ric Stultz, Annushka Gisella Peck, Gina Rymarcsuk, Brandon Bauer, Bathas TV, Paul Fuchs, A. Bill miller, Lane Hall [...]

Writing for Rhizome.org: Act/React at the Milwaukee Art Museum

A review I penned of the Act/React Milwaukee Art Musem exhibition is on the front page of Rhizome today, and will be in their DIGEST this weekend. Teaser: Action, Reaction, and Phenomenon Image: Daniel Rozin, Snow Mirror, 2006. Computer, custom software, video camera, projector, silk. Dimensions variable. Edition of 6. (Courtesy of bitforms gallery, New [...]

Peck School of the Arts, UWM Open House this Saturday. Kenilworth Sqare East, Milwaukee Wisconsin

Come check out grad student and faculty art works at the Kenilworth Square East Open House this Saturday, part of Gallery Night and Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! I’ll be installing a guerrilla version of my award-winning interactive installation, stuttering, to help promote the new Interdisciplinary Arts & Technology program (currently known as DIVAS), and more [...]