Month: May 2015

  • A conversation with Persian-American Safa Samiezadé-Yazd — a local artist who’s worked on a national level for Aslan Media and Boomgen Studios — first opened Eric Dallimore’s eyes to the unique position of her culture-straddling compatriots in America: Iranian-American artists struggle not only with their mixed cultural identity, but also with the question of whether…

  • While it makes sense to rely more on competent people, Koval says that it’s important for co-workers and partners to recognize how much stress they are putting on those people by doing so. Being a Go-Getter Is No Fun – The Atlantic

  • Also of note: Michael Menchaca’s “Neo-Chicano Vista,” a video installation that looks a bit like an Aztec-themed computer game; RISD students exhibit work ranging from polished to playful – Entertainment & Life – providencejournal.com – Providence, RI

  • Screencaps and images by the author Last week, new media artists Sara Ludy and Emilie Gervais gave life to and animated #IRL, a web-based performance presented during London art fair, ART15. Curated by the London-based Valentina Fois, the collaborative project invited both artists to mix and intersect their practices for a unique kind of 3-days-long dialogue. Generated by both IRL…

  • Aurora cordially invites all emerging and established artists working with light, video, sound, digital, internet-based work and/or performance to submit proposals for Aurora in 2015: All Together Now. Proposals should explore innovative approaches to a free public art event that transforms the neighborhood of the Dallas Arts District (68 acres/19 city blocks of downtown Dallas,…

  • Ancient Greek Punishment: Art Edition Edition A literal reflection of the commodification of objects mounted on gallery walls, this is a video game in which you play a video game. Hijacking users’ webcams, Barr re-creates the reflection of a viewer on a sheet of museum glass that divides them from art. It’s a meta-game that…

  • Conclusions Here I’d like to list a few thoughts emerged during the workshop. First of all, we realized that Calibre’s “Edit Book” function is a great tool for quickly prototyping ideas as EPUB files, thanks to its advanced WYSIWYG editor with syntax highlight and the possibility to directly replace images and other files. The development…

  • kenyatta: rafaelfajardo: where is this from? rafaelfajardo it’s from a Channel 4 Chris Marker doc series on the Greek connection to modern Western culture called The Owl’s Legacy (the Onassis Foundation commissioners were so offended that it never made it to broadcast in Greece.) This is from his interview with Cornelius Castoriadis. There are download links for the…

  • vjeranski: Felix Gonzales-Torres, Untitled, 1991

  • shrinkrants: lesstalkmoreillustration: WRDBNR wrdbnr Who said, “It is the copying that originates.”?