Recently in Art Category
Because I am completely barking mad, I've decided to attempt both NaNoWriMo and DrawMo this month. So far DrawMo is winning, as "Lanterns" indicates, but I have several things kicking around for the story already. I'm trying to decide if a series of interconnected short stories counts as cheating for NaNoWriMo. I hope not. (Hey, if people can publish such things as novels, I think I'm in the clear – and coming out of this with a handful of short stories I can shop around would be worth its weight in gold.
I'm also wondering if conference/journal proposals and interviews should count towards the word count – on this I'm leaning towards definitely not, which is too bad – I've been writing more of those lately than I care to think about!
A new piece for my portfolio: the artwork that I created for the ABSINTHE multimedia arts salon that I emceed this past weekend in Union Square...
Big props to Joelle for putting together this awesome event! (And, for the curious, a link to the original beautiful art that inspired this piece. The original is full of rich, vibrant colors, but I wanted to keep mine largely grayscale with only a few accent colors to make them really pop – the green of the absinthe, of course, but also the sky blue of the hope in her eyes – and to drive home the cool, chilly, metallic tone of her artificial existence. La belle epoxy, if you will.)
Don't mind me, just trying to get my drawing skills back – which have apparently atrophied worse than a fish's feet.
For the MIT homepage sometime next week, hopefully. Click to enlarge slightly.
My favorite bit is the airship, which Philip had me add late in the game. Good call, cap'n:
I'm such a nerd. I saw the New York Times headline "Charles Simic, Surrealist With Dark View, Is Named Poet Laureate" and almost shouted "COOL!" in the office. Heh.
Seriously, though. COOL!
I've been reluctant to upgrade from Adobe CS1 to CS2, but now SXSW alum Joshua Davis has been interviewed by Adobe, and he makes it sound pretty sweet. There may be reason not to wait until the Flash-integrated CS3 after all.
Today is a day for much art, apparently. Courtesy of my friend Barry, check out the beautiful works of Dutch paper artist Peter Callesen.
Tonight CMS is holding a special Colloquium roundtable on New Media and Art, which features Lauren Cornell from rhizome.org. I'm looking forward to this; Rhizome has been one of those sites that flits across my radar every couple of months, in part because of stories like this:
The work is based on a simple concept: playing voice recordings through high power audio amplifiers and feeding them through large 1000 watt light bulbs. The tungsten and glass materials of the bulbs act as rich but band-limited filters, resulting sometimes in understandable whispers, other times purely synthetic tones, creating flowing and ebbing waves of light and sound.
More information on the piece can be found at artificiel.org, although it's in French. This is one of those pieces that pushes my "yep, that's art" button – it's evocative, moody and beautiful regardless of the technology used or the message it's directly attempting to convey.
I'm closing some tabs, so forgive the slightly out-of-date news here, but there's some interesting stuff afoot at The Museum of Modern Art in NYC: a new "Media" curatorial department. According to the press release, Klaus Biesenbach, "a curator in the Museum's department of Film and Media and Chief Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center", will be heading the new department, which will "focus on contemporary art that reflects recent and current artistic practice, including moving image installations, exhibitions, and presentations of soun- and time-based works that are made for an presented in a gallery setting". Museum Director Glenn D. Lowry is quoted in the release as saying, "The creation of a new department at MoMA devoted exclusively to media-based art acknowledges the growing importance of new technologies in contemporary artistic expression." Neat.
I stumbled across this earlier this weekend while cruising Technorati for art links: Nick Bantock Original Mail Art For Sale. $500 is awfully steep, but the "Bird-dragon fragile temperament envelope" would be fantastic framed in my studio.
