Below are my lecture notes from the beginning of my talk to MICA’s Summer MFA in Studio Art, and Graduate Art Education students.
The second half of the talk featured various artworks of mine that can be found by looking under the artworks category on this blog or clicking the projects tab in the [...]
As a side note to what I just posted, and rooted in randomness and chance, and based on the facts that I’m about to head up to Bard College for a few weeks, and that last week I had dinner with a friend of my father’s who is a biologist whose focus is starfish and [...]
I’d like to clarify something I wrote at the end of my last post.
Randomness, as defined by the dictionary, and applied broadly to the world at large i.e., the world is random, is an intellectual construct. A random world would be governed solely by variability, so nothing would be invariable – there wouldn’t be, [...]
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transmediale.09 Award Competition – Call
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transmediale.09 – DEEP NORTH
festival for art and digital culture berlin
27 January – 1 February 2009
club transmediale.09 – STRUCTURES
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
23 – 31 January 2009
_Call for Entries_
:: Deadline: 5 September 2008
:: Award Ceremony: 31 January 2009
Find the complete call and submission form for download [...]
I’ve been doing some work in a small room with a sliding glass door that opens to the rear of my father’s house. I’ve been leaving this door unlocked, and a moment ago I tried to slide it open and found that the movement of the door was impeded by a small piece of [...]
I don’t work with freshman much, but because I’m in a new technology department I’m on committees that think about curricula development in regard to incoming undergrads.
Having taught an intro to electronic media and culture course a few times over the years I have often mentioned to colleagues that I observed what I [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O_t7pdCfoA
Trecartin describes Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me as a “narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail.” Trecartin’s intense visualization of electronic communication is inhabited by a cast of stylized characters: Pam, a Jewish lesbian librarian with a screaming baby in an ultra-modern hotel room; Tammy and Beth, who live in an [...]
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i’m in rural massachusetts writing on my laptop in a library and i’m thinking about all those books stacked around me and how they are tangible instantiations of other bodies of knowledge accumulated and developed by people i’ll never know.
i’ll never read the majority of the books here, (the librarian says there are [...]
while cleaning out my apartment prior to my move a few days ago i found a set of keys and a pen-knife key-chain that belonged to a ‘ 77 blue chevy impala i once owned, and drove across the usa and parts of canada twice. while i owned the car i didn’t have a [...]