Jumpsuits & Teleporters
Whitney Dail was born in Alexandria, VA to a Naval aviator and an artist-entrepreneur, and was raised in Annapolis, MD. For five years, Whitney worked as a graphic designer in the comic book industry but returned to school in 2009 to pursue a better-suited Master's degree in Arts Administration. She is currently in the process of writing and researching her thesis on expanding art, science, and technology interactions in U.S. cultural institutions.
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What day is today?
This is an image from a poster in a museum. Should we say things are in order now?
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Tell Congress: Don’t censor the Web
Fighting online piracy is important. The most effective way to shut down pirate websites is through targeted legislation that cuts off their funding. There’s no need to make American social networks, blogs and search engines censor the Internet or undermine the existing laws that have enabled the Web to thrive, creating millions of U.S. jobs.
Too much is at stake – please vote NO on PIPA and SOPA.
Please sign the petition here: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Attention artists using technology and digital media! Established in 2010, The Creator’s Project, a partnership between Intel and VICE, is an online platform-network that celebrates creativity, culture, and technology. Their new initiative The Studio offers opportunities to artists for funding, showcasing, technological access, and support for collaborations to create and spread their work. This includes creative projects in visual art, music, gaming, film, design, fashion, and more. I’m interested to see what they come up with next.
Collaboration is in. But it may not be conducive to creativity.
Pearl B. Marsh
In researching my grandmother I’ve discovered a tidbit about the changing art world and thought I would share. This is from an article in The Narragansett Times from July 1981. Unfortunately, I don’t know the name of the author since the article is a xerox copy.
Pearl Marsh has a habit of allowing things to be simply said. She has definite opinions on the changes she’s seen in the art world since graduating second in her class from Rhode Island School of Design in 1928. Yes, there have been changes. Lots of them. For example, “People used to judge art shows for the honor of doing it. Now, if you want a judge, you pay them,” she said. “I can’t go along with those things.”She was a highly regarded illustrator living in the North East (outside of New York) and had a long career specializing in portraiture and landscapes. The article closes with her laughing and saying, “Old painters never die, they just paint away.”
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A film about Hope, Fear and Digital Culture.
Mel Bochner, Oh Well, 2010, oil and acrylic on two canvases, 100 x 75 inches. Courtesy Peter Freeman Inc., New York © Mel Bochner 2011
I saw this painting at the National Gallery of Art’s In the Tower: Mel Bochner exhibition over the holidays. It was great to see Bochner’s thesaurus series paintings since I’m most familiar with his conceptual measurements and oil stick works. The pieces are based on synonyms and slang or catch phrases that make you laugh out loud. But this painting (and Die too) is my favorite; it made me think of my dad who has Parkinson’s Disease and how hard “get over it” and “learn to live with it” really is. This painting makes me laugh. It’s funny. And it puts a satirical spin on negatively associated words. But my dad is an aeronautical engineer, not an artist. So when I told him about the painting he didn’t get it. He chuckled though. I think that’s the best response, especially since I told him I was going to hang it in his office.
P.S. We had a huge culture cram during the holidays including the MoMA, Guggenheim, Wired Store, National Air & Space Museum, American Museum of Natural History, and more.
