January 2012
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WatchAttention 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....
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The Rise of the New Groupthink →
Collaboration is in. But it may not be conducive to creativity.
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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...
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“…film and particularly the manner of its creation, holds steadfast as a...”
– Lukas Feireiss on Stephen Spielberg’s film Minority Report (2002) anticipating technological advances. From his essay “Eureka! Creative Exploration Between Invention, Inspiration, and Intuition” in A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences.
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November 2011
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“…an alliance is overdue, and can be achieved through the medium of...”
– E. O. Wilson, from “The Arts and their Interpretation” in Consilience.
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Calling ArtScience Practitioners!
I’m writing my master’s thesis on cultural institutions that foster the art, science, and technology nexus. The goal is to examine how institutional growth within this field has taken place in the United States compared to Europe as well as around the globe, and make recommendations for expansion in the US.
My research involves two survey elements:
1. If you work at an organization...
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From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration
I’ve been working on a project with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC - From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration, part one of a two-part NASA-sponsored exhibition and it opens this Saturday! For more information, visit moon.cofc.edu. Also, check out this article in The Post and Courier: Lunar Exploration: Art and Science Interact in C of C Exhibits, Moonfest.
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August 2011
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“Good artwork is always more than the sum of it’s parts and operates like...”
– From Art and Science by Sian Ede
July 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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"This is the Kind of Museum I Want to Make!"
News of Japan’s disasterous earthquake/tsunami has me google-searching museums to see if there’s any news of what is affected and unaffected. I’m relieved to read from several museum that they are OK and their employees and guests were unharmed. I also came across this wonderful list by Studio Ghibli’s Executive Director, Hayao Miyazaki, noted Japanese animator. It brought...
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“In the early stages, if you try and set something on a path and say that’s...”
– Buzz Aldrin, from “Buzz Aldrin, Tom Sachs, and Louise Neri in Conversation” in Tom Sachs: Space Program.
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The Met's Salon-Style Galleries
Last week I mentioned Gary Tinterow’s lecture about building the Metropolitan Museum’s collection and what the gallery displays used to look like. The lecture can be seen in full at SCAD’s DeFINE Art site here. These images were taken from his slide show to illustrate what I was talking about earlier.
February 2011
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Display Patterns at the Met
Gary Tinterow. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (via).
Here’s another report on a DeFINE Art lecture, Gary Tinterow on “Building the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Tinterow is the Engelhard Curator in Charge of the new Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art. His voice sounds remarkably like John...
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Belief or Agnosticism in Art
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.
Sarah Thornton came to Savannah this week for SCAD’s DeFINE Art program to speak about her book Seven Days in the Art World. Before taking the stage, she wore a sleek microphone-headset and either forgot or didn’t realize it was on when she burst into a cackle at the Dean of Fine Arts’ humored introduction. Needless to say, it broke the ice...
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The Arts as a Scientific Tool
This week’s thesis research has involved reading scholarly works from Edward Shanken (New Media Historian), Brigitte Steinheider (Psychologist with a focus on interdisciplinary collaborations), and Robert Root-Bernstein (Physiologist with an interest in art-science interactions). Generally, I’ve been reading about interdisciplinarity. However, these individuals believe that artists are...
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Thesis Progress
This week was tough. I had a meeting with my committee chair about the work I’ve completed thus far on my thesis only to find that I was off-task; my new direction was too specific to NASA. The point of the Arts Administration Master’s thesis is to make the research specific to the field of arts management—take the subject of art-science collaborations and make...
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WatchDan Goods talks about working with NASA/JPL as Visual Strategist. Dan is an example of a creative person with a background in art and design working in the field of science. His goal is to make experiences for people to experience science. There’s a funny segment at the beginning of this video where he lists the normal steps for getting a job with JPL and then the ‘alternative...
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“The NASA Artists’ Cooperation Program provides valuable evidence about...”
– From Anne Collins Goodyear’s NASA and the Political Economy of Art, 1962-1974 in The Political Economy of Art (2008).
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January 2011
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The Changing Role of Art Museums
Pipilotti Rist at The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Anne Helmond.
Beyond exhibition and education, the role of the art museum is to build a seminal collection worthy of study and conservation. However, recent declines in funding and attendance set arts administrators on edge. They fear museums are not communicating with the public and losing audience-base. Historian Thomas Crow observes in The...
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Painting is Alive and Well
Summer Wheat, Ravenous Eye-Sucker, 2010.
Aya Takano, The Many Layers of Air: Shinjuku, 2010.
Elizabeth Peyton, Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008, 2008.
George Condo, Improvised Figures, 2010.
Lisa Yuskavage, Safety Orange, 2010.
Raymond Pettibon, No Title, 2010.
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Homespun Museums
Too often do we take for granted the organization of a museum’s collection. When the success of an organization is significantly due to preservation of a legacy and storage is not an option, displays are filled to the brim with donations of personal memorabilia, family heirlooms, and rare artifacts—each bearing a story. This is mostly seen in the case of small nonprofit organizations...
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Top 5 Dream Jobs (Updated)
Last year’s list of dream jobs needs an update. Revisions are italicized.
1. Bert Ulrich’s job: NASA Art Curator & Visual Identity
2. Art critic / researcher
3. Director, curator, or art educator
4. Studio manager / project manager… for Tom Sachs
5. Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies / Information Arts
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Thesis Starts Now!
I have to start writing my thesis… Today is the first day of Winter quarter and I am registered for my last class towards my masters: Arts Administration M.A. Thesis. I’m excited to get started, but the break was so long—6 weeks out of the swing. Now I need to dive in and continue my research and start writing. As of right now, my working title is “Convergent Innovation:...
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VA-22 and the USS Coral Sea
I’ve been trying to get info from my dad about his time flying A-7s on the USS Coral Sea, flying adversary for Top Gun, etc. Sadly, I know so little. But every now and then he emails me photos with tidbits about his Naval career. Here’s some photos that he took during his time on the USS Coral Sea circa 1973. His attack squadron was VA-22 The Fighting Red Cocks.
He...
December 2010
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Never Enough Books on the Shelf
Every time I go to the bookstore, I end up with an endless wishlist. I like to take pictures of books to remember to order them later on (life after thesis).
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Naval Aviator's Change of Command Speech
The following speech was emailed to me by my dad, a retired Naval aviator.
Change Of Command Dinner speech by CDR “Beef” Wellington, former USN VFA-203 “Blue Dolphins” C.O.
Two days ago I closed out my career as a Naval Aviator. The realization is just now starting to hit me, as I’m sure it will the rest of you someday. What follows are my remarks at my farewell...
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ABMB 2010 Highlights
Last weekend Jonathan and I headed to Miami for Art Basel. What a ride! I hate to use the word educational, but as a soon-to-be Arts Administration graduate looking for an industry job, I was happy to see Art Basel Miami at least once. (I might make it next year or the year after… or I might not. Who knows.) Seeing that much art in one place and at one given time is exhausting. It’s...
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Aboard the USS Yorktown
Built during World War II, the USS Yorktown is the tenth aircraft carrier to serve in the US Navy (decommission in 1970). It is also known for recovering the Apollo 8 command module in December 1968.
For more photos click here.
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A Critical Review
“The Beautiful Language of My Century”: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945-1968 by Tom McDonough
Tom McDonough’s “The Beautiful Language of My Century” at times reads like anarchist policy for art as revolution and the revolution of art. It is possible to imagine each of the five chapters as zine installments circulated discreetly between nonconformist peers....
November 2010
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What is Visual Studies in relation to art history...
Based on the readings, there is a resistance to introducing (or giving agency to) Visual Studies as the “new art history.” One of the main arguments is that Visual Studies is not historical, but anthropological. Since art history and aesthetics are pedigree, Visual Studies, as a hybrid offspring, is not. Aby Warburg’s methods are suddenly reconsidered for this emergent sub-genre or sub-discipline....
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“…[M]an is coming into an extraordinary new era on earth, in which we are...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller, from “Prevailing Conditions in the Arts” in Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity.
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Space Mix Vol. 6
A heavy beard covers the face of astronaut Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Apollo 7 Commander, as he looks out the rendezvous window in front of the Commander’s station on the ninth day of the Apollo 7 Earth orbital mission (via).
It’s been a while since I’ve made another space mix. Here’s the playlist for Vol. 6. Unfortunately, I lost the photoshop file for the cover format...
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Virginia Mecklenburg & Modern Masters from the...
I just got home from the opening night of Modern Masters at the Jepson Center for the Arts where I saw my first Philip Guston painting. The exhibition features forty four works from key players in modern American art such as Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann, Philip Guston, Jim Dine, Helen Frankenthaler, Franz Kline and more. Tonight was particularly special because the Smithsonian American Art...
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