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Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:58:56 -0500

Tell Congress: Don’t censor the Web Fighting online piracy is...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:21:00 -0500

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!...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:59:00 -0500

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.

The Rise of the New Groupthink

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:35:51 -0500

The Rise of the New Groupthink: Collaboration is in. But it may not be conducive to creativity.

Pearl B. Marsh

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:47:00 -0500

In researching my grandmother I’ve discovered a tidbit about the changing art world and...

PressPausePlay (by House of Radon) A film about Hope, Fear and...

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:27:00 -0500

PressPausePlay (by House of Radon)

A film about Hope, Fear and Digital Culture.

http://www.presspauseplay.com/

Mel Bochner, Oh Well, 2010, oil and acrylic on two canvases, 100...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:09:00 -0500

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.

"…film and particularly the manner of its creation, holds steadfast as a prime example of the..."

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:58:00 -0500

“…film and particularly the manner of its creation, holds steadfast as a prime example...

I don’t know what rock I’ve been hiding under. After...

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:23:00 -0500

I don’t know what rock I’ve been hiding under. After noticing an increase of infographic résumés and CVs, I just discovered vizualize.me and re.vu. These websites offer the easy means of converting your work experience and accomplishments into neatly user-friendly visual elements. Both sites are similar in practice (you can import your info directly from LinkedIn), but each has its own design, organization, and typefaces. Here’s my assessment:

VIZUALIZE.ME (Example: Eugene Woo)

- Six themes - Great selection of fonts and graphics - Options to customize colors - Summary - Work & education - Links - Skills - Interests (6 at most) - Languages - Awards & honors - Stats (up to 4) - LinkedIn recommendations

Cons: No profile pic. No portfolio widget or document sharing, but it’s coming soon (ETA unknown). Also, no option to export/save profile as a PDF for printed use though it’s a planned feature for the future. Links are displayed at the bottom by icon, which could be better displayed in the profile summary below name and title as full links opposed to logo icons.

RE.VU (Example: Barack Obama or Felicia Day)

- Thirteen themes - Option for a 100 x 100 pixel profile pic - Summary - Work history timeline - Separate education section - Vital stats in numbers (up to 6) - Breakdown of job duties by percentages - Skill evolution graph - Proficiencies in percentages - Quotes (yours or someone else’s for inspiration or philosophy) - Percentages (example: thesis completion rate) (up to 6) - Pastimes pie chart - Interests over time - Image portfolio - Work examples (.pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .ppt, .pptx) - You can also upload a downloadable PDF of your résumé linked to your profile.

Cons: Timeline dates require month, day, and year; day is unnecessary. No customization option for colors or fonts. This greatly limits the visual format because it relies on uploading a background image. No known plans to offer the export/save option. There’s also no option to delete your account; you have to contact them directly right now.

VERDICT

The graphic designer in me prefers vizualize.me over re.vu. But while vizualize.me is more visually pleasing and customizable, re.vu offers more. However, quantifying and entering your personal data into re.vu takes more consideration and time. It’s not as easy entering into vizualize.me, which is simplified but effective. If vizualize.me were to implement the portfolio section sooner than later complete with downloadable work samples, it would be near perfect—with two suggestions: a life/work accomplishments section (or inclusion in the work & education timeline) and a top-five dream jobs section. Ok, maybe one more: a percentage breakdown of each job would be great too.

Art-Sci-Tech has so much going on in various avenues, areas, and...

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:01:00 -0500

Art-Sci-Tech has so much going on in various avenues, areas, and communities. Its complexity makes it difficult to visualize.

There’s the blanket term “new media art.” Then there’s bioart, information art, algorithmic art, genomic art, maker/DIY art, hacker art, eco art, cybernetic art, video art, kinetic art, interactive art, etc. Other areas of experimentation include robotics, virtual reality, gaming, citizen science, and more, which just touches the surface.

I like Andrea Grover’s simple chart trying to explain the areas (above):

…the practice has mostly moved outside rarified institutions and industries (the relationships were too complex and tied to capitalism and results-oriented economics), and into the hands of individuals and collectives (facilitated by networked communication which gave agency to maker culture, the open source movement, peer-to-peer sharing, crowdsourcing, etc.). From there, the types of activities exploded and yielded a variety of subtypes of Artists/Scientists/Technologists.

How would YOU make a map, diagram or chart of the many communities at the intersection of art, science, and technology?

"…an alliance is overdue, and can be achieved through the medium of interpretation. Neither..."

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 12:58:00 -0500

“…an alliance is overdue, and can be achieved through the medium of interpretation....

Calling ArtScience Practitioners!

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:34:00 -0500

I’m writing my master’s thesis on cultural institutions that foster the art, science,...

From the Moon: Mapping & Exploration

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:43:00 -0500

I’ve been working on a project with the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, SC...

Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World (by IMAItsMyArt)The solo...

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:32:37 -0400

Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World (by IMAItsMyArt)

The solo exhibition Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World features a new body of work by Indianapolis-based conceptual artist Brian McCutcheon. For the exhibition, McCutcheon uses video, photography, and sculpture to explore the relationships between play, masculinity, and the notion of flight. After realizing that his son is currently the same age that he was during the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, McCutcheon chose to investigate the duality of father and son relationships through imagery and footage related to space exploration.

"Good artwork is always more than the sum of it’s parts and operates like poetry, making..."

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:34:14 -0400

“Good artwork is always more than the sum of it’s parts and operates like poetry, making...

It’s been a while and life is turning a new path of...

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:37:37 -0400

It’s been a while and life is turning a new path of transition with finishing a degree and finding a job. But nevermind life’s details! I’ve looked forward to le Tour de France all year (before there was San Diego Comic Con, but those days are over) and it has arrived! TV is perpetually stuck on Versus until the riders reach the Champs-Élysées. I’m hoping this is Andy’s tour and Wiggo is on the podium. Which team will you side with?

The only thing you can’t have in this perfect world of...

Sun, 01 May 2011 10:00:06 -0400

The only thing you can’t have in this perfect world of total pleasure is your 30th birthday.

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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:02:05 -0400

"This is the Kind of Museum I Want to Make!"

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:48:42 -0400

News of Japan’s disasterous earthquake/tsunami has me google-searching museums to see if...

"In the early stages, if you try and set something on a path and say that’s the only way to do..."

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 20:33:58 -0500

“In the early stages, if you try and set something on a path and say that’s the only way...