Posts Tagged ‘Art’
Threading
November 08, 2011
When I was a kid, my mom would let me skip school to go to the Art Institute. I would go on Tuesdays- back then every Tuesday was Free Admission Day- and usually on rainy and/or chilly days. I would get down there way early, hop off the EL at Adams/Wabash, pop in to Au [...]
2011 | Blog | Tags: Art, gradschool, life, meta, saic, school
Adam Lomo Photography
May 20, 2011
Portfolio site for a local photographer. A functional site can be found here.
2011 | Web | Tags: Art, exposure, performance
A Sacrifice Of Myself To Myself
May 02, 2011
In the Poetic Edda there is a legend about Odin, chief of the Aesir and a principle figure in Norse mythology. The legend tells that Odin, in search of wisdom, hung himself from the World Tree for nine days and nights without food or water. At the end of the ordeal he received wisdom in [...]
2011 | Art, Performance and Interventions | Tags: Art, asomtm, defibrillator, performance
exposure
April 15, 2011
A photograph is made when film is quickly exposed to light. Likewise, memory is created when we are exposed to people and the world around us. This performance explores ideas of memory and vulnerability. The body is presented as a sort of photographic medium, exposed to light and life, imprinted with the actions of others [...]
2011 | Art, Performance and Interventions | Tags: Art, exposure, performance
Upcoming Show: PANTS ON FIRE at Defibrillator
April 13, 2011
I will be performing a piece as part of a group performance art show called PANTS ON FIRE. The show features work from a dozen emerging artists in Chicago: Jesse Sioux Achramowicz junn Shayna Cott Kelly Craciun James Patrick Gordon Lauren Humphries Jesse Kegan Ellyn Leahy Kris Martin Grace O’Brien Rayme Silverberg Melody Snyder The [...]
2011 | Blog | Tags: Art, chicago, defibrillator, performance
Can We Talk About Something Else?
March 26, 2011
I realized earlier that the problem I have about New Media Art is related to the problem I have with Contemporary Art in general. Contemporary Art, to me, seems stuck in this sort of phenomenological questioning of form and subject. Since Dada and the Futurists we’ve been making art that questions the meaning and value [...]
2011 | Blog | Tags: Art, contemporaryart, dada, newmediaart, surrealism
What Is Bad Art?
February 09, 2011
Yesterday I spent some time thinking about what constitutes bad art, good art, and mediocre art. Here’s what I have so far: Bad Art doesn’t say anything. Mediocre Art makes statements. Good Art asks questions. Great Art provokes responses. What I still haven’t figured out yet is what constitutes the Best Art. My original idea [...]
2011 | Blog | Tags: Art
So What IS New Media?
February 08, 2011
The complaints about attempts to define “New Media” are so common that they border on cliché. While many often boil down to petty niggling over semantics, there are some valid points. Time is likely the more resilient of contention-points. On what relative time scale do we understand “new?” When does a form of “New Media” [...]
2011 | Blog | Tags: Art, newmedia
Boing Boing Headline Wall
January 30, 2011
Recently, BoingBoing compiled eleven years worth of posts into one giant XML file and released it into the wild. I wanted to try to have a bit of fun with the data. Overwhelmed with the sheer scope of the data, I wanted to convey this sense of scope visually with a sort of Wall of [...]
2011 | Art, Generative | Tags: Art, code, data, processing, Web
Intentional, Communicative, Useless
January 25, 2011
My housemate and occasional collaborator, the Rt. Hon. Benjamin Apollo Dionysus, has recently proposed a definition for Art. His definition is as follows: -A piece must be intentional. There must be artistic intent behind the composition. -A piece must be communicative. It must carry a message. -A piece must be useless. This is possibly the [...]
