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A few nice visual art images I found:

Eddo Stern discusses Tekken Torture Tournament at Art Center Media Design Program Design Dialogues

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Design Dialogues Fall 2010: Computation After New Media

Guest Curator: Garnet Hertz

This lecture series explores key concepts in computational media to empower individuals to imagine, collaborate, provoke, and prototype through computing.

As a result of its widespread adoption, digital media has transitioned from "new media" to a ubiquitous part of contemporary life. This shift from novelty to familiarity has considerable ramifications for academic institutions working in the fields of media arts and digital culture. Exploring the formal potentials of information and networked technologies is no longer of significant interest: information technologies need to be understood as an embedded part of culture and history. Digital cultural practices must also work to extend their parent disciplines, including the studio arts, media history and theory, design, computer science and engineering.

Each speaker in the "Computation After New Media" series will focus on one word— a single term they feel is a core part of their work within the framework of computation. These lectures will be aimed at exploring the underlying structures of computationalism, providing an important leverage into the philosophy, languages, and principles of digital media.

SCHEDULE:

– October 1: Sharon Daniel, UCSC
– October 8: Eddo Stern, UCLA
– October 22: Paul Dourish, UCI
– October 29: George Legrady, Experimental Visualization Lab, UCSB
– November 19: Casey Reas, UCLA, author, Form + Code in Design, Art, and Architecture
– December 3: Celia Pearce, Georgia Tech, author Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

Design Dialogues brings provocateurs from the worlds of design, art, academia, and technology into the MDP Studio. Each term, a guest curator is invited to build a series around a theme of their choosing.

Meetings: 12-2 pm. Talks: 3-6 pm in the Wind Tunnel Gallery. Open only to Media Design students, alumni, and faculty.

October 1: Sharon Daniel

Sharon Daniel is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she teaches classes in digital media theory and practice. Her research involves collaborations with local and on-line communities, which exploit information and communications technologies as new sites for "public art." Daniel’s role as an artist is that of “context provider”—assisting communities, collecting their stories, soliciting their opinions on politics and social justice, and building the online archives and interfaces that make this data available across social, cultural and economic boundaries. Her goal is to avoid representation—not to attempt to speak for others but to allow them to speak for themselves.

Daniel’s work has been exhibited internationally at museums, festivals including the Corcoran Biennial, the University of Paris, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Ars Electronica and the Lincoln Center Festival as well as on the Internet. Her essays have been published in books and professional journals such as Leonardo and the Sarai Reader. Daniel has recently presented “Improbablevoices.net” at the Fundacion Telefonica in Buenos Aires and at the conference “contested commons” in New Delhi, India. Her current research is supported by grants from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the UCIRA, UCSC Arts Research Institute, and the Creative Work Fund.

October 8: Eddo Stern

Eddo Stern works on the disputed borderlands between fantasy and reality, exploring the uneasy and otherwise unconscious connections between physical existence and electronic simulation. His work explores new modes of narrative and documentary, experimental computer game design, fantasies of technology and history, and cross-cultural representation in computer games, film, and online media. He works in various media including computer software, hardware and game design, kinetic sculpture, performance, and film and video production. His short machinima films include "Sheik Attack", "Vietnam Romance", "Landlord Vigilante" and "Deathstar". He is the founder of the now retired cooperative C-level where he co-produced the physical computer gaming projects "Waco Resurrection", "Tekken Torture Tournament", "Cockfight Arena", and the internet meme conference "C-level Memefest" He is currently developing the new sensory deprivation game "Darkgame". Stern’s work can be seen online at www.eddostern.com/

October 22: Paul Dourish

Paul Dourish is a Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and Anthropology. He teaches in the Informatics program and in the interdisciplinary graduate program in Arts Computation and Engineering. His primary research interests lie at the intersection of computer science and social science; he draws liberally on material from computer science, science and technology studies, cultural studies, humanities, and social sciences in order to understand information technology as a site of social and cultural production. In 2008, he was elected to the CHI Academy in recognition of his contributions to Human-Computer Interaction.

Dourish is the author of "Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction" (MIT Press, 2001), which explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide an alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the embodied experience of interactive and computational systems. Before coming to UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College, London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.

November 19: Casey Reas

Casey Reas lives and works in Los Angeles. His software, prints, and installations have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Casey’s ongoing Process series explores the relationship between naturally evolved systems and those that are synthetic. The imagery evokes transformation, and visualizes systems in motion and at rest. Equally embracing the qualitative human perception and the quantitative rules that define digital culture, organic form emerges from precise mechanical structures.

Casey is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He holds a masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Media Arts and Sciences as well as a bachelors degree from the School of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction.

Reas and Fry published Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists, a comprehensive introduction to programming within the context of visual media (MIT Press, 2007). In 2010, they publishing Getting Started with Processing, a casual introduction to programming (O’Reilly, 2010). With Chandler McWilliams and Lust, Casey has just published Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture (PAPress, 2010), a non-technical introduction to the history, theory, and practice of software in the arts.

Casey is the recipient of a 2008 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts Fellowship (supported by the Rockefeller Foundation), a 2005 Golden Nica award from the Prix Ars Electronica, and he was included in the 2008 ArtReview Power 100. His images have been featured in various publications including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Print, Eye, Technology Review, and Wired.

December 3: Celia Pearce

Celia Pearce is a game designer, author, researcher, teacher, curator and artist, specializing in multiplayer gaming and virtual worlds, independent, art, and alternative game genres, as well as games and gender. She began designing interactive attractions and exhibitions in 1983, and has held academic appointments since 1998. Her game designs include the award-winning virtual reality attraction Virtual Adventures (for Iwerks and Evans & Sutherland) and the Purple Moon Friendship Adventure Cards for Girls.

Celia received her Ph.D. in 2006 from SMARTLab Centre, then at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. She currently is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech, where she also directs the Experimental Game Lab and the Emergent Game Group. She is the author or co-author of numerous papers and book chapters, as well as The Interactive Book (Macmillan 1997) and Communities of Play: Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds (MIT 2009). She has also curated new media, virtual reality, and game exhibitions and is currently Festival Chair for IndieCade, an international independent games festival and showcase series. She is a co-founder of the Ludica women’s game collective.

Curator: Garnet Hertz
Doctor Garnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar and contemporary artist whose work explores themes of technological progress, creativity, innovation and interdisciplinarity. Hertz is a Faculty Member of the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena California, a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Institute for Software Research at UC Irvine and is Artist in Residence in the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction at UC Irvine. He has shown his work at several notable international venues in eleven countries including Ars Electronica, DEAF and SIGGRAPH and was awarded the prestigious 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotic art. He is founder and director of Dorkbot SoCal, a monthly Los Angeles-based DIY lecture series on electronic art and design. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press on his work has disseminated through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo and CNN Headline News.

|FAT| 2012 – Fashion Art Toronto – Pictures from the Launch Party Art Show

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|FAT| Arts & Fashion Week is a platform for inventive, pioneering and contemporary expression. This annual multi-arts event features 200 national and international fashion designers, visual artists, bands and performers each year. The festival delivers a packed schedule of runway shows, live performances, music, photography exhibits, video screenings and installation exhibits, to celebrate leaders in a wide range of art forms. Held every April, the event welcomes 5,000 people including stylists, buyers, curators, critics, members of the media, the arts, music and fashion related industry as well as the general public.

| FAT | Arts & Fashion Week has a mandate of showcasing artistic disciplines rooted in fashion and their exploration of clothing and the body in today’s time. The festival emphasizes this mandate through the showcase of fashion design, photography, installation, film, video, performance, music and dance, in an effort to push forward and redefine our perception of the fashion phenomenon.

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A few nice visual art images I found:

Berlin Street Art 008 PSP

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This annoys me: Sony has a PSP street art campaign going in Mitte. I’ve seen at least 6 different motifs, only a few of which have an actual Sony-related URL.

Now, I understand all about viral advertising, and I’m hardly an anti-capitalist purist. But I wish Nike, Sony etc. would be happy with their already near-total domination of urban visual space through advertising, and not try to co-opt one of the only outlets for alternative expression.

See where this picture was taken. [?]

Graffiti – Art or Vandalism? (3 of 3)

Image by Dublin City Public Libraries
Using a variety of drama and visual arts programmes, young people from many areas of Dublin City worked with professional artists and writers to explore the question ‘Graffiti – Art or Vandalism?’. This programme of activities, presented by Dublin City Public Libraries, was aimed at educating children, whilst encouraging them to comment creatively on the social conditions in which they find themselves.

View a video about this project.

Check out these visual art images:

Artist Captures Recession Times…

Image by MyEyeSees
Tim Robinson, a free-lance illustrator, produced this drawing (copyright NYTimes) to accompany an article on January 10, 2009, in the NYTimes, Off The Charts, In the Wrong Direction.

His art has conceptual twists. I’ve blogged more on this artist. He captures stories visually and gives them a delightful and whimsical flair that stands out among the art and illustrations being used for the financial crisis. I first noticed his creative and colorful art when it appeared on the front of a Sunday Business Section with a huge illustration on April and it was the backdrop for my favorite Beringer wine in a Flickr photo Good Wine, Bad Economy.

I select this artist as one of the best capturing the difficult economy with bright graphics. Telling the story visually of our financial crisis isn’t easy. You don’t have the excitement, say, of CNN’s Anderson Cooper on the ground with Hurricane Katrina, or in the sea swimming with sharks.

Most journalists and artists are not educated in business and so for an artist to be able to capture this as an ongoing special talent is something to pay attention to.

He worked under Milton Glaser (who did the I Heart NY logo) and his clients are heavyweights.

Paying attention to how the media is covering the Financial Crisis is party of my ongoing study, which started in September. It starts with Part I: Sept. U.S. Financial Crisis and is ongoing.

This artist is worth paying attention to. His work is outstanding, as this illustration shows. Market charts have no personal component. They are dry graphs that are not humanized. Making the charts and graphs and statistical data have a life and a story isn’t easy. The utter confounding nature of this crisis, which some now call a depression (Great Depression 2.0 is what NYTimes columnnist Paul Krugman termed it only recently), will make fodder for study for years in the business curriculum of college courses. No one has nailed it; the story is unfolding.

DECONSTRUCTING THIS ILLUSTRATION:
This particular art shows the confusion of people to this crashing market, the surprise of it, the lack of understanding, the chaos and the way it has shattered our concepts. One older guy, dressed in an academic’s khaki pants and blue oxford uniform, glasses on nose, is reaching for broken pieces on the ground, stopped mid-way as if he were not sure where to even start to pick up the pieces. Another guy, in jeans, young and hip in dress, seems perplexed, already holding a bright yellow piece of the broken chart, tilted in a hopeful positive direction, as if willing the market to turn upwards. Another, in red (jail-like ) stripes, is running away holding a piece of the action, as if stealing something he shouldn’t have. The chart has broken at the bottom, but there is not an end in site. Where does the chart go from here? Is our sense of charting even relevant anymore? Has our sense of measurement been superseded by global technology? How do we interpret where we are?

This illustration almost perfectly captures the entire story of our crisis, at the moment.

The artist’s personal website is the first link at the top and his contact information is there. Tim Robinson is a hot artist to mark and watch for these wild and scary times. The NYTimes is savvy to hire him to illustrate the stories they are writing to capture the facts and make them understandable. The NYTimes has used some of the best illustrators and they are spot on in hiring Robinson to help tell their stories which are big but can be very boring.

Most people can’t understand the intricacies, nuances and economic details of the financial crisis. Our world is becoming more visual. As the NYTimes grabs more of an international market and has specialized in business news and Wall Street for a long time, how they tell this story to the world is significant.

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Johnny Bivera, Executive Director and Producer at Visual Media One judges the photography portion of the Art and Agriculture competition in the South Building at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington D.C. Thursday, May 10, 2012. USDA photo by Tom Witham.

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Johnny Bivera, Executive Director and Producer at Visual Media One judges the photography portion of the Art and Agriculture competition in the South Building at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington D.C. Thursday, May 10, 2012. USDA photo by Tom Witham.

Check out these visual art images:

Aline H. Rhonie, American painter, 1909-1963, at work on aviation mural at Roosevelt Field, Garden City, New York

Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Aline H Rhonie was known as a flying artist for her work encouraging female participation in the air defense program and British War Relief. She learned mural painting from Diego Rivera and painted the large aviation themed fresco mural in Hangar F at Roosevelt Field.

Creator/Photographer: Peter A. Juley & Son

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 8 in x 10 in

Culture: American

Date: c. 1935

Persistent URL: http://photography.si.edu/SearchImage.aspx?id=5814

Repository: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Photograph Archives

Collection: Peter A. Juley & Son Collection – The Peter A. Juley & Son Collection is comprised of 127,000 black-and-white photographic negatives documenting the works of more than 11,000 American artists. Throughout its long history, from 1896 to 1975, the Juley firm served as the largest and most respected fine arts photography firm in New York. The Juley Collection, acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1975, constitutes a unique visual record of American art sometimes providing the only photographic documentation of altered, damaged, or lost works. Included in the collection are over 4,700 photographic portraits of artists.

Accession number: J0033661

The quintessence of loneliness

Image by guy_on_the_streets
Woodcut, acrylic paint and stencil on mylar by ELBOW-TOE. This is one of two pieces in Rolling on the River, a benefit auction for The Miss Rockaway Armada.

The text on the piece reads
"I am like a heroin addict
In my longing for a sublime state"
is from a poem by Hafiz.

Rolling on the River:
Art Exhibit to Benefit the Miss Rockaway Armada

Opening reception on Thursday March 29th at 6 pm
Ad Hoc Art, 49 Bogart St. in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Performances by members of the Miss Rockaway Armada

Exhibition runs March 28th – April 1st
Open 12 – 6 pm

Directions at adhocart.org
Info at missrockaway.org

The Miss Rockaway Armada will host a benefit art exhibit in New York City on the evening of March 29, 2007 at 6pm. The group is calling on artists and art enthusiasts for their support to send this scrap-raft flotilla down the Mississippi River. Currently docked for the winter at a biker bar in Illinois, this group of artists, performers, dreamers and doers from all over the country will get back on the water in June. The group hopes to raise funds for much needed motors, fuel, nautical equipment and transportation. The auction will feature performances by members of the Armada and art from the river itself including a life-sized story booth decorated by David Ellis & Swoon. The benefit show will feature work from dozens of artists, including:

*Swoon
*Elbow-Toe
*The Barnstormers
*Dennis McNett
*Gore B
*Visual Resistance
*The 62
*Tod Seelie
*Space 1026
*and many more!

The Armada project was conceived by street artist Swoon, and has been built and organized by a collective of 25 artists, performers and activists from New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Wisconsin. The collective floats down the Mississippi River on a 110 foot raft made of scrap materials. Last year they spent months gathering resources to build this floating home/art project, then floated from Minneapolis to Andalusia, Illinois; all the while stopping to meet people, share skills, perform, swap stories, and otherwise engage in cultural exchange. However, they have many miles to go before they reach New Orleans. The Armada is gearing up to tackle the Big Muddy again and are eager to see who and what they will encounter as they continue the impossible experience that characterizes Miss Rockaway.

The group is creating a mobile cultural center that embodies their search for creative and sustainable ways of living.

Wind Zylinder

Image by ines saraiva
"WIND ZYLINDER (2009) – BERNWARD FRANK
This kinetic sound installation consists of a horizontal and vertical rotating axis, two half discs in steel, various lamellas and clappers. The wind brings the object in the tree in motion and moves the half discs. As a result the clappers sound by hitting the lamellas. The soundmix is often subtle, but can be extreme at times of strong wind. Wind Zylinder i
s the first sound installation in Klankenbos that entirely uses natural energy.

Bernward Frank (DE) is leading kinetic artist and founder of Kineticus. His art is all about laws of nature because they fascinate him and offer wonderful experiences when integrated in art."
IN: www.musica.be/en/wind-zylinder-2009-bernward-frank

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"In Klankenbos (Sound Forest) contemporary artworks produce sounds. Not only are your ears stimulated, you’d better keep your eyes open as well, for the sound installations are fascinating visual artworks which deserve to be looked at. Thus Klankenbos is a special auditory and artistic open air experience, inviting you along a promenade walk at the Provincial Domain Dommelhof in Neerpelt. With its ten stationary and three mobile sound installations Klankenbos is quite unique in Europe."
IN: www.musica.be/en/unique-collection-sound-art-installations

"Awakening Woods
In the context of Manifesta 9 – Parallel Events, Musica is hosting a summer exhibition with three new acquisitions for the permanent Klankenbos collection and two temporary media installations."
IN: www.musica.be/en/awakening-woods-klankenbos-summer-expo

Catalogue:
www.musica.be/en/klankenbos-catalogue

Neerlpelt, Belgium, 08/2012