Issue 28 11.20.13

Issue 28

Inspiration and Realization

Inspiration and Realization

The following thoughts on “process in art” are taken from Shannon Wright’s blog, which is about art and the teaching of art. Inspiration and Realization (Hard-Won Revelations About My Own Artmaking Process) A friend recently emailed me an interesting quote from Wendell Berry’s 1982 book of essays, Standing By Words. Wendell Berry’s words happen to […]

Are You There?

Are You There?

People sometimes ask me what I do. “I, ahhh….” “Virtual Interventionist” doesn’t fly in most circles around here. People don’t take too kindly to “New Media” artist, either. Recently I settled on “performance artist”. It’s just easier. It all began innocently enough. I used to be in theatre. Standing on a stage, surrounded by set […]

HALFLIFERS

HALFLIFERS

2012 Questions for HALFLIFERS by George Pfau  As a collaborative team of two, how did the HalfLifers merge their notions of the zombie into a singular package?  HalfLifers as a project has always emerged out of a space of shared interests and dialogue…we’d always both had an interest in the idea of the zombie (based […]

PROJECT BURG, 2010, San José State University

PROJECT BURG, 2010, San José State University

by Danielle Siembieda-Gribben PROJECT BURG (Building Using Response Gadgets), 2010, San José State University You and your car have an intimate relationship. On average, you spend a quality one-and-a-half hours with it each day. When the car gets a little tired it goes slow up a hill or maybe takes a minute or two to […]

Making Duchamp Relevant in the Digital Age

Making Duchamp Relevant in the Digital Age

Submitted by Hanna Regev Playing Duchamp is a net art project and game developed by Scott Kildall, a new media artist whose work often translates between the virtual and the real. In this project, Kildall has programmed a chess computer to play chess as if it were Marcel Duchamp, thus birthing a virtual Duchamp in […]

Writing as Programming as Writing

Writing as Programming as Writing

Back in 2003, at the Digital Humanities conference in Athens, Georgia, Geoffrey Rockwell and I threw all caution to the wind and performed a live Brechto-Socratic dialogue on the relationship between programming and writing. People still ask us about it, but we’ve never been sure exactly what to do with it. The intellectual glow of THATCamp must […]