Spring Semester 2015 Applications available now!
I’m pleased to announce that Medici University is now accepting applications for Student, Faculty, Staff, and Retail for Spring Semester, 2015!
Linden Endowment for the Arts Proposal
At the MU Virtual Campus at LEA we will offer educational and collaborative opportunities in the arts. Faculty and students will collaborate on new work and exhibit it at the MU Art Galleries. A full virtual campus will include artist’s studios and other facilities.
Imagination: Glue for Facts
For a recent family reunion (250 Forsters in San Juan Capistrano, CA!), I adapted the research on Ysidora Pico de Forster (1808-1873), which I collected during the creation of my performance “What’s on [My] Mind?“ and presented it to my family members in a straight-up presentation, complete with a Keynote slide show. In …
Artists Occupy Abandoned Building in the Centre of São Paulo
Traditionally, homeless have taken over abandoned buildings, however this time it’s different. A group of artists have taken over an abandoned building with a view to making it a centre for culture and arts. This photo is just one of the incentives – inviting local artists for a Life Drawing …
Renie Schollerer, Director, MU Avatar Fertility & Surrogacy Center
After my career in women’s health and pediatrics, I turned my focus to avatar reproductive systems. They are often especially fragile and so many worthy couples have been devastated at their inability to conceive. I try to combined the latest research in avatar fertility with a gracious, humanistic avatar gestation …
Ysidora Pico, Professor of Native American Studies
What’s on [My] Mind? is a multi-platform (transmedia) performance project investigating the terrain of intergenerational identity. Working in multiple mediums — monologues, music, social media, virtual worlds, and blogs — I explores how race, identity, kinship and annexation conspire to determine a person’s (a family’s, a nation’s) fate.
Vanessa Blaylock, professor of Public Art
My work is to facilitate community. Whether it’s the participant-driven Public Art & Performance Art works of Vanessa Blaylock Company, or online collaborative art & culture salons like .Re/search and iRez, I define my success in helping you communicate and interact.
Michael Masuci, Professor of Archaeology
I’m an award-winning experimental media producer, video-artist, writer, curator, educator & musician. Commissioner, Santa Monica Arts Commission. Santa Monica Arts Foundation, Board Member. Santa Monica Public Art Committee, Committee Member.
Isabella Medici, Provost
I’m passionate about healthy, cruelty free, sustainable living. I don’t support patriarchal culture, the military industrial complex, or the slaughtering of animals. I do support educational experiences and careers that don’t involve hours, requirements, or offices, but that instead are based on achievements.
Ze Moo, Professor of Vrije Media
art , aesthetics of error , culture , Democracy , Freedom , future , machinima , media , metaverse , philosophy , Politics , pop , reality , religion , satire , TeleVision, virtual, G.O.D., arte, arts, avatar, avatars, church, communication, conceptual, contemporary, Cyber, cyberspace, Dildonics, Enschede, EROTEC, erotic, erotic …
Sello Tape, CEO, Holiday Packaging
I’d already been working for a while and didn’t really see myself moving to a more satisfying career at my age. But I found that at Medici University I could get both the support and encouragement I needed to move forward, and the focused on me program and time frame …
Ron Hays -electromedia artist
Today’s large scale projections, whether they are the massive projection mapping projects onto entire buildings (or in some cases multiple buildings) has evolved from a number of projections beginning with the shadows cast by campfires by early humankind. These were the beginnings of using technology (in this case a campfire) …
Warhol: Introduction & Table of Contents
The focus of this Inaugural Issue of MOOC Magazine is the creative output of Dr. Glyn Davis’ Warhol MOOC from the University of Edinburgh / Coursera.
Nothing special: Warhol’s childhood scrapbook
Andy Warhol’s Childhood Scrapbook may be understood as the germ of a number of themes and obsessions that underscore the majority of Warhol’s adult life from the fascination with Hollywood and stardom to the way in which the scrapbook is organised through uniformity, seriality, and an overt mechanical reproduction through the mass produced studio portraits of film stars.
Dollar Sign
Born to poor, immigrant parents in Pittsburgh in 1928, Warhol grew up during The Great Depression. From 1962’s 200 One Dollar Bills, to 1981’s Dollar Sign, Warhol spent his career painting that which he grew up without.
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Andy Warhol designed and produced covers for over 50 record albums, for classical, spoken word, jazz, rock and pop music, from 1949 to 1986. None have quite achieved the status afforded to The Velvet Underground & Nico with its Andy Warhol Banana.
Self-portrait in Drag
With her cropped blonde wig and horizontal striped shirt, it seems as if Cindy Sherman is impersonating Andy Warhol impersonating a woman: heads cocked back, full slightly parted lips, and cool unwavering stares, although Warhol’s seems a bit more vacant. Sherman’s character is just as beautiful, but she knows it; maybe she has had more practice.
Ultra Violet
As we were putting the final touches on the Warhol Issue of MOOC Magazine, we received the sad news that Factory Superstar Ultra Violet passed away on Saturday,June 14, at the age of 78. We’ve set up this page with a few small memories of her and invite you to leave a message.