Shot in the Dark (above, still image from “Rage to Know” a 2005 live collaboration between Donna Sternberg, Kate Johnson and Michael J. Masucci) Last week, the In the Dark project submitted its proposal to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s LACMA Lab grant program. For the application, I …
Past lives are rising again on the Internet and they need your keyboard! Join us in the #1850charla project!
“Blue Eyes”- Kenneth Hughes’ First Film There has never been a time, in all of recorded history, when art and technolgy were not intertwined. Each inform the other, and both are really an extended continum of the creative process. Sometimes technology suggests new forms of art based practice. Kenneth Hughes …
Vanessa found this RFP for the LACMA Art+Technology Lab, and I’ve been toying with what a Blueberry Blintz proposal might look like; honestly, I’m stumped, because I don’t really work with “emerging technologies” as a practice, but (!) I think we can relate what we’re doing with these points in the …
Today I opened “Izzy’s Gym”, a new kind of Gym with Treadmill Desks. A place where you can walk and work at the same time. We have Virtual Treadmill Desks for avatars, and I also encourage “typists” to use RL treadmill desks at the same time.
Did come thrice with Mars… I didn’t actually end up dressing in a chain-mail nightie, but I would have liked to if I’d had more time! In the fourth quarter of 2013, Vanessa Blaylock asked me to participate in her Dance for Camera: The Planets, which would be staged in …
Fly-By takes off I am so please that artist/thinker/netizen (and Practice Based Re/search founder) Vanessa Blaylock has joined our project “In the Dark”. She will be collaborating with the principal artists: choreographer Donna Sternberg, media artist Kate Johnson and I, in the first section to be staged, called “Fly-By”. Composer …
Let’s put an ancestor of ours from the year 1850 in conversation with one another in the present on Twitter. Why? To see what happens! In my current performance project — “What’s on [My] Mind?” — I use an intergenerational persona to transcend time, space, race, class and history in …
Four of the six original Blueberries hung out today in Google + for our first 2014 meet-up. I — Christa — facilitated a discussion around my project, “What’s on [My] Mind?”, its current status, concerns, progress. Michael, Molly, and Vanessa listened sensitively, gave useful feedback, posed great questions, and agreed …
“Just a Juggalo” – ICP sues the FBI I admit that I know absolutely nothing about the music of Insane Clown Posse (ICP). I’ve seen them profiled several times in recent years, on mainstream News outlets (i.e. CNN), but never paid much attention. My own preconceptions have ruled my decisions …
A mini-review and statement of appreciation: Michael Kearns is an acclaimed actor, writer, and director. He is also an activist and has for decades lived openly as an HIV+ survivor. And Michael Kearns is an American hero. Hero is a term I rarely use, as I really don’t know …
