Practice-Based Research
Many MU Learners hail from Practice-Based Research in the Arts and Creating Site-specific Dance & Performance Works. You can see all PBR content below. For a linked list of PBR Topics, visit:
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 …
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) …
Framing a Research Question, Part 2
In addition to what Hugh posted a couple days ago, I’m further updating people (as promised in the Mixed Berry Shake June 2014 hangout) on what we’re doing in the MOOC Understanding Research Methods via Coursera. Here is a link to the question Hugh is developing and some discussion around it: How do Arabian women artists …
Framing a Research Question
Here is a MOOC, still in its first week, which may be of interest to re/act and re/search regulars. https://www.coursera.org/course/researchmethods This MOOC is more academic in outlook than the Practice Based Research in the Arts MOOC recently hosted by NovoEd. However it is just as important. By framing the research question and …
ONE Night, many months
ONE Night, many months. by Michael J. Masucci All still photography by Lauren Sanchez (classic 1981 work by Ron Hays on balloon, and Rebecca Allen’s 1989 ‘Steady State’ , on library wall) EZTV’s three-month long retrospective series, sponsored by USC’s ONE Archives & Museum, ended in an outdoor park on …
Photojournalism (b. circa 1930 – d. circa 2010)
Photojournalism has a romance in much the same way, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, James Dean and Edie Sedgwick have romance. It died too young. For me there is also a big distinction between photojournalism and current affairs. Current affairs is often the one shot of an event and …
Computer Love & Hacking the Timeline v3.0
Two events about the historification of Computer Art Developing a serious academically rigorous discourse, concerning the evolution of digital art, from its original elite origins to today’s ubiquitous world-culture was a focus of two consecutive evenings in Los Angeles in early 2014. As part of USC One Archive’s three-month long …
Earth Alert!
I recently found out that on March 1st, 2014, Patrick Wall had died. I had not seen Patrick in many years, and like so many others I have known, had lost touch with him over time. Patrick, along with Janet Bridgers, co-founded Earth Alert!, an Emmy-winning group of enviornmental activists …
Juliano Explodes
Juliano Explodes – last life drawing of an intensive session. Black/Red ink with bamboo pen
THE EROTIC CRISIS
Tim Holmes has something serious to say about art and society.. fear and the nude. I have spoken to him and am impressed with his work with the nude/body – I relate it a lot to mine. “Everybody around the world… can find something sacred about their own flesh” …
Praxis
Praxis…. the practice, research and learning behind creativity I recently joined a Practise based Research in the Arts course, being facilitated by Stanford University and NovoEd educational forums. The course is very interesting and is adding to the research based and practise based skills of the students who have joined in. Students …
Ulysses Jenkins’ Telematic Performances
Since Nicola Tesla developed the notion of alternating current, arguably more cultural change has occurred worldwide, than in all of our collective human saga. In examples ranging first from electric lighting, to radio, to television, to personal computing and now onto the proliferation of non-location based networked communities, homo sapiens has now entered a world where …