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Just wanted to follow-up on a post I did awhile ago about the monumental sculpture by Paul Conrad “Chain Reaction”. In a 6 to 1 decsion on Feb 24, 2014, the Santa Monica City Council approved a measure to save and restore the artwork, which had been deemed unsafe. Large …
On March 12, 2014, I premiere a major part of the performance project I’ve been working on for the past year — What’s on [My] Mind? What’s on [My] Mind? is a transmedia performance. Working in multiple mediums — monologues, music, social media, virtual worlds, and blogs —I explore how …
Time/Space Flies ONE Night: EZTV, SIGGRAPH and Digital Art in West Hollywood, of which the Fly-By project is a part, has been moved from April 12 to May 31st. It has also moved from the outdoor parking lot that is was originally to be staged in, to a much larger, …
So there I was minding my own, royal, business, when that impertinent woman Ysidora Pico (who’s still bitter about losing her land [try losing your life]) says to me, Izzy, why don’t you stop writing unsigned love letters to your boyfriend Troilo Orsini who will have his butt on a …
FORCE OF NATURE- the life of Zina Bethune For the past two years, the middle of February has been a time of emotional depression for EZTV’s Kate Johnson and me. It was at this time of the year, that a true force of nature was senselessly taken from us. Her …
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 …
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 …
Michael Masucci had mentioned my piece “Core” in an earlier post and there was a request that I write more about it. Thanks so much for your interest. Sadly there are no still images of the performance. There is a stationary video shot that I have to sift through. However, …
EZTV: a somewhat short history (in two parts) Intro: Vanessa suggested that Kate Johnson and I give an introduction to EZTV’s history and some links to the EZTV Museum, an online archive about an arts space and accompanying several distinct, and as yet, under-represented arts movements. I worked on building out …
Che poster – the artist http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/che-guevaras-guerrillero-heroico I’ve been following Jim Fitzpatrick since I was a teenager and he did album covers and a local newspaper comic strip. http://jimbrazil.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/jim-fitzpatrick-che/
Thanks everyone for suggesting that Michael and I create a post which will hopefully explain “what EZTV is”, a question we get quite often and seems to prove more complex than we think. We decided to do it in two parts. Michael will send the first part and I will …
A Warm Welcome from Rebecca! • View all posts by Rebecca Narum Hey fellow PBRs! As did most of you, Vanessa has been asking me to introduce myself to the group for the past couple weeks and I have been looking to find the time to sit down and actually …
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