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Paul Conrad‘s monumental anti-war sculpture CHAIN REACTION, is slated for demolition soon. A figurative work, depicting an atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud, and made out of massive chain links, it has stood proudly in front of Santa Monica’s City Hall for decades. Like many, I had come to take for granted its forboding …
Hello from Kate! • View all posts by Kate Johnson So glad to be joining you all. I am a partner with Michael Masucci in EZTV. I’m an artist and also an Assistant Professor at Otis College of Art and Design in the Digital Media Dept. Here’s more info about …
Hello, hello. • view all posts by Sarah Campbell I’m Sarah, a student of philosophy and artist (in a beginning sort of way) living on the very eastern edge of Canada. I’m happy to be here, to learn from all of you and share with all of you, to have …
Hello from Adelina • view all posts by Adelina Ong Hello everyone 🙂 My name is Adelina and I’m quite shy when it comes to blogging…so this is quite hard for me. I’ve been enrolled on the Practice-based Research (PBR) course on NovoEd as well as the Site-specific Performance course …
A Warm Hello… • view all posts by Sweta Lal I had wanted to join Vanessa and the Blueberry team in PBR as I loved their infectious energy and creativity. Today I feel good to be starting off a journey with them. I am a writer, editor and reviewer. The …
Paulina, never 100%- • view all posts by Paulina Lara Heya everyone. Now, finishing some work at the office, I found a bit of time to write and complete a task that Vanessa asked us…and of course it came to my mind this: “100% ” that a friend used to …
I’ve been lucky to receive some very sweet endorsements from some great PBR classmates like Hugh McElveen, Molly Ross, Christa Forster and Misha Penton. Walled Garden? I hope I at least half deserve their kind words. The only catch is, as Christa can tell you, NovoEd is a Walled Garden. …
One of the first posts I made within the walled garden of the PBRA/NovoEd’s Team Journal, from around October 17 — I was waiting for my other teammates to show up. They had names like Q1456 and Tom Ford and William Kheel. Vanessa and I were already talking, but we …
We had our final PBR “Articulating Practice” / moving forward Team Google Hangout today! click any blueberry to enter slide show use arrow keys to scroll For 2014 we’re hoping to have a monthly hangout; we’ve just published our first 3 .Re/cipes; and we’re thinking about a virtual book club. …
Had a great hangout with Rebecca today! I loved hearing more about Rebecca’s project. I’m super happy about it — I love the literal gift-giving impetus of her work — and I think that the type of site-specific work she’s creating is just what a place like SFO needs! I …
Now that the Practice Based Research in the Arts MOOC is wrapping up, we’d like to keep “Hanging Out” if we can. I’m not certain that all 6 Blueberries want to continue, and I’m not certain that Mondays at 9am California time / Noon EST / 17:00 GMT is the …
Here are 6 abstracts for projects from Team Blueberry. In the first week of Practice Based Research in the Arts we wrote about our work, then embarked on a wide range of activities prompted by a weekly visiting artist, and now in the 9th week of the course we return …
What did I learn today? • view all posts by Niall McCormack I forget if I don’t practice.(hours at work rediscovering something I learnt a year ago) Be creative but organized (have the materials I need on hand) Take a short break if you’re stressed. (Pizza with friends before final …
NovoED has redesigned its MOOC Team Home Pages injecting more currency and dynamic content into what previously was more of a decorative splash page.
Recently I led a half-hour workshop experimenting with the above format for a Custom Performance Lemonade Stand that would make a short, improvised performance for a “customer.” There were 7 participants in the workshop. All participated in the first steps: free-writing on a physical place, and then a guided meditation …
Please allow me to introduce myself…. • view all posts by Michael Masucci Hello all, Vanessa has asked yet another reasonable request from us all, and it seems only proper to oblige her. She requested from us, the simple, yet seemingly daunting task of not simply lurking, or even simply …
How do you talk about a work of art anyway? Easy! Just consider the work vis-a-vis these 6 key terms from Team Blueberry. For the images I put each key term in a Flickr / Creative Commons / Interesting search and picked one. The photographer’s name is under the image. …
Hello world! This is my first post here, and I’m so grateful for the community Vanessa has spearheaded. Thank you all! I’m also planning to cross-post this at my own blog. Please feel free to stop by there any time. Via the Practice-Based Research MOOC, I’m engaged in creating what I’m …
The Stanford MOOC on Practice Based Research has required us this week, to tell our co-student ‘evaluators’, how we would want our projects to be evelauted. Just prior to our team leader Vanessa suggested we all submit short statements, I had written this long, over-written statement, in my typical over-wordy …
Sher Doruff, the guest artist for week 9 of NovoED’s PBRA, directed us to devise a “bespoke rubric”; that is, to outline the ways in which we want our work (i.e., the projects each of us brought to the MOOC) to be critiqued. Bespoke = custom made Bespoke = built …
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