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 …

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 …

The Artistry of Youtube: Artist who use the internet to make work.

There are many contemporary artists currently using the internet as a tool to make work. This type of  art typically explores the identity of a public that has now grown accustomed to being connected to a virtual reality and brings up questions of ownership, accessibility and control. Today I am …

Poets and Photographers: Charles Reznikoff and Lewis Hine

Around the same time Charles Reznikoff was observing the inequalities of the American legal system sociologist Lewis Hine was documenting America’s immigrants and child labour. Hine was the official photographer of the National Child Labour Committee (NCLC) and had a view to exposing unethical labour practices in the United States.