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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …