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In response to the very inspiring video lecture from Spatula & Barcode, Spatula & Barcode was founded in 2008 by Laurie Beth Clark (Department of Art, University of Wisconsin) and Michael Peterson (Department of Theatre and Drama, University of Wisconsin) • Spatula and Barcode website the Blueberry Blintz team had …
Hello, My Name is Bryn My name is Bryn Michaels. I am 15 years old. Turning 16 in 3 weeks, on October 13. Dancing is my life, it’s what I want to do for the rest of my life. I’ve been dancing since I was about 4 and I love …
Sarah Elgart on Facebook Sarah Elgart, Everywhere Nowhere I last wrote for Practice Based.Re/search about my site-specific dance/performance work Fly Away Home. That was a Los Angeles World Airports commission for their Van Nuys Flyaway facility. At that point Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) had never had original performance work …
Bryn Michaels Online I’ve met remarkable people in cyberspace. Among them, 15-year-old Chicago ballerina Bryn Michaels. At 15 she’s pushing 5’10” (~176cm) and in pointe shoes she’s got an amazing line that just seems to never end. In Michaels the intense physicality of ballet and the visual and conceptual qualities …
When the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airports contacted me almost two years ago about creating an original site work at the Van Nuys Flyaway, I had no idea what the place really was, how it looked, or even where Van Nuys was. …
In the first few weeks of our Practice Based Research in the Arts class I’ve met so many amazing colleagues. I’ve done mini-profiles of them on my blog: Virtual Public Art.com/classmates One of those new colleagues, Owen G. Parry has asked me to do a mixed reality piece with him.
Dance for Camera project at Oceania Planetary Park I am creating a new site-specific Dance for Camera video project at Kimika Ying’s Oceania Planetary Park installation at LEA27 in Second Life. Each participant can “pick their planet” and I’ll work with you to create a movement / dance / interaction …
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.
It’s been so interesting reading the reactions to this week’s activity in The Future of Storytelling! Some have been inspired, some call it a waste of time, some are creeped out by making “fake” Facebook profiles, and all sorts of reactions in-between. I put “fake” in quotation marks because the …
Starting to think about this idea that Rebecca Longworth articulated in one of our online conversations — a “recipe book” of sorts so that this structure of performance-creation can be applied to any public space. I have a parallel project that concerns creating public-space performances quickly in response to current …
Artist Website Challenge: I’m announcing a €100 prize for the PBR Artist-Scholar who can make the new or existing website-blog with the most urgency by the end of the month.
MOOC Forums are pretty good. They need to be great. How do NovoED, Coursera & iversity compare? Let’s take a look!
Our Week 3 Guest Artist, and course TA, Ryan Tacata asked us to reflect on spaces and places. To locate a physical site for your practice / research, be it studio, desk, or something else, and stand or sit in this space for 30 mins. Slow your mind and be …
Hi, I’m Meg! • view all posts by Meg O’Ryan Hello, my name is Meg O’Ryan. I can’t tell you too much about myself. Because I was just born 5 minutes ago.
Vanessa has encouraged me to present my ideas in a more public sphere, so I present my musings on my Blueberry Blintz teammate’s reflections about Lois Weaver’s PBRA exercise (is that wordy or what!?). In our (closed) team journal, there are thirteen different “discussions” going on this assignment folder. Mine …
PBR Green Room • view all posts by Rebecca Collins Pleased to be part of this conversation, great initiative, it feels a bit like the backstage area or green room of the PBR course! I’m Rebecca an artist and PhD Researcher here is a little link to my website Rebecca …
Hello, it’s Katrina! • view all posts by Katrina Schaag Hi everyone! I’m really excited about the opportunity to collaborate with you. Helen, Leslie, and Ryan have put together a fantastic course, and this blog seems like a great way to extend and develop the communities and networks that the …
What’s on [My] Mind? • view all posts by Christa Forster Here are the first and third person pov descriptions of the project I’m bringing to our PBRA course.
Here’s a post I put on our group’s journal (Critical Practice) but it will probably get a wider audience here and its a great paper so it’s worth a second airing.
