I’ve been part of an international open-source digital graffiti network since 2010. It’s called Graffiti Research Lab (GRL), and since its inception in New York, autonomous cells have sprouted-up all over the globe. My partner, Jesse Scott (GRL Canada), and I were responsible for initiating a cell in Berlin in …
Hello! My name is Hanna. I’m a fifteen-year-old writer and photographer. Vanessa requested that I record a video of a piece of slam poetry I wrote so it could be posted on here, and so here I am. Hanna’s 17 now, but was 15 when she made this video. …
Yesterday the CalArts / Coursera Site-Dance Instructional Team: Stephan Koplowitz and TA’s Jen Hutton, Anne C. Moore & Kerrie Schroeder and classmate Andrew, broadcast a live Google Hangout to answer questions, discuss the course, and think about Site-Dance. The many faces of MOOC! Molly and I are enrolled in both …
Dear PBResearcher, I’d really like to extend you An Invitation to Throw Stones An Invitation to Throw Stones seeks to invite others to participate in an act of minor adjustment to a natural composition by accepting a stone that has been selected from another part of a beach and throwing …
E agora José, para onde? Português E agora, José? O protesto acabou, a luz apagou, o povo sumiu, e o movimento esfriou. Depois de ter sido parte de um dos movimentos políticos mais incríveis que o Brasil viveu nos últimos anos, não pude deixar de me perguntar por que as …
Dear Meg, while I wish, for purely practical/physiological reasons, you were called “Ellie”, I thought you might enjoy this extract…
This week is already sniffle the end of Creating Site Specific Dance and Performance Works. And Practice Based Research in the Arts will be done in 3 weeks. One way to keep the conversation and interaction going is right here at .Re/search! Let us know what you’re working on! Let …
For the Blueberry Blintz team Relational Art/PBR assignment, I had to do two things at once — pick up my kids from school while simultaneously working on my PBRA project. This having-to-do-two-or-more-things-at-onceness is the MO of my life. My daughter had a playdate already set up for after school, but …
Hi everyone! I am happy to invite you to join me in boosting this list of images and words by making photos and becoming a part of the small project called Gender Clothes. It is a kind of byproduct of the Clothed Paintings I am still working on. Here is short …
In way of introduction: ( this essay is part of my participation in Blueberry Blintz, a cohort of six individuals all taking the Stanford University MOOC : Practice Based Research in the Arts) The online meeting I had today with my co-Blueberries was in many ways, the most helpful and informative exercise I’ve had …
For the PBR MOOC, Graduate Assistant Ryan Tacata published a number of videos on Vimeo. Some include weekly messages from the instructors Helen Paris & Leslie Hill. Others, like the Spatula & Bar Code video above, are ideas and prompts from our weekly Virtual Visiting Artists. You can view all …
Like the Blueberries we had our hangout and had some fun with it. Our conversation was also about an hour in length. However our conversation took a different turn, instead of chatting about our project (which we should come back to for another hangout) we chatted about the philosophical and …
For Finishing School a serendipitous encounter with a “Psychic Barber” neon sign in the Pacific Northwest in 2012 has evolved into a new public art installation opening 11 October at Side Street Projects in Pasadena, California.
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 …
