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Grand Canyon Journal 1: Fly-over

by Karthik Pandian | Jan 20, 2010

Grand Canyon Journal 1: Fly-over

by Karthik Pandian | Jan 20, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDXr3gJpgk] A few weeks ago, I was flying from St. Louis to Los Angeles on one of those clear, bright winter afternoons that makes America look like a Björk video. …

New guest blogger: Karthik Pandian

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 18, 2010

New guest blogger: Karthik Pandian

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 18, 2010

Thanks to Joel Holmberg for guest blogging this last fortnight. Up next is Karthik Pandian. Karthik is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. He is represented by Richard …

Contemporary Relationships with the Landscape and Online Services: A Case Study

by Joel Holmberg | Jan 14, 2010

Contemporary Relationships with the Landscape and Online Services: A Case Study

by Joel Holmberg | Jan 14, 2010

The exhibition history and creative output of the artist Anthony Burdin is intertwined with—and often overshadowed by his nomadic lifestyle. The 2006 Whitney Biennial participant identifies himself as a recording …

Adolf Hilter (character) IMDB spreadsheet

by Joel Holmberg | Jan 11, 2010

Adolf Hilter (character) IMDB spreadsheet

by Joel Holmberg | Jan 11, 2010

When looking at the IMDB profile for Adolf Hilter (character), not Adolf Hitler (self), questions begin to emerge with regards to how one might infer a sense of the political …
reverse-square root

Understanding the Economy Photoshop Tutorial

by Joel Holmberg | Jan 5, 2010

Understanding the Economy Photoshop Tutorial

by Joel Holmberg | Jan 5, 2010

Citing articles published in the Economist is always a good strategy for intelligent conversation, but you don’t want to be the person at the dinner party who halts the dialogue …

New guest blogger: Joel Holmberg

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 4, 2010

New guest blogger: Joel Holmberg

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 4, 2010

Thanks to Nova Benway for her series of posts on artists employing earnestness in their work. Up next is Joel Holmberg. Joel (b. 1982, Maryland, USA) creates artwork with computers and …

In Earnest

by Nova Benway | Jan 4, 2010

In Earnest

by Nova Benway | Jan 4, 2010

The last artist I’ll include in my discussion of earnestness, or what one might also call exuberant seriousness, is David Olsen, a sculptor who has spent the last several years …

Bibi Calderaro’s Gifts

by Nova Benway | Jan 3, 2010

Bibi Calderaro’s Gifts

by Nova Benway | Jan 3, 2010

Like Eve Essex and Stuart Sherman, mentioned in my other posts, Brooklyn-based artist Bibi Calderaro has a peculiar relationship to performance and audience. Last year’s project, PRESENT, found her at …
Georgia Kotresos

Art21 Guest Blog Year 2

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 29, 2009

Art21 Guest Blog Year 2

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 29, 2009

This being the last week of 2009, it is time for our annual year in review. 2 weeks ago, we gave you a sneak preview with a guide to our …

Eve Essex and Cornelius Cardew

by Nova Benway | Dec 27, 2009

Eve Essex and Cornelius Cardew

by Nova Benway | Dec 27, 2009

Continuing the tenuous thread I’ve begun to weave, today’s post concerns Eve Essex, an artist I’ve been interested in since she was a resident with the Berwick Research Institute in …

This Year, Give Stuart Sherman

by Nova Benway | Dec 22, 2009

This Year, Give Stuart Sherman

by Nova Benway | Dec 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPeeW_5IkQ] At a time of year when exuberant celebration meets with reflection and humanitarian impulses, it seems appropriate to devote my posts to a few artists, curators, and projects that …

New guest blogger: Nova Benway

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 21, 2009

New guest blogger: Nova Benway

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 21, 2009

Thanks for Kelly Rakowski for digging in archives from the world over to find unusual patterns in everyday life. Read future posts back on her own blog, Nothing is New, …

Triangle Met

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 18, 2009

Triangle Met

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 18, 2009

Angular visions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection database.

Rie Wares

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 16, 2009

Rie Wares

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 16, 2009

Lucie Rie’s solid, soft ceramics combine with the dark and light of these photographs to make welcoming images. Dame Lucie Rie was a prominent British potter who became internationally known …

The Art Museum

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 14, 2009

The Art Museum

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 14, 2009

Elegant, inspired, or bored—photographer William Gedney takes us on a trip to the art museum. Via the deep and dense William Gedney archives at Duke University. The 50,000 item collection …

Future Russia.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 11, 2009

Future Russia.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 11, 2009

The future is here! — constructions of text and image created by Russian Futurist Aleksei Kruchenykh along with Vasilii Kamenskii, Kirill Zdanevich and his wife Olga Rozanova. Kruchenykh was a …

Dutch Bound Books.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 9, 2009

Dutch Bound Books.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 9, 2009

On Monday, I had the rare opportunity to feast my eyes (in real life) upon the wonders of the Wolfsonian Library in Miami, Florida. Knowledgeable librarian Niki Harsanyi, introduced me …

Costumes of Katsinas.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 8, 2009

Costumes of Katsinas.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 8, 2009

Hello and welcome to Nothing is New via Art21. During my stint as guest blogger, you will see posts are very image-heavy with a brief, excited description explaining each set …

New guest blogger: Kelly Rakowski

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 7, 2009

New guest blogger: Kelly Rakowski

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 7, 2009

Thanks to Nicole Sansone for her engaging and inventive series of posts exploring the difference between systems and networks. Up next is graphic designer Kelly Rakowski. As Head of the …

Blogalogueing with Kristin Lucas

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Blogalogueing with Kristin Lucas

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Leave it to a web artist to push the boundaries in interview formats! Keep reading to experience mine and Kristin Lucas’s systems vs. networks conversation, Twitter style… Nikksters: How do …

Blogalogue, Part 3: Kristin Lucas

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Blogalogue, Part 3: Kristin Lucas

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Kristin Lucas creates video, installation, intervention, digital photographs, sculpture, and projects for the web. Positioning herself at the center of her projects, Lucas’s work addresses the effects of rapid-spread technology on …

Flash Points

ETeam Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Flash Points

ETeam Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

In case you didn’t notice, ETeam did a pretty good job of turning the tables on me. It would seem that systems and networks are tricky and unpredictable that way… …

Blogalogueing with ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

Blogalogueing with ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

Preface: The following conversation took place in Second Life, at ETeam’s Second Life dumpster. I am Salty Clarity; ETeam is Lothar Apfelbaum and Tempo Strom. Tempo Strom is Online Lothar …

Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

ETeam is comprised of Hajoe and Franziska. They were introduced to me by Cary Peppermint, who met them at an exhibition they all participated in, called Ebay. ETeam’s work includes …

EcoArtTech Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

EcoArtTech Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

My conversation with Eco Art Tech left me feeling a wee bit in the throes of an existential nihilistic crisis. Were systems and networks so radically out of our control? …

Flash Points

Blogalogueing with EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 30, 2009

Flash Points

Blogalogueing with EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 30, 2009

Behold! The experiment begins! Listen in on our first Systems vs. Networks conversation with Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir of EcoArtTech… PS. This is a better spelling of “blogalogueing” right? …

Flash Points

Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 26, 2009

Flash Points

Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 26, 2009

Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir founded EcoArtTech as their collaborative platform for digital environmental art in 2005. They are 2009 Artist Fellowship recipients from the New York Foundation for the …

Flash Points

Making It Happen

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 25, 2009

Flash Points

Making It Happen

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 25, 2009

I have “email balls.” I sit behind my computer screen, protected by a Gmail-cloak of anonymity and I email whomever, whenever, whatever. I landed my first job out of college …

New guest blogger: Nicole Sansone

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 23, 2009

New guest blogger: Nicole Sansone

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 23, 2009

Thanks to Maria Stenina for her fabulous posts. Up next is Nicole Sansone, an arts writer and yoga instructor based outside of New York City. She is a contributor for …

Sweet Tactility…

by Maria Stenina | Nov 20, 2009

Sweet Tactility…

by Maria Stenina | Nov 20, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-6wMlaVTc] In my last post as your guest blogger, I want to indulge a bit and quickly acknowledge my un-quenchable lust for the artist’s book. No, I don’t mean the …

Photo? Art? History?

by Maria Stenina | Nov 18, 2009

Photo? Art? History?

by Maria Stenina | Nov 18, 2009

It hardly seems fair that in today’s world of the point-and-shoot dominated landscape, where a common tourist can not only take a professional photograph but adequately circulate it via the …

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird…

by Maria Stenina | Nov 15, 2009

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird…

by Maria Stenina | Nov 15, 2009

“A cage went in search of a bird.” — The Zürau Aphorisms of Franz Kafka What is so frustrating, yet so sublimely pleasing about conceptual work? Is it the slight …

Four Questions with Alicia Ross

by Maria Stenina | Nov 11, 2009

Four Questions with Alicia Ross

by Maria Stenina | Nov 11, 2009

This young artist’s Motherboard series features appropriated Internet porn—nubile women sprawl across large cotton panels, cross-stitched in silver and gold thread with digital precision…Witty videos filter sex scenes through those …

Dermatographia

by Maria Stenina | Nov 9, 2009

Dermatographia

by Maria Stenina | Nov 9, 2009

Hello Art:21 interweb world! I hope to do you justice with my musings and bits and pieces of contemporary art knick-knacks. I think as an artist and designer working today, …

New guest blogger: Maria Stenina

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 9, 2009

New guest blogger: Maria Stenina

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 9, 2009

Thanks to Kelly Huang for her series of excellent posts. Up next is Maria Stenina, a writer and multimedia designer in New York City. She received her BFA in Technology …

Initial Thoughts on SF

by Kelly Huang | Nov 6, 2009

Initial Thoughts on SF

by Kelly Huang | Nov 6, 2009

The San Francisco Bay Area is still new to me. I am still trying to learn as much as I can about both the history of art in the area …