Tag Archives: New Media

Game (as) Art: The Kokoromi Collective

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 20, 2010

Game (as) Art: The Kokoromi Collective

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 20, 2010

Trying to explain GAMMA is kind of like trying to describe Burning Man. The members of Kokoromi Collective best described their annual showcase for game creation and art as a …

Open Enrollment

OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Open Enrollment

OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Sometimes when I’m sitting in class, I switch to a third-person perspective and feel like I’m watching a reality television show about myself. One of my professors, Clark Buckner, assigned …

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C50_R3cDlY] Paul Warne doesn’t consider himself so much an artist as a designer. While trained in animation and film at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Warne found himself immersed in …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

In case you’ve recently returned from summer vacation or have simply been away from the Art21 blog in July and August due to the fact that, like me, you promised …
Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

This week in the roundup … Barbara Kruger gets a celebration started, Cao Fei has her eyes on a prize, Cai Guo-Qiang goes in with a bang, Raymond Pettibon is into …
Installation shot of "Effervescent Condition" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Left) Yefeng’s "Battelfield," (right) Sampson’s Dodgedraw on the right, Dodgedraw participant

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Effervescent Condition, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu (MA 2010) was the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) contribution to The Power of Copying, a large-scale, international group exhibition held …
Jenny Holtzer

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Soon after last week’s roundup went live, I discovered a Jenny Holzer event happening in my backyard.  In this week’s roundup, CNN shows William Kentridge drawing apartheid, Scotland shows William …
John Baldessari, 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara...', photography, 1963. Courtesy a-n.

Looking at Los Angeles

Baldessari 2.0: Jumping the Lobster

by Lily Simonson | Jul 22, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Baldessari 2.0: Jumping the Lobster

by Lily Simonson | Jul 22, 2010

Upon entering Pure Beauty at LACMA, I overheard a fellow museum-goer tell his companion, “That’s cool — it looks like a lot of my iPhone pictures.”  The viewer was responding …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dear Oliver

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 14, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dear Oliver

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 14, 2010

You know what I like about Oliver Herring? Pretty much everything. Oliver was generous enough to join us for the 2nd year in a row to jump-start the Art21 Educators …

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: An Introduction

by Ivan Lozano | Jul 6, 2010

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: An Introduction

by Ivan Lozano | Jul 6, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CKD9JRhME] Shana Moulton, “Whispering Pines 9,” video, 2009 In an essay titled “Cyborg Anthropology,” Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit and Sarah Williams offer a sort of manifesto: Cyborg Anthropology invests …

Open Enrollment

New Internet Meme: Cheers!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jun 30, 2010

Open Enrollment

New Internet Meme: Cheers!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jun 30, 2010

With my summer break between the first and second year of my graduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute in full force, I’ve taken a few weeks to visit some …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about a retrospective in the Golden State, a pack of wolves in Singapore, a dreamy gift in Berlin, de-monumentalisation in Italy, Oprah culture the …
Both wearing headsets, a visitor and I are able to share in the same experience of the dinosaur.

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Dinosaurs and Mummies: Augmenting the Art Experience at Onishi Gallery, Chelsea

by An Xiao | Jun 24, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Dinosaurs and Mummies: Augmenting the Art Experience at Onishi Gallery, Chelsea

by An Xiao | Jun 24, 2010

This story starts with a dinosaur. It’s a bipedal one, sort of like a mini Tyrannosaurus, running around by my feet.  My friend laughs as he sees it scurry beneath …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 21, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 21, 2010

7,000 t-shirts, 22 paintings, two awards, a powerful pair, and one big open studio in this week’s roundup: Mel Chin (Season 1) has been named a finalist of the first …

Koons on your Google homepage?

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 10, 2010

Koons on your Google homepage?

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 10, 2010

Today Google unveils a new “choose your own background” feature. According to the company’s official blog, “You can choose a photo from your computer, your own Picasa Web Album or …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 9, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 9, 2010

The Guggenheim Museum’s recent conference, Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem-Solving in the Classroom, turned out to be both an exciting and frustrating two days of panel-lectures and keynote …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

A tribute to a great artist, a series of German faces, a big film of tiny things, some drawing restraint, and a bunch more in this week’s roundup: The Emilio …

(UC Crisis) Post 3: Try Not to Do This Again

by Catherine Wagley | Jun 4, 2010

(UC Crisis) Post 3: Try Not to Do This Again

by Catherine Wagley | Jun 4, 2010

In a series of special posts, guest blogger alum Marc Herbst and regular contributor Catherine Wagley chronicle the University of California education crisis. Following is Wagley’s take. — Ed. When …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

by Erin Sickler | Jun 3, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

by Erin Sickler | Jun 3, 2010

Lin + Lam (Lana Lin and Lan Thao Lam) are the current fellows at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University in New York. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 31, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 31, 2010

Work by Season 4 duo Allora & Calzadilla is currently on view at the Aspen Art Museum in the exhibition Restless Empathy. The exhibition examines the process of entering the …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Life After Death: An Interview with Eva and Franco Mattes

by Kelly Shindler | May 28, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Life After Death: An Interview with Eva and Franco Mattes

by Kelly Shindler | May 28, 2010

The Italian “artist-provocateurs” Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.org, are no strangers to this site. Our very first guest bloggers back in 2008, when they blogged about their Influencers festival …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Barnstormer

by Ben Street | May 17, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Barnstormer

by Ben Street | May 17, 2010

“Time-based art” is a great new contemporary art phrase to drop into conversations, with the redoubtable Orwellian tautology of “movement-based dancing” or “sound-based music.” It’s one of those phrases that …

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art & Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | May 13, 2010

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art & Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | May 13, 2010

We each look at the world from our own individual perspectives, within contexts that are constantly shifting.  Our unique outlook as viewers, the specific viewpoint of the artist, the curatorial …
Welcome to Provence!

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On Exchange from Canada to France: Reflecting on Change and Difference

by Vency Yun | May 12, 2010

Open Enrollment

On Exchange from Canada to France: Reflecting on Change and Difference

by Vency Yun | May 12, 2010

At one point, I thought that I had an understanding of what my personal practice consisted of, but it wasn’t until the end of my MFA residency that I really …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 10, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 10, 2010

Holey maps, pre-natal forms, stuffed animals, and more in today’s roundup: The first exhibition in the United States ever devoted exclusively to the drawings of Season 3 artist Roni Horn …
uc occupation

(UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview

by Marc Herbst | May 7, 2010

(UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview

by Marc Herbst | May 7, 2010

To explain the recent investigations into the web-art projects of both Ricardo Dominguez and  b.a.n.g. lab collaborators at UC San Diego and Ken Ehrlich of UC Riverside is to tell …
Sharon Lockhart, "Maja and Elodie" 2003 Image: Artnet.com

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Rewind, The Artist’s Studio

by Joe Fusaro | May 5, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Rewind, The Artist’s Studio

by Joe Fusaro | May 5, 2010

A recent visit to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art provided two exhibits that are worth seeing if you are in town…. or within frequent flier miles for that matter. Rewind: …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 3, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 3, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about 800 prints in Los Angeles, 100 acres of art in Indianapolis, 12 Polaroids near the Hudson, a 10-year survey in Ohio, two portrait busts …
Harbor and Pirats

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 22, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 22, 2010

I like using the word ‘totality’ as in the ‘totality of one’s surroundings.’  Self provides the essentials of our internal existence  and environment is the external display of all that.  …

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 21, 2010

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 21, 2010

Self is the essential being of a person.  Art is a mirror image of a person’s identity, circle of influence, and perceived worlds or realities.  Art reflects what we feel, …
Burning Life

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 19, 2010

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 19, 2010

Collaborative art as joint production by two or more artists is a typical style among sound, video, and performance artists.  Many artists are changing the concept of art into something …

Immersive & Interactive: Virtual 3D Art Revisited

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 16, 2010

Immersive & Interactive: Virtual 3D Art Revisited

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 16, 2010

Solkide Auer, Shellina Winkler, and Binary Quandry are Second Life artists who are part of the Pirats Art Network, a partner and major contributor in the Through the Virtual Looking …
Chromutate by Torley

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 14, 2010

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 14, 2010

To the uninitiated, virtual 3D worlds may seem like games.  However, game culture often revolves around rules of play.  Artists creating work in virtual 3D worlds are usually trying to …
ménage à trois

Participatory Culture & Social Capital in Virtual Art

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 12, 2010

Participatory Culture & Social Capital in Virtual Art

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 12, 2010

Art production in virtual 3D worlds usually doesn’t happen in a vacuum.  As a contemporary practice, virtual art can create social capital that provides opportunities for individual and collective action, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 29, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 29, 2010

A new video installation by Season 1 artist Barbara Kruger is now on view at the Chelsea location of Mary Boone Gallery. The Globe Shrinks (2010) is a multi-channel piece …

John Gerrard’s “Dust Storm (Dalhart, Texas)”

by Ivan Lozano | Mar 21, 2010

John Gerrard’s “Dust Storm (Dalhart, Texas)”

by Ivan Lozano | Mar 21, 2010

This weekend I travelled to Washington D.C. (Arlington VA to be exact) to participate in a panel called WE HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DIE for the Arlington Arts Center‘s amazing …