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Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

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, …

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 …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Avant-garde cinema, organic designs, sculpture theory, animal extinction, and more in today’s roundup: Dead or Alive, an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), will showcase the work …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 16, 2010

My love of cake straddles the line between innocent obsession and utter perversion. I tend to think of cakes like my favorite celebrity bodies. Be it big and firm like …

Open Enrollment

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

by Carrie McGath | Apr 14, 2010

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

by Carrie McGath | Apr 14, 2010

by Lily Rossebo and Carrie McGath Lily and Carrie add their two cents about the significance of radical workshops in art school programs. Lily Rossebo: Without student protests, what would …

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ideas and Objects, Ideas vs. Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 31, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ideas and Objects, Ideas vs. Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 31, 2010

Last week I described a few upcoming classes where my high school students were taking on the question of whether or not an idea can be considered a work of …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Rachel Moore

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 26, 2010

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Rachel Moore

by Georgia Kotretsos | Mar 26, 2010

Rachel Moore is an American artist and currently a Fulbright Fellow at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA from the …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray …

Flash Points

You Are What You Read

by David Yanez | Mar 4, 2010

What are the ethical implications of using live animals in art? In 1974, Joseph Beuys caged himself with a live coyote for a performance piece called I Like America and …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

With 19 bits and bites below, this week’s roundup is a whopper: Five Themes, the traveling survey exhibition of work by Season 5 artist William Kentridge, has landed at the …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Connections at MIT Museum

by An Xiao | Feb 25, 2010

I have never met Aaron Zinman. Not in person, anyway. I’ve spoken with him a few times on the phone, and we’ve chatted via email and Twitter, but I’ve never …

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. 2

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 8, 2010

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. 2

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 8, 2010

In my estimation, Phoenix Commotion’s ongoing project (founded around 1998 by Dan Phillips) does much more than simply supply a university town with a rich dose of local color. While …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Remembering artist and friend Flo McGarrell

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2010

Remembering artist and friend Flo McGarrell

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2010

Flores McGarrell I lost my voice. Incredibly frustrating because I have a lot I need to say right now. I just make ridiculous squeaking sounds. […] I think I should …

Gastro-Vision

The Fruit of Experience

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2010

Fallen Fruit Collective formed six years ago through a project by artists David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The trio created a …

Flash Points

The Island in 100 Acres: An Interview with Andrea Zittel

by Richard McCoy | Jan 21, 2010

The Island in 100 Acres: An Interview with Andrea Zittel

by Richard McCoy | Jan 21, 2010

Andrea Zittel talks with IMA Conservator Richard McCoy about her island project in 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park.

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 …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Performative Interventions: The Progression of 4D Art in a Virtual 3D World

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 31, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Performative Interventions: The Progression of 4D Art in a Virtual 3D World

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 31, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: The Year in Meat

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 30, 2009

Gastro-Vision: The Year in Meat

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 30, 2009

Last year’s group exhibition Meat After Meat Joy at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery left a lasting impression on me — I still can’t shake the suffocating, putrid smell of rotting meat. …

Flash Points

Tree Museum

by Katie Holten | Dec 10, 2009

We invited artist Katie Holten to write about her current project, Tree Museum, a public artwork in the Bronx, New York. — Ed. I think it’s fair to say that …

Looking at Los Angeles

Guts Get Out of Hand

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 3, 2009

On 7 AM on Thanksgiving morning, I was sitting on my aunt’s couch in Atlanta, watching news coverage about the “uninvited, well dressed Virginia couple” that had crashed Obama’s dinner …

Gastro-Vision

Antidiets of the Avant-Garde

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 2, 2009

Some 30 years after the Italian poet and founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote The Futurist Cookbook (1932) and proposed a revolution in food, the European avant-garde …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 30, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 30, 2009

Cao Fei, RMB City. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009. William Saroyan wrote: The role of art is to make …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2009

From the west to the east coast and over to Taiwan, Art21 artists are involved in a number of new and large-scale exhibitions: Works by Barry McGee (Season 1) and …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School

by Lily Simonson | Nov 12, 2009

Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School

by Lily Simonson | Nov 12, 2009

Gold Leafing. Sadism & Masochism. Practical Electro-Mechanisms. The Coming Insurrection. What do these topics have in common? Perhaps with some head-scratching we could ferret out a few threads, but here’s …

An Artist and a Citizen

by Kelly Huang | Oct 30, 2009

An Artist and a Citizen

by Kelly Huang | Oct 30, 2009

Theaster Gates is an artist living and working in Chicago. Labeling him an artist certainly does not capture who he is and what he does, though. He is often referred …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

“Rachel Is” | An Interview with Rachel Perry Welty

by An Xiao | Oct 29, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

“Rachel Is” | An Interview with Rachel Perry Welty

by An Xiao | Oct 29, 2009

Appropriately enough, I first met conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty via social media, when word spread about her Facebook-based performance, “Rachel is.” On March 11, 2009, from 7:35 a.m. to …

This is so contemporary!

by Kelly Huang | Oct 28, 2009

This is so contemporary!

by Kelly Huang | Oct 28, 2009

German artist Tino Sehgal recently spoke about his practice in a discussion with Jens Hoffmann at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Sehgal has been showing …

Flash Points

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 22, 2009

Flash Points

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 22, 2009

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. This month’s post also falls under the Flash Points topic, Systems. Yours in …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton

by Richard McCoy | Oct 20, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton

by Richard McCoy | Oct 20, 2009

IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses the methodology and the process of interviewing artists with MoMA conservator Glenn Wharton.

War Is Over! (Part 1)

by Nathan Townes-Anderson | Oct 14, 2009

War Is Over! (Part 1)

by Nathan Townes-Anderson | Oct 14, 2009

I’d like to start my visit to Art21 with a close reading of a favorite artwork of mine: John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s War Is Over! slogan. This work relates …

Urban Homestead

by Bryce Dwyer | Oct 9, 2009

Urban Homestead

by Bryce Dwyer | Oct 9, 2009

Urban Homestead is a residency run out of Chicago-based ecologist Nance Klehm‘s home. Residents stay with Nance for various periods of time and help keep the home running. This includes …

Public Collectors

by Bryce Dwyer | Oct 5, 2009

Public Collectors

by Bryce Dwyer | Oct 5, 2009

Public Collectors is a project run by Marc Fischer in Chicago. It began with the notion that there are all sorts of things that libraries, museums, and other institutions that …

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