Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Train Station, Pandora, & YouTube

B&G: Bolter & Grusin–Remediation)
In 1895, Lumiere brothers refashioned the medium of photography into a time-based medium, and presented one of their short films, “Train arrival in the station of La Ciotat” at their theater. The audience, immersed into the visual experience and unable to differentiate the “real” from what they saw [...]

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Click:Play at Dallas Video Festival

In Fall 2009, Emerging Media and Communication program (EMAC) at UT Dallas was approached by Dallas Video Festival to put together a YouTube session showcasing phenomenon viral videos. And Kyle Kondas and I were assigned to the task!
To put together this playlist, we searched for YouTube videos that that utilize the online platforms as creative [...]

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Iran: A Nation of Bloggers

Great video on Iranian blogging by by Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes, students at the Vancouver Film School.

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PAC-WE

PAC-We was such a success. More that 200 art enthusiasts participated in the event to show support for the health care reform, which was less than expected, but hey, this was the first PAC-WE and not everybody was clear of how the event would go. I am sure thousands will show up for the next [...]

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Guilt test video

This has been compiled by the responses I received on Facebook and Twitter. I am not settled with the approach but just wanted to play with the textual information visually.

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PAC-WE

Amazing opportunity to be part of a flash mob action art project calling for health care reform:
 
PAC-WE
An action by and for the North Texas Art Community calling for health care reform.
 
PAC – WHAT?
The Professional Artist Coalition is a flash mob action creating a bright public yellow signal for health care reform
 
PAC – WHO?
The North Texas [...]

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Art & Design Galleries at SIGGRAPH 2009

Siggraph 2009 offered yet another Art & Design experience to its audience. This year’s three galleries were:

BioLogic: A Natural History of Digital Life
SIGGRAPH 2009’s juried art gallery explored the flux of natural and technological forces. The gallery  documented in a special issue of Leonardo, The Journal of the International Society of the Arts, Sciences and [...]

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