I was a guest on Santa Fe NPR this morning with Mary-Charlotte, discussing my Superfund photographs, Santa Fe Art Institute residency and more. Here is the link. Take a listen: http://www.santaferadiocafe.org/podcasts/?p=1184
Photographing in New Mexico
This summer I am visiting several sites in western states (NM, CO, MT) with my large format camera as I continue production on my Superfund photo series. This past weekend I was in western NM — uranium country — and drove back through the most magnificent thunderstorm. How I love the sky and openness out here!
Below is a photo I took in Milan, NM. I will be speaking about this very recent work (and the photography series in general) hosted by the Santa Fe Art Institute this Friday at 6pm at Tipton Hall.
Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art & Design
This book comes out tomorrow: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415882224/
I have a chapter in the Data Visualization section in which I go into great depth describing the building of my web app Superfund365.
The contributor list is great. I have not reviewed the full text yet but eager to see it and use in the classroom!
More info:
Net Works offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap.
Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project–from formalist play to social activism to data visualization–and then includes the artists’ or entrepreneurs’ reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. A companion website offers further resources for hands-on learning.
Brooke Singer + Postcommodity at SFAI
This exhibition opened on June 10th — so I am a bit late to post. But it remains up for another couple weeks for those in Santa Fe area. I have work from The Counter Kitchen (collaboration with Stefani Bardin) installed along with images from my Superfund photo series.
Here is a link to SFAI.
Presented @ Earth Science Info Partners (ESIP) Today in Santa Fe
Today I presented my Superfund365 viz and photographs at the Earth Science Info Partners (ESIP) gathering in Santa Fe at the beautiful La Fonda Hotel. Met some interesting people from EPA, NASA, NOAA and more. Learned about semantic visualization and got some inside scoop about possible future EPA data sharing plans… I chalk that up as a good day! Thanks to Tim Dye for making it happen.
More about ESIP:
The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP Federation) is a broad-based community comprising researchers and associated groups that produce, interpret and develop applications for Earth and environmental science data. By increasing the use, usability, and value of the world’s leading data and tools, the ESIP Federation paves the way for science data and information to be used by people concerned about the health of our planet.
2 Demos in The Counter Kitchen during June @ Eyebeam
The Counter Kitchen ran two fun + delicious + informative workshops in June at Eyebeam. See the website (www.thecounerkitchen.org/main) for more details and, of course, RECIPES!
The Counter Kitchen is shuttered for the summer. Stay tuned for more events Fall 2011 in NYC.
Eyebeam Open Studios this FRI & SAT
Come check out the amazing work being done by Eyebeam Fellows and Residents this Fri and Sat afternoons. LOTS of work on display, most of the artists in attendance and the sound art exhibition “Biorythm: Music and the Body” to boot.
Here is info: http://eyebeam.org/events/open-studios-summer-2011
Common Pulse Return
Just back from Durham/Toronto. Had a magnificent time in Durham @ Common Pulse, symposium organized by the Durham Art Gallery and OCAD. Here are a few links to great work that was presented during the 2.5 day gathering. More to come….
Protei (presented by Michelle Kasprzak of V2)
Dreadmill (by Marcel O’Gorman from the University of Waterloo)
Mr.Softie (by Jason Lewis from Concordia Universtiy)
Common Pulse at Durham Art Gallery
I will be participating in this 3-day symposium in Durham, Canada, this weekend at Durham Art Gallery, co-sponsored by OCAD University.
Here is the write-up:
COMMON PULSE will present a forum for presentations and discussion during a three-day symposium. Twelve artists and curators have been invited to present their experience creating work in the context of university research. These presentations will spark a dialogue among all of the participants. Together we will be able to examine current developments in digital media production and consumption within contemporary art practice and how they predict, reflect or refute parallel media phenomena within North American culture in general.
For more info: http://www.commonpulse.ca/symposium.php
Half Life: Patterns of Change at Santa Fe Art Institute
I am happy to be a part of this wonderful series at the Santa Fe Art Institute. I will be in residency at SFAI for the month of July and giving a public presentation at 6 pm on July 29.
Here is more on the terrific line up: http://www.sfai.org/current.html