Tag Archives: New Media

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Under the Radar: Best of 2011

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 21, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Under the Radar: Best of 2011

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 21, 2011

Some excellent shows from 2011 flew a little under the radar, even a few housed in major museums, and they had plenty to offer when it comes to inspiring students and teachers. Part 1 of 2.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Pool, the Pants and the Performance

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Dec 21, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Pool, the Pants and the Performance

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Dec 21, 2011

Antonius Wiriadjaja highlights the cutting-edge projects currently on view at Tisch’s ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program).

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Set Me Free! Performa 2011 Part II: Beyond the Biennial

by Marissa Perel | Nov 29, 2011

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Set Me Free! Performa 2011 Part II: Beyond the Biennial

by Marissa Perel | Nov 29, 2011

If moribund is defined as an adjective for that which is approaching death or obsolescence, then perhaps it is the best word to describe my experience of Performa’s last week. This …

Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert: Vibrations of Light and Sound, to trigger seismic molecular events, to shake the wall, to break down barriers

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 22, 2011

Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert: Vibrations of Light and Sound, to trigger seismic molecular events, to shake the wall, to break down barriers

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 22, 2011

  Earlier this year Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert responded to a call for entries I posted for two separate curatorial endeavors: one for the Black Metal theory journal Helvete, …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Le Fils du Gong

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Nov 16, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Le Fils du Gong

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Nov 16, 2011

I am riding on the adrenaline rush of playing at the Lincoln Center’s Walter Reader Theater to a sold-out audience with my classical Javanese gamelan orchestra, Kusuma Laras. I wasn’t …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

by Richard McCoy | Nov 15, 2011

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

by Richard McCoy | Nov 15, 2011

IMA Conservator Richard McCoy looks back at two international conferences that dealt with the conservation of contemporary art.

On View Now

On View Now | Art as Palimpsest: The Boros Collection and Bunker Berlin

by Max Weintraub | Nov 3, 2011

On View Now

On View Now | Art as Palimpsest: The Boros Collection and Bunker Berlin

by Max Weintraub | Nov 3, 2011

Located on a relatively quiet street in fashionable Berlin-Mitte stands a hulking, imposing building known as Bunker Berlin.  With its stark concrete façade, the daunting structure contrasts sharply with the …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Bottle Poppin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 31, 2011

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Bottle Poppin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 31, 2011

Artist-designer Tahir Hemphill is gathering quirky facts about popular culture via Hip-Hop Word Count, his searchable directory of over 40,000 hip-hop songs. If you’ve ever wanted to know the education level …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 28, 2011

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 28, 2011

  Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Set for PS1’s “September 11”

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 12, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Set for PS1’s “September 11”

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 12, 2011

In two weeks I am taking a group of students to visit the September 11 exhibition at PS1. Most of the high school students in these two classes have some …

Because Our Work is Never Done, or How To Make Art with an iPad (and Hot Dogs)

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 23, 2011

Because Our Work is Never Done, or How To Make Art with an iPad (and Hot Dogs)

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 23, 2011

OMG we managed to cover SO MUCH in the past two weeks!!! Many thanks to all of our talented and knowledgeable contributors for sharing their arcane art-making secrets. We can …

How To Embed A Microcontroller Inside a Sea Shell to Generate “Real” Ocean Sounds

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 22, 2011

How To Embed A Microcontroller Inside a Sea Shell to Generate “Real” Ocean Sounds

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 22, 2011

In this How-To, we’ll go through the steps of assembling a small circuit to generate a continuous ocean sound from a microcontroller. This will require some basic soldering skills and …

How To Play a Vonome

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 22, 2011

How To Play a Vonome

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 22, 2011

You’ve probably already heard of the Monome, or (if you went to ITP), you may have even already made one of your own. In this tutorial, we’re going to take …

How To Harness the Creative Potential of the Video Feedback Loop

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 21, 2011

How To Harness the Creative Potential of the Video Feedback Loop

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 21, 2011

Video feedback. It’s a phenomenon as old as the medium of video itself. In fact, it might even be considered an inherent attribute. The infinite tunnel of psychedelic light-forms that …

How To Use Python To Create A Simple Flickr Photo Glitcher

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 20, 2011

How To Use Python To Create A Simple Flickr Photo Glitcher

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 20, 2011

In today’s How To, we’ll write a small program in Python that searches the photo sharing site Flickr for images with a given tag, downloads them, and then glitches them …

Calling from Canada

Calling from Canada | RealTime UnReal

by Raji Sohal | Sep 20, 2011

Calling from Canada

Calling from Canada | RealTime UnReal

by Raji Sohal | Sep 20, 2011

It’s late summer in Montreal, and many of the major museums and even smaller art galleries are doing what they often do during the summer months: exhibit works from their …

How to Climb the Tallest Mountain

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 19, 2011

How to Climb the Tallest Mountain

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 19, 2011

1. Collect as many images of mountains as you can get. Source from Internet using Google, Corbis, etc…. Images should not contain any visible evidence of human technology or the …

How To Create A Color-Coordinated Site of Relaxation and Bodily Engagement in a Large Scale Exhibition, Airport, Hotel, Mall, Bank, Spa, or Biennial

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 14, 2011

How To Create A Color-Coordinated Site of Relaxation and Bodily Engagement in a Large Scale Exhibition, Airport, Hotel, Mall, Bank, Spa, or Biennial

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 14, 2011

1.0. Open three windows in Google Chrome – one for Target.com, one for WalMart.com, and one for Google Shopping. 1.1. In each window, begin searching for turquoise and white products that are suitable …

How To Create A Bitmap Image File By Hand, Without Stencils

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 13, 2011

How To Create A Bitmap Image File By Hand, Without Stencils

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 13, 2011

  As someone deeply invested in the art world, chances are you’ve found yourself playing art-guide to your friends or relatives on trips to the museum. And chances are, your …
Production of a Sol Lewitt Wall-Drawing

Make-It-Yourself

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 12, 2011

Make-It-Yourself

by Chris Cuellar | Sep 12, 2011

It’s a fact that artists have been more likely to steal than to share. Nevertheless, we are quickly reaching a cultural moment where appropriation will no longer be controversial or …

Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions

Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur

by Lindsay Lawson | Aug 16, 2011

Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions

Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur

by Lindsay Lawson | Aug 16, 2011

Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not. Bruce Nauman made it simple by deciding that anything he …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Three Ways of Seeing

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 10, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Three Ways of Seeing

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 10, 2011

Nancy Grossman, “T.Y.V.L.”, 1970 Image: PS1.org On a recent trip to PS1, I had the unique opportunity to compare a few different approaches to visiting (and hopefully, seeing) exhibitions. Back …
Amir Baradaran. "FutARism Performance," 2011.

The Artist is Prescient: Relational Aesthetics and Augmented Reality

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 4, 2011

The Artist is Prescient: Relational Aesthetics and Augmented Reality

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 4, 2011

This entry takes up where I left off last December, when I documented my encounter with electronics artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer who lectured at the High Museum of Art (Atlanta) about …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Fruits of Summer

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 3, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Fruits of Summer

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 3, 2011

Summer offers fantastic opportunities for educators of all kinds to catch interesting group shows and special exhibitions that are happening before we start up the engines again in the fall. …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Kate Hartman Talks to Herself … and the Art21 Blog

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Jul 27, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Kate Hartman Talks to Herself … and the Art21 Blog

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Jul 27, 2011

One recurring conversation in art school is the difference between art and design. Nowadays technology has also been thrown into the fray. Artist and educator Kate Hartman has the pleasure …

A Good Engineer [interview w/Todd Bailey]

by Nick Briz | Jul 7, 2011

A Good Engineer [interview w/Todd Bailey]

by Nick Briz | Jul 7, 2011

Within the underground, DIY, and circuit-bending communities of Chicago, NYC, and elsewhere Todd Bailey is the name associated with the 8bit sampler/kit WTPA (Where’s The Party At) and other unique …

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Elisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, writer, curator, and educator whose work often addresses feminist, queer, and social issues. While there is a long history of appropriation-based political critique …

Work Smarter, Not Harder [an interview w/Evan Roth]

by Nick Briz | Jun 29, 2011

Work Smarter, Not Harder [an interview w/Evan Roth]

by Nick Briz | Jun 29, 2011

Evan Roth is a prolific producer whose activities take on many different forms, including teaching, collaborating, engineering, collecting gifs, analyzing graffiti, enriching the public domain, developing tools of empowerment and …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart

by Nicholas O'Brien | Jun 28, 2011

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart

by Nicholas O'Brien | Jun 28, 2011

When I initially saw the promotional poster for File Type, currently on view at University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400, I was immediately intrigued by the curatorial premise posed …

A Better Ghost [Interview w/Evan Meaney]

by Nick Briz | Jun 27, 2011

A Better Ghost [Interview w/Evan Meaney]

by Nick Briz | Jun 27, 2011

Evan Meaney is an artist, curator and educator currently teaching time-based media design at the University of Tennessee. His practice dives into the “liminalities and glitches of all sorts, equating …

Internet Connoisseurship

by Tom McCormack | Jun 16, 2011

Internet Connoisseurship

by Tom McCormack | Jun 16, 2011

Since the 60s, cinephilia—obsessive movie love—has proved to be a particularly popular, durable, and visible form of connoisseurship. Susan Sontag wrote that camp aesthetics tried to address the question of …

Cory Arcangel and New Media One-Liners

by Tom McCormack | Jun 10, 2011

Cory Arcangel and New Media One-Liners

by Tom McCormack | Jun 10, 2011

New media artist Nick Briz has defined a “new media one-liner” this way: The new media one-liner is a sub-genre of new media art. Enthusiasts and practitioners of the new …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 8, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 8, 2011

This past Saturday I sat down with a small group of wonderful teachers at the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Media Arts Lab for the second part of a two-part workshop …

Street Photography and Google Street View

by Tom McCormack | Jun 7, 2011

Street Photography and Google Street View

by Tom McCormack | Jun 7, 2011

In her essay “Certainties and Possibilities,” Janet Malcolm offers a brief genealogy of what she sees as a particularly American form of street photography. Malcolm starts by talking about European …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Installation in Installments

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 1, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Installation in Installments

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 1, 2011

Each year the graduates and upperclassmen I work with look forward to their final project as a way of leaving a stamp on the school itself. Students are asked to …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The ITP Class of 2011

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | May 18, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The ITP Class of 2011

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | May 18, 2011

When I read Nicole Caruth’s write-up of Miriam Simun’s Lady Cheese Shop last week, I screamed, “she stole my blog post!” Simun was a fellow student of my program until …