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2012-01-12T15:00:00.003-06:00

First post of the new year. Lots of new stuff going on. Finished another successful semester teaching Realtime 3D: Modeling/Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Media Theory and Design at Columbia College Chicago. I started working for Worldwide Tech Services in December - I am now taking apart laptops and desktops (and putting them back together) on my non-teaching days. Lots of colorful stories there, working with customers in their places of business and homes. I'll be teaching Virtual Worlds Concepts in the Interactive Arts and Media department at Columbia College Chicago starting next week. Yoona Ha, a graduate student in journalism at Northwestern University has written a piece that mentions my work: published here and here. Fluxfest Chicago is coming again early next month!

Are Computers Creative? - Studio 360

2011-12-21T13:10:00.000-06:00

Are Computers Creative? - Studio 360

Bookmarked for listening later.

update: its not that interesting!

2011-12-05T22:35:00.002-06:00

Hilarious virtual world art humor

http://vimeo.com/28513091

From Lubomyr - i am so honored!

2011-11-23T11:24:00.002-06:00

and his awesome blog http://suxulf.blogspot.com/

a hand carved handstamp

projections and shadows in SL

2011-11-21T15:08:00.000-06:00

So I have been experimenting with both projections and shadows and mesh on the higher end equipment (machines here have 12GB of RAM - whew) - with great results.

Mesh and Second Life: The view from the Avatar Designers perspective

2011-10-14T21:40:00.001-05:00

Great Article

Claudia Laska in Visual Poetry Group Show, "Write Now" at the Chicago Cultural Center

2011-09-29T14:55:00.002-05:00

From the Chicago Cultural Center Website:

"Write Now: Artists and Letterforms" is a major exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center, presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, in partnership with the Chicago Office of Tourism and Culture, that showcases a diverse range of recent works by more than 60 artists utilizing letters and text in a wide array of mediums.
Featuring primarily existing work, along with some exhibit-specific installations, the artists exhibited are predominantly, but not exclusively, Chicago-based, and range from well-established to neophyte. Among the expansive survey of styles and mediums is painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles, photography and video.
Joel Ross lights up the exhibition with his Torture Sounds Incredible LED installation; Chicago photographer Doug Fogelson presents a new work titled Dissolve; Aviva Alter presentsShield, a textile work made of recycled materials; Jason Messinger presents Nine Letterfields, a ceramic work consisting of 2”x12” tiles and glazes on wood backer frames; and Dan Grzeca presents a silkscreen image titled @MayorEmanuel. Rick Valicenti, recipient of the 2011 National Design Award for Communcations Design from the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, presents Sumi Calligraphy, an extraordinary ink on paper artwork.
The Fluxus/Visual Poetry Project is showcased in one section of the exhibition, featuring work by more than 100 artists from international Fluxus and Mail Art communities who submitted artwork via the postage system.

Related Events:
Opening Reception: Friday, September 30
from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the Chicago Rooms. The event is free and open to the public.
Artist Talk: Thursday, October 6 at 6 p.m
. " Write Now" artists Mike Genovese, Christine Tarkowski and Bernard Williams will led an artist discussion in the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center. Admission is free.

Smithsonian Blount Postal History Symposium

2011-09-19T20:56:00.000-05:00

Overall another great symposium. My "Postal History and Network Art" located postal history within new media arts by advancing the scholarship on mail art as the precursor to network art.

Teaching Two Courses this Fall

2011-09-14T12:00:00.001-05:00

Overall, a balanced teaching schedule this semester: Media Theory and Design 2 at Columbia College Chicago and Realtime 3D: Modeling/Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Postal History and Network Art

2011-09-09T09:17:00.000-05:00

I am gunning for the deadline on the Blount Postal History Symposium as I put together my paper for the presentation. Looking forward to familiar faces and the beautiful environment of the American Philatelic Center. Made a lot of progress yesterday and wil continue through the weekend.

What's Up?

2011-08-19T14:52:00.001-05:00

Projects taking my attention now:

media production, client work

considering writing a story called "Murder at Whiskey Point" set in Jefferson Township, Illinois in the 1850s

researching same for factual postal history article sourced from Len Piszkiewicz and Harvey Karlen's work on Chicago postal history

testing enterprise network infrastructure

planning production of Magic Mushrooms for international DVD

researching mail art ahead of presentation at the American Philatelic Center on "Postal History and Network Art"

Lundemo: Charting the Gesture

2011-07-09T23:11:00.002-05:00

Eurozine offers evidence of Swedish media theory in Trond Lundemo's essay on gesture.

Stamps for Kids at Portage-Cragin library

2011-06-30T09:02:00.001-05:00

I volunteered at Portage-Cragin library for a Family night with my Stamps for Kids project. Children and parents got free stamps, heard music by Tito Puente, Celia Cruz and Selena (from the recent Latin American music stamps series) and illustrated patriotic 4th of July songs (America the Beautiful and This Land is Your Land) with their new stamp collection. Great fun was had by all. Thanks to Nanette Rae Freeman for this opportunity. Pics to follow.

Computer Conversations: E-mail

2011-06-28T21:07:00.000-05:00

Computer Conversations radio show this week is devoted to email. Andrew discusses Ray Tomlinson, credited for inventing email, the evolution of email and using email today. Some time is devoted to email's development as a mass medium in the context of popular culture and personal computing. A brief history of postal communications on the northwest side of Chicago is introduced.

Stamps for Kids at Taste of Chicago 2011 report

2011-06-28T10:00:00.002-05:00

Stamps for Kids at Taste of Chicago on June 26, 2011 was a great success. Adding to our running total in the sixth year was giveaway of approximately 350,000 stamps, a solid number. Many volunteers came to help, among them: CPS members Bob Glass, Bob Marshall, and Jane Doyle, with her daughter Meghan. In addition Claudia Laska, Katherine Nichols, Julie Levinsohn, Janell Baxter with friend Adam, Peter Oleksiuk, Picasso Gaglione, and Adamandia Kapsalis rounded out the crew. Our colorful booth was filled with children nearly all 8 hours of the day. American Philatelist magazine issues, U.S. stamp catalogs as well as Linn's Stamp News back issues were given away as prizes to kids who could find stamps of George Washington, Denmark, Poland, airplanes, etc on cue at 15 to 30 minute intervals during the day. Many smiling faces of children and adults were seen as they left the booth with stamps and a newfound appreciation for stamp collecting. Approximately 2000 kids and parents visited the booth.

Hybrid Reality Broadcast

2011-06-21T19:35:00.004-05:00

Recording of a 6/21/2011 hybrid reality broadcast from cyberspace and Milwaukee Avenue. Computer Conversations host Andrew Oleksiuk discusses life in cyberspace, particularly the virtual world of Second Life. Broadcast from Spectacular in the SL8B festival in cyberspace in the occasion of the eighth birthday of the Second Life. Topics covered include the technology of cyberspace, subcultures, 3D graphics, and virtual world communications. Discards, a virtual world art installation curated by Janell Baxter is the host location for the cyberspace broadcast and a live studio audience.

Stamps for Kids at Taste of Chicago

2011-06-20T09:50:00.013-05:00

Stamps for Kids to add to millions giveaway of stamps at Taste of Chicago. Stamps for Kids is in its sixth year at Taste of Chicago in Chicago's lakefront Grant Park summer food festival. From its inception as an experimental media art histories intervention to the largest one-day stamp giveaway known, Stamps for Kids has given away over 2 million postage stamps to Chicago children to promote stamp collecting among youth. In 2008 the Ernest J. Kehr Award honored Stamps for Kids founder Andrew Oleksiuk for enduring contributions to youth philately. In 2009, Stamps for Kids Mobile Unit (a colorful collapsable bicycle trailer) was unveiled at the College of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois at Chicago and COMPEX. [More photos]

All stamps are donated as an ongoing project by local and national stamp collecting clubs, individual donors and stamp dealers. Each year the Taste of Chicago booth is staffed by volunteers and friends. Children and parents assemble in the Family Village area of Taste of Chicago and are amazed at the variety of educational opportunities for family fun with stamps. Kids put stamps selected from bins into baggies designated for each child. This fun free activity excites and delights all participants and is very popular with both children and parents. Stamps for Kids is sponsored by Chicago Philatelic Society which is the oldest continuously operating stamp club in the United States.

Info: Hours are 11am-7pm in the Family Village area of Taste of Chicago at the corner of Columbus and Jackson on the Taste of Chicago festival grounds in Grant Park.

Discarded items in Discards show

2011-06-10T09:25:00.003-05:00

Discards, curated by Janell Baxter, offers a mixed reality experience with a card set and a virtual exhibit at Second Life's 8th Birthday (SL8B) party. Visitors to the 3D immersive virtual world can experience the artwork with other avatars at the weeklong festival and art show. The Discards trading card set with eight images by four new media artists is also available in limited quantity for purchase.

Each Discards artist created two images based on a found discarded item. The transformation from trash into virtual art into collectible art object relates the transmediative process inherent in cultural consumption and ephemera, and the experimental nature of digital formats such as virtual worlds.

Second Life's 8th Birthday opens June 20 and runs through June 26. The Discards show celebration will include a live mixed reality internet radio broadcast on www.slaminternetradio.com. Artists participating are: Janell Baxter, Claudia Laska, Janet Rooney and Andrew Oleksiuk.

Doing a little website remodeling.

2011-06-09T12:44:00.003-05:00

Doing a little website remodeling. Which is interesting if you've been transmedia blogging for as long as I have. Waxing nostalgically, I've recently been recalling my earliest days of publishing which included hand-laid pages with text rendered on a daisy wheel printer. The result was Olympus which was a role-playing gaming zine. This of course was thirty years ago (early 1980's), largely before the proliferation of color graphics cards and monitors on computing devices. To recall this past I've not gone completely green-screen, but the font and text colors herein suggest the earlier days of computing.

Computer Conversations with Andy

2011-06-07T17:35:00.001-05:00

Show #3 in which I give an update on supercomputing via the Blue Waters program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, break down the very concept of networking in both hardware and software forms, and give a partial walkthrough of virtual world software via Columbia College Chicago's "I Am Columbia" virtual world simulator.

Link to the audio program: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15230701

sponsored by Sense-Net Media

Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum: Artistampzine (14 more) - Picasso Gaglione - Illinois, USA - 2011

2011-06-02T15:35:00.001-05:00

Gina Lotta Post Artistamp Museum: Artistampzine (14 more) - Picasso Gaglione - Illinois, USA - 2011

Andyland cover art on a recent Artistampzine issue by Picasso Gaglione

Computer Conversations with Andy, Recorded on 5/30/2011 SlamIR on USTREAM. Radio

2011-06-01T19:45:00.001-05:00

This week's "Computer Conversations" radio show in which I break out into: "Raindrops keep falling on my router", cloud computing, touchscreens, video files, and petascale computing.

Computer Conversations with Andy, Recorded on 5/30/2011 SlamIR on USTREAM. Radio

Have a listen!

Buy an Advertisement on Computer Conversations

2011-05-31T11:46:00.003-05:00

Buy an Advertisement. Please email your proposed ad copy to mailart [at] earthlink [dot] net or call 773-736-2745 for a quote on radio-audio advertisement production.

Donate to Computer Conversations via this Tip Jar

2011-05-31T11:34:00.001-05:00

Here is a custom payment button for donations to Computer Conversations on Slam Internet Radio.

Lovely - If you like the weather

2011-05-31T10:59:00.000-05:00

One can grouse about living in Chicago. However, if extreme happens to be your style, this is where it's at. Last week it was 45 F degrees, torrential rains over the weekend, and now it's 90 F degrees. I can't figure out, on a daily basis, whether to wear shorts and sandals or heavy sweaters. For protection from the sun I wear a wide-brimmed hat. For protection from my grill, I wear an apron. This is also good for making my guests comfortable, since none of them look as ridiculous as I do wearing the apron and hat. Grilling pita bread was not as easy as I had guessed, but the main event - and relatively easy - cheeseburgers, bratwurst and hotdogs fit well with charades, beer, wine, and dry cider. Strawberry and poppyseed mixed greens, and papaya and yummy potato salad rounded out the menu.

Computer Conversations - My New Radio Program!

2011-05-24T20:59:00.000-05:00

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/14934997

Have a listen!

In this program I talk about my previous and current experience with computing and how computers affect our lives.

Art for Sale

2011-05-23T17:33:00.001-05:00

Price: $118 USD

The Sustainable Artist: A Virtual Panel Discussion @ NYFA Blog

2011-05-18T09:59:00.000-05:00

The Sustainable Artist: A Virtual Panel Discussion @ NYFA Blog

Interesting link from New York Foundation for the Arts on artists working in sustainability, including public works.

2011 Blount Postal History Symposium

2011-05-11T10:58:00.000-05:00

My presentation entitled "Postal History and Network Art" has been accepted to the 2011 Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium in September. The symposium will take place in Bellefonte Pennsylvania at the American Philatelic Center in conjunction with the U.S. Classics Society. Two years ago I attended for the first time, and I was very impressed with both the venue and the symposium. Last year, I gave my first Blount Symposium presentation at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum where it is held on even numbered years. I am very much looking forward to this.

Local Links

2011-05-04T09:18:00.000-05:00

It's amazing how quickly a month goes by without a blog post. I am reorganizing my work around serving my local community. When I think about it, this blog does not mention Portage Park or Northwest side of Chicago all that much. But that has been my research focus of late: identifying potential customers, marketing, and creating partnerships to strengthen the local business climate.

I have put in applications and proposals to various entities in the neighborhood (and elsewhere).

My Google Places page for Sense-Net Media and my renewed website have a new focus that explains my skills and will help to establish links within the community.

Patrick

2011-04-06T15:22:00.001-05:00

http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/would-you-like-to-teach-my-avatar-learning-in-second-life

Eurozine - Splitting up? - Andriy Shevchenko, David Van Reybrouck The re-nationalization of Europe

2011-04-04T02:47:00.000-05:00

Eurozine - Splitting up? - Andriy Shevchenko, David Van Reybrouck The re-nationalization of Europe

Art of the Everyday

2011-04-03T09:52:00.000-05:00

Working with numbers and spreadsheets allows me to make better decisions. The tedium of administrative chores is outweighed by their usefulness. This focus gets obscured by more creative projects. Fact of the matter is, I've been working so long on keeping the ship afloat I forget sometimes I've become quite good at it. Going over last years projects I know it is not a just a set of numbers and figures. Learning new financial software and dealing with correspondence and accounts are important aspects of lifelong learning and success.

Ben Chang at Interactive Arts and Media

2011-03-10T22:05:00.000-06:00

Art and technology scholar Ben Chang gave a nice presentation at Interactive Arts and Media department at Columbia College Chicago this evening. He showed work which ranged from multi-user CAVE virtual reality to Second Life virtual world objects and avatar effects. He has done interactive gallery installations, custom physical computing interfaces and programming. Formerly of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he is currently directing a game program at Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Donetsk, Ukraine - Isolation?

2011-03-02T22:12:00.001-06:00

Links to several accounts of the new "Izolyatsia" artspace and "Cultural Conversion: A New Life of the Industrial Past" international contemporary art conference held in Donetsk, Ukraine.

Korydor: Тетяна Філевська , Перспективи "Ізоляції" (in Ukrainian)

E-Flux: Ekaterina Degot, A Letter from Donetsk: Art Amidst the Roses (in English)

Izolyatsia.org

Premiere of Magic Mushrooms at Museum of Contemporary Art

2011-02-07T16:22:00.000-06:00

FluxFest Chicago
Feb 15 - 20, 2011
MCA Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art

Keith A. Buchholz, Picasso Gaglione, and Fluxus Artists: FLUXFEST
February 15-20: Tues, 12:31 pm and 6:35 pm; Wed 12:03 pm; Thurs 12:15-3:15 pm; Fri 12:36 pm; Sat 12:34 pm; Sun 12:33 pm
This exploration of Fluxus activity includes contemporary re-interpretations of classic Fluxus scores and actions; new Fluxus performances by Fluxus artists; and a presentation of the Postal Art Network. Performers include the Chicago Fluxus Ensemble and invited Fluxus artists.

World Premiere of Magic Mushrooms at FluxFest Chicago
Feb 17, 2011
special show Thursday at 12:15pm
MCA Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art

Andrew Oleksiuk will perform a new work entitled Magic Mushrooms, a live mixed-reality story of digital transformation filled with faeries, mail art and rubber clowns. A lighthearted 3D homage to Fluxus and Gutai, Magic Mushrooms features a virtual replica of Atsuko Tanaka's Electric Dress (1956), with music by K. Paul Boyev and William Harper.

!! Six Big Days of Events !! connected with Fluxus: classic Fluxus performances, new twists on Fluxus themed works, and analog and digital intermedia highlight the FluxFest Chicago as part of Without You I'm Nothing: Interactions series at the Museum of Contemporary Art. FluxFest Chicago runs from Tuesday February 15th to Sunday February 20th, 2011.

MCA: http://www.mcachicago.org/programs/event_detail.php?id=570
Chicago: http://www.explorechicago.org/city/en/things_see_do/event_landing/events/tourism/keith_a__buchholz.html
Complete Chicago FluxFest schedule: http://fluxusstlouis.blogspot.com/2010/12/fluxfest-chicago.html
Oleksiuk Weblog: http://andrewoleksiuk.blogspot.com/

Magic Mushrooms in the house

2011-02-05T08:42:00.000-06:00

In preparation for Fluxfest Chicago I have created a limited edition (40) set of Magic Mushrooms artistamps for Fluxbox with Picasso Gaglione. It is a small sheetlet of three designs, perforated.

Fluxfest Chicago

2011-01-29T10:24:00.000-06:00

A weeklong exploration of Fluxus activity, from it’s earliest scores and actions, to contemporary re-interpretations of classic scores, and Recent works by Contemporary Fluxus Artists.
Held inside the Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, Illinois
February 15th – 20th, 2010

Please Join us to Perform and Congregate : at the MCA – Chicago, week of Feb. 15th – 20th, 2011.
“FLUXFEST - CHICAGO”
organized by Keith A. Buchholz and Picasso Gaglione.
A weeklong exploration of Fluxus activity, from it’s earliest scores and actions, to contemporary re-interpretations of classic scores, and Recent works by Contemporary Fluxus Artists.
Held inside the Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, Illinois
February 15th – 20th, 2010

Tuesday, 2/15 12:31 P.M.
The New Fake Picabia Brothers ( Picasso Gaglione / Keith A. Buchholz )
Guitar Kick ( Robin Page ) Performers kick a guitar throughout galleries, until guitar is completely dismembered. – Classic performance score by an anchor artist of the british “school” of 70’s Fluxus.

Tuesday, 2/15 6: 35 P.M.
The Chicago Fluxus Ensemble - Classic Scores and Interventions
Founded in 2009 by Hannah Higgins, Simon Anderson and Alison Knowles, The Chicago Fluxus Ensemble has performed multiple times with Fulcrum Point’s New Music Series. ( Simon Anderson, Picasso Gaglione, Jeff Abell, Sally Alatelo, Keith A. Buchholz, Joshua Rutherford, Jessica Feinstein, Kyle White, Darlene Domel , and others. )

Wednesday, 2/16 12:03 p.m.
“ Eternal Networking “
Guided by artists Picasso Gaglione, Darlene Domel, Keith A. Buchholz, Andy Oleksiuk, Adamandia Kapsalis, Neosho, and others, Visitors will have the ability to interact with the Postal Art Network. Supplies for Collage, Stamping, and Postal Mail Making will be provided, along with insights, and guidance into making works which will be sent into the “Eternal Network “.

Thursday, 2/17 12:15 p.m.
3 Durational Works
1. Premiere of “ Time / Space Ritual “ a New work by Keith A. Buchholz, involving the layering of sound and manipulation of found sources through 4 turntables, influenced by Nam June Paik’s Turntable manipulations and Steve Reich’s Tape Loop work. Duration : 60 Minutes.
2. Premiere of “ Magic Mushrooms” a New work by Andrew Oleksiuk, Utilizing Live telepresence, Virtual FLUXUS Performance in Second Life, with special guest performers. Duration 60 minutes.
3. Dragging Suite - Nam June Paik Performed by Picasso Gaglione, Darlene Domel, Keith A. Buchholz, and others, Paik’s Suite calls for the dragging of multiple dolls throughout the space. Comical and Irreverent, this is a Paik work not often seen. Duration 45min – 1 hr.

Friday, 2/18 12:36 p.m.
TRISTIN TZARA - performance by Miekal And, Camille Bacos .
Explores the relationship of Tzara to his hometown, with filmed imagery, and spoken word.

DADA machine FLUXUS ( Darlene Domel, Keith A. Buchholz, Picasso Gaglione, Andy Oleksiuk, and others.) * Expected guest performers include Melissa McCarthy (Flux- New Hampshire), Reed Altemus ( Fluxus Maine), Jennifer Kosharek ( Fluxus South), Cecil Touchon ( Fluxus-Texas), as well as other incoming Flux-Folk.
Manic Re - Interpretations of Classic Fluxus Scores, as seen through the direction of Picasso Gaglione.

Saturday, 2/19 12:34 p.m.
FLUXUS NOW !!!
Contemporary Fluxus Scores interpreted by their authors and members of their circle.
A sampling of recent work, performed by contemporary artists from the Fluxus community, many of whom are coming to Chicago specifically to perform at these events. Artists from throughout the U.S., (and possibly Mexico and Canada as well), will converge to perform their recent scores.
* A commemorative Zine of scores will be published by Fluxpress in conjunction with this event, and will be distributed free to MCA visitors during these performances.

Saturday, 2/19 7:13 p.m. ( OFFSITE )
The New York Correspondance School of Chicago Dinner
In Keeping with the traditions of Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondance School, it’s Chicago Affiliates will host an informal dinner gathering at a downtown location TBA. Members of the Chicago Fluxus and Mail Art communities as well as incoming performers and guests will be in attendance. The public will be notified of time and place, by flyers distributed throughout the week at the MCA.

Sunday, 2/20 12:33 p.m.

FLUX – SOLOS
A variety of Classic and Contemporary Fluxus scores, interpreted by Contemporary Fluxus artists.
This performance gives Contemporary performers the opportunity to present works from the 50 year canon of scores, that personally resonate with them. Performances will undoubtedly be insightful, and will run the gamut from irreverent to introspective. ( discussion with the artists to follow. )
* artists will include all involved during the “Fluxweek” and will conclude the weeks activities.

* As part of the weeks activities, Posters, Flyers, Stampsheets, and Booklets will be printed and distributed freely to visitors at the museum. ( Ephemera is an integral part of the Fluxus practice).
More Performances to be added ---- As you think of them .....

Please contact Keith Buchholz for more info : 1-314-276-4802 Keith9963@sbcglobal.net

2011 is Upon Us

2011-01-04T13:06:00.001-06:00

There's not a lot about the new year that isn't much like other years: a looking forward and back, new pictures while flipping the calendar, anothing year of archiving stuff. But 2011 comes with a twist: a sea change in virtual worlds opportunities, based on the rocky wacky year that was 2010. Having had actualized and finished school at UIC which netted me an MFA in Electronic Visualization, 2011 is the first year I face with this academic qualifications upgrade. Hot on the heels of SAIC's pick for Realtime 3D: Modeling and Animation, my students' work was really good. From FluxFest at Columbia and first time teaching Media Theory and Design 2, art opportunities in the virtual world realm also seem ripe. October's trip to Washington DC even showed a glint of positioning on the 2011 map. Locally the Taste controversy is on my mind as it may impact Stamps for Kids. So technically 2010 was a banner year for a multitude of reasons. Is a sophomore slump in the offing? Not likely, based on the stock of relational affectations from 2010. Busy as always, but yours truly, Andrew

Lubomyr Tymkiv

2010-12-31T12:19:00.000-06:00

My friend Lubomyr Tymkiv, who lives in Lviv has a weblog, and a lot of web presence. He calls himself Fluxus Ukraine and has a large body of work. He makes prints, mail art, books, collages, and curates shows and has work in galleries and festivals. Lubomyr Tymkiv interview (in Ukrainian).

Chicago Philatelic Society

2010-12-02T22:06:00.000-06:00

Hot on the heels of Chicagopex 2010, I was elected secretary of the Chicago Philatelic Society tonight at the December CPS meeting, along with a slate of the usual suspects. I had been serving as interim or acting secretary since Randy Sherman's passing in late October.

There were some nice exhibits at the meeting. In December we do our annual show and tell. The Chicago Philatelic Society prints a monthly bulletin and has meetings open to the public ususally on the third Thursday of every month at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Nov. Updates:

2010-11-04T14:06:00.000-05:00

Susan Ryan PhD., art historian from LSU on wearable technologies
Oct 20

Sabrina Raaf
Interactive Arts and Media department
Nov 2

Tom Boellstorf on Second Life @ Chicago Humatities Festival
Nov 6, UIC Forum

Chicagopex 2010, Itasca, IL
Nov 19-21

Fluxfest October 27

2010-10-19T12:59:00.001-05:00

Student performances with guest artists DADA machine FLUXUS: Keith Buchholz, Picasso Gaglione, Darlene Domel, Andrew Oleksiuk, Patrick Lichty.

UBUWEB Hacked, Back Online

2010-10-15T09:14:00.000-05:00

Media art history resource UBUWEB was hacked in past weeks, but is partially back online. The website is a repository for video art, sound art, poetry and performance. The outage affected my lectures because I had been trolling UBUWEB's vast archives for their high quality clips of William Wegman, Ant Farm, Hans Richter and others. The site usually has monthly guest curated selections, as well as a huge library. UBUWEB

Transmediation

2010-10-12T10:14:00.001-05:00

My entry in Transmediation curated by Janell Baxter features a virtual world 3D video remix, and video stills from Designer Mustard Gas' Idaho video. As a member of this art collective way back in the late 80's, I now bring this experimental multimedia work to you in the context of the Internet age. Opening 4-6pm, Thu...rsday Oct 14 at 916 S. Wabash, and in Second Life at I Am Columbia sim.

Talk, Washington

2010-10-05T11:13:00.001-05:00

by all accounts, successfully nailed my presentation at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. How wonderful seeing old friends and meeting interesting new people. Hadn't been to Washington since eighth grade. Took in the sights, watched democracy in action, visited the Freer/Sackler Art Gallery as well as the National Gallery of Art

Upcoming Events

2010-09-22T22:06:00.000-05:00

Upcoming Events:

September 2010: Blount Postal History Symposium Paper/Talk @ Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.
October 2010: Transmediation @ Interactive Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago
October 2010: FluxFest @ Interactive Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago
November 2010: Chicagopex 2010 @ Westin Chicago Northwest, Itasca, IL

School Daze

2010-09-19T09:52:00.000-05:00

Started teaching this fall at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). The class called Realtime 3D: Modeling/Animation is being revamped as "the Second Life" class, with yours truly in charge. Lots of familiar faces at SAIC, due to the fact that Julio Obeillero, Heejoo Kim, Benjamin Thorp, and Adam Trowbridge all from UIC are there as well. I also know several people in the department from the past. Working out the kinks in the first few weeks; I have high hopes for both this class and my future in the Chicago Art& Technology scene.

Continue teaching at Columbia College Chicago. New twist includes a new class - Media Theory and Design 2, a romp through motion arts, film, video, history of computer art and interactivity, with stops along the way in the area of Fluxus, technology history, and media theory. FluxFest is planned for late October.

Working on my paper presentation at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in my copious free time.

Robert Smithson at the MCA

2010-08-24T23:32:00.000-05:00

Robert Smithson, et. al, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=252

Moving On

2010-08-22T10:38:00.001-05:00

This summer has been unexpected in so many ways. First there was academicus interruptus, in which I realized I would continue working on my thesis project all summer long, to the exclusion of nearly everything else. Then there was the project itself (Avatars) which took a few turns - all for the better in planning and execution. I swam a lot to keep me balanced, it it turned out to be quite the summery thing to do. Out of town guests and my Avatars show kept me busy in July. Looking forward to fall, I have multiple feathers in my cap, so taking a much needed break at the right time was heaven sent (Claudia and I spent a week in Wisconsin in early August). But the dog days of summer are not nearly over yet although I watched my first Bears game last night as a harbinger of the season to come.

Avatars - Аватари

2010-07-26T21:27:00.000-05:00

Unedited video screengrab from Avatars virtual world show.

++++++CLICK HERE FOR MOVIE++++++

Participants:
Lubomyr Tymkiv, Ukraine
Alex Gildzen, USA
Vladimir Kharchenko, Ukraine
Chi5 Shenzhou, USA
Sissy Charron, Ukraine
Іра Бочар, Україна
Ігор Мікула, Україна
Марина Куценко, Україна
Анна Василькова, Україна
Andrew Oleksiuk, USA
Ti Mosienko, USA

Thanks to all who participated and come to the Stamp Art Museum opening and also the avatars who came to the virtual opening! More coming soon.

Yet even more Avatars Photos

2010-07-26T19:03:00.000-05:00

More Avatars photos from Stampland Gallery

2010-07-26T18:55:00.000-05:00

Avatars Photos

2010-07-26T18:52:00.001-05:00

Even more Avatars

2010-07-26T18:47:00.001-05:00

More Avatars

2010-07-26T18:39:00.000-05:00

Avatars show documentation

2010-07-26T18:33:00.001-05:00

Hybrid Event

2010-07-21T23:14:00.000-05:00

HYBRID PARTICIPATORY PERFORMANCE
REAL VIRTUAL GAMES IN SECOND LIFE

Working group: Transnational Media Performance
SDHS Conference: Dance and Spectacle

Real Virtual Games is a project experimenting with the interaction through hybrid modes of embodiment, adapting and creatively applying possible interfaces between physical and virtual bodies and realities. Moving through the world and games available to appropriate and critically create new modes of embodied interaction.

Avatars art opening

2010-07-17T09:45:00.000-05:00

You're invited to an art opening featuring all brand new work: 3D
virtual world avatars, machinima, and artistamps in collaboration with
Ukrainian artists.

Saturday July 24th, 6-9pm in beautiful Ukrainian Village
Stamp Art Museum
2708 W Chicago Ave.

more details, including how you can participate virtually, at my blog
via the link

http://andrewoleksiuk.blogspot.com/

Sincerely,
Andrew Oleksiuk

p.s. I apologize if you have received this twice or in multiple formats!

Avatars - Аватари Show Opening

2010-07-16T18:43:00.000-05:00

Invitation

АВАТАРИ - AVATARS

Art opening in celebration of АВАТАРИ - AVATARS artistamp project featuring real world and virtual world avatars and Ukrainian language themed work. This inworld opening will be seen live at Stamp Art Museum, Stampland, Chicago, I will be hosting the first ever inworld/extraworld Avatars art opening featuring collaborations with artists from Ukraine in a 3D virtual extravaganza social sculpture artistamp show. If you can't make it to the real world opening, you can participate online via free Second Life software. Brand new work - 3D Avatars, machinima and unique artistamps.

In Chicago:
6-9pm Chicago time

Stamp Art Museum
Ukrainian Village
Stampland
2708 W. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, USA

In Second Life:
Saturday, July 24, 2010
4-7pm SLT
I Am Columbia Sim

Ukraine Postgraduate Education

2010-07-11T09:06:00.000-05:00

The following article from University World News relates some of the issues in Ukraine's educational model. I have written about Kiev-Mohyla Academy before. This article which specifically outlines new Western-style PhDs is penned by the director of the doctoral program there. This clarifies influence of the Bologna Process in Ukraine.

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20091204101403338

Transmediation

2010-07-07T14:02:00.000-05:00

Transmediation: Work by Ti Mosienko and Li Sani. “Transmediation” is a method of communication where digital information in multiple formats converge, and data can be translated into a new medium. Visitors added to an online generative artwork by participating in our SL7B build.

Мисткиня будує нову виставку

2010-07-07T12:49:00.001-05:00

Мисткиня будує нову виставку

Performance with Isabel Valverde

2010-06-23T20:13:00.000-05:00

Participated in an improvised virtual world dance performance as part of PSI 16: Performing Publics at Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Choreographing the Public: Physical-Virtual Embodied Interfaces for Audience Participation in Second Life® Performance Environment as a guest collaborator with Isabel Valverde, Institute of Human Studies and Intelligent Technologies, Lisbon.

click for more photos

Cтарі чоботи, новий стиль

2010-06-09T16:19:00.000-05:00

Old boots, new style. The leathers fit well. Ripping through her closet, she sees every dated fashion as a true style - a transmodern experience. "The old days had a lot of good in them," she muses. "There's nothing wrong with admitting that." Dusting off a skirt that fits and matching up neutrals with blacks, the supple fabrics remind her of true friends and fresh acquaintances - pulse pounding music to her ears.

the everyday social media art

2010-06-02T12:53:00.000-05:00

Ti chatting with Chi and Fau about transmodernism, hyperformalism and postmodernism. It is important to be social when using social media. For a long time, I used social media only to make art and communicate ideas about art. But now my focus has changed to actually being social. On one hand this is a big change because in Second Life, for example, I almost always was working on some project and didn't really bother to make time for social activities. Now with those major art projects behind me, namely Mermaids of the Chicago River, Chicago Public Transit simulation, and Instant Copies, I turn back to the social art performativity that began way back in 2006. With much of my social media art woven into the fabric of my everyday life, this change may also seem insignificant. But an open ended goal can lead to some exciting possibilities.

Memorial Day weekend discussion of Ukrainian language based artwork

2010-05-28T14:27:00.001-05:00

http://gallery.me.com/mailart/100071

Memorial Day

Andrew discusses working in the Ukrainian language.

Взяла працю в клюбі "Ґлобус."

2010-05-27T17:41:00.000-05:00

Взяла працю в клюбі "Ґлобус."

Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern

2010-05-24T07:31:00.001-05:00

I participated in David Horvitz' Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern, which was Rhizome.org's entry in No Soul for Sale: A Festival of Independents. This somewhat unique mail art show, in which everyone could participate, had an optional web-based tracking component. In solidarity with artists who can't afford or do not have access to such services, I chose to send my entry with only regular postage. It did arrive on time, and in my humble opinion, my Tiffany Lamp-laden front was one of the more interesting pieces. While the list of tracked letters and packages got added to a list on the web, my entry was simply received and displayed at the Tate Modern in London. Interesting concept. I am glad that more artists are moving in the direction of linking global postal services with new media art (I feel less alone now). [main link to David Horvitz's site] [link to Rhizome's coverage]

Presenting a Paper at the Smithsonian

2010-05-21T18:17:00.000-05:00

I will be presenting a paper on semiotics and cultural sensitivity at the 2010 Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium, whose theme this year is "Stamps and the Mail: Imagery, Icons & Identity." The Smithsonian National Postal Museum is a sponsor and will host this year's event. The full title of the paper is Contemporary Cultural Attitudes in Ukraine: Using Postal History, Marcophily, and Philately as Gateway to Historiography and Cultural Memory. The Smithsonian National Postal Museum has already uploaded the abstract, available here. I'm up against three other scholars of former USSR and Eastern Europe. This talk is related both to my teaching in media theory in the arts in the Interactive Arts and Media department at Columbia College Chicago, and my Masters of Fine Arts thesis work at University of Illinois at Chicago which includes art in the form of artistamps and virtual worlds. In the abstract of this paper I observe "The contemporaneous explosion of the Internet in Ukraine's media landscape in this period [1991-present] serves to strengthen the relevance of postal history study as a transmodern analog to social media and analysis." I have also recently made available the 128page pdf file of a postal history exhibit entitled Ukraine Postal History: 1900-1945 and related research on multiculturalism in Ukraine on which the paper is partly based. In 2007 I was chosen to participate in an online exhibit at the Smithsonian, entitled Collecting Ancestral Homelands. My contribution was the reflection that collecting postal history engages historical analysis. From the semiotics of multiculturalism to media literacy in popular culture and virtual worlds, I assert that media theory in our transmodern world is an important intellectual and cultural asset.

"Аватари"

2010-05-20T14:15:00.000-05:00

"Аватари"
відкритий заклик / запрошення
до участі мистецькому проєкті "Аватари," куратером яку є Андрій Олексюк. Прошу вислати зображення електронною поштою яка вас репрезентує - уздоблює. Це може бути цифрова фотографія, портрет, образ, чи щось інше що зображає Вашу особисть. Якщо можливо вишліть зображення яку можна зменшити до малого квадрату (6 см : 6 см). Ваші всі присланні зображення у виставці експонатами в 3-D віртуальному світі "Second Life".

Декотрі вибрані експонати будуть видрукувані як видання мистецької поштові марки.

Термінова дата зголошення: 1-го липня 2010

Виставка відбудеться влипні 2010. Точна дата та місця Вам особисто і пувлично оголошенні.

Прошу вислати:
імя і прізвище
місто, область, держава
ваша зображення
Адреса електронічної пошти і/або Ваша домашна поштова адреса

http://andrewoleksiuk.blogspot.com

вишліть на: mailart@earthlink.net
тема: Аватари
Андрій Олексюк
5336 W Belle Plaine
Chicago, IL 60641
USA

Avatars

2010-05-17T19:56:00.001-05:00

Call for Participation:
"Avatars"
This is an open call for entries for an art project curated by Andrew Oleksiuk called Avatars. Send one image via email that represents you. This can be an digital image of your online avatar or any art image or photograph that you want to represent you. If possible, use an image that can be reduced to a small size, with an aspect ratio close to 1x1 (square). All of the images will be on display in a 3D virtual world, "Second Life". Some selected images will also be printed on "artistamp" editions. Deadline for submissions: July 1st, 2010. Details of July exhibition location online and at Stamp Art Museum in Chicago, USA will be sent to all participants.

Please send:
Your name
Your location (city, state, country)
Your digital image
Your email and/or mailing address (for sending documentation)

Send to:

mailart@earthlink.net, subject: Avatars
see also: http://andrewoleksiuk.blogspot.com
Andrew Oleksiuk
5336 W. Belle Plaine
Chicago IL 60641
USA

.укр

2010-05-16T20:28:00.000-05:00

Ukraine's new cyrillic internet domain suffix is .укр (cyrillic).

Kiev Ukraine News Blog

2010-05-16T08:41:00.000-05:00

Lucid coverage? of Ukraine's television censorship situation from Kiev Ukraine News Blog
.

Ti Mosienko перед виставцьі "Instant Copies" 2009

2010-05-14T22:36:00.000-05:00

Ti Mosienko перед виставцьі "Instant Copies" 2009 у віртуальному світі Second Life.

про жіночі стилі письма часів постмодернізму

2010-05-13T12:25:00.000-05:00

Ya Gallery

2010-05-11T13:25:00.000-05:00

Ya Gallery in Kyiv is hosting a show entitled "Loudpseaker". http://www.yagallery.com.ua/artexhib/155/ The artist has other work as part of the Sevastopol Art Festival using militariana and military symbolism. http://www.nashizdat.com/blog/photo/831.html

http://sevastopol-fest.com/index.php

Karas Gallery

2010-05-08T00:22:00.000-05:00

"Tango" Exhibition by Александр Ройтбурд, at Karas Kyiv 2006. These images of the President and Prime Minister dancing the tango underscore the ironies of political polemicism. Framed in the period specifically known as the Orange Revolution, they give perspective on the broader political currents in Ukraine.

http://www.karasgallery.com/en/gallery/55/expo

Greetings from Daddaland

2010-05-05T09:21:00.000-05:00

Picasso Gaglione, Darlene Domel, Ruud Janssen, Keith Buchholz, Alison Knowles, John Held Jr., (and many, many others) in major Fluxus mail art show at Stendhal Gallery in New York. Performance by Dada Machine Fluxus, mail art, artistamps, Fluxboxes, zines, posters, rubberstamps and other objects made up the show.

Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps
(Link to Stendhal Gallery)

Ukraine Postal History 1900-1945

2010-05-05T05:53:00.000-05:00

A technical study of social media of the years 1900-1945 in Ukraine shows the multiculturalism of that country - and how it got that way. 128 pages

click on the image to download the file. Notice: this is a 62 MB .pdf file

Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern

2010-05-04T10:04:00.000-05:00

http://mailnothing.info/

You must send a package with specifically? United States Postal Service tracking to participate in this project. How is this global? Update: I sent in my entry without Internet tracking in solidarity with people who do not have access to such systems.

Lubomyr Tymkiv in Scandalous Manufactory

2010-05-04T09:38:00.000-05:00

see more images at Lubomyr's blog.

Kiev Mohyla Academy

2010-04-28T17:21:00.000-05:00

I have investigated two e-library resources at Kiev Mohyla Academy. In the Institutional Repository I was quickly able to find work on new media art (on urban screens by Maria Stoyanova, and MFA '09 Graduate Student), although the link to the repository seems to be sporadic. This elibrary depository project is part of a larger effort from Kiev Mohyla Foundation., which is working on an Electronic Library whose link was not working last week, but is working now. I heard an interview with Marta Farion on Radio Independant Ukraine last week about it.

Ukraine's Universities Failing Its Students, Article Says

2010-04-26T22:30:00.001-05:00

http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/63475/

Cultural Attitudes

2010-04-26T15:42:00.001-05:00

This article fromArtMargins helps unravel some cultural attitudes:

http://www.artmargins.com/index.php/featured-articles/459-a-short-guide-to-contemporary-art-in-ukraine

Two videos

2010-04-26T14:55:00.000-05:00

I find aspects of these two videos difficult to resolve.

One is the ultrapatriotic and disturbing graphic images:

~ politics of national identity

Independent Nationalists

http://opir.info/category/video/

The second reveals cultural attitudes towards (post)modern art

~ cultural attitudes

EIDOS Art Foundation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW5IPS403Jg

Cultural "Disaster"

2010-04-25T23:09:00.000-05:00

http://www.cultura.net.ua/

This sounds really interesting

2010-04-25T21:43:00.000-05:00

from www.dzyga.com

Project «SIŁA SZTUKI / The Power of Art»

In June 2010 L’viv will host the grand Polish-Ukrainian project «SIŁA SZTUKI/
The Power of Art» presenting the whole spectrum of contemporary art of Poland and organizing the Symposium on current problems of contemporary art in Poland & Ukraine.

The Project consists of two parts:

* Exhibition of works from the collection of Contemporary Art Society of Lublin Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych (to be held in the L’viv Palace of Arts)
* Symposium devoted to the problems of collecting contemporary art and cultural heritage protection in Poland & Ukraine.

The exhibition will be held in L’viv from 11 June to 18 July , and the Symposium – 12-13 June, 2010.

* Lublin collection of contemporary art demonstrates the widest section of Polish art of the last half century in all its diversity. The collection includes over 150 pieces of different kinds of art by 56 artists: paintings, photographs, objects, installations, films, performances, multimedia and conceptual actions.

Artists to be presented: Janusz Baldyga, Miroslaw Balka, Jerzy Beres, Caesar Bodzianovski, Wlodzimierz Borovski, Tomas Tsyetsyerski, Stanislav Druzhdzh, Stanislav Fiyalkovski, Grupa Sędzia Główny, Koi Kamoi, Dariusz Korol, Grzegorz Kovalski, Jaroslaw Kozlowski, Zofia Kulik, Dominik Leiman , Sławomir Mazhets, Sigmund Piotroski, Krzysztof Prushkovski, Jozef Robakowski, Mikolaj Smochynski, Jan Svidzinski, Leon Tarasevich, Tomas Tatarchyk, Zbigniew Warpehovski, Krzysztof Zarembski, Eva Zazhytska. The aforementioned names will be joined by many other established artists of younger generation.

* The Symposium will invite about 20 lecturers from Poland and Ukraine, as well as a dozen of observers from the major cultural centers throughout Ukraine.

The participants of the Symposium: Waldemar Dombrovski, Lucas Huzek, Voychyeh Kozlowski, Piotr Krayevski, Voychyeh Krukovski, Anda Rottenberg, Monika Szewczyk, Joanna Zyelinska and the representatives of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Coordinator (Poland) - Rafal Kozinski, assistant - Maria Artem'yuk.

Coordinators (Ukraine) - Volodymyr Kaufman, Yuriy Hnatkovskyy, Markiyan Ivashchyshyn.

Symposium coordinator (Ukraine) - Bogdan Shumylovych.

Symposium coordinators (Poland) - Zbigniew Sobchuk, Waldemar Tatarchuk.

The exhibition's curators - Marcin Lahovski , Zbigniew Sobchuk.

The Project is realized in cooperation of the partners from Ukraine & Poland:

Lublin Zachęty Sztuk Pięknych,

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv

Polish Institute in Kyiv

Consulate General of Poland in Lviv,

Lviv Palace of Arts,

Warsztaty Kultury – Department of Culture Center in Lublin,

Gallery "Dzyga" in Lviv

NGO "Virmenska - 35"

TransKultura Foundation.

Olexander Butsenko

2010-04-21T21:36:00.000-05:00

expanded .pdf of recent cultural policy formulation
http://www.culturalpolicies.net/down/ukraine_022010.pdf

This link about Ukraine cultural policy is of interest

2010-04-21T20:53:00.000-05:00

http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/ukraine.php?aid=246&curln=103

More show photos

2010-04-09T21:25:00.000-05:00

These photos from Network as Metaphor: Andyland-Ukraine document the art historical, generative, conceptual, visual, symbolic and participatory elements of the work.

Images from my thesis show opening

2010-04-09T12:54:00.000-05:00

University of Illinois College of Architecture and the Arts School of Art + Design Electronic Visualization MFA Thesis Exhibition Details:

2010-04-06T15:51:00.000-05:00

Location [map] [parking map]:
Great Space - 5th Floor
Art + Design Hall
412 S. Peoria Street
Chicago IL 60607

Opening Reception:
Wednesday, April 7
5 - 8pm

Other Exhibit Days and Hours:
April 6 - 10
10am - 6pm

Some Writing about Andyland-Ukraine

2010-04-06T14:19:00.000-05:00

The following blog posts (written by me) refer to Network as Metaphor: Andyland-Ukraine

In response to Digital Fabrication by Lisa Iwamoto
http://evseminar.blogspot.com/2010/04/rr5-digital-fabrication.html

In response to Responsive Architecture by Philip Beesley and Omar Khan
http://evseminar.blogspot.com/2010/04/rr5-responsive-architecture.html

Televisions of Andyland, Cliffs of Andyland

2010-03-30T18:05:00.000-05:00

New Books

2010-03-30T16:48:00.001-05:00

I have just received from the library the following books:

A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography. Kasianov, Georgiy and Ther Philipp, eds. Central European University Press. 2009.

Contested Tongues: Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine. Bilaniuk, Laada. Cornell University Press. 2005.

More research resources

2010-03-29T21:54:00.001-05:00

Update - great reader from the editors of SocialEast. The journal is called Third Text.

Socialist Eastern Europe: Special Issue of Third Text
Issue 96 (January 2009)
Guest editor: Reuben Fowkes

This special issue of Third Text includes essays by leading theoreticians dealing with the problematic of how to rewrite the art history of Europe after the Cold War to take into account the multiple histories of the countries of Eastern Europe. It also highlights the work of a new generation of scholars whose approach to European art history is comparative, pluralistic and goes beyond the binary oppositions that has structured much thinking about Modernism, Socialist Realism, and Conceptual Art. The thematic areas covered range from the modalities of Socialist Realism under Stalin, the achievements of the Post Avant Garde in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia, to public attitudes to the socialist past and recent reflections on the cultural legacy of East European socialism in contemporary art.

Museum World of Ukraine

2010-03-29T21:15:00.000-05:00

Looks like an interesting resource. I can read some of it in Ukrainian. The button for english does not work. Thank goodness for google translate. Statistic "17-18 million people annually visit the Museum of Ukraine." This is of course talking about the whole museum system, which from waht I gather is everything from folk art to military figurines to national art treasures.

Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics

2010-03-29T20:25:00.000-05:00

Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics (Edited by Aleksandra Uzelac and Biserka Cvjetičanin
Culturelink Joint Publication Series No. 12, Institute for International Relations, Zagreb, 2008, 202 pp., 30 €, ISBN: 978-953-6096-46-6) was an interesting read for me. Some of the authors in the bibliographies of the material I have studied, such as Neil Postman, Lev Manovich, Marshall McLuhan, etc. The entire book is available for download in English [direct link to pdf book]. Interesting scholarship derived from digital culture studies in South Eastern European countries, related to my research.

Most Recent Scholarship

2010-03-26T23:36:00.000-05:00

The most recent scholarship on mail art as network art (net art) comes from Kornelia Röder of Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Germany. This translated summary of her dissertation (book) is a very effective argumentation: Kornelia Röder Schriftenreihe für Künstlerpublikationen, Volume 5 ... I had the very good fortune of meeting Kornelia Röder at the College Art Association conference last month. Her talk was part of a panel chaired by Stephen D. Perkins. The panel included Michael Crane, Simon Anderson and Craig Saper.