Category Archives: Thesis Research
Fact Vs Fiction | In the Institute and In the Narrative
Stories are the edge, the interface between what can be known and what is never to be discovered, because it is a mystery transcendent of all human research.” Joseph Campbell We are narrative creatures. Before we are even born we are told stories. I once leaned close to my sister’s belly to impart advice, describe [...]
The Long Awaited
It looks like the last time I posted anything of significance was quite some time ago. A lot’s gotted done. Meetings have happened. Shows have been prepared for. Deliveries have been made. Things have been built. A lot of printing. A lot of planning. I’ll start with an update on the 2D reconstructions. The four final subjects [...]
There is so much going on right now
It’s impossible to update everything fully. So here are some pictures until I can write more: Farkus, The Wounded Heart The Cabinet under construction @ Backwater Blog
Observatory | The Morton Skull Collection
Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead An illustrated lecture and book signing with professor Ann Fabian Date: Monday, February 21st Time: 8:00 PM Presented by Morbid Anatomy When Philadelphia doctor Samuel George Morton died in 1851 he left behind collection of more than a thousand human skulls. Not the grisly leftovers of botched operations, but [...]
Congress Of Curious Peoples
I received my invitation to sell prints at “A Congress of Curious People”. I’ll only be there for the first weekend of the event April 9-11 (even thought I’d love to be there for the entire event school gets in the way ;) APRIL 9-18, 2010 AT SIDESHOWS BY THE SEASHORE AND THE CONEY ISLAND [...]
Google Art Project | As an Artist
I think this is brilliant, wonderful. Who ever gets to see these works of art this up close? Very few people are allowed to study these collections in this way. And rightly so. Too many visitors getting as close as Google Art Project does would destroy a work of art in no time. Yet it’s [...]
The Hyrtl Simulacrum on Kick It!
A few days ago I started getting a few more hits and pledges on the Kickstarter page and was wondering what was going on. Whatever was happening, I liked it and wanted to make sure it kept happening. So I did a little digging. I found out that a collaborative group had picked up my project [...]
A Recent Show I Entered
“Digital art defines the contemporary. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, new media, digital video art, net art, digital sculpture, interactive multimedia, and the vast panorama of hybrid forms of art and technology that constitute our moment in culture. We are committed to [...]
Update on the Seton Hall Symposium
The symposium “Modern/Contemporary Art and the Curiosity Cabinet” is being present in conjunction with a new exhibition called “Working in Wonder” at the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University. Here’s a bit of the press release: “Working in Wonder” includes artwork in various media by artists that have been inspired by the Curiosity Cabinet, a [...]
Forensics