Jerry Gritzinger of Maple City is competing with over 1200 other artists to be one of ten finalist in ArtPrize. His Map is a work in progress; work that he has been doing his whole adult life. Of the 2000 map panels he is displaying one third on a vertical wall [...]
Archive for the 'New Media' Category
ArtPrize, The Map?
September 19, 2009A PICTORIAL MEDIA ARCHEOLOGY and Media Transformation
August 17, 2009Thomas Weynants’ website explores early visual media in a wonderfully deep detail. I would love to bring a magic lantern show to The Bay
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He tells the story of our media transformation in this video.
Pulp Assemblage
September 11, 2007Thomas Allen collects pulp paperbacks for their covers. He then carefully slices up the cover images. The graphics are then creatively repositioned and arranged in 3 dimensional layouts. Finally these dramatic scenes are photographed. The result has been beautifully presented in his new book published by Aperture.
Uncovered: Photographs by Thomas Allen
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Sundance, Multimedia Romance & Chief Lizard Wrangler!
February 9, 2007Sent to Park City Utah by The Hollywood Reporter to cover the Sundance Film Festival, Greg Goldstein found himself seated amongst participating filmmakers. Two of them were the couple behind “Four Eyed Monsters,” directors Susan Buice and Arin Crumley.
Shortly after I read Greg’s blog I received an email from Emerging Pictures. This company is [...]
“Four Eyed Monsters”, “Second Life”, Avatars & “Mackies”
January 10, 2007As part of the baby boomer generation my participation in electronic games included pinball, space invaders and pac man. Since than the world of gamers has grown exponentially leaving me in the dust. Occasionally I get pulled into the game world when my kids play. But I’m not really [...]
