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Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold:
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 7:27am. ReviewProfessor Emeritus Faith Ringgold
"The Art of Faith Ringgold" Opens at Thorne
KEENE, N.H., 8/25/08 - Faith Ringgold, an award-winning author and artist, exhibits a variety of artwork spanning 44 years at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery from Monday, September 8, through Sunday, November 23.
"African/American Influences: The Art of Faith Ringgold" showcases this African-American artist's story quilts, oil paintings from the 1960s, works on paper - including prints and tankas from the 1970s - and soft sculpture such as masks and dolls. The exhibit includes the original layouts for Tar Beach, Ringgold's first children's book, which won more than 20 awards, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book of 1992. The Caldecott honor is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children to the artist of an American picture book for children.
Visitors to the exhibit may take Ringgold's online survey on racial identity by sitting at a computer. The survey is a conceptual study on race and color in America to determine what a person would feel, think, and do if their racial identity was suddenly changed.
The Friends of the Thorne Education Program, from October 20 to 31, focuses on this exhibit. The program for K-12 schoolchildren and senior citizen groups includes a guided tour of the exhibit and a hands-on art project. To schedule a group visit, contact Colleen Johnson at 603-358-2731.
Professor Emeritus Eleanor Antin and Yvonne Venegas: Memory is Your Image of Perfection Opened at Museum of Contemporary Art SD
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 6:58am. ReviewProfessor Emeritus Eleanor Antin and Yvonne Venegas
Memory is Your Image of Perfection Opened at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
artdaily.org | Wednesday, August 27, 2008
SAN DIEGO.- The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego opened Memory Is Your Image of Perfection at MCASD’s Downtown 1001 Kettner location. The exhibition, curated by MCASD Assistant Curator Lucía Sanromán, presents photography and video works from the Museum’s collection that were created by women artists of Southern and Baja California. The exhibition will be on view through November 30, 2008.
Teddy Cruz: ' Walls That Talk, and Repeat Themselves' a Washington Post Review of the MoMA exhibition, "Home Delivery"
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 08/18/2008 - 1:25pm. ReviewWide Angle
Walls That Talk, and Repeat Themselves
Prefabricated Housing Gets Prime Real Estate In Exhibit at MoMA
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081501013.html)
By Philip Kennicott, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, August 17, 2008; Page M06
NEW YORK The architect who masters prefabricated housing -- how to make homes that are well designed, mass-produced, affordable and easy to build -- may well go down in history as the Last Architect....
"...It's a recurring theme: that contemporary prefab is also about ethical living, environmental sensitivity and sustainability. And so you also have the work of Teddy Cruz, a Guatemalan-born architect, who has proposed scaffolding systems that would enable shantytown dwellers to construct better housing out of found materials such as cinder blocks, milk crates and corrugated metal. If the Micro Compact Home appeals to the environmental fantasies of the middle class, Cruz is helping the urban hunter-gatherer to work in more efficient and ecologically sound ways..."
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Complete article on the Washington Post at: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081501013.html)
Teddy Cruz on the San Diego Magazine
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 1:00pm. ReviewTeddy Cruz
(http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/media/San-Diego-Magazine/August-2008/Teddy-Cruz/)
Profile
By Jackie Jablonski for the San Diego Magazine, August 2008
MAYBE IT WAS the putrid stench of dead flesh that almost made Teddy Cruz faint. It could have been the formaldehyde. A senior at his Guatemalan high school, he had romanticized ideas of a doctor’s life — all of them put to rest the day he first observed an autopsy.
Months later, a still-impressionable Cruz walked into a studio where an architect sat at a drawing table, furiously scribbling at a design with a pencil in one hand and a cup of steaming hot chocolate in the other. Cruz made his decision — he would become an architect.
Traditional architecture eventually bored him. He went to college at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, then got his master’s in design at Harvard, easily fulfilling his architectural fantasy.
“But at some point the dissatisfaction grew,” Cruz says. “Architects will drown in their own studios just making pretty models, away from the gritty politics and economics of development.”
Now 45, Cruz was plopped directly into the middle of politics and development last August when he was appointed to the board of the Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC), downtown’s redevelopment agency. Often the lone dissenter, Cruz — a professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego and principal architect (though unlicensed) of Estudio Teddy Cruz — says it’s his search for improving on conventional ideas about public space that tends to put him on the other side of the vote.
'STREET PEOPLE: Through Yvonne Venegas' lens'
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 8:49am. Review
STREET PEOPLE: Through Yvonne Venegas' lens
(http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/street/2008/08/street_people_through_yvonne_v.html)
Posted by Keli Dailey on August 12, 2008 for SignOnSanDiego.com from the Union-Tribune
Her father is a wedding photographer -- she calls him a "social historian of sorts." Her twin sister, Julieta, one of the biggest names in Latin music. And the world Yvonne Venegas' camera gives us access to -- upper-middle class Latin Americans and Mexicans striving for a flawless, oftentimes blond ideal -- is proof wealthy people can create any identity they want, she explains.
The best thing about the documentary photographer's work, some of which is part of the MCASD -- Downtown group show, "Memory is Your Image of Perfection," is that it tries not to judge, whether it's photographing her childhood friends in Tijuana or Latin-pop supergroup RBD and their fans. Let's talk about the beauty of a perfectly plastic reality with this Tijuana-based, UCSD graduate student.
Adriene Jenik, Ricardo Dominguez and Nina Waisman: 'Art Explores the Science of the Very Small'
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 12:08pm. ReviewAdriene Jenik, Ricardo Dominguez and Nina Waisman
Art Explores the Science of the Very Small
(http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2008/08/11/news/02particles081108.txt)
By DARRYN BENNETT for Voice of San Diego, Monday, Aug. 11, 2008
A hissing sound greets passersby in a tall, sterile walk-through portal with white vacuum tubes on the first floor foyer of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California, San Diego. In an adjacent room, a blonde woman with black rimmed glasses on a giant screen asks, "Are you lost in the infosphere?"
A Jenik, R Dominguez, N Waisman: New UC San Diego Exhibition Envisages Future of Nanoparticles and Distributed Social Cinema
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 08/11/2008 - 7:42am. ReviewAdriene Jenik, Ricardo Dominguez, Nina Waisman
New UC San Diego Exhibition Envisages Future of
Nanoparticles and Distributed Social Cinema
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/07-08NanoparticlesDistributedCinema.asp)
By Eduardo Navas and Doug Ramsey for UC San Diego News, July 22, 2008
New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive threat to human health, will be on display starting August 4 at the gallery @ calit2 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
Lev Manovich: 'The Next Big Thing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science Computing: Cultural Analytics' on HPCwire
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 8:37am. ReviewThe Next Big Thing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science Computing: Cultural Analytics
(http://www.hpcwire.com/features/The_Next_Big_Thing_in_Humanities_Arts_and_Social_Science_Computing_Cultural_Analytics.html)
by Kevin D. Franklin and Karen Rodriguez'G, ICHASS for HPCwire, July 29, 2008
In this series of articles, Kevin D. Franklin and Karen Rodriguez'G examine computational tools and approaches at the interface of humanities, arts and social science.
Cultural Analytics
Hypertext. Hypermedia. High Performance Computing. It's enough to make a humanities scholar hyperventilate. A debate has raged in the last decade (at least) about whether or not the Digital Age will see the death of The Book, The Library and perhaps, The Humanities more broadly. Part of the debate resides in the historical separation that began with Erasmus and the Renaissance, where "hard" was divorced from the "soft" sciences and arts -- a division that is still visible both geographically and intellectually on university campuses, as well as amongst scholarly disciplines themselves. But some see the reciprocal and perhaps limitless possibilities of emergent technologies and humanities scholarship -- how digital technology cuts across disciplines, creates new ways of looking at artifacts, as well as producing new forms itself.
Lev Manovich: 'Visualizing Innovation and Cultural Data Flows' on psfk
Submitted by yolietorres on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 8:24am. ReviewVisualizing Innovation and Cultural Data Flows
(http://www.psfk.com/2008/08/visualizing-innovation-and-cultural-data-flows.html)
by Dan Gould for PSFK, August 5, 2008
Lev Manovich is an author and Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD who’s looking for new ways to create quantitative measures of cultural innovation and visualize cultural flows and how trends change over time.
Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum and Micha Cárdenas: Locative Media as War
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 8:27pm. ReviewRicardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro
Studio XX Electronic Review
Locative Media as War - Transborder Immigrant Tool
(http://dpi.studioxx.org/demo/?q=fr/no/12/locative-media-war-by-sophie-le-phat-ho)
By Sophie Le-Phat Ho for .dpi, June 9 , 2008
I always have a vague yet persistent feeling of uneasiness when it comes to mobile and locative media art: a sense of play and liberty coupled with a tragic consciousness of locative media's capitalist blood ties. The politics and economics of mobile locative art have been partially addressed in issue 7 of .dpi , “Hard Mobility”, on mobility and hacking, 1 but can be further illustrated here by relatively well known projects that make use of Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled cellphones and PDAs to transform cities into sites of play. These projects include the various works of Blast Theory 2 and the likes of Urban Tapestries 3 by Proboscis, 4 which all clearly show how blurry the lines can become between artistic practice, academic research and corporate interests. Various military-industrial-entertainment complexes are part of today's reality and determine the terms of our contemporary constructions of utopia.
Against this backdrop, the Transborder Immigrant Tool stirred my interest. The tool is being developed at the Calit2 Lab of UCSD (University of California, San Diego) by a team of electronic disturbance artists composed of principal investigators Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum and researchers Micha Cárdenas and Jason Najarro. The project, funded by Arts and Humanities (Transborder Grant 2007-08) at UCSD and winner of the Transnational Communities Award in 2007, aims to reduce the number of deaths at the US/Mexico border by providing a device that migrants can use to locate resources, such as water caches and safety beacons, as well as situate themselves in the desert. The tool is built on a Motorola i455 phone because it is cheap (around $40), requires no service for GPS functionality and accepts new algorithms such as the Virtual Hiker, developed by Brett Stalbaum. This particular algorithm “produces computationally derived paths from data in such a way that allows them to be re-followed through the actual world.” 5 Thus the Transborder Immigrant Tool acts like a compass, while the phone also vibrates in response to certain landmarks, such as water or a highway, which then allows the user to keep his or her eyes on the landscape rather the phone's screen.
