by Nicholas O'Brien | Feb 14, 2012 | Blog
Deco Divider by Paul Flannery for Bubblebyte.net Recently the topic of online galleries and their proliferation in the past year has been on the tips of many tongues. Specifically, the argument involves a musing on how the development of online venues for showing...
by Nicholas O'Brien | Nov 21, 2011 | Blog
I used to be a painter. I was never a really good painter, so the discontinuation of that part of practice some seven years ago was not a big loss. That being said, I am often reminded of how much I owe to my humble/clumsy painting beginnings. While still in my...
by Nicholas O'Brien | Nov 8, 2011 | Blog
This week I am in New York City installing a show at 319 Scholes, a recently cited “go to” venue for all sorts of media-related arts including live audio/performance, digital interactive work, and netart. The show entitled Notes on a New Nature is a...
by Nicholas O'Brien | Sep 29, 2011 | Blog
authors note: As I’m sitting down to write this a little over a week before my deadline for B@S, I’m sitting across from a younger student in a library amidst the Art and Art History Stacks. She is visibly frustrated at her reading, fidgeting often and...
by Nicholas O'Brien | Aug 11, 2011 | Blog
The representation and exhibition of digital or computer based works in the gallery is no small task for today’s young contemporary curator/gallery manager. Without even considering the surmounting cost that it would take to show media work at the level of a...