by Nicholas O'Brien | Oct 28, 2011 | Blog
It’s that time of year again and experimental media artists all around the globe are gearing up for GLI.TC/H 2011. The conference/symposium/exhibition/performance series is originally developed and organized by Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman, and Jon...
by Nicholas O'Brien | Oct 18, 2011 | Blog
BYOB is a series of one-night exhibitions in which artists explore the medium of projection using their own “beamers†(projectors). BYOB has taken place in more than 40 cities throughout the world. Originally conceived by artist Rafaël Rozendaal, BYOB Chicago...
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 | Sep 6, 2011 | Blog
Mark Amerika and I corresponded over the past several weeks while he has been jet-setting over the western hemisphere promoting and sharing ideas behind his recent University of Minnesota Press publication remixthebook. We discuss below, in a univocal, non-hierarchic,...
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...