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UpdateL August 2k10
We are now officially residents of Altoona, PA!!!1!
Check it out:
"grid-portraits - a website of various animations related to my experiments with stereoscopic "wiggle", ascii art, and glitches. I've posted all of this stuff here before, but this is a more formal presentation site for the work. Thanks to timb for helping me work out the kinks of getting the video to play in firefox using html5.
Update: July 2k10
This month we are moving to Altoona, PA for my new position at Penn State Altoona. I'll update again after we are settled in. Plans are that by next Fall, I'll have a new site developed.
RCP-ML2K-PDFzine is now in its 5th issue. We've made it past the one year mark! This issue includes content captured from dump.fm - its an image-based chatroom and I've been chilling there alot... actually... too much. Summer fun!.
Below, I'll post some images from my install at the MARNmentors show. It seems to have flown under the radar of the majority of Milwaukee. Don't forget to check out the store - I'm still selling digital prints and also willing to show them just about anywhere. Have a good summer!!!
And this last image, comes from a new series I'm working on. They are drawings made with Letraset on Duralar and then displayed or installed in natural environments. I've done similar things with transparencies on windows, but since we're out and about this summer, I'm trying some other locations. I'll probably do more of this in the future.
Update: May 2k10
GOTO this art show: MARNmentors Exhbition, Thursday May 27 - Friday June 25, Opening May 27 5-9pm at Brooks Stevens Gallery at MIAD. I've been working with Lane Hall and will be showing some adaptations of old work as well as new work. The show is sponsored/hosted by MARN and will likely be my last show in Milwaukee for quite some time. There are a lot of really great artists involved so if you're in the area you should definitely check it out.
As promised, I'll put the online version of my KBP animation below. It was screened last month in Madison at Starlight Cinema as part of their "Cream Of The Crop" experimental video and animation showcase.
Update: March & April, 2k10
Gridworks Blog has been in full effect!
Great News! I accepted a position as Assitant Professor at Penn State Altoona in the Visual Art Studies Program. I'm really excited about this opportunity and in July we'll be leaving Milwaukee for Altoona, PA.
The Union Gallery show, Kate Brandt Pink, went well. My video looked great and I had some digital prints. I'll be adding a soundtrack to the video and will post it up here when its all finished official like.
Down below is a picture from the Milwaukee Art Museum After Dark event that I took part in. You can see the animation I made with student collaborator Josh Jensen way in the back up above, behind the Chihuly. The video is also posted below.
Update: Jan & Feb, 2k10
Some recent/new work of mine is included in the show "Ethereal Views" up at The Eclipse Gallery.
The new work I'm showing at this gallery is made up of a suite of animated gifs. They are centered around the conversion of stereoscopic photographs to animated gif format. I'm exploring the idea that as the image oscillates between the two offset images, a slightly 3D experience is fostered in the viewer. I've taken a few liberties and used both farmed mugshots, Muybridge stills, and ASCII drawings. The effect is similar. I post this stuff to my blog regularly, almost everyday. You can also check out the work here: Gridworks Animated GIF Suite
I did an interview and sent some work to a the magazine +81 in Japan. It will be featured in Volume 47 which is due out in February.
Right now I'm developing some new work for the show "Kate Brandt Pink" - its scheduled to open in March at the Union Art Gallery at UW-Milwaukee. I'm excited to be a part of this show and enjoy the constraint of using a specifc brand of color!
Also ongoing this year, I'm taking part in a program called MARNmentors offered by the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network (MARN). I'm partnered with Lane Hall and we'll be a part of the group show in Milwaukee this May.
Also coming up - new issue of a pdf zine I'm a part of will be coming out very soon. And in the past, the two of us involved in this project also created a series of animated gifs. - The Beer Barons and Brewery Workers
Finally, I'm still applying for positions. Check out my application if your curious.
Update: Nov & Dec, 2k9
- Some Walls show up, with a great essay about my work... thanks Chris!!!
- Lost Words Exhibition - Work from a class I taught last summer
- Applying for positions for next year, here's my application.
- Show called Ethereal Views in January at Eclipse Gallery.
- An online exhibition I may not have mentioned here before called Byte Scrapers.
Josephine Emma Miller born on Oct. 30, 2009
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