Frederick Wiseman - Blind (documentary; 1986)

Before Talladega Nights, there was Blind (library write-up):

This film follows K-12 students at the Alabama School for the Blind, where blind and visually impaired students have been educated to be in charge of their lives. Sequences include mobility training, braille instruction, traditional classroom education, psychological counseling, vocational training, staff dealing with student disciplinary problems, and the wide variety of recreational and athletic programs. (132 min.)

(@ the Boulder Public Library)

Carved Crayons (link_

Andrea Polli (CU lecture; March 18, 2007)

An interesting spiel on the sonification of large-scale data sets. In other words, check out her website. She collaborates w/ scientists (gets their data) and translates it into sound. Like Lita Albuquerque, she's been to Antarctica on an art grant. She uses weather stations and, for example, and maps temperature data to pitch, producing sounds of varying intensities and frequencies. The actual noises she makes aren't as interesting to me as her process and subject matter, but what she's doing is pretty cool, especially on the web.


Andrea Polli

Whitney Biennial article (link; The New Yorker)

Lessness by Peter Schjeldahl

audio interview w/ Schjeldahl

(better, I think, than the video below)





Here's a panel interview w/ the author (previous to the article):

Faye Hirsch (CU lecture; Mar 12, '08)

Faye Hirsch is an established and broadly-informed art critic. In her power point presentation she discussed several artists and how they referenced art history: John Currin (she's not a huge fan of his), Lisa Yuskavage, Andrew Raftery (below#1), Tony Birch (etchings), Nicole Eisenman, Mark Greenwold (below#2), and Walton Ford (below#3).







There were between 68-100 people there, including at least one guy wearing a scarf, which was about right, considering the weather, which is improving.

current project 1 (draw; 120 ic: self-p)

I'll have this finished by the end of March (4 cards/day). It will be an ego-portrait, 10 index cards tall and 12 wide. Goin' for a large scale "middle-school" look. Pretty easy and fun.

Patrick Winfield (link)

Composites

car analysis 1 (photo; psd)

Lita Albuquerque (CU Lecture; Tues Mar 4 '08)

w/ Clay. Then we went to Taco Bell.

notes: She incubated in Africa. Something about a convent. Immigrated when she was 11. Is into mapping the cosmos. Being an artist is about freedom. She works from intuition and spreads pigment out on the ground and on the floor. Something about the procession of the equinoxes and vedic cycles. We get information from light. The sun may be in a binary star relationship with Sirius, the dog star. She was captivated by the horizon line for a while; something about her own verticality. She lined up a V to match the shadow of the Washington monument. She went to Antarctica do make a star map on the ground using blue balls: stellar axis. A companion art piece on the North Pole would invoke the idea of a spiraling DNA through the Earth's axis ... strands of star tehters, maybe. We're made of electricity and her purpose is to increase stellar awareness.

I enjoyed the scope of her ideas. I'd like to connect some stars and stories.