DIWO @ HTTP Gallery

Now at HTTP Gallery: Do It With Others (DIWO) at the Dark Mountain A Mail-Art project across physical and digital networks I have a mix within the mix and it can be found online here. Although the experience was too short, I thoroughly enjoyed doing it with others!

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Feed: an evening of networked image and slogan feeding

Performed between ten and midnight on July 09, 2009
Feed: a project by De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research (www.geuzen.org)

Feed was broadcast from the windows of the CBK, a centre for contemporary art in Rotterdam. Over the course of the evening people uploaded images and slogans from near and remote locations. The collection was multi-authored and produced on the fly.

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Kore Press and Literary Activism: an interview with Lisa Bowden

Since 1993 Kore Press has been dedicated to publishing women’s literary art.  Situated in Tucson, Arizona, it embodies the spirit of “literary activism”.  Kore, pronounced (koray), is the Greek word for daughter and another name for the goddess Persephone.  The press was founded by Lisa Bowden and Karen Falkenstrom, and Shannon Cain is currently the…

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An exercise in live-writing

I met with a group of textile students at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Sitting around a small table, I read from a selection of finished and unfinished online pieces. After the talk, we did a live-writing exercise. I dumped several bags of printed words on the floor and placed two sets of alphabet stamps…

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Buckminster Fuller
Thank You

 “Don’t fight forces, use them.” A pragmatic utopianist – from geodesic domes to automobiles, to globes, Fuller was a universal talent with a fantastically quirky mind. Thanks for observing that life requires attention to design, even if we want to live it simply.

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Michel de Certeau
Thank You

Michel de Certeau, the heroic lies in the unnoticed… a gentle scholar, wonderful generalist (as opposed to a specialist) and a Jesuit priest.  His book, The Practice of Everyday Life, has influenced my work as an artist and teacher in innumerable ways. My favourite quote: “Sly as a fox and twice as quick: there are countless ways…

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Allucquere Rosanne Stone aka Sandy Stone
Thank You

Allucquere Rosanne Stone aka Sandy Stone: border-bender on numerous fronts – technologies, bodies, communication, identity, gender, art, theory, fact and fiction.  Where preconceptions and conventions rule, Stone is there testing and stretching the boundaries.  Her book, The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, is a work I return to again and…

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