A small note on the header image:
The background is an historic Chinese astrological map – full map on the left with a close up on detail on the right. The funny slinky shape is an image of a new kind of star/ cosmic object – a pulsar showing magnetic field lines (the brown slinky, which is cut away) and radio beam in green. It’s significant for me because this star was <a href=”http://www.physorg.com/news10931.html”>’discovered’</a> using the radio telescope local to the town I grew up in – Parkes, NSW. The actual design and image manipulation was done by my wonderful partner, who is particularly skilled in that area! The two images combined represent the diversity in how we as humans represent and understand ourselves in the greater context of the universe, while giving a hat tip to the mapping aesthetic of new media art. Also, I am fond of science fiction.
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march 26, 2008:
Define art practice. I’m starting postgrad coursework in media arts, time based art. Saturn return has hit and I feel awful, useless, without direction. I want to be a performer, a performance maker, except I don’t exactly know what my practice is. I’m hoping to develop some skills now to create performance.
This blog is will be, perhaps, a collection of suggestions, ideas, possibilities, some writing, on such ideas.
I’m also using it to keep track of my assignments, required reading, useful sound and video links. Most of my working things out for various assignments and ideas inspired by readings i come across will be public, but I think I should keep my actual assignments and what i’ll be assessed on private. Feel free to email me if that is exactly what you are interested in. But for me, it’s the ideas generated by working on these assignments that i’m interested in sharing, ie, that is the purpose of creating this blog.
august 11, 2008
cancel that. i’m getting all vocational and withdrawing from the art school. embarking on information & knowledge management.
Hello Editors,
Recently we came across your blog and we are please to announce to you the 6th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. We’d like to share it with you and your blog’s readers- we are certain that you will find it of great interest to you. We would like to send you a PDF version of our current issue (available in print and online) for you to check out.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press has published 6 issues of its titular publication as well as the books An Atlas of Radical Cartography, Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices as well as the web document In the Middle of a Whirlwind.
This current issue explores three themes- sustainable resistant culture, antiwar art, and a general theory section exploring creative and critical culture. We are sure you’ll like it.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest has been recognized as one of the most innovative and important projects of its kind, and has an international audience of artists, activists and theorists. This just released issue (6) is included in the current California Biennial. Our print design has been awarded multiple recognitions from AIGA as well as Print Magazine. Print remarked in their just released design annual that our publications are “remarkable”.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest is responsible for introducing to the country such artists as Trevor Paglen, Fallen Fruit, My Barbarian and the Center for Tactical Magic. It’s printed important essays and thoughts by writers Marinna Sitrin, Brian Holmes, Ben Shepard, Nato Thompson and Gregg Shollete.
Interested in receiving a digital copy of the entire text?
Sincerely,
Robby Herbst
coeditor
Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, Christina Ulke
http://www.joaap.org