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reCREATE EDU

2011-06-20T10:38:00.000-07:00

GATES & MACARTHUR FOUNDATIONS STEP UP FOR KIDS - Provide Millions to Support Digital Learning Platforms “Digital technologies are bringing fundamental changes to how young people learn, play, socialize and participate civically,” said Julia Stasch, Vice President of U.S. Programs at MacArthur. “And, although traditional literacies – such as reading, writing, science and math – are more

ART + MUSIC Doodle

2011-06-09T13:14:00.000-07:00

Google Celebrates Guitar Legend Les Paul's 96th Birthday with Interactive Doodle You can play and even record a tune! Les Paul built his first electric guitar in 1941, but he is most well-known for the Gibson Les Paul, which debuted in 1952. "It grew out of his desire, as a musician and inventor, to create a stringed instrument that could make electronic sound without distorting," the Hall of

California in Time

2011-06-04T14:08:00.000-07:00

CALISPHERE: A WORLD OF DIGITAL RESOURCES Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 200,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California

Mapping Time

2011-05-20T20:01:00.000-07:00

New Book by Photographer Mark Klett YOSEMITE IN TIME: ICE AGES, TREE CLOCKS, GHOST RIVERS by Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron Wolfe. Hardcover, 144 pages. Trinity University Press. Yosemite is a world-famous destination that has attracted celebrated photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams, along with environmental organizations, rock climbers, and

Youth Movement in Canada

2011-05-04T17:34:00.000-07:00

In Canada, the Students Rule. Really. Chronicle of Higher Education TWEED May 4, 2011, 3:32 pm How green are the New Democratic Party’s new members of Parliament from Quebec? So green that—after briefly meeting the press on Tuesday under the watchful eyes of party handlers—the rookie MP’s were whisked away and will remain incommunicado while they learn how to behave as parliamentarians, receive

Multiple Platforms + Varied Narratives

2011-04-28T10:52:00.000-07:00

Transmedia Storytelling

2011-03-09T12:54:00.000-08:00

In his book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, MIT professor Henry Jenkins describes transmedia storytelling as storytelling across multiple forms of media with each making distinctive contributions to a fan's understanding of the story world. By using different media formats, transmedia creates "entrypoints" through which consumers can become immersed in a story world. The aim

Street Smarts

2011-02-28T12:30:00.000-08:00

Picturing Health: Photographs by Teens in Central and Southern California Opens March 12, with a reception and talk with several of the young artists from 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at Venice Arts gallery. Open through April 30, 2011. Picturing Health visually explores both the strengths and challenges of 8 Central and Southern California communities as seen through the eyes of teens.

MANufacturing

2011-02-23T22:36:00.000-08:00

Rapid prototyping is a process of making models using synthetic materials fed into a 3D printer. The process brings the digital aspirations of 3D modeling out of the computer into everyday reality. Similar to the brush fire set off by the personal computer, 3D printing has set off a wave of "small manufacturing" by artists, designers, engineers, and craftspeople. Many see this as an opportunity

Hooked Up

2011-02-22T08:38:00.000-08:00

LONDON WALLS PHOTO EXHIBITION - ICA Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Image via ICA Some of the UK's best streetart and graffiti photographers will display a selection of their photos tomorrow evening as part of the Shunt Live weekend at the ICA. The London Walls photography exhibition will feature pictures from Delete, NoLionsInEngland, Leeone102, HowAboutNo, Buddz909 and Joeppo. All six

Gamings No Joke

2011-02-14T11:34:00.000-08:00

Training THE NEXT GENeration This landmark report sets out how the UK can be transformed into the world’s leading talent hub for video games and visual effects.At over £2 billion in global sales, the UK’s video games sector is bigger than either its film or music industries, and visual effects, the fastest growing component of the UK’s film industry, grew at an explosive 16.8 per cent between

Wasting Away

2011-01-31T16:59:00.000-08:00

Photographer Chris Jordon explores the debilitating role plastics play in the human and animal environment. The attached video explores an elementary school project based on his images. See the original pictures on Chris' website.

From Death to Virtual Life

2011-01-21T11:55:00.000-08:00

Jeanne Kelly a Parsons School of Design graduate student is raising funds for innovative forensic art thesis project.

Global Ed Summit

2010-12-15T15:48:00.000-08:00

Doha, Qatar - December 8, 2010 - Chronicle of Higher of EducationIn Qatar, Educators From Around the World Talk About Change By Ursula Lindsey photo by WISE Over 1,200 people who work in education across the world arrived this week in this small, oil-wealthy Persian Gulf emirate. The visitors, who are scattered across Doha's five-star hotels and attended to by squadrons of PR people, are here

Divergent Thinking

2010-12-02T10:07:00.000-08:00

Sir Ken Robinson Looks at CHANGING THE EDUCATION PARADIGMa project of RSA Animate 2010RSA - 21st Century Enlightenment thersa.org

Irvine Foundation Links Learning

2010-11-16T14:43:00.000-08:00

From irvine.org 2010Why Linked Learning?Linked Learning addresses the fundamental challenges facing California’s system of high school education. Too often, traditional academic courses are not relevant to the lives and aspirations of many students. At the same time, vocational education often lacks the academic and technical rigor required for success in postsecondary education and

Tech Talk

2010-11-11T10:38:00.000-08:00

Obama's New Digital Learning Plan Posted: November 11, 2010 Fred Belmont Math Teacher Albert Einstein Distinguished Education Fellow Education Secretary Arne Duncan unveiled the final version of the National Education Technology Plan on Tuesday -- proposals to use social networking, data collection and multi-media to get U.S. kids to learn more. According to Duncan, the plan -- almost two years

Stop Time to See

2010-10-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

$30K W. Eugene Smith Grant Awarded to Darcy Padilla PDN October 21, 2010 by Conor Risch American photographer Darcy Padilla received the 2010 W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for “The Julie Project,” which examines AIDS, poverty and drug addiction in America. Padilla’s essay focuses on the life of Julie Baird, a subject she met in San Francisco in 1993 and photographed for

Museum InReach

2010-10-29T16:08:00.000-07:00

The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon is a practical guide to visitor participation. It's been described as "essential reading" by Elaine Heumann Gurian and Sebastian Chan, and Kathleen McLean calls it "an extraordinary resource" Why did I write this book? Over the past four years, there's been lots of discussion about the "why" of visitor participation, but in my opinion, we've been lacking

Museum of Tomorrow?

2010-10-14T13:26:00.000-07:00

Sketching a Future for The Brooklyn Museum THE NEW YORK TIMES Article by Robin PogrebinPhotos by Todd Heisler Published: August 5, 2010 THOUGH it resides in a prime example of traditional museum architecture — a Beaux-Arts building designed in 1893 by McKim, Mead & White — there is little stale or stodgy about the Brooklyn Museum. For more than a century the museum has been one of the

Depart and Displace

2010-10-11T15:04:00.000-07:00

The Rise of Hip Hop and the Black FlightKCET - Departures 2010 By the end of the 1960's - and the Watts Uprising - African-Americans had abandoned the search for a racial Promise Land and had come to terms with the near impossible task of overcoming the physical, philosophical and economical barriers created by centuries of racism. For many African-Americans the West had become the last refuge

Revolution UnMediated

2010-10-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted.by Malcolm GladwellThe New YorkerOCTOBER 4, 2010 ILLUSTRATION: SEYMOUR CHWAST At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like

Art of the Environment

2010-09-22T14:31:00.000-07:00

Barry Benepe: Mr. Greenmarket Jane Jacobs Medalist Barry Benepe is proud to be a born-and-bred New Yorker. The son of a linen importer, he grew up on Gramercy Park, walking daily under the Third Avenue El to attend Friends Seminary on Stuyvesant Square.In 1966, Barry organized demonstrations to have Central Park Drive closed to traffic on weekends. Galvanized by the success of their campaign,

Michelle Rhee: End of the Road?

2010-09-20T19:44:00.000-07:00

Rhee is likely to head for the door By Bill Turque Friday, September 17, 2010 The Washington Post Their long-awaited meeting is set for next week. But when Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and mayor-apparent Vincent C. Gray do finally sit down, it is increasingly likely that the discussion will focus on the terms of her disengagement from the D.C. school system rather than how she might stay

MacFound in the Classroom

2010-09-17T14:53:00.000-07:00

MacArthur & IMLS Announce Plans to Create 30 New Learning Labs at Libraries and Museums Across the Country September 16, 2010Digital Media & Learning (Washington, DC) — In support of President Obama's "Educate to Innovate" call to action, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today announced plans to create 30 new youth

Poverty in America

2010-09-17T11:40:00.000-07:00

Recession Raises Poverty Rate to a 15-Year High By ERIK ECKHOLMNew York Times.comPublished: September 16, 2010 The percentage of Americans struggling below the poverty line in 2009 was the highest it has been in 15 years, the Census Bureau reported Thursday, and interviews with poverty experts and aid groups said the increase appeared to be continuing this year. With the country in

$100 million to Human Rights Watch

2010-09-09T12:39:00.000-07:00

Challenge Grant From Open Society Foundations to Expand Global Presence SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images (New York) – George Soros, philanthropist and financier, today announced a challenge grant of $100 million over 10 years to Human Rights Watch. The grant from his Open Society Foundations, the largest that he has ever made to a nongovernmental organization, will be used to

War Games

2010-09-09T11:57:00.000-07:00

Illustration by Mark Weaver Story By CHRIS SUELLENTROP Published by NY Times: September 8, 2010 Unless you regard something like “Iron Man” as a film about Afghanistan, the movies inspired by America’s contemporary wars have consistently been box-office flops. Even “The Hurt Locker” grossed only $16 million in theaters. Video games that evoke our current conflicts, on the other hand, are

Joyner Gets Black Colleges On-line

2010-09-03T11:23:00.000-07:00

photo by Donna McWilliam, AP Photo Tom Joyner Venture Will Help Black Colleges Start Online Programs By Goldie BlumenstykSeptember 2, 2010 l Chronicle of Higher Education Tom Joyner, one of the country's most-visible philanthropic supporters of historically black colleges and universities, has founded a company to help those institutions develop distance-education programs—with a particular

Hands-On Learning at High Tech High

2010-09-01T15:58:00.000-07:00

Students prepare for the real world through technology-enabled projects.A biotechnology student uses a gazelle leg to study form and function in nature. Credit: David Julianby Grace RubensteinOn June 27, 2009, High Tech High biotech teacher Jay Vavra and several of his students returned to Tanzania to hold a bushmeat-identification workshop to help local wildlife-protection officials fight

Online Campus Promotion

2010-09-01T13:32:00.000-07:00

For the Chancellor of a New Online Campus, Every Workday Is About BrandingBy Michael SewallFor Allison C. Barber, being chancellor of Indiana's newest university doesn't involve living in an institution-owned house, mingling with students on the quad, or working out of a large administration building. Her job, she says, is as much about building a brand as it is about academics.The institution

New Orleans Student Stories

2010-08-28T18:32:00.000-07:00

NY TIMES MAGAZINE(excerpt) Reporting by Paul Tough and Jake Springfield Published: August 16, 2008In New Orleans, One School Begins and Another EndsThe Students Speak Chelsea Schmitz, a young Teach for America teacher at Rabouin High School, asked her ninth-grade English class to write about their lives. What they wrote revealed the depths of the problems that many kids in New Orleans have to

Google vs. FB

2010-08-26T19:10:00.000-07:00

At Issue: Can a Company Built for Efficiency Also Help People Waste Time?by Irina Slutsky Advertising Age Published: August 26, 2010Games revenues grow EMarketer expects Facebook to reach $1.28 billion in revenue in 2010, a tiny slice of Google's $23 billion, but with 500 million users and growing, Facebook is showing no sign of slowing down. Despite that, Google is still winning in terms

Cathedrals of Culture No More

2010-08-25T18:27:00.000-07:00

Over breakfast one recent Saturday, Kaywin Feldman, the director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, recalled a moment years ago at a meeting of the Association of Art Museum Directors. Then in her mid-30s, one of association's youngest members, and director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, she proposed a session on museums and the environment. "I was told it was irrelevant," she

College Dropout Factories

2010-08-24T18:59:00.000-07:00

Washington Monthly by Ben Miller and Phuong Ly Nestor is certain that the two years at Chicago State put him behind. In his first semester at UIC, he failed a math class, finding it difficult to match the faster pace and heavier workload. (He retook the class, however, and passed.) It’ll take him five years, rather than four, to get his degree. But he says he feels invigorated by

California loses Race to the Top

2010-08-24T16:43:00.000-07:00

by Howard Blume, August 24, 2010 | 8:45 amCalifornia has fallen short in its bid to win a controversial federal Race to the Top school-reform grant.The winners, just confirmed by federal officials, are Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.Had they prevailed, participating California school systems stood to

Why Social Networking Matters to College Leaders

2010-08-24T13:51:00.000-07:00

Increasing Academic Success through Engagement The 2009 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), based on a survey of more than 400,000 students from 663 institutions, illuminates the potential of online connections to increase student engagement. Community college students are a diverse population and this diversity complicates a college's ability to

Education for all

2010-08-12T18:41:00.000-07:00

At UT, Obama calls for more college graduatesTuesday, August 10, 2010By HOLLY K. HACKERThe Dallas Morning NewsPresident Barack Obama visited the University of Texas at Austin Monday to deliver a common-sense message: Higher education is important, and this country needs more of it. "America has to have the highest share of graduates compared to every other nation," Obama said. "But Texas, I want

A Great Teacher?

2010-08-06T13:41:00.000-07:00

FOR YEARS, THE SECRETS TO GREAT TEACHING HAVE SEEMED MORE LIKE ALCHEMY THAN SCIENCE, A MIX OF MOTIVATIONAL MUMBO JUMBO AND MISTY-EYED TALES OF INSPIRATION AND DEDICATION. BUT FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, ONE ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN TRACKING HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF KIDS, AND LOOKING AT WHY SOME TEACHERS CAN MOVE THEM THREE GRADE LEVELS AHEAD IN A YEAR AND OTHERS CAN’T. NOW, AS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

Weaving Movements

2010-08-06T13:21:00.000-07:00

Lila Downs and Carlos Santana are doing a benefit concert for the Dolores Huerta Foundation in November in LA. Dolores C. Huerta is the co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO ("UFW"). The mother of 11 children, 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, Dolores has played a major roll in the American civil rights movement.

Abandoned Cinema ReOpens

2010-08-06T13:09:00.000-07:00

By Mark Tutton for CNNcnnAuthor = "By Mark Tutton for CNN";if(location.hostname.indexOf( 'edition.' ) > -1) {document.write('July 29, 2010 -- Updated 1257 GMT (2057 HKT)');} else {document.write('July 29, 2010 8:57 a.m. EDT');}July 29, 2010 --Updated 1257 GMT (CNN) -- A cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin will next week open for business for the first time in 23 years, following a remarkable

Feeling Good

2010-07-20T16:27:00.000-07:00

Brilliant typography animation by Tamara Connolly illustrating the song FEELING GOOD by Nina Simone.

Land Issues

2010-06-25T13:24:00.000-07:00

BEING THEREby Stacey DaviesInland Empire Weekly, June 17, 2010ON-SITE: works by Sheila Pree Bright, Stella Kalaw, Susanna Pozzoli, and lauren woodsThere are many factors that contribute to our identity. The most obvious might be our relationships to other people—our parents, siblings, friends, teachers and even strangers on the street. All of these connections create deeply ingrained feelings of

Puerto Rico Student Strike

2010-05-25T08:55:00.000-07:00

'NiLP FYI: University of Puerto Rico Student Strike'Having recently become personally affected by the sagging global economy, I noticed this bit on students in Puerto Rico taking to the streets to protect their access to quality education.Excerpt from Miami Herald: In an interview with The Miami Herald, university President José Ramón de la Torre and Board of Trustees president Ygri Rivera

Flora and other plantlife

2010-05-03T15:21:00.000-07:00

It was great to meet artist Flora Kao recently. She led a workshop for teens as part of the OFF THE BLOCK program sponsored by The Hearst Foundations and supported by UC Riverside Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. Great time had by all. Flora led the students through a history of mapping in various societies, then proceeded to guide them in producing personal maps -- hybrid drawings that

Desert Art Storm

2010-03-05T09:00:00.000-08:00

By MARK MUCKENFUSSThe Press-EnterpriseArtists from seven University of California campuses will gather Saturday amid the creosote and hollowed-out cabins of Wonder Valley east of Twentynine Palms for a desert-inspired art event.The remote landscape will be host to art installations, musical performances and at least one video work. The public event includes 19 artworks created by 24 artists."Dry

Startl Education

2010-03-03T15:30:00.000-08:00

"Online learning. Kaboom! At the post-secondary level, the demand for online extended learning is growing faster and more furiously than we can keep up with, partly because it’s cheaper to participate in online courses versus paying college tuition, and partly because online courses allow flexibility for the many post-secondary students juggling work, family and school." This is the short

Ghetto Funk Power Hour | Programs | Heritage Radio Network

2010-02-23T10:29:00.001-08:00

Ghetto Funk Power Hour | Programs | Heritage Radio NetworkPosted using ShareThis

Art is the message on these billboards - latimes.com

2010-02-23T10:14:00.001-08:00

Art is the message on these billboards - latimes.comA grid of blue diagonals, the profiles of two men confronting each other, a series of colorful vertical stripes with an embedded phrase -- these will be some of the enigmatic images flashing through our peripheral vision while driving in L.A. over the next six weeks.They are three of the 21 visual artists' billboards that have been going up in

SPE Faces Focus

2010-02-10T16:20:00.000-08:00

SPE 47 - Philadelphia, March 4-7, 2010. Keynote speaker: Kip FulbreckThis is a tremendous time for diversity. The United States has seen her first president of color sworn into office, and Iceland has just elected the world’s first openly gay prime minister. Yet ask a photography student for the names of five photographers of diverse backgrounds and they will probably fumble. Just as in

Neshat's Shot

2010-02-10T16:14:00.001-08:00

"I do believe that cinema is a more democratic form," says New York-based Iranian filmmaker Shirin Neshat, comparing feature films with video art. Neshat, whose first feature,Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan), has its final screening today as part of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, is best known for her exquisite video installations that poetically examine gender, culture and politics

Photo Types

2010-02-03T09:50:00.000-08:00

Exhibit at museum shows Riverside residents in antique-style photos10:00 PM PST on Tuesday, February 2, 2010By DAVID OLSONThe Press-EnterpriseThe photographs in the "Riverside-Americans" exhibition now at the UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography look like they were taken 150 years ago.They were created with 19th century techniques, using metal plates and a time-consuming development

Digital Design

2009-12-15T09:55:00.000-08:00

Decode: Digital Design Sensations looks back at the history of computer-based art. The show which also features newer artist creations is on view at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The interactive work SPLASH by Mehmet Akten allows visitors to splash virtual paint on a canvas through mere gesture. See the NYTimes review here.

Diversity in photography

2009-11-23T09:43:00.000-08:00

En Foco is a non-profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary fine art and documentary photographers of diverse cultures, primarily U.S. residents of Latino, African and Asian heritage, and Native Peoples of the Americas and the Pacific.This year is En Foco's 35th Anniversary, and it has remained a leader in documenting the artistic journeys created by artists often overlooked by

Real Images

2009-11-19T16:09:00.000-08:00

The Centre for Documentary Practice (CDP), under the auspice of Griffith University in Australia, hopes to provoke debate about issues pertinent to journalism and documentary practice and act as a resource for research and storytelling by providing exemplars to this community through it's publication, The Australian PhotoJournalist and its website. The publications aim to give a voice to the

She's a jolly good Fellow!

2009-11-19T15:35:00.000-08:00

Good news regarding a classmate of my alma mater, New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Camille Utterbeck has been selected as a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Fellow for her ground-breaking digital media art which beautifully takes advantage of user-input to create new non-linear works. Here's the announcement on the MacArthur Foundation website: Camille Utterback is an artist

Maximum Grid

2009-11-09T10:41:00.000-08:00

APERTURE FOUNDATION Portfolio Prize announcementAll of us at Aperture Foundation would like to thank everyone who submitted work to the 2009 Aperture Portfolio Prize. This year, Aperture’s editorial and limited-edition print departments—four staff members and three work scholars in all—reviewed over seven hundred portfolios. Our challenge was to select one top prize and five honorable mentions

Art Types

2009-10-19T15:47:00.000-07:00

On Friday October 2, and Monday October 5, New York-based artist Keliy Anderson-Staley created original tintype portraits of Riverside residents. Each subject sat for 8-15 seconds while the lens cap was removed from Staley's 19th century replica box camera. She then removed the plate and developed it inside a re-fashioned cardboard box darkroom. Each print first emerged as a solar negative then

Yo! Youth Media Showcase

2009-08-25T09:08:00.000-07:00

Get the poster!For more info, see: www.artsblock.ucr.edu

Yo! Media is the Message

2009-08-08T15:58:00.000-07:00

(Riverside) – YO! Youth Media Showcase 2009 celebrates the stories, images, and graphic design work of talented teenagers who use their artistic visions to bring their communities alive. The works on view were produced during 2008-09 through the Digital Studio located within the California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside. A reception will take place during 1st Thursday ARTSwalk,

ARTSBlock Live - Mexico

2009-07-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

Interview with Oaxaca photographer Gerardo Nigenda from Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists and poet Gabriela Jauregui of the recently published Controlled Decay. ARTSblock Live is a monthly podcast series produced by the Digital Studio on UCR ARTSblock in collaboration with the new media department of KCET - LA. Download the interview or hear it streaming on KCET.

MGV 2009

2009-07-25T02:08:00.000-07:00

Students in the MyGlobalVillage 2009 high school summer session have been busy. Since July 6th, they've screened the acclaimed and award-winning documentaries -- Born into Brothels (outcast youth in India), An Inconvenient Truth (the effects of global warming), Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (sexism and misogyny in music), Al Otro Lado (immigration and the US/Mexico border), and a series of

Video Conferencing

2009-07-16T08:00:00.000-07:00

Re:liveThird International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and TechnologyMelbourne 26-29 November 2009Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology.The next iteration of the Media Art History conference is Re:live which is to be held in Melbourne, Victoria in 2009. The event follows the success of the two previous Media Art History

Questions of Capital

2009-07-14T08:01:00.000-07:00

Open call for juried exhibitionGuest Juror: Daniel Joseph MartinezThe Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College and the Pitzer Art Galleries are pleased to announce an open call for art works addressing the broad theme of "CAPITALISM IN QUESTION (because it is)."The rampant capitalism of the last decade, and its recent catastrophic crisis, has left us in a peculiar and unfamiliar space.

City of Arts & 4 Closure

2009-06-25T17:12:00.000-07:00

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Fast Forward - Retro

2009-06-25T07:03:00.000-07:00

After high school, I was fortunate to spend the years 1978 to 1993 in New York City and surrounding provinces -- moving all the time between new apartments art galleries among friends on subway trains transported through the beats of gospel, jazz, reggae, rap -- and the cultural presence now known as hip hop. Arriving from Motown, I have to admit that Harlem, Brooklyn, the boogie down Bronx,

Nocturnal Desert

2009-06-23T22:40:00.000-07:00

Joshua Tree Photographic Excursion 2009 weekend actually began in Palms Springs with a conversation between Colin Westerbeck, director of UCR/CMP, and photo collector David Knaus at his home, sharing a diverse collection of desert photographs from around the world. After a provocative presentation highlighting formal concerns, the assembled group made its way to Twentynine

Socal + Global

2009-06-23T22:15:00.000-07:00

This year's MyGlobalVillage High School Summer Session has over 60 youth registered for the six weeks of workshops, field trips, and screenings. There are also 12 college students who have come forward to serve as facilitators and production interns. Some of the old and new documentaries to be screened are Underground Undergrads: Undocumented Immigrants Speak Out (US), My Country, My Country (

Commercial Modern

2009-06-08T15:13:00.000-07:00

Last week, I made it out to the Getty Museum to take in a conversation on the future of museums (rather than the future of art) featuring a fantastic keynote by Ivan Gaskell who holds the title Margaret S. Winthrop Curator of Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts in the Harvard Art Museum, and Senior Lecturer on History. During lunch, I ran across the work of photographer Paul Outerbridge.

UCR ARTSblock Live!

2009-05-27T09:51:00.000-07:00

UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography, Culver Center of the Arts, and Sweeney Art Gallery present monthly features of music, lectures, interviews and literary readings. Guests featured include Nigerian-born writer Chris Abani, award-winning poet Juan Felipe Herrera, artist Nicole Antebi, novelist Susan Straight, Division 9 Gallery director Cosme Cordova, author Laila Lamami,

Coming UP: LA Avant-Garde Cinema - Blur + Sharpen

2009-05-27T09:41:00.001-07:00

Coming UP: LA Avant-Garde Cinema - Blur + SharpenShared via AddThis

Theme Shows

2009-05-04T20:24:00.000-07:00

This weekend I served as a judge for TOP 40, an annual showcase of new digital art organized by Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. This exhibit, which will open in LA later in the month then travel to CMP this summer, still has a raw quality, notwithstanding the high production values. Of the forty images chosen, there are varied genres and hybrids of digital design -- straight documentary

Early Processes

2009-03-28T16:57:00.000-07:00

UCR ARTSblock is joining with other downtown Riverside arts organizations to present First Sunday - Family Fun Days each month. On Sunday, April 5, 1:00-4:00pm, there will be a hands-on activity entitled Kineographs: Flipbook Animations. Here's the description: "Photographs can exist as more than still, stand-alone images. They can work together as a sequence to create animated scenes. Join us

Tumbleweed

2009-03-28T16:36:00.000-07:00

It's that time again already -- Joshua Tree 2009 Photographic Excursion sponsored by UCR ARTSblock. Participant's in this year's photo project will collaborate to produce a mammoth virtual image of the desert's mountains, valleys, hills, vegetation, and wildlife. Photographers should bring or will be supplied with GPS devices to chart their land coordinates in the park. This should also be a

Extremist

2009-03-28T16:08:00.000-07:00

The annual Extreme Places photo contest sponsored by UC Riverside California Museum of Photography's Digital Studio Gallery received 129 amazing entries from 49 emerging and established photographers. For a quick look, see: SmugMug and enter the password - extreme. Works consist of straight documentary photography of exotic and surreal places as well as works manipulated through collage

Escape to Reality Part II

2008-11-14T09:03:00.000-08:00

In May 2008, more than sixty photographers set out to capture a 24-hour day in Joshua Tree National Park in Twentynine Palms, CA. Taking inspiration from English photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s important work in motion study, the goal was to capture sequential movements and the passages of time, rather than isolated still-life compositions. Each photographer was assigned a 14-minute time slot

Time Lapse

2008-10-21T21:26:00.000-07:00

Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality published in 1937 by New York socialite Mabel Dodge Luhan exemplifies a late modernist disillusionment with "civilized" culture and class. Luhan, who had set up salons of notable writers, artists and authors in Florence, Greenwich Village, and later Taos New Mexico, gave up her prior fictions to re-claim life on the edge.While the image of desert can

Riverside Here and Now

2008-10-06T23:38:00.000-07:00

As part of A Sense of Place: Remembering Riverside's Chinatowns Sweeney Art Gallery hosted an incredible dance performance and presentation at Bre Dance Studios. The space is located on 9th Street & Orange in downtown Riverside, the former site of the 1880s Chinese Quarter. The audience was treated to choreographed hip-hop dance and Chinese traditional dance put together by Clifford Breland and

Auf Wiedersehen

2008-10-06T23:00:00.000-07:00

Riversiders took part in “Project Runway" (IE style) through a portrait studio set up by local photographer Michael J. Elderman at UCR California Museum of Photography on 10/05/08. Elderman dug out his old Hasselblad 2 1/4 camera along with a digital SLR to capture the runway action. This 1st Sunday arts event aimed to highlight the 10/25 opening of Leicas and Hasselblads curated by Jonathan

Forest 4 the Trees

2008-08-26T22:22:00.000-07:00

Winners of the recent Micro Macro photo contest sponsored by UC Riverside California Museum of Photography hail from beaches of SoCal to the mountains of New Zealand. Curators were impressed by the diversity of images that met the theme's premise of a world seemingly both near and far. Works include conceptual scenes, fictional renderings, loving snapshots, and microscopic discoveries -- uniquely

72hrs @ 24fps in LA

2008-08-09T18:40:00.000-07:00

Selected images from "24hrs @ 24fps Over Joshua Tree" photo shoot will be featured at the Spring Arts Collective Gallery as part of DigitalArt.LA, sponsored by Los Angeles Center for Digital Art taking place August 14-16 in downtown LA. Among the amateur and professional photographers featured are Ami Flori, Carlos Puma, miKenzie Denholtz, Maxene Denholtz, Mike Denholtz, Brenda Denholtz,

YO!

2008-07-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

YO > Youth Media Showcase celebrates the stories, images, and graphic design work of talented teens within the IE who use their digital media art to make their communities come alive.Event I: ARTSWalk Thursday, August 7th 6:00 - 8:00pm @ UCR/CMP, Main St at University Ave, downtown Riverside.Event II: How I See It Saturday, August 16th, 1:00 - 3:00pm @ Riverside Public Library, Mission Inn Ave

Home & the World

2008-07-02T23:20:00.001-07:00

Micro-Macro a new photo contest sponsored by the UCR ARTSblock Digital Studio Gallery has been announced. "In this time of ours, things at once seem paradoxically out of control and out of reach, yet equally knowable, touchable, and observable. For this contest, we are hoping that the unique vision provided by the camera lens can bring specific meaning to this metaphor. We are seeking works

Riverside's History

2008-07-02T22:45:00.000-07:00

Located just behind UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and California Museum of Photography is Riverside's original Chinatown established in the early 1880s. When the thriving bachelor community was forced out of downtown due to anti-immigrant sentiment, they eventually migrated west to a site on Brockton and Tequesquite Avenues. This location was excavated in 1985, providing remarkable artifacts as well

0101 Youth 0101 Media 0101

2008-07-02T22:34:00.000-07:00

FIELD TRIP!!! UCR Digital Studio mural crew took a trip to San Jose, June 5-7 to take part in the 01SJ Festival at The Tech Museum and surrounding arts sites, featuring new media works by established artists and emerging teens, sponsored by a micro-grant from Eyebeam and Adobe Systems. Students took in street festivals, art galleries, and special digital works by their peers. San Jose was a blast

Outland Empyre

2008-05-30T21:11:00.000-07:00

A listserve that rocks with guest artists, critical dialogue, international collegiality, and very rare instances of scholarly bullying. Empypre, online.

Long Hot Summer!

2008-05-25T21:29:00.000-07:00

MayLatin American Film Fest @ UCR, 5/20 - 5/27This year's program features award-winning films looking at socio-political developments in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, and Venezuela. Films include: Against the Grain - An Artist's Survival Guide to Peru; Cartoneros; Los Ultimos zapatistas; State of Fear; Machuca; ¿Puedo Hablar? May I Speak?; Social Genocide. Contact: Daniel Polk (daniel.polk@

Podcast Rat

2008-05-25T20:49:00.000-07:00

ARTblock Live! podcast series features the work of three Riverside art center directors in May and June, starting with Jonathan Green, executive director of UCR/ARTSblock. Also featured are Tyler Stallings of UCR Sweeney Art Gallery and Cosme Cordova of Division 9 Gallery. In addition to el tres hombres, there is an interview with UCR professor of English Laila Lalami of Morocco, talking to host

LA Strips

2008-05-25T20:31:00.000-07:00

Funny bizness is the focus of happenings over at KCET.org digital media department with their multimedia series on SoCal graphic novel and comix artists Jaime Hernandez, Carol Lay, Esther Watson with Mark Todd, and Johnny Ryan. You get video profiles, animations of actual strips, and a brief overview of the scene during the last 25 years. As always, of high rate. (www.kcet.org/explore-ca/

Emerging Artists

2008-04-29T20:18:00.000-07:00

Students from the University of Redlands digital photo and black & white film courses are presenting the best of their work in a year-end show at the Digital Studio Gallery of UCR/CMP entitled SELECTIONS. The courses were taught and the exhibition curated by Brit photographer Terry Long. Works in Selections follow personal themes as well as showcase commercial skills. The exhibition is on view

Hollywood Swingers

2008-04-08T22:18:00.000-07:00

List of Curators 2008INTERNATIONALMagali Arriola is an art critic and independent curator sharing her time between Mexico City, Istanbul and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco.Muu Blanco has been producing works that highlight performative multimedia arts since the mid 90s. Suhjung Hur is a curator and writer based in Seoul, Korea.Antonio Pasolini is a Brazilian film

Youth Voices

2008-04-08T21:58:00.000-07:00

2nd Biennial 01SJ Festival Based on the theories of Muhammad Yunus (Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty, 1999) and with the generous support of Adobe Systems, Inc., ZERO1 is seizing the opportunity of the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Festival to facilitate a global youth digital arts production initiative via a micro-grant

Spaces and Races

2008-04-08T21:02:00.000-07:00

100% Other: Artists and Psycho-Demographic Transitions 18th Street Art Center, Santa MonicaApril 12 – June 13, 2008Future of Nations – Part II: Demographics In the context of The Future of Nations exhibition series that seeks to create a critical forum for artists to bring forward ideas and new visual strategies that address election year issues, this exhibition will look a the subject of

24 hrs @ 24 fps

2008-03-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

UCR ARTSblock is seeking photographers for its annual Photographic Excursion into Joshua Tree National Park in Twentynine Palms. 24 hrs @ 24 fps Over Joshua Tree takes place on Saturday May 3rd through Sunday, May 4th. This year's project emphasizes time-based collaboration and experimentation as an estimated five hundred photographers are being recruited to this desert wilderness to shoot

Eclecticism

2008-03-27T13:32:00.000-07:00

Eclectic People 2008 - organized from submissions to an international open call, celebrates images by artists working in portraiture, and whose lens focus on people that are individuals -- the quirky, the unique, the offbeat, the exotic, the rebel, and the loner. Artists featured include Mao Yu of China, Corrine Cardenas, Carolyn Schutten, Michael J. Elderman, Kenny James, Heather Sten, Ilse

Digital + Portrait + Studio

2008-02-14T23:22:00.000-08:00

Saturday and Sunday, Feb 2-3 were official dress-up days in downtown Riverside. First, the annual Dickens Festival along Mission Inn Avenue encouraged participants to role-play in full 19th century period ware -- then take part in short plays and re-creations. A tent with backdrop for portrait sittings was hosted by UCR Artsblock and Riverside Public Library along Oliver's Alley. While Sunday's

About Town

2008-02-05T18:03:00.000-08:00

Gabriela Jauregui is a woman about town these days. Well, maybe not about Riverside, as she spent most of the summer in Mexico City completing a book of poetry, CONTROLLED DECAY to be published in June 2008. Rather than being here in-studio at CMP recording the next KCET.org hosted ARTSblock Live! monthly podcast, which Gaby happens to co-produce and moderate, the creative writing grad student

Art Avant-Garde @ Getty

2008-01-21T15:31:00.000-08:00

Was a big week for seeing art. On 1/16, I weathered 2.5 hours of traffic from the IE to the LA for African-American Avant Garde, 1965 - 1990 at the Getty Center. The panel featured west coast experimental artists working in sculpture, performance, and video during the 1960s and 70s -- Maren Hassinger, artist and director of the Rinehart School of Sculpture; Ulysses Jenkins, artist and associate

Buck World

2008-01-21T10:06:00.000-08:00

I had a chance on Sunday 1/20 to check out a great performance of "krump" dancing at UC Riverside's University Theater, BUCK WORLD One. The program was created by Professor of Theater Rickerby Hinds, featuring a number of youth from around San Bernardino county. The theme ran from creation of the universe through to life on the streets for youth African-American men. Though they weren't dancers,