Terminal Is Pleased to Announce the Launch of “From Here” by Joel Swanson and Ben Jacobson
February 21, 2012
Terminal is pleased to announce the launch of “From Here” by Joel Swanson and Ben Jacobson. The project is a 11 – 12 Terminal Award Winner. Each year, Terminal awards four artists or artist teams an award to help in the completion of internet based art works.
From Here is a networked art project that explores adjectival nouns of place. Language is a mutable system that only works when people agree to its conventions, but there are certain areas where these conventions break down, and that is where language gets interesting. Specifically, for certain locations and locales, there is disagreement regarding adjectival nouns, or how someone refers to themselves as “from that place.” So go ahead, add your vote, and see how it stocks up against the conventions of language.
http://fromhere.herokuapp.com/
Joel Swanson is an artist and writer who is currently the Director of the Technology, Arts & Media Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He teaches courses on digital art, media theory, and the history of design. He received his MFA in digital art at the University of California, San Diego. His art work is motivated by literary theory and exists as a series of installations, both real and virtual, that explore the nature of language and its embodiment.
Ben Jacobson interned as a PM at Microsoft for the Office UX Team. He co-founded Y Combinator funded Apigy Inc and developed Agile Tools at Rally Software. He majored in Computer Science at the University of Colorado and has taught there in the Technology, Arts, and Media Program. He is currently an engineer at LinkSmart
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Tweets from Tahrir
February 19, 2012
This is an absolutely amazing book. The bravery and resolve of the Egyptian people is astounding.
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Projection Bombing Research Walk
February 13, 2012
I went on a reconnaissance mission tonight for the projection bombing project I have been very slowly working on. This are all possible sites in downtown Clarksville.
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Trip to Washington in iPhone Photos
February 12, 2012
I’m just back from an unfortunately brief trip to Washington to install “Please Call Stella” and give a lecture at Central Washington University. My great friend and mentor, Gregg Schlanger, is now the chair of their art department. I’m still very sad about his leaving, but it was great to see him and his wonderful family again.
The install went really well and the folks up there were very helpful. Kell couldn’t make it on this trip, so I was making decisions solo. He usually just sits in a corner and fiddles on his lap top during installs any way.
Gregg’s installation class stopped by to chat. Great questions and conversations.
Nice side trip to Roslyn, WA to see the town that “Northern Exposure” was shot in.
One of the highlights of the trip was the great food. This is dinner at the Ellensburg Pasta Company.
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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
February 5, 2012
This a terrific book.
I have a lot of work to do.
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Movie Day in Digital Photo
January 27, 2012
We are watching an episode of the great BBC series “The Genius of Photography”.
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Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts Faculty Advisory Board Meeting
January 25, 2012
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Call for Submissions for 12 – 13 Terminal Awards
January 19, 2012
During the 2012 – 2013 academic year, Terminal http://www.terminalapsu.org will award four – $500 stipends to assist in the creation of new internet based art works.
The submission deadline is February 15, 2012
Submissions are open to anyone.
Terminal can provide webspace for completed projects, or the artists may elect to host the project themselves (with Terminal retaining a copy for archiving). We simply ask that Terminal be acknowledged with a link from the project.
In an e-mail to: jonesb@apsu.edu include
1. Artist or Artists full name
2. Address
3. E-mail address
4. Short bio ( 100 words max )
5. Links to on-line projects ( 5 urls max )
6. Proposed project title and description ( 500 words max )
7. Documentation that supports the proposal (images, diagrams, prototypes, etc)
This information may be included in the text of the e-mail or as an attachment
jurors:
xtine burrough
xtine is a media artist and educator. She is the editor of Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge 2011) and co-author of Digital Foundations (New Riders/AIGA 2009).
Informed by the history of conceptual art, she uses social networking, databases, search engines, blogs, and applications in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, to create web communities promoting interpretation and autonomy.
xtine believes art shapes social experiences by mediating consumer culture with rebellious practices. As an associate professor of communication at CSUF, she bridges the gap between histories, theories, and production in design and new media education.
http://www.missconceptions.net/
Stephanie Rothenberg
Stephanie Rothenberg creates provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Through participatory performance, installation and networked media, her work investigates the mediation of the physical, analog body through the digital interfaces of commodity culture. Adopting the role of cultural anthropologist, the medium of the techno-sphere itself becomes a laboratory for raising critical questions about our interpersonal relationship to technology and its broader socio-political implications.
Stephanie has exhibited, performed and lectured in the US and internationally at venues including the Sundance Film Festival, MASS MoCA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Banff New Media Institute and LABoral Center for Art & Industry. She has received numerous awards including a 2011 Harpo and a 2009 Creative Capital in Emerging Fields. She has been in residence at art & technology centers such as Eyebeam, Harvestworks and free103point9 Wave Farm in upstate NY.
In addition to her position as Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo, Stephanie is Artistic Co-Director of REV-, a non-profit organization based in New York City, that furthers socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy.
www.pan-o-matic.com
http://rev-it.org/
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Symbolic Reclamations (Seattle)
January 5, 2012
A new piece in the exhibition “Still Learning” at the Austin Peay Downtown Gallery.
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5 Days That Shook the World
December 31, 2011
Even though the WTO protests in Seattle took place in ’99, nothing seems dated about this book. It is interesting to discover that a lot of the tactics used in the Occupy movement were being worked out during the 99-00 protests in Seattle, DC, and LA.
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Song of Myself – Live AV Performances
December 24, 2011
My digital media 1 students presented their final projects in the Trahern Theater.
Using Max/MSP/Jitter, they created patches that allowed them to manipulate video in realtime. I provided the audio. (not all of the performances were recorded)
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Terminal Has Gone Physical!
December 7, 2011
The on-line space that I run TERMINALapsu.org will have a physical space starting in January 2012. It will give me the opportunity to share great new media work with APSU students and the Clarksville community. As part of the exhibitions, I will be conducting and publishing interviews with the artists on the web site.
Here is the schedule for the first semester.
McLean Fahnestock
Jan. 12 – 27
Arielle Falk
January 30 – Feb. 3
Aaron Henderson
Feb. 6 – 17
A Bill Miller
Feb. 20 – March 2
Curt Cloninger
March 12 – March 23
Jacob Tonski
March 26 – April 5
Olga Mink
April 9 – 25
