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Future Fossils and Glaze Dreams

Submitted by Sue Huang on Friday, 08/09/2024 8:25pm

Using the Djerassi clay, I began to test out an idea that I had been thinking about for the last year. As part of my project Total Archive, I had conceptualized interspecies ghost creatures which would be amalgamated forms algorithmically generated from the IUCN Red List. I wanted to make negative impressions of these hybrid creatures as future fossils—remnants of our current endangered species for a speculative future. I made a few prototypes from the Djerassi clay for the Djerassi land.

What the Land Holds

Submitted by Sue Huang on Wednesday, 07/24/2024 12:17pm

As promised, here is an update on our wild clay ventures. Over the past weeks leading up to our Open Studios with Leonardo@Djerassi, a group of us processed the collected materials from the riverside cliffs. This was an exercise in patience. The raw clay material had a significant amount of redwood tree detritus mixed into it, so we added water to bring everything to a slurry. This took several days and many buckets! We then filtered all of the material through a 60 mesh screen. We then let the clay settle to the bottom and poured off excess water.

Wild Clay at Djerassi

Submitted by Sue Huang on Thursday, 07/04/2024 7:03pm

 

Rob Jackson, Sanna Fogelvik, Anthony Acciavatti and I went on a little hunting expedition this past week. We went hunting for wild clay at Djerassi. Rob, Sanna and I were interested in doing some personal experiments and artworks with the clay while Anthony was interested in exploring the creek where we would be searching. We set off to the nearby Harrington Creek where we had been advised clay was most likely to be found. A first spot was a bit sandy and dry. A second spot was located that looked more promising. Rob then rounded a corner of the river bend and found a clay-rich area for harvesting under a redwood tree!

Botanicals for Thought

Submitted by Sue Huang on Thursday, 06/27/2024 12:52pm

 

Yesterday was our first full day at Djerassi. Danny Goldberg took us on a hike in the mid-afternoon. We departed from the Artist's Barn and walked a loop trail.

Along the way, we stopped at the many different artworks made by previous residents and Danny explained the botanicals along the pathway. The poison oak was especially evocative, with its many forms, shape-changing along the trail—from light green matte semi-translucent leaves in wispy singular growths to thick dark green oily leaves in tall dense bushes to bright red leafy lines.

Listening to Infrasound

Submitted by Brian House on Monday, 08/01/2022 1:19pm

Macrophones is one of those art+science projects that starts with a hypothesis and then requires an awful lot of labor getting the whole thing together in order to see if it adds up to anything. On some level, the thought experiment is enough for me—if we could hear low frequency sounds from around the world, would we more directly feel our connection to and through the atmosphere?

Deadline: 
1 July 2020 to 4 September 2020
Organized by: 
Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee
Contact: 
Martin Rosenberg
More info: 
https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/contest/
City: 
Tokyo
Country: 
Japan

The Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee is now accepting entries for the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival. All artists around the world, without distinction as to professional, amateur, independent, or commercial, are invited to submit their works. Eligible works are completed or released within a year before the deadline (October 5, 2019 – September 4, 2020).

From each division, the jury committee will select winners of the Grand Prizes, Excellence Awards, Social Impact Award, New Face Awards, and U-18 Award. All awards including Special Achievement Awards and Jury Selections will be announced in March 2021. Each of the winners from the four divisions will receive a trophy and prize money up to 1,000,000 yen, and also win an opportunity to present their works at the Exhibition of Award-winning Works in Tokyo.

In addition to the four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga, there will be an open call for Festival Platform Award, which is an award given to brilliant new exhibition plan that utilize the characteristics of its facilities of organizations in liaison with the Japan Media Arts Festival.

[Art, Entertainment, Animation, Manga Divisions]
■ Entry Period:
July 1, 2020 – September 4, 2020 (18:00 Japan Standard Time)
■ Awards:
Grand Prize, Excellence Awards, Social Impact Award, New Face Awards, and U-18 Award

Entries must be submitted online. Submission of entries is free of charge.
Entry site: https://entry.j-mediaarts.jp/en

For additional information, visit the website: https://j-mediaarts.jp/en/contest/entry_guideline/

Deadline: 
13 July 2020 to 1 October 2020
Organized by: 
Dept. for Image Science - Danube University Krems
Contact: 
Wendy Coones
More info: 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw/institute
City: 
Krems
Country: 
Austria

Event rescheduled for Dec 12-16, 2020

The Department for Image Science invites participation in the Media Art Preservation Institute held at the Danube University Krems, located 70km from Vienna in the UNESCO World Heritage Wachau region.

Danube University is the leading public university in Europe specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and continuing education / advanced studies. The Media Art Preservation Institute provides 5 ECTS of material in the MediaArtHistories, MA curriculum.

Media Art Preservation Institute -- Saturday – Wednesday -- December 12-16, 2020.
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw/institute

LECTURERS:
Patricia Falcao, Andreas Weisser, Laurent Mingnonneau, Wendy Coones, Oliver Grau

DESCRIPTION:
Media Art is entering museums and archives, galleries and private collections, yet still threatened by significant loss due to rapid technological obsolescence and insufficient documentation strategies. Media art preservation is no longer a niche, but useful skills and knowledge in an expanding field.

This professional training institute introduces fundamental concepts, provides structured lectures, practical exercises and lively group discussions. Resource materials and deep investigation of case-studies enable future practical use. The 5-day institute brings together the critical mass of expertise with representation from Media Art historians, archivists, artists preserving collected works, and of course conservators and restoration specialists from both collecting institutions and freelance.

TARGET GROUP:
Anyone involved with cultural, collecting or archiving institutions. Conservators and conservation lecturers / grad students, AV technicians, media artists, archivists, registrars, curators, collectors. Researchers in art history, media studies, (media) archeology or digital cultural heritage.

APPLICATION:
A maximum of 24 may participate in this professional training.
Deadline to apply - Oct 1 -- Notification by Oct 12.
Places made available after October 12th will be given to those on the waiting list or given on a first come first serve basis.
Staff at universities in Erasmus+ program countries may apply for Erasmus+ mobility funds. Please, contact the International Office at your home institution about staff training funds available for travel and accommodation.

COOPERATIONS:
Department for Image Science – Danube University Krems in cooperation with the Archive of Digital Art; Arts & Digital Humanities Lab of DUKrems; LeFo Project "Teaching and Research infrastructure for Digital Arts in Higher Ed“, funder / Austrian Federal Govt.; ImDaLi Project “Image Data Literacy, Understanding Digital Art with Complex Data Analysis,” funder / State of Lower Austria.