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01/11/13 Living Walls and the Perils of Public Space, Part I
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Tags: aesthetic common denominator, Allegory of the Human City, Alligator, Atlanta, Camille Rose Garcia, capitalism, Cinqué Hicks, community, Concerned Black Clergy, controversy, demonic, Doug Dean, Dustin Chambers, featured, fish, Gustave Moreau, interpretation, Ithaca, Ithica, Jason Butcher, Jason R. Butcher, Joe Tsambiras, low brow, Marcy Starz, Michael Kimmelman, myth, neosymbolist, New York, New York Times, Odilon Redon, Os Gêmeos, personal mythology, Pittsburgh, pop, Rilke, Rimbaud, Roti, state representative, statement, Stéphane Mallarmé, street art, street artist, Surrealism, Symbolism, Symbolists, Verlaine, Yeats
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02/22/12 Our Front Porch: Five of Craig Dongoski’s Artistic Influences
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Tags: @ Least BE, A+B China, Andre Breton, Andre Masson, Antonin Artaud, Arnulf Rainer, As Long as it Takes, Aucourant Records, Austin Osman Spare, automatism, avant-garde, Beowulf, Bertolt Brecht, Brion Gysin, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Chinese horoscope, Craig Dongoski, Drawing Voices, electronic voice phenomena, EVP, Ford/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in New Media, Frances E. Dec, Friedrich Jurgenson, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Georgia State University, Greece, Harry Matthews, Henri Michaux, High Museum of Art, Homophonic Translation BEOWULF, Hydra Head Records, Innovation in Instruction award, Ionian Center, James Sander, John Cage, John Oswald, Kefalonia, Knots, Konstantins Raudive, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matthews's Algorithm, Mescaline Drawing, Michel Chion, Milan Knizak, Musique Concrete, Nodar Portugal, Orbital Lullaby, Orson Welles, OuLiPo, Our Front Porch, Paivascapes 1, People Like Us, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, R.D. Laing, Radio Theater, Raymond Cass, Raymond Queneau, Remarks on Color, Sound Residency, Stock Hausen & Walkman, Surrealism, Symbolists, the Fugitive, The Last Voice of the Church Age, Thee Psychick Bible, Vincent van Gogh, William S. Burroughs, Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God
Tags: @ Least BE, A+B China, Andre Breton, Andre Masson, Antonin Artaud, Arnulf Rainer, As Long as it Takes, Aucourant Records, Austin Osman Spare, automatism, avant-garde, Beowulf, Bertolt Brecht, Brion Gysin, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Chinese horoscope, Craig Dongoski, Drawing Voices, electronic voice phenomena, EVP, Ford/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in New Media, Frances E. Dec, Friedrich Jurgenson, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Georgia State University, Greece, Harry Matthews, Henri Michaux, High Museum of Art, Homophonic Translation BEOWULF, Hydra Head Records, Innovation in Instruction award, Ionian Center, James Sander, John Cage, John Oswald, Kefalonia, Knots, Konstantins Raudive, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Matthews's Algorithm, Mescaline Drawing, Michel Chion, Milan Knizak, Musique Concrete, Nodar Portugal, Orbital Lullaby, Orson Welles, OuLiPo, Our Front Porch, Paivascapes 1, People Like Us, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, R.D. Laing, Radio Theater, Raymond Cass, Raymond Queneau, Remarks on Color, Sound Residency, Stock Hausen & Walkman, Surrealism, Symbolists, the Fugitive, The Last Voice of the Church Age, Thee Psychick Bible, Vincent van Gogh, William S. Burroughs, Worldwide Mad Deadly Communist Gangster Computer God
Artist and professor Craig Dongoski offers his top five for this week’s Our Front Porch.
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06/23/10 European Design Since 1985 at the High Museum
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Tags: Bauhaus, Bedside Gun Lamp, Biomorphic Design, blobitecture, CAD technology, Conceptual Design, Decorative Design, Ettore Sottsass, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, Expressive Design, form follows function but not always, High Museum of Art, High Tea Pot, Ikea, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Jurgen Bey, Kingston University, Maarten Baas, Marc Newson, memento mori, Memphis group, modernism, modernists, Neo-Dada, Neo-Decorative, Neo-Pop, Philippe Starck, R. Craig Miller, Smoke Armchair, Surrealism, Target, Tejo Remy, terminus a quo, the Denver Art Museum, The Substance of Style, Virginia Postrel, whimsical art, Whimsy, Wieki Somers
Tags: Bauhaus, Bedside Gun Lamp, Biomorphic Design, blobitecture, CAD technology, Conceptual Design, Decorative Design, Ettore Sottsass, European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, Expressive Design, form follows function but not always, High Museum of Art, High Tea Pot, Ikea, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Jurgen Bey, Kingston University, Maarten Baas, Marc Newson, memento mori, Memphis group, modernism, modernists, Neo-Dada, Neo-Decorative, Neo-Pop, Philippe Starck, R. Craig Miller, Smoke Armchair, Surrealism, Target, Tejo Remy, terminus a quo, the Denver Art Museum, The Substance of Style, Virginia Postrel, whimsical art, Whimsy, Wieki Somers
Whimsy started creeping into design a few years prior to the 1985 terminus a quo of the survey exhibition European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, which R. Craig Miller curated for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and Kingston University, London.
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10/20/08 Man Ray: Rayograph vs. Photogram
Although commonly dubbed as the photogram today, there’s a pleasant science-fiction flavor to Man Ray‘s original coinage, the Rayograph. It’s basically a photograph, although one created without the use of a camera. A Rayograph is created by placing objects directly onto a chemically “sensitized” surface and then exposing them to light.
































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ruth: What do you do with difficult lines of memory? Fold them into a san
Beth Lilly: I know! That's exactly the type of work I had in mind with the call f
Jason Francisco: Davis' bulletin boards seem to me actually to be photographs themselve
burnaway: approved