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Clickable: You Are Addicted

YOU ARE ADDICTED AND YOU KNOW IT. What addiction comes to mind for you before you click True or Untrue?  New media art for the win.

Understanding Art for Geeks: Insulting or Ingenious?

Enjoying the flickr photoset Understanding Art for Geeks by paulthewineguy. He takes canonical works of art and annotates them with images and text that “geeks” can more easily relate to. Really hard to pick out a few favourites; I highly recommend taking a look at the whole set.

Triptych of The Garden of Earthly Delights [...]

Published!!! Developing a Writing Career?

I just received my contributor copies of Border Crossings magazine, a well-respected Canadian arts magazine distributed nationally. Last summer I had the opportunity to review an exhibition entitled Oil Spill: New Painting in Ontario at Saw Gallery, a local artist-run gallery. It was a huge challenge to write effectively about six artists [...]

Museums Without Walls: Brainstorming CGS Thesis Proposal

My thesis proposal deals with issues of the new, participatory web and how it can be used to improve art gallery involvement with their audience. Honestly, I want all art to be free to circulate online.   I know that many galleries have vaults full of fascinating artworks that are seldom shown in the [...]

Subscribing to an artist’s work: the case of Vorsthammer

For those of you who don’t know, I’m preparing to get into grad school for 2008. My dream program is currently at McGill, set in the heart of beautiful Montreal. Their department, Art History and Communication Studies, is the perfect fit for me to pursue a Comm. Studies degree with a strong focus [...]