Dorkbot Meeting Last Night

Now that I have finished teaching my Tuesday night classes, I am able to return to my regularly scheduled Dorkbot meetings!

Last night was pretty interesting. You can read all about it on the Dorkbot Site.

In case you're too lazy to click the link above, I will repost my favorite part:

Aaron Oldenburg's Sucky Game

Oldenburg shared some new games he's been creating using UNITY. Aaron's latest game was created in under 48 Hours and was inspired by the verb 'to suck'. The game doesn't suck, except that it does. A lot. (huh?) I'm sure my description of the game will clear things up: You are a white blob that moves, floating through space, by pumping a bellows at your side. As you move, you encounter other white blobs with giant puckered, sucking lips. The goal is to allow the sucking lips to suck something (?) out of you without letting it suck you up entirely. Eventually, the lips either suck so much sparkling ephemera out of you that they explode, or they suck you up and you die. Still confused? Play the game!

Teppei Kaneuji

I just came across this artist on Tokyo Art Beat.

Taken from a review of his exhibition at Yokohama Museum of Art which closes next week:

Kaneuji is known for his assemblages of commercially produced goods. Not exactly ‘found’ as in discarded refuse, but ‘found’ to have different possibilities of use. He states, “(t)hese objects originally existed with a different meaning. Using them was meaningful.” As we find out, beyond creating meaning simply through the act of ‘use,’ these works carry a strong ambiguity. These works dwell upon the interplay of relational forms rather than any nuance in the details.

The holy trinity: use, meaning and ambiguity.

Booksplosions! Art! Craft! and Musical Space Westerns!

Summer is coming! In one week from today, I will be wrapping up the semester, which means a break from my job as Professor Bloppy Crawtula.*

Time to celebrate! Here are my plans for the weekend:


MAP CRITIC'S RESIDENCY PUBLIC FORUM (More info at MAP's Website)

I am excited to be a participating artist this year, and WYPR's Aaron Henkin is moderating so come listen to us all talk about why it's important to talk about art.


MD FILM FEST (Click for Schedule)

I already have tickets for Stingray Sam (a musical space western from Cory McAbee - who did American Astronaut). I am going to see it on Sunday with my book club after our meeting re: Barry Gifford's Wild at Heart.


I am gonna try to make it to SQUIDFIRE'S SPRING ART MART (Complete list of vendors)
Featuring some of my favorite local crafters including Red Prairie Press, Cotton Monster and Hampden's Puffs and Pastries

*Responsibilities include:
- Listening to the sound of clicking eyelids following my attempts at wit (mostly Brad Neely and Noah Baumbach rip offs).
- Convincing myself that said clicking is a round of applause.

Upcoming Exhibition at Maryland Art Place

Here is the info for the next place you can check out my work:

23rd Annual Critics' Residency

April 28-June 20, 2009

Saturday, May 9: Public Forum 2pm / Reception 3:30pm

Maryland Art Place
Power Plant Live!
8 Market Place, Suite 100
Baltimore, Maryland 21202

Hooray!

Congratulations to my pal, Kohli, who has just made her very first sale in her Etsy store!

In other news, Fly-post, the site I mentioned back in October is beginning to pick up speed, as more users post items. If you have an event coming up that has a beautiful flyer, please share it with us by posting it to fly-post.

Cecil County Public Library

Cecil County Public Library launched it's brand new fancy website this week. (ahem, fastspot) It's nice to see libraries dive in and thrive in this digital age.

Sewing at AVAM and Upcoming Exhibition

Thanks so much to everyone who helped make the workshop at AVAM such a success. So many great glowing things were made, especially this awesome rat. (Note the cheap plastic pink bead as nose. I love it!)



In other news, I am preparing now for an exhibition that will open April 1. If you are near Media, PA in the month of April, please take a moment to check out this show. I know many of the participating artists and I can guarantee that it will be worth the trip! The artists include Tiong Ang, Jeffrey Aronson, Steve Bradley, Bonnie Crawford, Carlo Ferraris, Eduardo Kac, Jaimes Mayhew, Aaron Oldenburg, Paul Rutkovsky, Hadieh M. Shafie, Kathryn Williamson