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Phyllis Reeve Margaret Kenway Haydon and the Sturgeon

Prehistoric fish inspires artist-in-residence VIU artist-in-residence Margaret Kenway Haydon shows off her ceramic creation inspired by a prehistoric fish. Margaret Kenway Haydon “was hooked” the minute she laid eyes on a sturgeon. She saw something special in the odd looking prehistoric fish that date… Continue

Added by Phyllis Reeve on November 12, 2009 at 2:07pm — 1 Comment

Clare Adams ALPHABET IS NOW CLOSED - Thank you!

Thank you very much for all the interest and submissions I have received over the last month for OXHOUSE. The ideas and numbers of responses were amazing and overwhelming - unfortunately I did have to let some people down as some letters proved extremely popular and there are only 26! Please watch this space *ALPHABET* as the alphabet fills up with its responses from the 26 selected artists and practioners. Here are the contrib… Continue

Added by Clare Adams on November 12, 2009 at 10:52am — 1 Comment

Peggy Pings RIP Tor Faegre b.1941, d.10/14/09

http://www.evanstonroundtable.com/main.asp?SectionID=26&SubSectionID=48&ArticleID=1333&TM=38687.28 10/27/2009 4:33:00 PM Tor Faegre's Twig Art Combined Love for Natu… Continue

Added by Peggy Pings on November 8, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Clare Adams The Alphabet - filling up but wanting more!!

Hi Y'all Thank you so much for all your submissions and support so far, both in the project and in my pregnancy! I am pleased to say the beginnings of the OXHOUSE Alphabet are appearing now slowly but surely.… Continue

Added by Clare Adams on October 26, 2009 at 7:58am — No Comments

Clare Adams More letters from OXHOUSE alphabet!

Confirmed letters/Where we are at: A ACTION Nicole Dextras/Artist B C D DISTANCE Hondartza Fraga/ Artist E F FADE Mark Dean Quinn/ Artist/Stand-up Comic G H HONESTY Paulo Henrique/Performer/Paris I J K ? Richard DeDomenici L M MEMORY Mark Caffrey / Artist/Academic N NETIZEN Sue Tarbitten/Artist O P Q R S SUBMIT Rebecca Bruce/ Photographer T THREAD Charlene Lam/Designer U V W WALK Susan Mortimer/Artist X XENOPHOBIA Caffyn Kelley/ Artist Y YET Mary Paterson/Writer/Open dialogues Z ZERO Justin All… Continue

Added by Clare Adams on October 22, 2009 at 4:26am — No Comments

Clare Adams OXHOUSE - First letters...

Greeting from OXHOUSE! I type this blog to you with numb, swollen pregnant hands whilst urging the pregnancy count-down timer forward a few days or weeks.. The pregnancy itself is going well, apart from the carpal tunnel syndrome, which is an appropriate ailment to get for this project, I suppose! The baby is a constant kicking embodiment of how I feel about the digital native. I cannot see it, I do not know its gender, yet I feed it, feel its presence and it grows in attachment to me everyda… Continue

Added by Clare Adams on October 13, 2009 at 5:59am — No Comments

Clare Adams OXHOUSE - The beginning

OXHOUSE has already spawned interest from some diverse backgrounds; writing, philosophy, performance, painting and story telling... it promises to be an exciting pool of creativeness and I am very excited! I have fiddled with deadlines a bit.. so here's the lo-down Step 1 (expression of interest) - deadline 30th October (you may get accepted after step one is your idea is strong enough) Step 2 (the actual work) - deadline 25th November (after this step I shall choose the submissions and let y… Continue

Added by Clare Adams on October 5, 2009 at 4:09am — No Comments

Phyllis Reeve WOW

So many exciting people joining this network. WELCOME ALL. And Quick - Everyone - spend some time with Dorothy Field's new exhibit on the Islands Institute Gallery site. [Thank you, Renee, for making this happen.] The earlier exhbits are there too - it's great to return to them. Continue

Added by Phyllis Reeve on September 27, 2009 at 2:43pm — No Comments

Clare Adams OXHOUSE

OXHOUSE An online alphabet made for and about the digital native. Created in collaboration with artist Clare Adams, members of The Art of Engagement and curious passers-by. “What have we gained and what have we lost by being digitally connected? Can the Internet create space for deep connections and rich co… Continue

Added by Clare Adams on September 27, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Caffyn Kelley Vera Elias website

Check this out people - my friend's mother was a prolific artist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Her children have created a website to share her legacy of beautiful paintings. See http://www.veraeliasart.com/ Born in Czechoslovakia to an assimilated Jewish family, Vera Elias first worked creatively during the early years of the war designing clothes. She was deported to the Nazi's show camp Terezin in 1942. During her three y… Continue

Added by Caffyn Kelley on September 17, 2009 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Justin Allen Justin's residency culminates in live online ceremony on Tues 22nd Sept

Since the start of August I have been the artist-in-residence here at The Art of Engagement. For my online residency I have created VTC2.0 (messages for the future), a virtual time capsule into which people from around the world can place something for the future. This Tuesday 22nd September the capsule will be sealed through a live ceremony that you can join via the Internet. I will have my lips sealed with stitches and then observe an hour of silence. You are invited to be part… Continue

Added by Justin Allen on September 14, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Justin Allen Why have my mouth sewn shut?

I recently received a warm and loving email from someone, asking me why I'd chosen to have my mouth sewn shut at the end of my online residency. This is what I wrote in response: There are a number of reasons behind my decision to have my lips sewn together. First of all the online residency series I'm curating invites artists to consider the meanings of the disembodied space we inhab… Continue

Added by Justin Allen on September 5, 2009 at 6:52am — No Comments

Christopher Stewart The Music Of Poligraf : The Dam part 8


("Masculine Wave" by Katsushika Hokusai)

"Ocean" is th

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Added by Christopher Stewart on September 4, 2009 at 10:34am — No Comments

Justin Allen VTC2.0 update: contributions from weeks 2 and 3

VTC2.0 has been online for almost three weeks now and we've had some more amazing contributions. Each contribution consists of a public part (name, email address, website, message to the keeper) and a secret part (message for the future and attachment). Here is a selection from the public part of this week's entries: Sex radical and urban tantrika Barbara Carrellas wrote: In memory of all those lost to AIDS and in salute to all those… Continue

Added by Justin Allen on September 3, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

Christopher Stewart The Music Of Poligraf : Uncoiling part I


(Tobyo from the Bakemono-Dukushi - Unknown Artist)

"Uncoiling I" was originally written in September 2002, elaborating on drafts da

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Added by Christopher Stewart on September 3, 2009 at 8:36am — No Comments

Christopher Stewart The Music Of Poligraf : The Chrome Lake part 5

"Introspection II" is the fifth section, and second with vocals, of "The Chrome Lake." And as is the case for its almost-but-not-identical twin "Introspection I," the subject matter is pretty much self-explanatory.

Verse

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Added by Christopher Stewart on September 1, 2009 at 7:27am — No Comments

Christopher Stewart The Music Of Poligraf : Juggernaut part 4


(Erie Steam Road Roller scanned by Andy Dingley from the "New Catech

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Added by Christopher Stewart on August 27, 2009 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Christopher Stewart The Music Of Poligraf : The Dam part 7


("Between the waves" by Ivan Aivazovsky)

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Added by Christopher Stewart on August 24, 2009 at 8:38pm — No Comments

Christopher Stewart The Music Of Poligraf : Stereoscopy


(Pocket Stereoscope by Joaquim Alves Gaspar )

“Stereoscopy” is the definitive title of a song whic

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Added by Christopher Stewart on August 21, 2009 at 7:26am — No Comments

Justin Allen VTC2.0 update: contributions from the first week

VTC2.0 has been online for just under a week now and we've already had contributions from some amazing people. Each contribution consists of a public part (name, email address, website, message to the keeper) and a secret part (message for the future and attachment). Here is a selection from the public part of this week's entries: Previous Art of Engagement online resident artist Tim Jeeves wrote: Thanks for the invite Jus… Continue

Added by Justin Allen on August 20, 2009 at 7:48am — No Comments

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