Category: visual mind

p2: May ’26 Review

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additions [p2’s ] .. missed links and updates to prior posts.

>> link [ Seeing it in person, however, gives a more weathered impression than in photographs.
The greens are not as vivid, and the garden feels dry, even somewhat rough.
It’s best not to expect something overly decorative.
Tōfuku-ji, A Study in Geometry and Garden Design in Kyoto

>> link [ Gabriel Antonio Reed is from New Market, Tennessee. He received his MFA from Hollins University and his PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
“a will to change that derives from our inability to change ourselves”—Gabriel Antonio Reed
… Gabriel Antonio Reed

>> link VSW [Matthew Schlanger’s image processed video works are serial constructions created with custom-built analog and digital processors. Each video is a real-time synthesized recording in which sound and image are parallel structures, often using periodic waveforms as image and sound source material. Schlanger is both an artist and a tool maker. He has been working with analog synthesizers since the 1980s, and continues to create video in his home studio in Nyack, NY.

lumpy banger https://vimeo.com/18289189?fl=pl&fe=vl&goal=0_3b0c1d68ed-eef87426d4-631039129&mc_cid=eef87426d4&mc_eid=f0298e5cc5

–Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand
now available through VSW Press

 VSW Press is pleased to announce that our most recent Film Art Book (FAB) publication is now available in the VSW bookstore! Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand is a 160 page artist book featuring critical essays and full color images documenting the scope, breadth and impact of Bill Brand’s creative practice in film, installation, drawing and painting. Brand is well known for his work as a filmmaker and preservationist, and this book shines a light on his lifetime studio practice of drawing and painting. Brand himself navigates his portfolio in a “studio visit” with Tara Nelson, sharing his personal history with drawing and painting as a critical approach to problem solving and creative development throughout his career. 

Click to access VSWPressSPRING-26BillBrandRelease_FINAL042126.pdf

EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA, VSW provides a walk along the path, to this: https://expcinema.org/site/en/books/invisible-fisherman-art-bill-brand
AND opening that we come to a site of many others making the swim.
https://www.billbrand.net/biography preservation of experimental cinema-video.

I keep things.Shoes wear out twice. Shirts last past many washings, patches. I have a wool shirt that once seemed scratchy, now it is smooth comfort. 50 years just happens with some things. Ideas, strong enough to last, provide the same sustenance. Some ideas are not meant to last. The young have difficulty picking among them.

flexichrome — photographs are always colorized, it’s just that some tell better color lies..

i seem to repeat myself .. someone, at some time asked a question..on the web, nothing ever finishes; nothing is ever found.

flexhichrome.

just Friday (yesterday), as if by synchronicity, C found an old Flexichrome brochure among poetry magazines she was reviewing… keep, or pass along..

That refreshed my thinking about some posts I made several years ago… I wrote, but never published.

The Flexichrome process has special memories… serving as release from constraints that I was setting upon myself too early in my career to recognize as bad habits. Habit of “giving away” my eyes. to some prior, unknown visionary. Why let them set my standards?

So, maybe I will finish and release the tech post I made more than a decade ago on the process of Flexichrome.

spray bottle has been returned to her place above the wet sink in the processing room of the lab. Used to keep the lavender seeds and seedlings moist. Now, they are big enough to take on full water..

Relative humidity as well as other concepts will apply longer than the specific instance. that’s how firms as well as art schools and studios acquire and extend practice and theory awareness..
early, in fact my first reading about application of registration of masks and subs, included paper tape. when I realized that paper tape included an envelope with adhesive, I was able to revive a method from the 40s when packaging tape was widely available.. this was part of making a ‘cab,’ a carrier to hold mask and original.
The general principle must be combined, must be modified by your local current awareness; what’s available to you locally, currently. photography, all plastic Art as a practice includes a physical component, a manual component.. Our current change to a “text to image ” is part of the sense of many that we lose skills — visual art becomes removed from prior plastic concerns and privileges. The scale of the hand, the privileges granted to those practitioners with that skill diminishes when that skill no longer controls the input to the eye of the receiver..

Conception to perception is a tough path for some. particularly for those stuck forever in perpetual adolescence.

weak link: 18 may 26

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weak link[5.18.26]

[Henri Matisse (1869-1954) trained as a lawyer, then changed course in his early twenties, choosing a path that would earn him the moniker “king of the wild beasts” and ultimately transform the history of modern art. The son of a successful grain merchant, he rejected the more suitable career to follow his passion to create art. He left the south of France in 1891 to study at two of the more traditional institutions in Paris, the Académie Julian and later the École des Beaux-Arts. But the innovative and overlapping avant-garde styles that Matisse discovered on arrival in fin-de-siècle Paris had a greater impact on his fine arts education. Matisse would have witnessed and absorbed the ground-breaking work of Claude Monet and the Impressionists along side Post-Impressionists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, and Georges Seurat.

Matisse: Innovation in the Face of Physical Limitations

[Philosopher C Thi Nguyen’s new book tackles precisely this kind of perverse behaviour. He argues that mistaking points for the point is a pervasive error that leads us to build our lives and societies around things we don’t want. “Value capture”, as Nguyen calls it, happens when the lines between what you care about and how you measure your progress, begin to blur

The Score by C Thi Nguyen review – a brilliant warning about the gamification of everyday life

[We seek to explore the learning potentials presented by a better understanding of failure to influence the broader debates about the future of the doctorate in times of uncertainty and crisis.

Learning From Failure for Doctoral Education

[Every ten years this century I’ve posted a list of the “Books of the Decade in Ecocultural Theory.” (The last one was here; the previous, here.) Given how quickly things are evolving — and the precarious state of the world that’s accompanying them — it feels appropriate to take advantage of this quarter-turn in the century’s clock for a deep dig into the kinds of insights we need to make sense of our intertwined ecological and cultural, i.e., ecocultural, challenges.

Books of the quarter-century in ecocultural theory

[The philosophical discipline of aesthetics did not receive its name until 1735, when the twenty-one year old Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten introduced it in his Halle master’s thesis to mean epistêmê aisthetikê, or the science of what is sensed and imagined (Baumgarten, Meditationes §CXVI, pp. 86–7

18th Century German Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

The Complete Notebooks by Albert Camus, translated by Ryan Bloom is reviewed by Matthew Lamb at Los Angeles Review of Books and by Benjamin Shull at The Wall Street Journal.