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Beflix has a really nice collection of glitch art . My favourite one so far is here. Also be sure to check out the "best of the year" links.
Sara Diamond is coming from Banff to take on the position of President of the Ontario College of Art and Design. Seems like a good time to re-read Morris Wolfe's hilarious little history book, OCA 1967-1972: Five Turbulent Years. Wolfe tells a bizarre tale of a Canadian school in which the administration attempts to get with the times, bringing in more experimental artists and practices and opening up classes, to the outrage of the staid student body. The story climaxes when Roy Ascott (a favourite teacher of Brian Eno at Ipswich school of art) is brought in and promptly cancels classes. Chaos ensues. Morris, who saw it all, has a dry sharp wit and doesn't shy away from painful details. An exemplary quote:
OCA students had always been rather docile when it came to protests. Although the story may well be apocryphal, I'm told that during J.E.H. MacDonald's tenure as Principal [1928-32], the students walked out, protesting some real or imagined slight, and congregated in Grange Park. At tea time, MacDonald came out with an offering of milk and cookies. The protest was over.
The cbc radio 3 website is closing up shop. I liked cbc radio 3, and I'm sad that this is their last issue. They've asked past contributors to send in a little blurb about "endings." You can find mine and others' on the table of contents page.
Here's what I am working on right now...
Experiment In Progress: Neutrinos They Are Very Small
Art Gallery of Sudbury
March 5, 10:00 to 5:00
Rebecca Diederichs
Gordon Hicks
Sally McKay
Curated by: Corinna Ghaznavi
Curator and Artists are present from 12:30 to 3:30 for demonstrations and discussion
3 artists and a curator visited the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. Taking the idea of neutrinos as a starting point, they began to consider the conceptual and practical approaches of art and science to construct worlds and make the imagined tangible.
The artists are available throughout the exhibition to discuss their resulting experiments and works in progress.
March 5 is a precursor to the resulting exhibition scheduled for next fall at the AGS.
“Neutrinos they are very small
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.”
Excerpt from "Neutrinos They Are Very Small"
by John Updike