Virtual Craft Project
Make a needlepoint of the paperback cover image for William Gibson's collection Burning Chrome. See explanatory notes under pics below. 
The above "video cyborg" by Richard Berry is très 1987 (but kind of good)--check out those Max Headroom stripes in the background. This is just a scan of a paperback cover, but my idea would be to contract out the sewing so that a detail would look like the image below (assuming anyone has about a year): 
Nintendo Ocean, 1994, by Bill Davenport. This Houston-based artist had a ten year jump on a lot of the lowtech Komputer Kraft stuff that's going on now, with the Providence collectives and whatnot. He did go to RISD, but in the '80s. This 8.5" X 12" needlepoint was stitched by Olga Vanucci. Note: the image is cropped at the top and more cyan than the original. More needlepoints from this series are here (click on thumbnails for enlarged views), and a 2002 exhibition of Davenport's faux-lumpen sculptures and crafts, which I prefer to his recent trompe l'oeil book cover paintings, is documented here.
Davenport's "Alpine Lake" is really gorgeous. It reminds me of an old faux artsy-craftsy video by Jennifer McMackon (the name of which I can neither find, nor remember) in which she scissors and glues together a landscape out of kid's contsruction paper with a perfect just-the-right-shape, just-the-right-blue lake (in reality a lumpen circle of lumpen crap-ass cheapo paper). Sometimes (just sometimes) slacker-art can be break-your-heart beautiful. BD's "Installation With Cat" is pretty nice too, tho I can do without the sassy mitten.
The cat is Mr. pBoody, who lives in homeroom. A large placid animal, he will sit on your backpack where ever you leave it.
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Virtual Craft Project
Make a needlepoint of the paperback cover image for William Gibson's collection Burning Chrome. See explanatory notes under pics below.
The above "video cyborg" by Richard Berry is très 1987 (but kind of good)--check out those Max Headroom stripes in the background. This is just a scan of a paperback cover, but my idea would be to contract out the sewing so that a detail would look like the image below (assuming anyone has about a year):
Nintendo Ocean, 1994, by Bill Davenport. This Houston-based artist had a ten year jump on a lot of the lowtech Komputer Kraft stuff that's going on now, with the Providence collectives and whatnot. He did go to RISD, but in the '80s. This 8.5" X 12" needlepoint was stitched by Olga Vanucci. Note: the image is cropped at the top and more cyan than the original. More needlepoints from this series are here (click on thumbnails for enlarged views), and a 2002 exhibition of Davenport's faux-lumpen sculptures and crafts, which I prefer to his recent trompe l'oeil book cover paintings, is documented here.
- tom moody 3-29-2004 11:50 pm
Davenport's "Alpine Lake" is really gorgeous. It reminds me of an old faux artsy-craftsy video by Jennifer McMackon (the name of which I can neither find, nor remember) in which she scissors and glues together a landscape out of kid's contsruction paper with a perfect just-the-right-shape, just-the-right-blue lake (in reality a lumpen circle of lumpen crap-ass cheapo paper). Sometimes (just sometimes) slacker-art can be break-your-heart beautiful. BD's "Installation With Cat" is pretty nice too, tho I can do without the sassy mitten.
- sally mckay 4-01-2004 8:12 am
The cat is Mr. pBoody, who lives in homeroom. A large placid animal, he will sit on your backpack where ever you leave it.
- tom moody 4-03-2004 11:13 am