tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-200323982011-04-21T19:28:38.624+01:00influences and connectionsrbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720685742150617388noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20032398.post-1137597764791393872006-01-18T15:11:00.000Z2006-01-19T13:46:43.616ZThere is a wide gap between artists that utilise technology as a medium for expression and technologists who use art as a medium for communication, and then there are the corporations that use art as a cool front..<br />Mind the gap - watch out for academic arscience, hidden agendas and the Emperors New Clothes..<br /><br />A few <span style="font-style: italic;">alternative</span> links:: (the larger and more well known organisations are listed at the end - ars electronica, MIT et al)<br /><hr /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Art as Lucrative Entertainent</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Art as Advertising and Corporate PR</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.we-make-money-not-art.com</span></a> - cutting edge blog with humour and information<br /><br /><a href="http://www.etoy.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.etoy.com</span></a> - pseudo corporate artists, famous for hijacking sites, battling etoys USA and winning over the name and making a disturbing appearance at ars electronica...<br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Art as Science - or Science as Art??<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.blip.me.uk/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.blip.me</span></a> - Brighton based art and science organisation - accessible and fun<br /><br /><hr /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Art Projects for free of (c) Tm reg<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.rtmark.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">www.rtmark.com</span></a> - ideas for free!<br /><br /><hr /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Competitons, Prizes and research organisations..<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.aec.at"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ars electronica</span></a> - yearly festival in Linz and competition - very prestigious<br /></span><a href="http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/paginas/ev8.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vida</span></a> - Spanish A Life competition - pleasantly quirky<br /><br /><br /><hr /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20032398-113759776479139387?l=artisinfluentia.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>rbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720685742150617388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20032398.post-1135084654549092372005-12-20T12:43:00.000Z2006-01-19T13:58:53.406Z<strong><span style="font-family:arial;">A list of artists, inventors, thinkers I admire, respect and have been influenced by ...</span></strong><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla">Nikola Tesla </a>- Genius! Naiive Optimist! Inventor of AC, challenged Edison over DC (the electric chair story), had wild dreams - electricity for free! Died poor alone and penniless - gave away all his patents in order to continue his transmission of electricity through the air experiments..<br /><br /><br /><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/246px-Tesla_colorado_444px.jpg" border="0" /></p><p></p><br /><br /><hr /><br /><p><a href="http://www.finearts.utexas.edu/aah/art_history/faculty/Henderson.cfm">Linda Dalrymple Henderson</a>: The Fourth dimension and non-euclidean geometry in modern art - a most excellent book linking mathematical thinking, artistic movements and the esoteric.</p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/42097.0.jpg" border="0" /> <hr /><br /><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Turrell">James Turrell</a> - wonderous and transformational light experiences<br /><br /><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/artwork_images_826_167412t_James-Turrell.jpg" border="0" /></p><p></p><br /><hr /><br /><p><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"><em>Alchemy </em></span></strong><a href="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/">The Levity.com alchemical resource website </a>- everything you could possibly want to know and more) Jung also delved into this area - a high degree of esoterica, though the principle idea of manipulating matter in order to effect an inner transformation of the self makes sense. (The real fools gold ;)</p><p><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/cabmin03.jpg" border="0" /></p><br /><hr><br /><a href="http://www.understandingduchamp.com/">Marcel Duchamp</a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/1600/m-hour.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/m-hour.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><hr><br /><a href="http://www.rebeccahorn.org/">Rebecca Horn</a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/1600/bottom_img_06.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/bottom_img_06.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><hr><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Some Modern Folk I like!</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Enotnot/">Not Not</a> - they have the craziest and most loveliest of ideas.. including <span style="font-style:italic;">Tickle</span> the A-Life prize winning robot..<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/1600/TICKLEclose.0.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5521/1942/200/TICKLEclose.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.greyworld.org/artwork/index.html">Grey World</a> - UK eccentric electronic and socially inspired works..<br /><br /><hr><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/20032398-113508465454909237?l=artisinfluentia.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>rbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11720685742150617388noreply@blogger.com0