Dawn, 2005, oil on canvas

Imma dig deeper on this, but you might as well be looking at it while I do so. Just clicked around a bit after seeing this on sweet Booooooom! and didn’t find much, at least not instantly. Part of my problem will be that I am seeking not just biographical information, but commentary on ideas like “how is he incorporating so much death and doom imagery without invoking goth?” Will tweet any progress.

Till Gerhard – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE INSPIRE COMMUNITY ART DESIGN MUSIC FILM PHOTO PROJECTS.

Progress! And sure you don’t all tweet, didn’t mean to sound coercive, so here’s the 411: Saatchi has a selection of Gerhard’s works online, each with enjoyable and thought provoking commentary. The Loyal still has a 2008 show up with a statement. And if you travel back in web time to 2006, David Marcus will answer all of your questions in a most satisfying piece for The Brooklyn Rail.

Till Gerhard online at The Saatchi Gallery

Mansion on the Hill at LOYAL

David Marcus on Gerhard in The Brooklyn Rail

Now playing at Jenkins Johnson (and their Armory Show exhibit), Courtney Johnson’s Glass Cities should inspire a resurgence of cliché-verre experimentation. Johnson works in a variety of techniques, including cyanotype and emulsion lifts, as well, and all of it can be seen on the site linked below. This process experimentation is often a focus of commentary on the work, understandably. But the style is not, solely, the substance, nor does it obscure the themes and viewpoints of the artist.

Courtney Johnson – Glass Cities – Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY – February 11 – April 3, 2010.

boar of letters, 2008

I finally got some q-time with the new Parasol, and number six did not disappoint. Among the delights presented by Mizz Parasol is Overture, aka Jason and Aya Brown. The Browns say they are dreamers whose thought waves overlap and mingle. Which you don’t need to be told if you’ve seen the work. Parasol features some from their Caffeine series, watercolor and ink soaked in coffee. If you visit their blog, you will learn of a gathering March 11 which will involve mask making, storytelling, and animation screening. Another good reason to make NYC in March.

Overture Aya & Jason.

Today I will be listening to my new WEBCRUSH. I’m downloading Preslav Literary School’s album Pretext/Context right now, and I think it’s going to sound marvelous in headphones later. I see on the site references to musique concrete, Basinski, and reconstruct/deconstruct. All informative descriptions. The broadest, simplest idea I would tag it with is “accessible experimental”. The accessibility stems from the human hand recognizable as author of the work, and the very earthly soundscapes created. Preview the work here.

Preslav Literary School is Adam Thomas, whose work you may have encountered at various European festivals, where he performs live tape collage. Or you may have encountered his taste in the work of others if you enjoyed transmediale.10, as he was involved with its curation.

His website, in addition to hosting recordings, contains creative writing both journalistic and fictional. I read without surprise that he was reading Gravity’s Rainbow in 2009, and of course I wondered if he completed it (observant readers of Even More Legendary may recall my confession that I have repeatedly failed to do so). The site also reports on projects he’s involved in, like the Berlin Tape Run, whereby a tape changes hands repeatedly over four months, resulting in a collaborative audio document; and Echolalia, featuring a live tape orchestra, a workshop, and a publication of speculative fiction.

I should have posted this long ago. Jonathan Harris will email you inspired photos with brief, honest, personal accounts of his observations and insights. They are not too heavy, not too light, not too complicated, not too simple. They will make you feel like you know him, and that you are pulling for him. Even a little afraid for him sometimes (the recent fainting account was one of those times).

Harris’ main work is, how to say – technology-related art projects? I especially like The Whale Hunt.

But Number 27 is the gift that keeps on giving, long after you’ve enjoyed the other projects.

Jonathan Harris . Feb 18, 2010.

As I dipsydoodled deliriously through James White’s work, I had a moment of lucidity devoted to Chuck Anderson, contemplation of which only floated me higher into my giddy delight. Alas, web pages are not infinite, and I reached the bottom, only to find the aforementioned eye medicine man atop a fairly short shoutout list. So I wasn’t *that* high.

Signalnoise.com | The art of James White.

In One Sleep

The menu promises everything from dresswear to photography and cartoons, but most are dead-ends, leading to that old heartbreaker “coming soon”. If the bio is any indication – a cv updated to 2006 – the site may even be semi-abandoned. In which case I will regard it as a little internet museum, and love it no less.

Sonya Suhariyan.

Animate Field

Thank you, Régine Debatty. You complete me.

Readers, if you have not already, please proceed directly to Régine’s superb site we make money not art and read what Justin has to say:

Interview with Justin Lui – we make money not art.

Lucky number 7, for an Olympic winter, now available.

her royal majesty

This is exactly what we had in mind when we created the Distracted category here at EML. More than 50 collections. Collections like Design of Understanding, Chermayeff & Geismar 1960-2006, and Insides/Outsides. Or browse by category: discipline, year, format, location, colour, industry. You don’t even have to be Distracted to enjoy it: hop on the “search” and get it over with. Navigation is another smorgasbord of options, all of them perfectly appropriate. Note for future development: a bit of context would be welcome, ideally on the page, or even just through a link out to the Wikipedia entry.

AIGA Design Archives.