The Mock Turtle tells Alice how he went to school in the sea, taking courses like Reeling and Writhing and Fainting in Coils. He means these to relate to Alice’s own lessons of Reading and Writing and Painting in Oils. Likewise, I blog while walking the shoreline between the humanity of art and the science of information. Tag Archives for artists
i did a research project & it was good (aka show me the awesome)
This post is part of Show Me the Awesome. Find out more from sophiebiblio and Stacked. In July 2012 I spent two weeks in Cairo, Egypt interviewing young, Egyptian artists about their information needs. It was my first romp into the … Continue reading
lacma & watts tower from arlis pasadena
As part of my time at ARLIS/NA’s 2013 annual conference, I took a tour of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers. At LACMA, we were given a private tour of the Stanley Kubrick exhibition. … Continue reading
brain activity in dead salmon and wine in a blender: or, what i learned at AAAS 2013
In mid-February I attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting. The theme of the five-day meeting was The Beauty and Benefits of Science. This theme supports the movement from STEM education to STEAM, adding Art to Science, … Continue reading
the nazi drawings
Working through a list of books to weed, I found we have two copies of a book with no circulation on either item. I pulled a copy of the text for withdrawal. It’s The Nazi Drawings by printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. The … Continue reading
radical ephemeral
This year, Martin Luther King Jr. Day at Denison University, Studio Art professor and photographer Sheilah Wilson took the courage and struggle of King to new heights. She calls it radical ephemeral – “that which becomes itself through disappearance.” Sheilah said … Continue reading
old and beautiful
Artist and Naturalist in Ethiopia by Louise Agassiz Fuertes (late artist and ornithologist of the Field Museum-Chicago) and Wilfred Hudson Osgood (Curator of Zoology, Field Museum) From the preface: What follows is the day-by-day record of actual experiences during an … Continue reading
the librarian
A while back, over at book patrol, a brief post on George Herms‘ The Librarian caught my attention. The Librarian (1960) is a beautiful piece, careful chaos of dust and mold – true library grit that brings nasal memories of branch … Continue reading
maissa toulet
A more modern and edgy version of the 16th century curiosity cabinet comes from Maissa Toulet who lives and works in Paris. In her artist statement, Toulet refers to her collections as “miniature museums or ex voto shrines” and as … Continue reading
madeline von foerster
Inspired by the Old Masters, Surrealists, alchemy, and folklore, Madeline von Foerster paints wonder. She uses religious imagery and iconography to elevate the conversation on contemporary topics, most notably environmental destruction (Direct Art). Of her influences, she says, “I was … Continue reading
erica baum – visual poet
For photographer Erica Baum ”the act of information retrieval is turned into a journey” (Josefine Raab). The library card catalogue and the book are both physically and contextually animated, juxtaposing text and imagery to create new meaning. Baum’s work can be considered … Continue reading