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Writing everyday for 365 days is taxing. Emotionally (dealing with insecurities), intellectually (doubting rationales, statements, learning facts, and thinking critically), and physically (yes, typing non-stop and editing for a few hours is hard on the hands and wrists and eye strain from the laptop). The experience has been both challenging and engaging. Challenging in that […]
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Since I’ve been re-examining philosophical texts, I wanted to share the art and artists that relate to personal research interests. Click on the image above to check out the No Matter project. Yes, this is the cool stuff that keeps me up at night. 🙂
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Lately, I’ve been diving back into my philosophy text from undergrad days and re-exploring ideas that made little sense to me back then. I wouldn’t exactly say that the same ideas are understandable now but experience has led me to think much more critically. The most interesting aspect of what I’ve been reading has to […]
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Ethnography brushed up against its paradoxical death in 1971, the day when the Philippine government decided to return the few dozen Tasaday who had just been discovered in the depths of the jungle, where they had lived for eight centuries without any contact with the rest of the species, to their primitive state, out of […]
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by Tim Roseborough Words don’t play a primary role unless the artist wants them to. I’ve followed Tim Roseborough’s work for the past couple of years and finding myself so enthralled with how his logographic system gives a whole new meaning to learning language. Please click on the text above for an introduction to Englyph.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ~ Carl Sagan, American Astronomer, Writer, and Scientist
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The Gray Area Foundation for the Arts constantly puts on phenomenal events, lectures, exhibitions, and facilitates classes for the community. Summer of Smart (SoS) is another project that puts both the organization and San Francisco on the map, globally. Having the community participate in learning and seeing democracy in action through innovation and technology allows citizens […]
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Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more, […]
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What happens when the viewer has the ability to control placement of letters to form words with their body and through gesture? How does this form of participation translate to art? How does the interface dictate the way the work is received? Please view Camille Utterback’s work, Text Rain, and share your thoughts.
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 