Category: Art Vocabulary

• Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  I am THRILLED to co-present along with An Xiao Mina and Ben Valentine at the Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival. Please RSVP through YBCA’s site here. It will be good times and lots of great conversation. It’s been a great year thus far. Although it’s been extremely challenging to balance work, school, and freelance […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  November 17, 2013

  Art, Art Practice, Art Vocabulary, Art Writing and Criticism, arts and technology, Writing Practice

  art and culture, art criticism, culture criticism, expression, internet, Surveillance

• Get Lucky: The Culture of Chance @ SOMArts Cultural Center – Opening Night

  We create a community of multi-disciplinary artists who fuse eastern philosophies and practices in their work. This new community engages musicians, architects, visual artists, sculptors, videographers, and others in a conversation and exchange that evokes the spirit of John Cage and his impact on avant-garde art that permeates and vibrates throughout the bay area. ~ Hanna […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 13, 2012

  Art, Art and Technology, Art History, Art Practice, Art Vocabulary, Conceptual, conceptual art, Culture Criticism, Multi Media, Observations, Post Modernism, Video

  bay area, chance operations, contemporary art, john cage, post modern, San Francisco, somarts cultural center

• US Show at Fivepoints Arthouse

  Basically, relational aesthetics is when someone with an MFA wants to meet new people but because they spent all that time pursuing an MFA, they don’t know how to talk to people normally and they got really poor social skills. Umm, and they can’t find no other way to meet new people other than forcing […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  June 3, 2011

  Art, Art Vocabulary, Conceptual, Performance and Conceptual, Social Networking

  bay area, conceptual, fivepoints arthouse, performance art, postaday2011, relational aesthetics, relational art, San Francisco, social networking

• LJ Roberts: shifting textiles, queer craft, and resilience – Interview

  I’ll write a little something today but not very long due to yesterday’s post on my impressions of the current exhibition, It’s All a Blur, at the SomArts Cultural Center. THAT, my friends, was A LOT. Instead, I’ll recommend reading my dear friend, L.J. Roberts, interview with the Social Media Management for Contemporary Art organization. It’s a fantastic interview. LJ discusses […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 7, 2011

  Art, Art Practice, Art Vocabulary, Arts and Crafts, Visual Arts

  Art, art practice, California College of the Arts, contemporary art, contemporary craft, contermporary art history, craft, interview, lacey jane roberts, lj roberts, postaday2011, queer craft, queer theory, quilting, social media management for contemporary art, Textiles

• Inside the Artist’s Studio with Pete Ippel

  This week’s artist is Pete Ippel. Artist and Athlete. You may think to yourself, “Is that really possible?” Yes, it is folks. He’s also quite the prolific artist with art work that stimulates both the physical as well as the cerebral. Let’s get to the fun stuff – his answers to the Art 10 questions… […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 30, 2010

  Art, Art 10, Art Influences, Art Practice, Art Vocabulary, Artist’s Philosophy, Artist’s Studio, Inside the Artist’s Studio, Performance and Conceptual, Photography, Visual Arts

  Art, art 10, art influences, art practice, art vocabulary, artist’s philosophy, artist’s studio, inside the artist’s studio

• Inside the Artist’s Studio with Megan Wynne

  Hello Dear Readers, Art Lovers, Art Makers, Art Writers…well, Everyone…Hello, Hello I want to follow in the same vein as James Lipton and ask similar questions to artists. I figured it would be a great way for both Art Lovers and those interested in Art a peek into the Artist’s studio life and philosophy. In turn, I want to provide […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 22, 2010

  Art 10, Art Influences, Art Practice, Art Vocabulary, Artist’s Philosophy, Artist’s Studio, Inside the Artist’s Studio

  Art, art 10, art influences, art practice, art vocabulary, artist’s studio, artists’s philosophy, inside the artist’s studio