Tag: language

• From Scottsdale: This is a Present from a Small Distant World Shotgun Review in Art Practical’s 4.1 Shotgun Issue

  The New Catalogue artist collective, composed of Mary Voorhees Meehan, Neil Donnelly, Jonathan Sadler, and Luke Batten, collaborated with composer Judd Greenstein to explore humanity, history, memory, space, and the unknown in their exhibition This is a Present from a Small Distant World: New Catalogue + Judd Greenstein, at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. When […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 30, 2012

  Art, Art Writing and Criticism, Culture Criticism, Film, Interactive / Participatory Art, Observations

  Arizona, culture criticism, judd greenstein, language, new catalogue art collective, observation, participatory art, scottsdale, SMoCA

• The Limitations of 140 Characters & Our Communication Culture | In Other Words exhibition @ Intersection for the Arts

  I asked a dear friend about her attention span. She was candid in sharing that if 200 characters don’t entice her, you’ve lost her. She is an intelligent woman and I completely trust her opinion. Now, that’s not a lot characters to lure someone in. Yet, it speaks to the culture we live in. Granted, […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  February 17, 2012

  Art, Conceptual, Culture Criticism, Observations

  arts and technology, bay area, exhibition, image and text, in other words, intersection for the arts, language, new media art, San Francisco, visual arts

• Emerging Media and Creative Coding

  In reference to the emerging media of his time, theorist Marshall McLuhan wrote, “Today we’re beginning to realize that the new media aren’t just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.” Writing code is one gateway for realizing these new forms. Learning to program and […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  January 22, 2012

  Art and Technology, Creative Coding | Programming, Data Visualization

  art and technology, computational aesthetics, creative coding, form + code, language

• Sucker for Spam (even though I’m a Vegetarian)

  Now, imagine the spam above used to create art. A few posts back, I shared a performance/video art based on spam messaging. This time around, I wanted to post about artist, Alex Dragulescu. He’s been featured on c|net and USA Today. His art has been around for some time but it’s so àpropos considering my […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  December 12, 2011

  Art and Technology, Creative Coding | Programming, Digital Art, Multi Media, Observations, Virtual Art, Visual Arts

  alex dragulescu, arts and technology, ASCII, data visualization, language, new media, postaday2011, spam messages

• The Body Organic: From Language to Image and Interaction – Part II

  It is wrong to say that in philosophy we consider an ideal language as opposed to our ordinary one. For this makes it appear as though we thought we could improve on ordinary language. But ordinary language is all right. Whenever we make up ‘ideal languages’ it is not in order to replace our ordinary […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  November 2, 2011

  Art and Technology, Creative Coding | Programming, Digital Art, interactive art, Multi Media, Perception, Philosophy, Social Networking, Virtual Art

  art and philosophy, arts and technology, language, ludwig wittgenstein, new media art, postaday2011, scott snibbe, zero1

• Wittgenstein

  Lately, I’ve been exploring language and its role in our perception and understanding of art. I thought I would dig through some Wittgenstein text to whet my appetite for some much-needed philosophical art writing I’m working on. Here’s an excerpt of what I’ve been noshing on… We are handicapped in ordinary language by having to […]

  Dorothy R. Santos

  September 3, 2011

  Art Writing and Criticism, Philosophy, Theory

  language, linguistics, ludwig wittgenstein, philosophy, postaday2011, the blue and brown books