The dead zones of hypercapitalism – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

The dead zones of hypercapitalism – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

Anderson Ranch with Casey Reas

With the school year soon to go into full gear, I only have time for a short post on my recent workshop with Casey Reas at Anderson Ranch. Description from Casey is here: http://www.andersonranch.org/code-digital-fabrication-p1027-2/

For a more through description of the workshop, check out workshop classmate Simon Sarginson's post on Cyber Salon:
http://www.cybersalon.org/attending-code-digital-fabrication-at-anderson-ranch-with-casey-reas/

We had a fantastic group with a range of programming and fabrication skills. Everyone had something to offer. The week unfolded as follows:

• Monday: Processing intro with plotter + pen exercise
• Tuesday: Processing intro day 2 with plotter + vinyl exercise, laser cutter review
• Wednesday: CNC router review with blue foam exercise
• Thursday–Friday: Independent projects and crit

It was heavenly to be a student again, especially with Casey. He's extraordinary at working through ideas with code.

Entrance to Anderson Ranch, photo by Joelle Dietrick 

Computer lab, photo by Simon Sarginson

Fab lab, Donna Sweigart designing jewelry on felt, photo by Simon Sarginson

Detail of Donna's design, photo by Simon Sarginson

Ben Moren's plotter + pen design, photo by Simon Sarginson

Simon Sarginson's maze on the laser cutter, photo by Simon Sarginson 

Will Russack guiding us through the CNC Router exercise, photo by Simon Sarginson

Friday class crit, photo by Joelle Dietrick

Friday class crit, photo by Joelle Dietrick

Friday class crit, photo by Simon Sarginson

Many thanks to the funding from Anderson Ranch and Florida State University's Office of Research that allowed me to attend. Related international collaborations and exhibitions already brewing. Thanks, Casey!

Jalal Tarazi on Life Teaching Overseas

My friend Jalal Tarazi just finished his book on Teaching Overseas. A fun read.
http://jtarazi74.wix.com/jalaltarazi

Robert Yarber on Lapidus' Fontainebleau

About to talk at Penn State where I studied with Robert Yarber, Julie Heffernan and Micaela Amato. Stumbled upon VCU's interview with Robert Yarber: https://youtu.be/N_II9nPuhJk

When I really drawing floating figures in 2006, was it in part because Yarber bubbled up subliminally? Bizarre...

Kaldor Public Art Project: Thomas Demand

Kaldor Public Art Project Project 25

Thomas Demand (complete documentary) on Vimeo

- documentation of temporary projects

Empire

Empire: Excerpt from the 2-channel installation "Empire: 7 Degrees N 81 Degrees E" by Eline Jongsma & Kel O'Neill. Made as part of the project "Empire: Legacy of the World's First Corporation."

This excerpt tells the story of Herman Steur, a man whose charitable instincts led him to build a Dutch village in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle.

Made as part of the project "Empire: Legacy of the World's First Corporation." Shot and exhibited in collaboration with Theertha International Artists' Collective, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Josef Schulz

Josef Schulz 

BLDGBLOG: We Can Terraform It For You Wholesale

BLDGBLOG: We Can Terraform It For You Wholesale

Las Vegas development called Ascaya, in progress.
Wow. The construction site in our Orlando Museum of Art project on steroids.

Brutalist buildings: Park Hill, Sheffield by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith

Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield, England, built after WWII. 
It brought "streets in the sky." 

Brutalist buildings: Park Hill, Sheffield by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith

Containers, Seaports, Sekula

Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, still from The Forgotten Space (2010).

After spending a summer writing about seaports and shipping containers, I'm bookmarking this article on Rhizome. http://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/aug/14/containers/

Interested to find out more...expat ladies, email me at jdietrick@gmail if you have any stories about ports, shipments, or your employers—anything that relates to global trade. It's for a 2015 summer project at MoCA Jacksonville's Project Atrium and a larger series. Past project documented by the extraordinary Sarah Emerson here: https://vimeo.com/71907184

Foreclosed Home Update

Oh to be at this conference at Columbia University this weekend. http://buellcenter.org/

Temporal Gerrymandering

▶ Geoff Manaugh at The Center for Design and Geopolitics - YouTube: http://youtu.be/MNzkl65pwtU?t=7m21s   Playing with time zones to meet socio-political goals.

Quantitative Urbanism

Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem in Smithsonian Magazine

Dietrick + Mundy. The Sea is a Smooth Space. 2013. Single-channel animation. Dimensions variable.

Michelle Grabner on Curating the Whitney Biennial- BurnAway

Michelle Grabner, fearless as usual. "I am giving primacy to artists who are also teachers rather than young emerging artists. I looked at the artists who are teaching these young artists."

http://burnaway.org/michelle-grabner-give-talks-atlanta-nashville/

Golan Levin Liberates Legos

How A Geek Dad And His 3D Printer Aim To Liberate Legos - Forbes

Meat Houses, TTBK

Mitchell Joaquim and the Terreform 1 team on organic ways of building homes… 

Geographies of Collaboration, Berlin

After Year Zero - Geographies of Collaboration I Conference
Exhibition - Conference
Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
http://hkw.de

Exhibition / 19.09-24.11

The realignment of the world after the Second World War is not recounted
here with regard to the confrontation between the Cold War blocs, but with
a focus on the interweaving of European and African history in the process
of decolonization.

In installations, videos and films , artists such as John Akomfrah and
Jihan El-Tahri examine the attempts to transform the basic conditions of a
Western-dominated modern era. A conference takes up "Geographies of
Collaboration" with a view to the first Asian-African conference, which was
held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955 and gave rise to the Non-Aligned
Movement.

Conference  / 03-05.10.2013

The panel discussions take as their point of departure the Western,
ideologically dressed-up concept of freedom, of which the Congress Hall,
today the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, itself is a symbol. The building,
conceived as an architectural signal in the Cold War, exemplifies the
humanistic universalism of the "free West" that reordered itself after the
Second World War.

Meg Cranston and John Baldessari in Berlin

Real Painting (red farm house), 2013

Acrylic and oil on canvas

106,7 x 91,4 cm / 42 x 36 in.

12 Things Successful Women Do Differently

12 Things Successful Women Do Differently
on the Huffington Post

28 Female Thinkers You Should Know, Even If Wired Magazine Doesn't

28 Female Thinkers You Should Know, Even If Wired Magazine Doesn't
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