Presenting at MACAA // Detroit 2012

I am co-chairing a panel with Phil McCollam at MACAA, "Making Bullshit: Serious Play and Failure in Arts Education and Professional Practice." 

Here is a link to the full conference schedule / panel descriptions.  And these are the presentations on our panel:

“A Case Study for Making Bullshit”
Ellen Mueller, West Virginia Wesleyan College

“Disrupting Habitual Forms of Perception”
Laurencia Strauss, Washington University St Louis

“Serious Play Today”
Carol Ann Carter, University of Kansas

“Curiosity and Play in New Genres Arts”
Justin Lincoln, Whitman College

Friday, Oct 5, 2012
Session 5, 3-4:30pm
Woodward A, Level 2, Westin Book Cadillac Hotel
1114 Washington Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226

Pecha Kucha Pueblo - Apocalypse Preparation

Image Credit: Phil McCollam

Don't miss Pecha Kucha this coming Thursday, Jan 26, 7pm at the CSU-Pueblo Fine Art Gallery, ground floor of the Arts/Music Building, (click for the CSU-Pueblo Campus map).  Suggested contribution of $5; CSU-Pueblo students - free (no-one turned away, though!).  Check out their Facebook page and like them!

I'll be doing a Practical Preparedness presentation on the impending Apocalypse of 2012.

Here are the presenters:

Brian Spillman, B.Vant.Garde
JoLynn Westerholt, Keyhole Lingerie and Harlequin Aces Burlesque
Ye (Charlotte) Ming, Photographer
Sam Sumeracki, Raconteur
Gilbert Ortiz and Dena Abeyta, Pueblo County
John Wark, Airphoto
Mathias Valdez, LastLeaf Print and Design
Ellen Mueller, Artist-in-Residence
David Bemis, Chemist
Jacqueline Stroud, Historian

Now Published in Rainy Day Activities Book

Cool news - I can now say I've been published in the UK!

The field guide from Three Mouth-Light Arrays to Counter Frightful Darkness, a collaborative piece I worked on with Phil McCollam, is being published in The Wild Pansy Press Book of Rainy Day Activities, and will be available for free at "Crunchtime2010"

The Wild Pansy Press has produced a publication in which a range of contributors make concrete suggestions for new cultural activities in a Post-Crunch society, with an emphasis on the practical, the cheap and the sustainable.  You can read more about this exciting project, and the artists involved at this link.

"Crunchtime2010" is a festival taking place in the City of York, UK, January 29th - February 6th, 2010.  Global issues and concerns are increasingly on the minds of everyone.  Using a variety of venues as galleries and the city's sites and streets for projects, "Crunchtime2010" offers a snapshot of artists’ responses to the issues of living in the early 21st century.  Read more at this link.

I was on TV! (briefly)

Check it out! I was on TV briefly because I participated in Pedro Reyes' installation/performance piece at the USF Contemporary Art Museum.



It's a quick shot of me smashing a faux-guitar, and it happens about a minute and 20 seconds into the clip. If any of you know Phil McCollam, you'll see him in the piece as well!