I won’t be in this show since I’m graduating this semester. But most of my fellow grads will be. Come take a look!
“Empty-Set-Go!,” an exhibition of work by MFA candidates at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will take place on Sunday, May 7th from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the West Hall Gallery, Room 111, Sage […]
This is it. My thesis is due on Friday and I need to send it to my advisor this morning so that he can approve it in time for me to turn it in. I was going to blog about this while I take a five minute break, but it appears my server is down, […]
I just finished the rough draft of my MFA Thesis paper and sent it off to my advisor. It’s 91 pages long.
It’s a rough rough rough rough draft though. The writing is way below my ability, and it will certainly be torn to shreds and reorgazined.
My advisor’s going to read it today and call me […]
Days until my I turn my thesis in to my committee: 7
Pages written so far: Way too few for me to admit to in a public setting!
Latest procrastination strategies:
MySpace
Two-hour brunches at Arnette’s
Going through the Sacred Harp and indexing all the fuging tunes by the order in which the parts enter, the date they were composed, […]
I’m giving a talk next Monday, December 5th, at 6 PM in West Hall, Room 112. Here’s what I’ll be talking about:
Contemporary Composers in the Sacred Harp Tradition
Sacred Harp singing is an active four part community singing tradition that dates back to the 18th century. Through talking with contemporary composers in this tradition, Jesse, himself […]
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Architecture, and the Arts Department announce:
Work Play Show
a charrette to design west hall grad studios
What could the electronic arts studio of the future look like? How can we design a flexible, functional space for creating and presenting electronic artwork? How can space enable community?
The charrette […]
I’m back in school. Classes started on Monday (I had one), and I have two more tomorrow. I’m setting up some independent studies, and trying to settle on a thesis committee.
I’m also outlining all the projects on which I’m working. There are a lot of them, and most are pretty much developed conceptually, though I’m […]
The West Hall Graffiti Wall Project is an evolving, community art project sponsored by the Rensselaer Art Department featuring stencils, spray paint, mural art, and wheatpasted posters. Twice annually, artists gather to repaint the wall — inscribing the vibrance and continuity of the arts at Rensselaer.
Last weekend, I, and a handful of other folks, participated […]
I had to document my creative process for a seminar I’m taking this semester. I’ve never been comfortable with my process for making work, so it was great to look at what I do and think about what I might like to do.
I don’t feel that I have a fully developed creative process. I’m unhappy […]
Lots of small things to report about my life this past week, but I have to run to teach a class. I went to Boston with Yael and Bettina for the first The Upgrade! Boston, a monthly new-media lecture series Yael coordinates that happens now in New York City, Vancouver, Montreal, and now Boston (with […]