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A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.” – Marshall McLuhan For a lot of people, myself included, summer has always been a time of extracurricular study. This desire to learn in the summer seems to have developed when I was in grade school and my parents would send me to places like computer camp or wilderness “adventures” or twice to Space Camp. (That’s right I went twice.) What my parents instilled in me…
SUBLIME FREQUENCIES SCREENING By Jesse Kaminsky Collecting and recreating a moment in time has been the crux of the recording industry since its inception. Though developed in the English speaking world, the technology was quickly deployed across the globe as the potential of foreign language markets began to be realized. This propagation had the side effect of allowing access to a much broader cultural landscape for everyone and of empowering the budding discipline of ethnomusicology. The technology’s spread brought a certain cultural validation, but did so with an increased risk for the…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I don’t know a single artist who if you ask them why they make art will say that their primary goal is for people to say nice things about them and their work. Artists, of course, have a wide range of motivations for making work that usually change from day to day and project to project. Some typical motivations for making art that I have heard recently include self-expression, need to make political commentary, desire to contribute to culture, etc. As we all learned…
A CONVERSATION WITH CRISTI RINKLIN By Matthew Nash Cristi Rinklin makes epic paintings of richly layered spaces. Her new exhibition at FP3 Gallery, “Boundless,” features a series of new paintings and smaller drawings that explore space, color and form in complex ways. I met Cristi at the gallery to talk about her work and ideas. —- MN: We’re here at FP3 Gallery, looking at your new show “Boundless.” These are definitely “painter’s” paintings, but you seem to be mixing this classical style with a more cartoon-y look. I know this has been evolving…
FEAR OF… WELL, EVERYTHING By Judy Kermis Blotnick Most people have come across the concept of fight or flight, that funky little chemical reaction humans have to stress. It is said to be rooted in our biology from when we were cave people and were confronted by a giant wild boar. The question that ran across our mind’s screen looked something like this: I could take this beast on, I have my trusty spear, he will make a yummy dinner so I will fight him, can definitely take his ugly ass. Or:…
AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE @ BCA By Megan Driscoll The students in the MIT Visual Studies graduate program are not really conventional artists. These individuals are engaged in scientific, social, political and ethical questions expressed in a visual form, in the context of the cutting-edge technology available at the Institute. Emphasizing inquisitive and avant-garde techniques, this art is a means of research and knowledge in and of itself. In the new exhibition, And Things of That Nature, we are able to get a peak at the work being done by the…
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR By Christian Holland I’ve realized that the experience of driving across the country merely affords one with the sensation of exhaustion. The pilgrimage that many young people commit themselves to at some or various points in their 20’s is undergone for the sake of adventure. Driving thousands of miles is an odyssey, but long ago cars enabled us to skip the places in between that hold little or no interest to us. Those places do, however, contain millions of people, their culture, their homes, places of employment, commerce and…
A CONVERSATION WITH LILA KANNER, DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS @ ARTADIA By James A. Nadeau Artadia Boston’s cycle has come around again. This is the second year for our city and I had the chance to speak with Lila Kanner, who is the Executive Director of Artadia, about her role with the program and how they are coming along as they hit their ten-year anniversary. We spoke just before the information session at the Mills Gallery at the BCA on Monday, June 1st. Applications are due by 11:59 PM EST on June 15th. For…