Silverlight: Microsoft’s answer to Flash/Director/After Effects/Final Cut

It’s microsoft, yay! Not gonna be open source, but neither is anything in the Adobe/Macromedia bundle? Processing and Pure Data still take the cake when your talking open source, but if you can get a freeware/beta version of Silverlight you can decide for yourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUrQEj6Sd4

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default_ns.aspx

4813 class wordpress links

class, list your wordpress accounts as comments and i will add them to my link list.

Video of Washboard Leo at Texelectronica 2006

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6845512

Invited to Participate on Panel discussing FAST FORWARD at the DMA April 26th 7PM at Horchow Auditorium

Coordinator and DMA Curatorial Director Suzanne Weaver of the Dallas Museum of Art has invited me to participate on a panel in May covering the topics mentioned in the recent Yale University Press publication “Fast Forward” which celebrates three remarkable private collections of contemporary art that were donated in 2005, presenting them in context with masterworks already owned by the museum. Featuring over two hundred works, many previously unpublished, by such major artists as Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Naumann, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Richard Tuttle, and many others, this volume provides a stunning visual history of the critical art movements that have shaped––and continue to shape––contemporary art since the 1940s.

Essays by distinguished scholars discuss the works, which range from sculpture and painting to photography, installation art, and video and electronic media, and address the importance, history, and evolution of Dallas’s collection.

María de Corral is an independent curator who co-directed the 2005 Venice Biennale will also be present to participate in the discussion. Other participants may include:

John R. Lane is The Eugene McDermott Director at the Dallas Museum of Art. Frances Colpitt is The Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at Texas Christian University. Mark Rosenthal is Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Norton Museum of Art. Allan Schwartzman is Director of the Rachofsky Collection and, formerly, a curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Charles Wylie is The Lupe Murchison Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Solo Exhibition at Collin County College Gallery

Max Kazemzadeh: express & local
[Exhibition run Jan. 16-Feb. 10th, 2007 : Opening performance Thurs. Jan 25th, 6 PM]
Express & Local is an interactive installation with projection and sound revolving around the decision and experience of choosing and traveling on the express or local subway lines in transit. Max will put on an interactive software/hardware performance at the opening reception as part of the exhibition, with the help of two of his students Jon Snyder and Matthieu Brookes who formed their own hacker band “Toybox,” and performed at Texelectronica ’06 at The Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth.

http://www.ccccd.edu/theartsgallery/1_Calendar/index.htm

http://www.ccccd.edu/THEARTSgallery/

Invited to Serve as CAA Chair for Electronic Media Art Session

I’ve been invited to serve as a Chair for an open session on Electronic Media for the CAA College Art Association Conference in Dallas, Texas, 2008

http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/
http://www.collegeart.org/

Invited to be a SIGGRAPH 2007 Juror

Invited to Serve as a Juror – SIGGRAPH: 34^th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Diego, California. August 5-7, 2007
http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/
http://www.siggraph.org/

Invited to Give an Artist Talk and Workshop at Texas Sculpture Symposium

I was invited to give an Artist Talk and Workshop at Texas Techs Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium which is a great reimergent retreat of sculptors and other artists from around Texas that gather in Junction, Texas. Two of my prize students Christos Polemenakos (BFA) and John Losey (MFA) gave the talk and workshop for me, since I had to be in Hong Kong to install Spin.Flick for the Microwave Festival

http://glasstire.com/ReviewsDetail.asp?id=333

Texelectronica Symposium Complete

Texelectronica 2006 (SPIN) Symposium was a success, including 12 participating artists from around the world: China, England, Sweden, France, New York, Los Angeles, and more. There were symposium talks, great performances, exhibitions, and more around the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. I would like to thank all of the participating artists which included: Zhang Ga, Carmin Karasic, HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko), Li Tan, Frank DuFour, Josephine Durkin, David Bithell, Janek Schaefer, Casey Reas, Yao bin, Paul Slocum, Dean Terry, Bayou Bennett, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Toybox, the 12 Inch Pimps, Jonny 5, Artificiel, Ryan Humphrey, Washboard Leo, and fashion designer Monique Hebert, who created Texelectronica couture gowns and tops for the festival. I would like to thank the additional presenters Terry Thornton, Robert Milnes, Tom Linehan, and Joel Savary.
I would like to thank everyone who was not only involved in the preparation, planning, exhibition setup/take down, driving artists around town, but also sacrificed their time, personal comfort, and gasoline for the success of this event, including: Robert and Karen Milnes, Andy Holtin, Jesse English, John Losey, Christos Polemenakos, Matthieu Brookes, Raechel Langmack, and Kevin Willoughby.
I would like to thank the participating venues which include the Museum of Modern Art Fort Wort, the University of North Texas Ft. Worth Artspace, the And/Or Gallery, Road Agent Gallery, Fuse, O’Bar, House of Dang.

Texelectronica website
http://www.texelectronica.com

press:
http://glasstire.com/ReviewsDetail.asp?id=333
http://web2.unt.edu/news/story.cfm?story=10048
http://www.qotile.net/blog/wp/?p=424
http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/003244.html
http://www.deanterry.com/blog/archives/2006/10/metaverse_talk.html
http://www.texasgigs.com/events/2006/nov/25/25057/

http://culturetvvideo.blogspot.com/2006/10/texelectronica-symposium-and.html

Exhibited in “Native Sons” at Fotofest in Houston

Native Sons was an exhibition recently curated by Jen and Vinod at Fotofest in Houston (October 12 – November 18, 2006). Fotofest is a non-profit organization and exhibition venue that holds exhibitions in their wonderful large space in the center of downtown Houston. Native Sons included a small group of artists that work in quite diverse ways from one another, and not everything is photography. While I included five photo installation pieces, I also had one non-conventional video installation and another interactive kinetic installation piece “Controlling the Wild West.” It was great to be a part of the show. I also participated in the Saturday Matinee Artist Talks on November 11th with Sterling Allen, Brian Piana, David Woody

http://www.fotofest.org/nativesons/