tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38137812011-04-21T14:26:46.516-07:00last [semester fourth] year : : final(ly)this bLog is a compendium on my thoughts on my art and work for Fall02, my last semester at the California College of Arts and CraftsChristopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-884484792003-02-02T18:24:00.000-08:002003-02-02T18:27:31.000-08:00 okay we've been a way for TOO long, perhaps it would best to wrap this blog up. as my last semester is done, and start a new post-collegiate bLog, something equally links happy with references to my work. once i come up with a snappy name. i'll be back in the meantime, i've rediscovered my love for all things Pixelated, perhaps it's the the slickly rendered world of OSX or just too much Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-853671262002-12-01T23:44:00.000-08:002002-12-01T23:47:28.000-08:00 An old and (in light of these events) unfortunately lost friend from dear old U.Va. has started a Web-based arts journal of growing importance. Check out Drunken Boat, now, I'll wait. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-850770892002-11-25T14:58:00.000-08:002002-11-26T16:47:04.000-08:00 2,003 Ideas for Future Projects 0001. Eat only beets for a week. Document red urine/feces. 0002. Recreate Kline's Leap Into a Void 0003. Count and mark all the manhole covers in a neighborhood as evidence of an underground culture. 0004. Follow a stranger; invent their life/day's story based on the places visited/people talked to. 0005. Follow a squirrel around for a day. 0006. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-845987352002-11-15T15:46:00.000-08:002002-11-15T15:46:52.080-08:00 Stats used in first trial of a 27/M b5/3/74 Left 89% at 85 dB: 1/10/02 Please Note: Terminology for flow cell analysis has been updated. July 19: CD4,702; viral load, 140,703 Subsequent surgery removed most but not all of the tumor, sacrificing the 8th cranial nerve. Test results per milliliter. Total Lymphocyte count at 1,800: 8/6/01 At about 10 years of age, Mr. Edwards developedChristopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-844880792002-11-13T12:45:00.000-08:002002-11-13T12:45:08.566-08:00 Codex 2: 5 Projects : Friday Project (5) 2,003 Ideas for Future Projects Wherein, I brainstorm art after college at a rate of 6.68 ideas per minute. I need ideas. And I need them fast. In 5 hours, I'll need to come up with 400 ideas a minute. Perhaps I'll have to start earlier than 11. The bLog and the space will coexist as a holding ground in this day long brainstorming session. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-844412502002-11-12T15:28:00.000-08:002002-11-12T15:28:13.410-08:00 Codex 2: 5 Projects : Thursday Project (4) Your Own Private Hell Wherein, I argue against the positions to which you subscribe most dearly. Bring an opinion. I'll argue against it. No sacred cows. Expect both pop theory and raw emotion. Frustration will abound. Come hate yourself for an hour. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-843881942002-11-11T16:04:00.000-08:002002-11-12T15:17:15.000-08:00 Codex 2: 5 Projects : Wednesday Project (3) Wish You Were Here Wherein through the magic of television, Californians send postcards from the Wisconsin Dells. Andrew and I present the Wisconsin Dells to the people of the Left Coast. Postcards and video footage meet to simulate the vacation documentation experience. Participants enter a video shoot, write an actual postcard and Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-843870412002-11-11T15:39:00.000-08:002002-11-12T15:18:38.000-08:00 Codex 2: 5 Projects : Tuesday Project (2) Acme/tc., the Store Wherein, a store is opened, feted and closed of handmade multiples by us and others. Amber and Christopher announce, Acme/tc. is finally open! Acme/tc. is going out of business! The beginning and end of our business cycle, fiscal year and careers as independent entrepreneurs. Bringing you our junk refashioned as Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-843836262002-11-11T14:27:00.000-08:002002-11-13T12:46:06.000-08:00 Codex 2: 5 Projects : Monday Project (1) 1,974 Circles Wherein, I draw 1,974 circles in the course of a day and erase and paint over them by the evening. My simple doodles at long last leave the 2-D world of my notebooks and head into the space around me. Beginning with the number equal to the year in which I was born. After this day, the project will finally move into the Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-843817482002-11-11T13:46:00.000-08:002002-11-11T13:46:09.563-08:00Finally, a Yiddish dictionary at a stripper site. Oy vey.Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-843799722002-11-11T13:06:00.000-08:002002-11-11T14:10:03.000-08:00 Codex 2: 5 Projects further examines an exploded sketchbook. In Codex, I took 5 walls in a gallery and assigned to them timed drawings. One hour was the shortest; eight hours was the longest. The name came from Beuys from DaVinci — a connection drawn by a similar desire to encode in a sketchbook theoretical investigations as well as simply aesthetic concerns. From the cosmos to the human body, Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-842597442002-11-08T18:34:00.000-08:002002-11-08T18:34:10.323-08:00 Thank god books weren't part of some cool-kids clique when I was in school. Harry Potter's a fraud. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-842468192002-11-08T12:36:00.000-08:002002-11-08T12:36:30.600-08:00 Ideas are flying at me — evidence that I've hit on something that I actually am interested in — but it's going to be hard to corral them. I need an idea wrangler. That's what the bLog is for. There are five days in the senior show. Each day is a study for or a part of some larger exploration that I'm working toward/on — performance project/sketches. This fits nicely into the classical ideaChristopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-842003822002-11-07T17:25:00.000-08:002002-11-07T17:25:20.470-08:00 Where then is that last post leading to? How can I connect my past to this moment — a Senior Show — how can beginnings and endings be represented together? And what to do with the things that have already been set into motion? Briefly, the sound recitals are staying. I'm probably going to kill the Monday performance and the Wednesday evening recital has been moved to Saturday, in partChristopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-841999902002-11-07T17:15:00.000-08:002002-11-07T17:15:24.880-08:00 I have always made the opposite decision to the one that I really want to make. In fact, I can be fairly certain that if I want to know what decision I shouldn't make, I should look at which decision I want to make. It's ridiculous, but I find that I ask myself regularly: "Which is the decision that I really want?" Versus which I want right now. I have to go down the road that is initially Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-839808882002-11-03T17:45:00.000-08:002002-11-03T17:45:34.390-08:00The first update in too long has to go to a site with nothing but searchable listings of Gameboy music. Tell 'em Uncle Eddie sent ya.Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-832429052002-10-20T00:10:00.000-07:002002-11-05T15:02:26.000-08:00 Artist statement : : Written for Southern Exposure's juried, no-entry fee show and film festival. I'm pretty happy with it. All of my work invovles repitition, endurance and mark-making. My pieces exist in very specific and controlled time-spaces from real to digitally manipulated time. My work has roots in the study of urban cultural anthropology. I am specifically drawn to video and Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-832428002002-10-20T00:05:00.000-07:002002-10-20T00:05:49.663-07:00 I'm in the middle of OS X goodness. I'm having a wonderful computer geek moment, which is making the BF feel unloved over there. But, I've got a new toy... Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-828225102002-10-10T19:55:00.000-07:002002-11-05T15:51:34.000-08:00While living in Chicago this summer, I had the joy of reading the Chicago Reader on a weekly basis. The Reader is compelling evidence for a more literate approach to "alternative" weeklies. Four sections every week, some of the best writing on film and politics even sports that is being written today. It puts the San Francisco Bay Guardian to further shame for refusing to be literate and, despiteChristopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-828171462002-10-10T17:40:00.000-07:002002-10-15T11:27:04.000-07:00 I'm going to be a terrible parent. Or I would be a terrible parent if any adoption agency was stupid enough to give me a child. I can't even keep a plant living. Seriously, I either over water them, or they die of dehydration. Really nothing more needs to be said, right there is pretty much the way I deal with everything. Feast or famine. So for you daily checkers of my bLog, either (a) Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-825040722002-10-03T22:49:00.000-07:002002-10-08T17:31:53.000-07:00 partial DEFINITION : (2) something that represents with clarity suggestive of a map (from Webster's) my DEFINITION : a broad definition of map (which might encompass all of my brainstorming) would step outside of the words' etymological roots (from mappa Latin for towel) and think about how the map functions >>a map then might be a representation of relative positions mapping Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-825025092002-10-03T22:02:00.000-07:002002-10-03T22:07:31.000-07:00 mapping MY BODY : I spend an inordinate amount of time in hospitals. This goes back, way back. I'm accident prone. I have a rare genetic condition. And now, HIV. So I am familiar with the knowledge-through-mapping, data-collection-as-truth model that our Western medicine is based. Actually, all thought is rooted in assumptions about categories. How to map? My body is mapped through blood Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-824938882002-10-03T18:25:00.000-07:002002-10-03T18:25:35.796-07:00 Now that the dust is settling from all of that dot-com silliness, we can once again concentrating on all of those glorious random stuff that is out there on what has become the World Wide Web, but used to just be on gopher sites and all of those other pre-technologies. I was wonder what Naoki's name means. And came up with the appropriately titled Asian Names page, which in turn led me Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-824899612002-10-03T16:42:00.000-07:002002-10-03T16:42:39.020-07:00 Building a Theremin is sort of a rite of passage for anyone interested in electronics and electronic music. Or, so this is how I'm justifying my fascination with it. I've selected a "very simple digital theremin" design from Maxies Pages which is referenced elsewhere as being "not recommended as a serious project," but really, to hell with Bob Sexton and his electronic snobbery. You know? Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-824261822002-10-02T11:05:00.000-07:002002-10-03T15:58:24.000-07:00 Thank you David Sherman for intruducing us all to Bobby BeauSoleil last night at the PFA. After seeing a Web site untitled beausoleil.net in the credits for David's film To Re-Edit the World, I knew I had to check it out. Bobby BeauSoleil was the Albino Lucifer in Kenneth Anger's Invocation for My Devil Brother and sort of a musician-about-town in the late 60s West Coast music scene. Later he Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-823359732002-09-30T16:19:00.000-07:002002-10-02T00:47:21.000-07:00 Senior project has changed it's focus. Or found a new direction from the semester I took it last year, which unfortunately goes with the territory at CCAC. I suppose this should be grating Ñ at times it is Ñ but it also fits to neatly into my own inability to stay a single course. In the ten years it has taken to get an undergraduate degree, I've switched majors from architecture to studio art Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-823205782002-09-30T10:09:00.000-07:002002-10-02T00:55:46.000-07:00 To complete your growing Japanese fetish, get connected with the Japan Society of Northern California. Learn the language, attend events. Hang out with the cool kids. ;) Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-822635562002-09-29T00:11:00.000-07:002002-10-02T01:08:40.000-07:00 Geeks unite over old technology from the New York Times on current video game programmers revisiting there old game machines. But wait, no mention of Colecovision or Intellivision? Or the TRS-80? Shame, shame. Don't worry though check out Classicgaming.com to find some classic game emulators. And a little prehistory for your arses. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-822170542002-09-27T18:04:00.000-07:002002-09-27T18:11:48.000-07:00 Art can be anything that we say it is. So, Richard Long can crisscross England on foot and be known as an artist and not an outdoorsman. There is a priviledging of aesthetical experience that helps broaden the view of "what is art". Art school is about paying a lot of money to make things for four years. Or, so they would have us believe. Try not making things, try only talking and thinking. Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3813781.post-821534502002-09-26T10:24:00.000-07:002002-09-26T15:24:27.000-07:00 in this space, i begin my first public thoughts for the final semester. it's a weird space to be (public, weblog, graduating), it's been 10 years and how many different directions. right now, i want to throw out everything that i've done before. i don't feel like a "senior". jefferson was right, you can never be a "senior" in learning. this leads into the whole conundrum about grad school and Christopher1974http://www.blogger.com/profile/10082503041642567957noreply@blogger.com