esc: Orkan Telhan and website launch party!

Thursday, December 11, 7.00pm
128 Forest St. Oberlin, OH
Click for directions.

Jessa's beautiful lanterns

little treasures at the cactus garden

Maddy is pojecting grass onto snow

- If only it was darker out.

Brian's cactus garden

Kat's Harkness Tree

Gita's Zombie Day Invite!

The Bacon Tree

An open to public event by Kayla Cohen.

creative thinking

It is really fun making connections between seemingly unrelated topics.
More on this link: Gathered by Jacob Cass

Type is fun

* Typoanimation with "circus"
* onTheMove
* Typo Moution
* "Roots"
* experimental in type in motion
* Motion Graphics 1, Pt3
* Graphic City
* Kinetic Typography
* Typolution
* Pulp Fiction in Typography

esc: Millie Chen

Millie Chen
Thursday, November 6, 8.00pm + after party
128 Forest St.
http://contrary.info/esc for additional info and directions.

The Rather Difficult Font Game

http://fontgame.ilovetypography.com/

Please read during the break!

>> History of Visual Communication <<

Turkish artist, designer, and educator Elif Ayiter put together this chronological History of Visual Communication. Great resource for design students!

sites to look at

http://www.sagmeister.com/worknew3.html
http://www.piperboy.com/home.htm
http://www.paulascher.com/
http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/
http://huntergatherer.net/pages/projects.html

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Monday, October, 13

Claudia Pederson and Nicholas Knouf

Monday, October 13, 8.00pm + after party
128 Forest St. formerly named "Orchard St. Kindergarden Studio"
http://contrary.info/esc

Claudia Pederson: On computer games and Wafaa Bilal (Wafaa Bilal's recent exhibition at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, Virtual Jihadi, was closed by the University's administration a day after its initial opening.)

Claudia Costa Pederson, PhD candidate at the history of art and visual studies department at Cornell University. Her interests center on exploring the intersections between play, creativity, critical theory, and social activism. She is currently working on her thesis that investigates digital games as devices for critical inquiry into the relationships between theoretical and scientific thought, art and technology, and institutional powers and social energies. She is also teaching a writing seminar this fall on contemporary art and technology.


Nicholas A. Knouf: on Fluid Nexus (Fluid Nexus is an application for mobile phones that is primarily designed to enable activists to send messages and data amongst themselves independent of a centralized cellular network.)

Nicholas A. Knouf is a PhD student in the Information Science Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. His work explores the interstitial spaces between information science, critical theory, digital art, and science and technology studies. His current projects include a mobile phone messaging application that works independent of a centralized network, and a robotic marionette that provokes non-speech sounds as a means of encouraging the expression of the unspeakable.

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Situationist International

SORRY I'M SO LATE IN DOING THIS.

For my SOCI/GSFS class about social protest, I was assigned to write on the "French Protest Posters of May '68" that are currently on display in the AMAM. After Arzu mentioned Situationist International in class the other day I decided to tie them and their theories into my paper.  I posted the content of my paper below.  Read as much or as little as you like.  Ultimately, I think artists like Sharon Hayes who combine activism and performance are closest to the truest definition of Artist.

Tappan Square Walking Tour

Liz Schultz from the Oberlin Heritage Center gave the tour. She talked about the prominent buildings around the square, the founding of Oberlin, women's history, African American history, abolition, health movements, and the college.

Responding to Public Space

What does ARTS 083 think?

Sticker art

Sticker art on flickr
Bomit Street Artist Community

Walls Hacked With Lego

A series of Lego works by Jan Vormann.

Source: http://www.guerrilla-innovation.com

Exhibition: Signs of Change

Signs of Change
September 20 - December 6, 2008
Exit Art

Wordle

http://wordle.net/

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Borderline between life, art and design

Lygia Clark - Collective Body