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My 20 Favorite Stacey-Powered Websites

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:16:49 -0700

I’m not Smashing Magazine, but as I’ve been doing freelance work with a ceramic artist wanting to revamp her website, I’ve been looking at a lot of websites created with Stacey. It’s a nice, non-database content management system that uses text files and folders to automatically generate text and image gallery content. It’s also very configurable (with css, javascript, etc.) These websites offer my favorite customizations and additions, as well as design flourishes, to the basic Stacey setup.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

In order, the list of sites is below. They have a list of sites on their own website, but many of them use a default template and thus aren’t really worth looking at for inspiration.

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Cool Jules Verne Book Covers!!!

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:00:04 -0700

Cool Jules Verne Book Covers!!!:

Wow, these book cover designs are gorgeous! (via jboxhorn)

The Identity Crisis of Contemporary Games Captured

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:49:00 -0700

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Rhizome | Review of Prospectives 09

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:18:45 -0700

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Rhizome is featuring Chris Lanier’s review of the Prospectives.09 exhibition in Reno, which included Gaming the Network Poetic. The exhibit came down last month, but I’ll be submitting GTNP to other venues in the near future. It’s a worthy read; here’s the bit about my piece:

Joshua Fishburn’s Gaming the Network Poetic (2009) links five games in a rosary of G5s, the monitors arranged in a pentagon. The clean vector design of each of the games is very appealing; simple geometric shapes recur throughout the games, serving separate functions. In one game, you click to break a square apart into smaller squares; in another, you try to attach little hinges onto drifting triangles, so that they swing together to form squares. Five people are meant to play the games simultaneously, with the activity of one game influencing the others – I have to confess, some of the connections escaped me. Perhaps this was the one piece in the exhibition that, while it invited participation, didn’t really need it. The five G5s could rest alone in the empty gallery, talking obscurely among themselves about the subtle relations between squares, triangles, and other geometry.

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IRUS Art Shows in Chicago, Jan 29-Feb 4

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:06:31 -0700

via coprosperity.org

Friends, especially those in Chicago, please check out Dialogue: Presented by IRUS art (an intercultural collaborative art work between artists in Iran and the U.S.) at Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago from January 29th through February 4th, with an opening reception on January 29th from 7-10 PM. This is an opportunity to see work that has so far only been shown in Denver, Colorado, as well as brand new works from new collaborating artists. Read what the Denver Post had to say about the exhibition in Denver.

For more information about Co-Prosperity Sphere, including location, check out http://coprosperity.org

For more information about Dialogue and IRUS art, check out http://irusart.org/

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8-Bit Game People in Rio

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:21:41 -0700

I really wish I was down in Rio for 8-Bit Game People, which includes chiptunes performances as well as an exhibit of videogames. I’m showing Survive/Progress there, which was selected as one of the best games at FILE 2009 in São Paulo. After digging around a bit on the website, I found the full list of games (pictured below). Just about every other name on that list is someone I’ve referenced as inspirations in one talk or another, so it’s exciting to end up on it.

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39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W by Timothy Weaver + eMAD « Embrace!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:11:28 -0700

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I’m very excited to announce the opening of “39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W”, an interactive installation included in Embrace! at the Denver Art Museum.

I am one of the collaborators on a team led by Timothy Weaver that also includes David Fodel, Brigid McAuliffe, and Nick Meyers. The show officially opened on November 14th, 2009 and our work is installed in the FuseBox Gallery on the 4th floor.

The Embrace! exhibit is all about engaging with the specific space of the Hamilton Building, designed by Daniel Liebeskind. The 39N x 104W (for short) interactive installation addresses the challenge by using ecological data (solar wind, terrestrial climate, and biological) specific to the location of the Fusebox space to “paint” the gallery with sound and images. The visitor to the space contributes to this process — a camera tracks his/her location which allows the images to move and temporarily paint the wall.

The exhibition runs through April 4th, 2010, and features the work of 17 artists from around the world. It’s the boldest exhibit yet in this building and definitely worth a visit.

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Gaming the Network Poetic - All Five Games In One Video

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:48 -0700

Below you’ll find a video with all five games from Gaming the Network Poetic running in the same video. Some may appear to be a little too fast — I used the “saveFrame” function in Processing to export individual frames so that I could capture in high resolution, but some games have less processing going on and thus were able to export more frames in the same amount of time, so I had to speed some of them up to fit in the same time slice. Regardless, it still gives a better idea of how the games affect each other than seeing only one at a time (which you can also see in the GTNP Vimeo Channel).

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Gaming the Network Poetic in Reno, NV

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:28 -0700

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I was down in Reno, NV at the University of Nevada last week to install Gaming the Network Poetic at the Prospectives.09 festival (you should check out the website, because every time that you do, this drill from Jonah Brucker-Cohen will drill into the wall at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery), and to deliver a talk on the work. Because I couldn’t afford to ship the whole piece out there, festival organizers Joseph DeLappe and Jeff Erickson graciously offered to build a table for it that ended up working quite well. After talking with Joseph about it, I decided to leave the G5 computers that ran the games exposed but positioned in such a way to reinforce the pentagonal shape of the table top. The previous post features some of the setup photos. The exhibition runs through December 16th, so check it out if you’re in the area

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Gaming the Network Poetic at Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:46:21 -0700

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Some photos from my setup at Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery in Reno, NV for the Prospectives.09 festival. Higher quality photos coming soon. There was also some nice coverage of the event in the News Review.

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Electronic Popables by Jie Qi

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:24:32 -0700

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Absolutely gorgeous electronic pop-up book design. This came out of the MIT High-Low Tech Group which is run by Leah Buechley. I was fortunate to see her presentation at a CO-LAB event last year when she was still out here in Colorado. She’s doing some of the most interesting work anywhere on the intersections of gender, technology, geekdom, and play.

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Untitled Art Show Episode 42: Guest Josh Fishburn

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:22:23 -0600

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Last Wednesday I was invited to be a guest on the Untitled Art Show, a weekly audio podcast focused on the Denver Arts Scene. I really enjoyed being on the show and having the opportunity to talk about my work. In case you didn’t get a chance to check it out, you can listen in the player above. Feedback/conversation is welcome in the comments.

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Gaming the Network Poetic - Video from the Opening

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:54:04 -0600

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Insider Moment at the Denver Art Museum

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:17:36 -0600

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Here’s a fun photo of our artist group which is producing the 39N - 104W installation (sans Brigid McAuliffe, who could not make this photo shoot) at the Denver Art Museum as part of this fall’s Embrace! exhibit. From left to right: David Fodel, Joshua Fishburn, Nick Meyers, Timothy Weaver. Today (Tuesday, October 20th) at Noon there will be an “Insider Moment” with Timothy Weaver, who will be available to talk about the work and answer questions, as well as show the work in progress. The piece is being installed in the Fusebox space on the 4th floor of the DAM.

I’ve been building a software component in Max/MSP that selects and arranges audio based on years of Denver weather data. In general, the piece is a creative interpretation of the ecological history and memory of the point on earth that the Denver Art Museum now occupies.

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Gaming the Network Poetic - Galleries from the Opening

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:43:12 -0600

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Thanks to Natalie’s Mom for taking the photos and videos in the first set. The second set contains photos from the opening and from my visit to the gallery this week to document the piece itself. More news, photos, and video to come!

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Gaming the Network Poetic - So Far

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:16:05 -0600

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I submitted Gaming the Network Poetic to the Prospectives.09 International Digital Arts Festival call earlier this week. Part of the submission process was putting together the Flickr gallery linked above for documentation. I wanted to post it here for those interested in the project, as it shows the progress of the project from concept to (near) completion.

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Gaming the Network Poetic - Assembly Photos Round 1

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:18:18 -0600

Here are a few pictures from the past couple weeks of the assembly stages of my project. Right now it looks a bit like a coffin, but eventually this thing will have a monitor mounted on each face of the pentagon, computers sitting inside the box, and a playable game on each screen. I’m also planning to attach a white plastic layer to each face to give the whole assembly a cleaner look.

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Updated MFA Thesis Exhibition Flier

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:28:34 -0600

I’ve updated my flier with the full dates of the show - it’ll be up at Plus Gallery through November 14th, so if you miss the opening this Friday there’s still more time to check it out.

Amusement Device

My 20 Favorite Stacey-Powered Websites

Cool Jules Verne Book Covers!!!

The Identity Crisis of Contemporary Games Captured

Rhizome | Review of Prospectives 09

IRUS Art Shows in Chicago, Jan 29-Feb 4

8-Bit Game People in Rio

39˚ 44′ 11″ N x 104˚ 59′ 21″ W by Timothy Weaver + eMAD « Embrace!

Gaming the Network Poetic - All Five Games In One Video

Gaming the Network Poetic in Reno, NV

Gaming the Network Poetic at Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery

Electronic Popables by Jie Qi

Untitled Art Show Episode 42: Guest Josh Fishburn

Gaming the Network Poetic - Video from the Opening

Insider Moment at the Denver Art Museum

Gaming the Network Poetic - Galleries from the Opening

Gaming the Network Poetic - So Far

Gaming the Network Poetic - Assembly Photos Round 1

Updated MFA Thesis Exhibition Flier

Gaming the Network Poetic

Life Size Computer Snowball Game