ART4Barter
Curated by Antonio Puri
What is Art4Barter?
Bartering may be the answer to bail us out of our current crisis. Although artists have historically been bartering as much as possible it is more relevant now than ever before. It can provide a solution to survival for so many of us and create a new vision for society.
The artists that are participating are from diverse backgrounds, and will present their works for barter. No works shall be sold for money but rather for services… Continue
Added by Mike Butler on August 27, 2009 at 7:26am —
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Art For All Canada, Inc. (AFAC) is a not-for-profit organization,
run by artists, to help artists to develop, show and sell their work commission-free.
www.artforallcanada.org
Mike
Here's THE affordable way to show your art to a really large audience. Come to the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE), Canada's biggest annual festival that attracts 1,300,000 visitors!
We will have a fully furnished booth space complete with tables,… Continue
Added by Mike Butler on July 20, 2009 at 1:14pm —
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Gary Singh has written an article about my Digital Art in the Nov/Dec issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications. The cover also features one of my images. I kind of like the Mad Scientist angle as I now know what to dress up as for Halloween.
The cover is at http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cga/ and the abstract of the article is at http://www2.computer.or… Continue
Added by Mike Butler on October 26, 2008 at 4:00pm —
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Here is a great blog with a very upbeat message and great writing. Here's a sample:
"I had the good fortune to be at the high mountain California observatory just after the first astronauts returned from their time on the Moon. Since I had been a science journalist, the director of the telescope told me that he had a story that those high flying men told him and he had a tape, which has been brought back. Nevertheless, the story is better than the tape because it calls on each of us to use our… Continue
As an experiment I have uploaded an abstract image that can be printed on your own inkjet printer. It should look nice at about 8" x 10" Just click this link, then right click and save the image to your desktop and print it on your own printer. Feel free to pass it around to friends.
Don Hightower and I had an interesting discussion on abstraction and automatism at the club last night (A.C.A.). Don did a great automatist pencil sketch, which I hope he will scan and post.
When I got home afterwards I googled automatism and found this great article on the subject. [Link] I especiall liked her linkage of abstract art to music. She says, "When you listen to music, you don’t… Continue
Added by Mike Butler on June 22, 2007 at 3:38pm —
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Picasso, love him or hate him, was a huge influence on modedrn art. Here is a great web resource for students of contemporary art. It has an enormous catlogue of his work, from his early years until his death. It also has a good bio and time line of his major pieces. [Link] Continue
Added by Mike Butler on June 12, 2007 at 8:53pm —
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I always enjoy Peter Goddard's reviews in the Toronto Star. The Star keeps an archive of recent reviews going back quite a few weeks. The reviews have a slideshow of the art being reviewed so, if you have some free time, you can browse the archives here. [Link] Continue
There was a good article and slide show about Leonard Cohen's new show in the online Toronto Star this weekend. I can't wait to hear Philip Glass' music set to Cohen's poems. [Link] Continue
Added by Mike Butler on June 11, 2007 at 8:20am —
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