Category: News

The News of the Whirled #5

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A multifarious collective of AI text and image generators get tangled in a feedback loop and hallucinate what resembles a journal. From diverse representations dredged from cyberspace, the AIs disgorge anodyne narratives and fantastical features by turns. Imagery edges into the absurd when not bland, pseudonymous renderings. Eventually, graphics dissipate into a bio-angular ataxia. Texts fragment into cryptic, machine-language runes. The algorithms imagine they are producing a sequel, or successor, of an obscure, possibly fictional, magazine from the turn of the century. They call it The News of the Whirled. (Click on image for an animated showing of pages.)

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Exhibitions update 2024–25

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Currently, my work Leafescher is included in Portrayed: A Juried National Exhibition of Portraiture at d’Art Center in Norfolk, January 11–February 8, 2025.

I was part of Dollhaus: Reimagining the Domestic Space at the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University from August 27, 2024 – January 5, 2025. For the show, 17 members of the ODU Art Department received an empty room and created “an interior that reflects their artistic practice.” My room was a stairwell and designed in collaboration with my wife Ellen, who added the stepladder, scissors, and broom. An interview with me discussing the work and related topics was posted by the museum on SoundCloud.

A selection of 15 works from my “Trypophilia” series were featured through October – November 2024 at the Perry Glass Studio of the local Chrysler Museum of Art. My works were shown alongside pieces by glass artist Emily Bartelt Juel. As an adjunct to the show, I “assisted” Emily in a glass-blowing demo where she crafted a glass artwork inspired by mine. A video of Emily and I talking about our work was posted on the Chrysler’s Instagram account.

In 2024, works from appeared in the group exhibitions Works on Paper – Make your Mark at the Core Art Space in Denver Colorado, in March; and Materiality Matters at the Umpqua Valley Arts in Roseburg, Oregon in April.

“Safe Words” at Scratching the Surface blog

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My essay, “Safe Words,” was posted in April 2024 on Jarrett Fuller’s Scratching the Surface web site of podcast and publishing. The article considers the ways that typographic innovation has supported and represented criticality—and, more recently—served as a way to elude critcal design thought.