Links of Note

Local Artists

Kelvy Bird
Michele Fais
Brian Knep
Riki Moss
Julie McAskill
Diane Novetsky
Roy Pardi
Patty Rosenblatt ~ clay & time
Kylliki Talp
Fran Trainor

Boston Secession

Charlene DiCalogero

Keith Hampton

Tim Riordan

Ellen Band

Local Associations, Collectives, etc.

Arlington Center for the Arts
ARTSomerville
Brickbottom Artists Association
Collision Collective
Joy Street Artists
North Cambridge All Arts Open Studios
Somerville Arts Council
Somerville Open Studios
Vernon Street Studios

Brave Records

Club Passim

Inspiration

John Luther Adams ~ musical interpreter of the Alaskan wilderness

Forty Part Motet (Janet Cardiff)
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) ~ archivist of dreams
Joe Davis ~ audio microsocope, art embedded in a bacterial genome, broadcasting vaginal contractions to E.T.
Bill Fontana ~ sound sculptor
Arthur Ganson ~ mechanical magician
Juan Geuer ~ multimedia artist with an ear to the Earth and an eye for Awe
Thomas Heatherwick ~ out-of-the-box design
Tim Hawkinson ~ endlessly imaginative mechanical objects
Information Aesthetics ~ form follows data / data visualization & visual design
Leif Inge’s 9 Beet Stretch ~ Beethoven’s 9^th slowed down to fill 24 hours: brilliant, mesmerizing, heart-opening; listen now!
Chris Jordan ~ large-scale photographs with a large-scale message (see, especially, “Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait”)
James Turrell ~ light sculptor
Keith Tyson
Ruth West
John F. Simon, Jr. ~ “Every Icon” & other art appliances

Unlinked Ephemera: (send me links to these artists, please!)

070204: Éric Desmarais / Soigner son langage at Galerie B-312, Montréal ~ delicious retro-tech electro-mechanical multimedia installation
070204: Julie Miller / (450 Harrison Avenue, Boston) ~ obsessive beauty in colored loops and circles
070204: Jacob El Hanani / Falling Letters (450 Harrison Avenue, Boston) ~ obsessive beauty in minute hash-marks of pencil gray
070204: Ann Wessmann / (Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston) ~ timeless, endless, involuted spiral of collected mussel shells

Art + technology = …

Arts Electric ~ a guide to music, sound art, and technology worldwide

Brock Craft ~ Lots o’ nifty links to construction sites
Eyebeam ~ an art+technology incubator
Rhizome ~ nourishment for sprouting techno/art rootlets

Earth sound :: art

Earthquake Quartet for Voice, Trombone, Cello, and Seismograms (Andrew Michael)

One Square Inch of Silence (Olympic National Park, WA) ~ a sanctuary for silence
The Place Where You Go to Listen (Museum of the North, Fairbanks, AK) ~ permanent geophysical sound/visual installation by John Luther Adams
Stephen McGreevy ~ pioneer explorer of natural terrestrial radio signals
Mark Whittle ~ the sound of the BIG BANG (Listen!)