tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4929053113811385142024-03-13T19:08:17.100-07:00Martha Jane BradfordMartha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-63715232163699322452014-10-21T10:11:00.000-07:002015-01-20T06:03:31.052-08:00Moved to Maine! After having lived in Brookline 34 years (and the Boston-area since 1968, minus 2 years in New York City), I suddenly moved to Maine with my new puppy and my husband in January. It all came about because I fell down stairs and broke my arm while on our usual August vacation in Maine. Since kayaking was out, we amused ourselves by touring historic houses and then by house-hunting, a dangerous pastime! We found the perfect spot in October – ironically on the internet, made an offer, put our condo on the market, and by December we had closed (in the middle of a blizzard). We moved January 20. Only then did we realize we needed to do a lot of renovation, which has pretty much pre-occupied me until recently. (See my Pinterest board: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/marthajanebrad/moving-to-maine/">http://www.pinterest.com/marthajanebrad/moving-to-maine/</a> )<br />
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My downstairs display room is the crowning jewel. It is called Martha’s Underground because I don’t want to use the word “basement,” which is where it really is. I am delighted with the space. What a change from the way it looked when we started! <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/marthajanebrad/marthas-underground/">http://www.pinterest.com/marthajanebrad/marthas-underground/</a> Upstairs I have a clean room for my computer equipment and a “dirty” room for varnishing, gluing, and the like.<br />
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I have now uploaded my entire portfolio to Pinterest: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/marthajanebrad/">http://www.pinterest.com/marthajanebrad/</a> And I am delighted to say that I now have a pin button on my splash screen at <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/ ">http://www.marthavista.com/ </a>as well as a LinkedIn button.<br />
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Moving to Maine has proved to be one of the best things I ever did. I have ancestors from nearby Damariscotta and Round Pond, I have spent part of every summer here since I was 2, I have always felt my heart was here and that I was living in exile, and the Maine landscape has been a huge part of my artwork. Finally I am home! (What took me so long?) Oddly, this isolated, rural little spot is proving to be far friendlier and more supportive than the Boston-area. My neighbors have quickly become good friends. “Girls Night Out (GNO),” a Tuesday gathering at a local bar, has been a great way to meet and network with other women. My work has been well-received: I sold a couple of digital collages at the MaineArtShow at St. Andrew’s Parish House in Newcastle, and when I hosted GNO here (we meet in each other’s houses during the tourist season), I sold 2 more prints. One of these prints, “Pemaquid Harbor,”<br />
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is destined to hang in an historic house in Bremen in the same spot where “Dark Harbor Fishermen” by N. C. Wyeth used to hang! The art community here is huge – there is a joke that there are more artists in Lincoln County than people. And the artists have been very helpful with advice about shows to enter and information about galleries.<br />
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The last lap in this marathon is to get my storage space built in the – yes – basement and my work unpacked. Then I can put my energy on new work and seeking out show opportunities more assiduously.<br />
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Last month I finished my entry for the 2015 show Look Again: ACM Collection Inspires The Boston Printmakers at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury MA. For this collaborative exhibition, ACM's contemporary curator Craig Bloodgood and collections manager Maureen Wengler have selected 42 works for response pieces to be created by members of The Boston Printmakers. I chose Thomas Nason’s “Mountain Stream, an engraving showing water rushing under a woodland bridge.” In exploring his body of work, I felt a great correspondence between our styles and subject matter. My response piece, a digital drawing, is called “Another Stream.” It also shows a forest bridge but the stream has been reinterpreted as the history of foot traffic over the bridge. <br />
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I recently joined River Arts, a non-profit arts organization on Route 1 in Damariscotta, the heart of Midcoast Maine. http://riverartsme.org/ River Arts is strongly community-oriented and provides art instruction, exhibitions, and special events. <br />
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My digital drawing, “Nasturtium,” was accepted into the 2014 Butler Institute of American Art’s 78th National Midyear Exhibition. The juror was artist Ben Schonzeit. The show ran from July 27 through September 7 in Youngstown OH. “Nasturtium” has an oriental feel. There is an interesting tension between the close-up focus on the single white flower and the long distance focus of the background landscape. <br />
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My black and silver acrylic painting, “View from the Other Side,” is included in “Creative Community: Danforth Art in Collaboration with The Art Connection, on view from October 8–December 14 in Framingham MA. The Art Connection is a Boston-based organization that connects artists to underserved communities through the donation and placement of original contemporary artwork in area social service agencies. <br />
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Work in this exhibition is available for placement in MetroWest social service agencies. If you are a representative of a social service agency interested in selecting art work, please contact Danforth Art Assistant Curator Jessica Roscio at 508.620.0050 ext. 12 or jlroscio@danforthart.org. Social service agencies may find information about eligibility at The Art Connection website, www.theartconnection.org.<br />
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“Tamago,” a print from my virtual immersive art installation Acquarella is included in The Boston Printmakers new publication Palate to Plate: Prints and Recipes from Members of the Boston Printmakers. This full-color, 216-page book is also the catalogue for the 2014 Boston Printmakers Members' Exhibition at the Newport Art Museum. The book contains prints and favorite recipes by 99 members of the Boston Printmakers and is available through <a href="http://www.blurb.com">www.blurb.com</a>. The show runs from August 30, 2014 – January 4, 2015. The Newport Art Museum is at 76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840. Link to the show: <a href="http://www.newportartmuseum.org/Exhibitions/Now-on-View/Palate-to-Plate ">www.newportartmuseum.org/Exhibitions/Now-on-View/Palate-to-Plate </a><br />
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Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-50741146060110681752013-11-05T09:13:00.000-08:002013-11-05T09:16:35.279-08:00Fragile Harmony <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ipu9ZkOSexo/UnklS6TN9nI/AAAAAAAAAN0/-FuumCRSfJI/s1600/BRADFORD_BlackDiamond.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ipu9ZkOSexo/UnklS6TN9nI/AAAAAAAAAN0/-FuumCRSfJI/s400/BRADFORD_BlackDiamond.jpg" /></a></div> <i>Black Diamond</i>, 45 x 32 inches<br />
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Selected works from past shows make a rare reappearance in this comprehensive exhibit of my digital drawings from the last fifteen years. The show's full title is <b>Martha Jane Bradford: Fragile Harmony</b>.<br />
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The exhibit opened November 1 at the Athan's Cafe Art Gallery in Brighton, Massachusetts (USA). It will run until January 1, 2014. The Cafe Gallery is located at 1621 Beacon Street (Washington Square in Brighton). It is open 8 am - 11 pm every day. The public reception will be on November 17, 2013 from 6 – 7:30 pm.<br />
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This exhibition is sponsored by Unbound Visual Artists, Inc., and was curated by John Quatrale of the UVA Board of Directors. <br />
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Now I am back at last to where I left off. I described how to construct a hanging scroll in my May post. This one will cover making the hanging rods.<br />
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You need the following equipment:<br />
--birch dowels 1/4” - 1 1/4” in diameter depending on the size of the scroll)<br />
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--a 1/8 – 1 1/4” pipe cutter (mine is Mag-Bit)<br />
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--a hand-held sander, either manual or mechanical (mine is a Makita)<br />
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--steel wool grades 1, 0, and 00<br />
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Measure the width of the hanging scroll. Add 1 ½ inches, more or less depending on the size of the scroll, to the width to get the length of the top rod and 2 ½ inches, more or less depending on the size of the scroll, to get the length of the bottom rod. I like having the bottom rod heavier and longer than the top rod. For “White Violets,” which is 18 x 24 ½,” I used a ½ “ diameter dowel for the top rod and a 5/8” dowel for the bottom rod.<br />
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After marking the dowels with a pencil at the appropriate place to cut, use a miter box and miter/chop saw or a mechanical miter/chop saw to cut the two dowels to the desired lengths.<br />
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Sand the cut ends smooth and then bevel edges gently with the sander at a 45 degree angle.<br />
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To make the grooves for the hanging filament, score the ends of the top rod only with the pipe cutter. I usually put the grooves about ½ inch in from the ends. Widen the grooves with a nail file so that they will hold the hanging filament in place.<br />
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Next, steel-wool the rods smooth starting with grade 1 and progressing to grade 00.<br />
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Open the paint can with the screw driver and stir the paint well. Paint from the end to the middle of each rod, checking the ends of the rods for good but not excessive coverage. Stand the rods dry-end-down in the heavy jars to dry. When they are dry to the touch, repeat the painting process for the other halves of the rods. When both rods have been completely painted and are thoroughly dry, steel-wool them smooth starting with grade 1 and progressing to grade 00. Repeat this paint process until the rods are as glossy as you want them to be (usually 2 or more coats).<br />
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Insert the finished rods in the hanging pockets of the scroll. Tie the desired length of mono-filament Into the groove at one end of the top rod. Tie a loop in the other end of the filament and set the loop into the remaining groove at the other end of the top rod. (Making one end of the mono-filament removable helps when it comes to packing the scroll for shipment.)<br />
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That's all! Now you have an elegant presentation of your artwork that has no glass barrier between it and the viewer, didn't cost a fortune in framing, and is light-weight and easily transportable or shipable.<br />
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But first of all, the WHY? The answer is easy - the art looks better. There is no glass and frame to confine the art and separate the viewer. Plus, it is much cheaper than framing, and the scroll is light and therefore easier to handle, ship, and store.<br />
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OK, now for the HOW. I start by printing my digital drawing on Premier Generations Satin Canvas, museum grade, which I buy in 17" rolls. I use an Epson 4000 with Epson Ultrachrome Ink (archival). This is indeed an old machine but it still prints beautifully and has never needed a repair (knock on wood!) I print 15" wide on 17" canvas, and if my image is wider than that, I print it in panels cropped so that there is a 1/8 inch image overlap on each panel.<br />
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The picture below shows how I add guide lines to the image file so that I know where to crop. The red line indicates where the center panel will be folded under. The aqua line shows where to crop the center panel so as to maintain the 1/8 inch overlap, and the green line shows where to crop the left panel.<br />
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Here's a close-up that shows the colored lines, which are not in the final print, and the light grey fold lines, which do print and show me precisely where to fold the side hems and top and bottom rod pockets. In the lower right corner, a diagonal grey line is visible. This tells me to taper the hem inwards so that when the pocket is folded, the backside of the pocket has no chance of sticking out the sides.<br />
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I also print this little vertical mark at the top and bottom edges to show me where to fold the center panel side hems and where the center panel should fall on the right and left panels.<br />
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I air-dry the prints for 30 minutes and then put them between sheets of acid-free paper for 48 hours so that the glycerol in the ink can be absorbed.<br />
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Next comes the process of varnishing the prints, which makes them lightfast and resistant to moisture and air pollution. I use a water-soluble varnish, PremierArt Eco Print Shield, diluted with 20% distilled water, and I pour the mixture into a housepainter's tray through a fine sieve (to remove any congealed varnish that may have dried on the inside of the plastic container). I apply it sparingly with a 6-inch foam roller. It is important to move very quickly and to roll only once over any part of the surface because the ink can dissolve into the varnish and smear. I ignore any missed spots, which I can correct during a subsequent coat. Drying time between coats should be at least 30 minutes. I generally apply 2 coats of varnish to the back of the canvas and 5 or 6 coats to the front. The thicker the varnish is on the canvas the less likely it is to crack when folded. The varnish takes a week to cure completely.<br />
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"White Violets" is printed in 3 panels. After the varnish is cured, I fold the vertical sides of the center panel under, positioning the fold 1/8" inside the printed image so that the image wraps around the fold and the edge is hidden. I put the center panel face down and paint one of the folded edges with LinecoNeutral pH PVA Adhesive. I paint the corresponding margin of one of the side panels, which is face-up, with the same adhesive. I tape a double strip of canvas to the back of the center panel to prevent a dent along the seam when the print is weighted. <br />
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This picture shows the double strip taped in place on the right side of the seam.<br />
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Then I turn the panels face up, protect the surface with wax paper, and place a 2-ply strip of matte board to the outside of the seam, again to prevent weight dents. These two types of spacers make a level surface for the weights.<br />
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I center a 4-ply strip of mat board directly on top of the seam to distribute the weights evenly.<br />
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Then I put my art library to excellent use as gluing weights.<br />
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That last strip of mat board I mentioned prevents the gap between the two piles of books from showing up as an uneveness in the seam. I let the glue set for 24 hours.<br />
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The picture below shows a side hem tapered inward as per the guideline in the second picture at the beginning of this post. As you can see, I cut a small notch in the hem to make the tapering easier.<br />
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Once the center seams and side hems are complete, I fold the bottom rod pocket as shown in this picture. I have found that a two-fold pocket holds much better than simply folding the bottom up once. I use the edge of the fold to draw a pencil line as a guide for where to place the glue and then put a second line 1 inch lower as a parallel glue guide. I paint glue on both surfaces of the seam.<br />
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Again I add a last strip of mat board to prevent the gap between the two piles of books from showing, pile on the books, and let the glue set for 24 hours.<br />
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The top rod pocket is created using the same method. Here is the back view of the completed scroll.<br />
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And - tadah! _ here is the front view.<br />
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In my next blog post I will describe making the rods. That needs to happen soon as this print was accepted into the "A Community of Artists" show juried by Katherine French at the Danforth Museum, Framingham MA, and needs to be delivered by next Friday! <br />
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Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-66377929869543824822013-04-22T07:50:00.001-07:002013-04-23T07:50:03.823-07:00White Violets...done at last<br />
"White Violets" is finally finished. <br />
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It was a bit of a struggle at the end. My first attempt at the white highlights seemed very crude to me. Here is a snapshot:<br />
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(As you may remember, this drawing is done with 6 values: black, four shades of grey, and white. To see earlier stages of the drawing and read a bit about my process, please look at my previous blog posts.)<br />
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I wasn't at all satisfied with that so I set about refining the modeling. When working at a low resolution - this drawing is done at 144 ppi - every pixel counts, and it is hard to get precisely the right smooth tonal transitions. In the end, I spent weeks improving the tonal transitions and proofing.<br />
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Once I was happy with the violets, I decided I didn't like my background. A section of my drawing "Salt Mist" with a layer of transparent black over it, it seemed far too flat and monotone. After a few days of trying new backgrounds, I found another section of "Salt Mist" that made the drawing more dramatic.<br />
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I love the way the angles of the spruce branches both echo and contrast with the angle of the violet leaves, the way the violet seems to spring off the page, and the light filtering through the branches and fading to fog on the left. And I find something intriguing in the contrast of scale, the tiny violet drawn large and the 80 foot spruce drawn small.<br />
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I prepared the image for printing on canvas to be stretched and put into a Nielsen frame. Then I decided I really didn't like the way the frame closed in the image. So I redid the presentation. It is now a hanging scroll. The image has room to breathe and nothing comes between it and the viewer.<br />
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On the promotional front, I have joined an online gallery called TurningArt. The Boston Business Journal describes the venture this way:<br />
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"The Boston-based startup offers a Netflix-like subscription mail model that allows people to rent pieces of wall art on a rotating schedule... the dual purpose of TurningArt, according to founder Jason Gracilieri: To make art more accessible to the masses, and in turn, make the masses more accessible to artists...The nine-employee company, founded in early 2010, works only with artists who are living and independently employed — there are no Monets or Warhols in the mix. So, in addition to bringing a little culture to its user’s lives, TurningArt provides a platform for artists to present and ultimately sell their work...On the other end, the program costs nothing for member artists, who get a piece of the membership costs, as well as a cut whenever their work sells...The company is backed by $2.25 million in funding — $750,000 from a seed round in March 2011 led by NextView Ventures of Boston, and another $1.5 million in May 2012, also led by Next-View..."<br />
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I attended The Boston Printmakers annual meeting April 5 at the home of Liz Shepherd (<a href="http://www.lizshepherd.com">www.lizshepherd.com</a>). Great food as always, an upbeat report from the superbly-organized board about accomplishments and excellent financial standing, but best of all was the Open Portfolio session, where we all spread our work out on tables and shared ideas. I met Tamar Etingen and fell in love with her gelatin monoprints: <a href="http://www.tamaretingen.com">www.tamaretingen.com</a>. She was kind enough to invite me to her studio and give me a thorough demonstration of the process, which she likens to improvisational jazz. The prints are stunning compositions using everything from leaves and grass to metal washers and bits of rope, done with layers of transparent acrylic paint that glow on the paper like stained glass.<br />
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Lastly,I would like to remind everyone about The Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, open for entries until June 25, info here: <a href="http://www.bostonprintmakers.org/biennial.html
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Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-39874739488548197262013-03-04T07:16:00.000-08:002013-03-04T07:16:00.537-08:00White Violets...nearly done!<br />
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Value 4 is finished. I am at that point close to the end where the vision of how wonderful the image will be when it is finished is really pressing hard. Look out! There is always a let-down at the end. <br />
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If you want to see earlier stages of the drawing and read a bit about my process, please look at my previous blog posts.<br />
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I have some good news from outside the studio. Lydia Gordon, Lending Artist Coordinator from the DeCordova Corporate Program, emailed me that one of their corporate members, a law firm, wants to buy my large digital charcoal Meridiem. I also got a congratulatory email from Elizabeth Geller, who heads the program. I was happily reminded of all the good times when she worked at Clark Gallery. You can see Meridiem here: <a href="http://bit.ly/WIxce1 ">http://bit.ly/WIxce1 </a><br />
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Interested artists can find out about how to apply to the DeCordova Corporate Program at this link: <a href="http://www.decordova.org/search/node/Corporate%20Lending%20program">http://www.decordova.org/search/node/Corporate%20Lending%20program</a><br />
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My hand-colored etching, Freeman and Powell (<a href="http://bit.ly/ZLFC8f ">http://bit.ly/ZLFC8f </a>), is one of 12 artworks selected for ART BINGO, a benefit for The Art Connection. The jurors are Leonie Bradbury, Director and Curator of Montserrat College of Art Galleries, and Carolyn Muskat, a Tamarind Master Printer, Owner of Muskat Studios (<a href="http://muskatstudios.com/">http://muskatstudios.com/</a>), and a visiting teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Boston, and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Art Bingo will be held at the Ben Franklin Institute, 41 Berkeley Street, in Boston's fashionable South End from 7:30 - 11:00 pm on Saturday, April 20th. The Art Connection connects artists and donors to community service organizations through the placement of original artwork (their web site: <a href="http://www.theartconnection.org/">http://www.theartconnection.org/</a>). Please consider supporting The Art Connection and buy tickets here: <a href="http://artbingo.eventbrite.com/#">http://artbingo.eventbrite.com/#</a><br />
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On the virtual front, I have a plot on the Arts and Literature sim of the InWorldz Events Sims Showcase at the popular SXSW Conference of Technology, Music, and Film <a href="http://sxsw.com/">http://sxsw.com/</a> I have installed my immersive art, The Niagara River, among a number of other eye-popping builds by other virtual artists. The build is a visual interpretation of a poem by the same name by Kay Ryan and uses my digital drawing, Dark Pool, as the thematic texture.<br />
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The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conferences & Festivals (March 8-17, 2013) offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery.<br />
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InWorldz will be displaying a walkthrough of the world at the conference where people will be able to log on and actually visit the various sims featuring Education, Arts & Literature, Entertainment, Technology, Fantasy & Roleplay, Transportation, and Boating & Nature.<br />
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Overview at sunrise.<br />
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The drawing and the poem together.<br />
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The end of the path.<br />
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The entrance to the installation.<br />
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A touch opens the door.<br />
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A view of the inside.<br />
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My installation Acquarella appears in the promotional video InWorldz has recently produced, working with machinamist Pooky Amsterdam. Here is the youtube link: <a href="http://youtu.be/GupNV8DBwRA ">http://youtu.be/GupNV8DBwRA </a> You have to scroll to about the 5:30 mark to see the footage.<br />
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Last but not least, another link, this time to a very interesting article in The New York Times about how art enhances life.<br />
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Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-76541798680021928692013-02-13T07:31:00.001-08:002013-02-13T07:33:05.089-08:00A Progress Report_White Violets<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0QY2Vd_VtfE/URuxxoz4fPI/AAAAAAAAAJU/mGoUGB0KcpA/s1600/BRADFORD_White+Violets_Value+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0QY2Vd_VtfE/URuxxoz4fPI/AAAAAAAAAJU/mGoUGB0KcpA/s320/BRADFORD_White+Violets_Value+3.jpg" /></a><br />
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Value 3 is finished. The modeling is starting to emerge. <br />
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I just realized that this image is my present, a plant in my studio, superimposed on my past, a take from "Salt Mist" (2000).<br />
Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-28344971645626707022013-01-29T12:44:00.001-08:002013-01-29T12:46:44.349-08:00How to do a digital drawing_White Violets_A Progress ReportI opened the correctly-sized reference photo in Corel Painter (see the previous post for sizing). The file included the background image as well as the photo. I chose Synthetic Superfine as my paper and then created a new mask in the Channels palette. I drew a silhouette of the violets, stems, and leaves, using the reference photo but omitting some leaves and making the some of the shapes a bit more graceful. The flowers and stems were done using a flat color pen in various sizes and the fuzzy leaves were drawn with charcoal pencil.<br />
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Next I created a new layer on the layers palette and used the mask and the Paint Bucket to fill in the silhouette in black. I named this layer Value 0, because the RGB values are all 0.<br />
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Using the Charcoal Pencil brush and a grey color with an RGB of 50, I filled in Value 1 using the mask. Very little of Value 0 was left showing, as the flowers are light image.<br />
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For Value 2 (RGB =100), the drawing process got more complicated. I used Charcoal Brushes in sizes from 5 - 30 pixels, each on its own layer, and began to model the hilites. For the darkest parts of the leaves I made the tone sparse enough to show some Value 1 underneath. For the lightest parts, the tone is solid Value 2.<br />
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I found it helped with the modeling to have separate masks for the leaves, stems, and flowers, so I used the original mask and made those from it.<br />
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This all went pretty smoothly except for the day I accidently ticked "Preserve Layer Transparency" on the Layers palette and had a total meltdown trying to figure out why I couldn't draw on any of my layers. Not the first time I have made this error, alas; it is very easy to do by accident.<br />
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Another tip: you will see a colored cross in the upper left hand corner of each layer image. This is a registration mark created with its own mask. It comes in very handy if you mistakenly bump a layer with the move tool or want to copy a layer from one file into another.<br />
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And a last tip: I save my file once an hour with the time and date like this: White Violets_130129_1056. You are never in danger of overwriting a file because the same minute never comes around twice (scarey thought!) and that way you can backtrack if you mess up the current file or the machine crashes and turns it to gibberish, without losing more than an hour's work. At the end I keep the final file for each value and delete all the intermediates.<br />
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To be continued :)<br />
Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-59432237788615884962013-01-23T11:14:00.000-08:002013-01-23T11:22:52.955-08:00Printing a digital drawing on canvas: how to size for being varnished, stretched, and framed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6hPrwJLXnd0/UQA2AZb_N2I/AAAAAAAAAIM/3v3KFZsypGI/s1600/BRADFORD_White%2BViolets%2BMockup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6hPrwJLXnd0/UQA2AZb_N2I/AAAAAAAAAIM/3v3KFZsypGI/s400/BRADFORD_White%2BViolets%2BMockup.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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A new digital drawing is underway. The subject is a recently-rooted cutting of a white African violet that is bursting into its first bloom set against a background of huge silhouetted trees. Here is a mock up with the reference photo of the violet against the background from my digital drawing "Salt Mist:" <br />
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This seems like a good excuse to embark on more frequent and more informational blog posts. The topic of this one is how to size a digital drawing to be printed on canvas, varnished, and framed in a metal-section frame.<br />
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The first step is to decide the dimensions of the frame and stretchers that will be used. Both stretchers and metal section frames come sized by the inch, so the image must conform to that procrustean constraint. In this example, the final image will go onto 14 x 21 inch stretchers in a 14 x 21 inch frame.<br />
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Once the frame/stretcher dimensions have been established, the frame window must be determined. To find these dimensions, subtract the width of the face of the frame x 2 from both the length and the width of the frame. I use Nielsen Style 22 Anodic Black frames with lightweight stretchers. The face of Style 22 is 5/16ths of an inch, so this nominal 14 x 21 inch frame has a window of 13 9/16 by 20 9/16. That gives me a digital file size of 13.5625 x 20.5625.<br />
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Inkjet prints on canvas shrink slightly when varnished. Experience has taught me that the shrinkage will be .0625 on the short dimension and .2500 on the long dimension for this size image so the file size must be increased to 13.6250 x 20.8125. To avoid any chance of the white edge of the image showing inside the frame window, I add .25 inch of digital canvas all around the image. I copy the image four times. The first copy I flip horizontally and move so that the left edge lines up with the right edge of the image. Copy #2 gets flipped horizontally and moved so that the right edge of the copy lines up with the left edge of the image. Copies #3 and 4 get flipped vertically. Move copy #3 so that the top edge lines up with the bottom edge of the image and copy #4, so that the bottom edge lines up with the top of the image. I flatten the image and use the clone stamp to fill in the corners. This gives an unobtrusive margin to go under the frame face in case the canvas stretching is not done to mathematical precision. My final file size is thus 14.1250 x 21.3125. I print this on canvas 17 x 24.5," which leaves enough blank canvas to wrap around the wooden stretchers and staple down.<br />
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This is how to determine the file size in inches. The resolution (ppi, pixels per inch) is a whole separate question. I have gotten successful prints ranging anywhere from 16 ppi (the "Big Pixel" series) to 360 ppi. I recommend testing your image at various resolutions until you get the look you like best. People who print photographs often recommend resizing images to 300 - 360 ppi for the final print. I find that this blurs the texture of digital drawings and that they print just fine at any resolution that suits the eye.<br />
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Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-14793320791185751962012-05-10T08:49:00.000-07:002012-05-11T06:35:28.692-07:00May 2012 Updates<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CRlsIYlI24o/T6vfqykzCZI/AAAAAAAAAGY/Iaxf5Qp2E_8/s1600/BRADFORD_Dark%2BPool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="269" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CRlsIYlI24o/T6vfqykzCZI/AAAAAAAAAGY/Iaxf5Qp2E_8/s400/BRADFORD_Dark%2BPool.jpg" /></a></div><i>Dark Pool</i>, digital drawing on canvas, 18 x 27 inches, 2012<br />
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I am pleased to announce that my digital drawing <i>Hermione</i> was accepted into The Butler Institute of American Art's 76th National Midyear Exhibition, juried by well-known Florida painter, Gregory Strachov. It will be on view in Youngstown OH from June 24 to September August 19. This exhibition showcases the best in realist art every summer. My 2006 solo exhibition of digital drawings persuaded Lou Zona, the director of the Butler, to allow digital art and photographs into the show for the first time in 2008, and my drawing <i>Sheepscot River Trees </i>was awarded First Prize by the juror, artist Don Eddy, and accepted into the museum collection.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K4SAgSgkUzE/T6vgDez8flI/AAAAAAAAAGk/ys-J7AqxRNs/s1600/BRADFORD_Hermione.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="397" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-K4SAgSgkUzE/T6vgDez8flI/AAAAAAAAAGk/ys-J7AqxRNs/s400/BRADFORD_Hermione.jpg" /></a></div><i>Hermione</i>, digital drawing on canvas, 32 x 32, 2010<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iD0PVn1qeN4/T6vgZaaPZMI/AAAAAAAAAGw/t_Q5juka778/s1600/BRADFORD_SheepscotVillageTrees.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="262" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iD0PVn1qeN4/T6vgZaaPZMI/AAAAAAAAAGw/t_Q5juka778/s400/BRADFORD_SheepscotVillageTrees.jpg" /></a></div><i>Sheepscot Village Trees</i>, digital drawing on paper, 30 x 46 inches, 2007 <br />
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I am in the process of publishing a new digital drawing called <i>Dark Pool</i> (first image at the top), which was accepted into this year's "Community of Artists" show, curated by Executive Director Katherine French. The show opens June 3 and runs till August 5 in Framingham MA. Katherine French was recognized by the New England Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) for curatorial excellence in 2007 and was named Best Curator of Locally Made Art at the 2010 New England Art Awards. <br />
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<i>Dark Pool </i>shows a quiet body of water streaked with the reflections of the trees that line both banks. The black-and-white drawing features a strong contrast between sunlight and shadows which gives the drawing a metaphysical aura, and the presence of the near bank in the foreground and the opposite shore in the background are meant to suggest a process of transition. The drawing is printed on canvas and presented stretched and framed, which I have come to favor because the absence of a barrier of glass and mat add immediacy to the viewer's experience of the image. It is part of my Big Pixel series, so of course the pixels are visible and add to the texture.<br />
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Two early digital drawings, <i>Meridiem</i> and <i>Quarry Hill Afternoon</i>, will be part of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community show "Environments." This exhibit focuses on works highlighting the built environment in the context of nature and will go live online in May. <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dLkkz-5q26c/T6vgradNuVI/AAAAAAAAAG8/iJmngHGj7zY/s1600/BRADFORD_Meridiem.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="267" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dLkkz-5q26c/T6vgradNuVI/AAAAAAAAAG8/iJmngHGj7zY/s400/BRADFORD_Meridiem.jpg" /></a></div><i>Meridiem</i>, digital drawing on paper, 30 x 45 inches, 1999 <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ibfT7czWRSE/T6vg6lP6CAI/AAAAAAAAAHI/q5oEwzef9rY/s1600/Bradford_QHillAfternoon_Color512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="267" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ibfT7czWRSE/T6vg6lP6CAI/AAAAAAAAAHI/q5oEwzef9rY/s400/Bradford_QHillAfternoon_Color512.jpg" /></a></div><i>Quarry Hill Afternoon</i>, digital drawing on paper, 12 x 18 inches, 2006 <br />
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Fifteen photographs of my virtual immersive art installation "Acquarella: After the Apocalypse," which was on view all of April at Split Screen Art Installation in Second Life, curated by Dividni Shostakovich, will be included in a show in the Detroit Metropolitan Area (specifically Utica, MI) from May 28 through June 24. The Billboard Art Project is a very cool initiative on the part of a nonprofit Virginia organization to take over roadside digital LED billboards and turn them into free public art venues for 24 hours or more. Local and international artists provide a break from everyday advertising with larger-than-life art in glowing colors on an electronic canvas that morphs every 6-10 seconds. In case you are local, this particular billboard is in Utica, facing west and can be seen by traffic traveling east bound on Hall Rd (M-59). The billboard can also be seen from a parking lot shared by Muldoon's Restaurant at 7636 Auburn Road and the Utica Fire and Police Department.<br />
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The Billboard Art Project is constantly looking for new artists, so I encourage all artists to check out their site: <a href="http://http://billboardartproject.org ">http://billboardartproject.org </a><br />
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For details about the show I am in, click here: <a href="http://billboardartproject.org/cities/detroit.html">http://billboardartproject.org/cities/detroit.html</a>.<br />
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VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />
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YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />
Anza Borrego Oak:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />
Acquarella:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />
Acquarella:the Fable ( a Chantal Harvey machinima)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/-O9Zh7J40Zo
">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/-O9Zh7J40Zo<br />
</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/10/h605uFRIGsY">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/10/h605uFRIGsY</a>(Chinese narration)<br />
Metemspyche's Garden: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />
Requiem for Fukushima Daiichi:<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/2H_ne2XbcNs">http://youtu.be/2H_ne2XbcNs</a><br />
Studio Tour: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />
The Maze: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />
The Mysterious Forest:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />
The Winter Bear:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1</a><br />
<br />Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-24666994933685522332012-03-30T08:20:00.001-07:002012-03-30T08:20:43.353-07:00New virtual show: Acquarella: After the Apocalypse Opens at Split ScreenPlease follow this link <br />
<a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/2012/03/acquarella-after-apocalypse-opens-at.html
">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/2012/03/acquarella-after-apocalypse-opens-at.html<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D3eUIFsu7vo/T3XPJilfp4I/AAAAAAAAAGE/LpblEiD2-6Y/s1600/%2521%2521%2521Alizarin%2BGoldflake_Acquarella%2B%2540%2BSplit%2BScreen%2B01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D3eUIFsu7vo/T3XPJilfp4I/AAAAAAAAAGE/LpblEiD2-6Y/s400/%2521%2521%2521Alizarin%2BGoldflake_Acquarella%2B%2540%2BSplit%2BScreen%2B01.jpg" /></a></div><br />Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-20989891475602603952011-09-21T11:39:00.001-07:002011-09-21T11:39:57.277-07:00Since I am for some reason not allowed to view my comments on my own blogI will say TY here to quad, soror, Wizzy, and Nazz. I really appreciate the moral support! and great idea, Wizzy. I will follow up on it.Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-38555913204864472202011-09-19T11:34:00.000-07:002011-09-19T11:34:09.376-07:00Digital-Virtual Art Exhibit at the Museum of Science Boston Thrown Under the BusI have terminated my internship with the Museum of Science Boston. <br />
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In February, after working together for two years on the Digital-Virtual Art Exhibit, the Program Manager of the Cahners Computer Place suddenly told me that he was retiring from the Museum in two weeks. He seemed oddly elated. <br />
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I set up an appointment with his boss, Lucy Kirshner, Manager of the Discovery Spaces, and presented the exhibit proposal to her in detail. Her reaction was that she didn't see what digital art had to do with computers. My jaw dropped. Even a quick Google search reveals that most colleges and universities offer degrees in Digital Art and Computer Science. Nevertheless I agreed to do an analysis for her of how my ArtRage interactive, one component of the exhibit, would teach computer STEM. A propos her parting shot that digital art had as much to do with computers as watching a Bruins game on a monitor, a friend commented that possibly she thought I meant finger painting.<br />
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I prepared a detailed STEM analysis of my interactive and sent it to her, along with several pages of links to web sites covering digital art and computer STEM. Digital art and STEM, incidentally, go by the acronym STE(A)M in education circles, where it is acknowledged as having the extra advantage of appealing to girls, who are under-represented in the computer field. After many weeks I finally received a reply reiterating her skepticism about digital art and computer science and asking me to fill out an in-house form showing what digital art had to do with Computer STEM. She obviously had not read my materials and gave no evidence of having even looked at my interactive, possibly lacking the software to view it.<br />
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Not only did this strike me as a runaround, but it also occurred to me that someone apparently so technologically illiterate would never have the contacts necessary to pursue funding for the project. I put this together with the fact that the Cahners ComputerPlace itself is drastically underfunded (ancient equipment held together with scotch tape and paper clips, outdated software, dim light, '50's decor) and decided that, odd as it may seem, the Museum of Science Boston appears to value neither the ComputerPlace nor visually creative computer literacy. So I terminated my relationship with them. <br />
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The strange elation suddenly made sense.<br />
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PS The Museum does have a great dinosaur exhibit. And stay tuned - I am retooling the ArtRage tutorial and will offer it on my website. <br />
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DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />
Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />
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VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />
Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />
Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br />
YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />
Anza Borrego Oak:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />
Acquarella:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />
Acquarella:the Fable ( a Chantal Harvey machinima)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM </a>(Chinese narration)<br />
Metemspyche's Garden: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />
Requiem for Fukushima Daiichi:<br />
<a href="http://youtu.be/2H_ne2XbcNs">http://youtu.be/2H_ne2XbcNs</a><br />
Studio Tour: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />
The Maze: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />
The Mysterious Forest:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />
The Winter Bear:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1</a><br />
Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-70887663385105657372011-05-16T11:53:00.000-07:002011-05-16T11:59:21.013-07:00Requiem for Fukushima Daiichi Machinima<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ud5_8bX-cM/TdFzrXGXPzI/AAAAAAAAAEc/LJ2hkC3ir8g/s1600/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_073.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1Ud5_8bX-cM/TdFzrXGXPzI/AAAAAAAAAEc/LJ2hkC3ir8g/s400/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_073.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607390199825252146" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoDjBXend7Y/TdFzrDplQQI/AAAAAAAAAEU/50sv71Tlm50/s1600/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_046.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoDjBXend7Y/TdFzrDplQQI/AAAAAAAAAEU/50sv71Tlm50/s400/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_046.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607390194604261634" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FFKfpOwG88o/TdFzq3BPD-I/AAAAAAAAAEM/8_IrbxvhLUQ/s1600/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_030.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FFKfpOwG88o/TdFzq3BPD-I/AAAAAAAAAEM/8_IrbxvhLUQ/s400/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_030.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607390191213809634" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OTpwzq9FcwA/TdFzqjagyGI/AAAAAAAAAEE/_PoG7EAY1UY/s1600/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 238px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OTpwzq9FcwA/TdFzqjagyGI/AAAAAAAAAEE/_PoG7EAY1UY/s400/%2521%2521%2521%2521110513_Fukushima1024x608_008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607390185951119458" /></a><br />If you are interested in my virtual goings-on, link over to this new post on my avatar's blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/2011/05/requiem-for-fukushima-daiichi-machinima.html">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/2011/05/requiem-for-fukushima-daiichi-machinima.html</a><br />A video about my virtual immersive art installation "Requiem for Fukushima Daiichi" has just gone up on YouTube. Made in collaboration with my husband, Alfred Ajami, it documents the art, a dramatic build of sinister beauty inspired by the nuclear catastrophe in Japan. <br /><br />The art was made under the name of my virtual reality avatar, Alizarin Goldflake.<br /><br />=============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/ <br />MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a> <br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />Anza Borrego Oak:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Acquarella:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Acquarella:the Fable ( a Chantal Harvey machinima)<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM </a>(Chinese narration)<br />Metemspyche's Garden: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />Requiem for Fukushima Daiichi:<br /><a href="http://youtu.be/2H_ne2XbcNs">http://youtu.be/2H_ne2XbcNs</a><br />Studio Tour: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Maze: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />The Mysterious Forest:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />The Winter Bear:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-66071386373673045262011-02-21T09:04:00.001-08:002013-05-17T08:31:32.717-07:00Two prints in The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial 2011<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fXJlVy1OBqE/TWKbciU4yZI/AAAAAAAAAD8/LlAYHTQooKM/s1600/BRADFORD_Neon%2BTetra.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fXJlVy1OBqE/TWKbciU4yZI/AAAAAAAAAD8/LlAYHTQooKM/s320/BRADFORD_Neon%2BTetra.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576190203191150994" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L9HMqIrlLCQ/TWKbcfgeaGI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Rp3RAlBHaLs/s1600/BRADFORD_Hermione.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L9HMqIrlLCQ/TWKbcfgeaGI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Rp3RAlBHaLs/s320/BRADFORD_Hermione.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5576190202434447458" /></a><br />
"Hermione" and "Neon Tetra," two prints from my new Big Pixel Series, were selected by curator Jim Dine for inclusion in The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial 2011. The Biennial set a record this year with 811 artists submitting 2049 works from which 149 prints were selected by 105 artists.<br />
<a href="http://www.danforthmuseum.org/boston_printmakers_2011.html">http://www.danforthmuseum.org/boston_printmakers_2011.html</a><a href="http://www.bostonprintmakers.org/">http://www.bostonprintmakers.org/</a>The show runs from February 27 to May 1, 2011. The Opening Reception is Sunday, February 27th, 3pm - 5pm, at the Danforth Museum, 123 Union Street, Framingham MA. All are welcome.<br />
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This show is one of the major print reviews held in the United States. The 2011 Biennial features prints created in traditional print processes that include lithography, woodcut, linocut, etching, mezzotint and screen printing, as well as works produced in new or experimental media such as digital, collage, artist books, and 3-dimensional constructions. <br />
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About my images: "Hermione" and "Neon Tetra" were originally drawn as part of my virtual reality installation "Acquarella," which can be viewed here if you have a Second Life account: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/205/234/301 ">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/205/234/301 </a> or online here: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/Acquarella_videos.htm">http://www.marthavista.com/Acquarella_videos.htm</a> Elements of "Acquarella" were used as the set for a machinima called "Acquarella: The Fable" written, directed, and produced by my second life avatar Alizarin Goldflake and filmed by Chantal Harvey. The machinima was shown at the World Expo in Shanghai in September and October of 2010. <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/2010/10/acquarella-fable-showing-at-2010-world.html">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/2010/10/acquarella-fable-showing-at-2010-world.html</a><br />
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With the "Big Pixel Series," the pixel emerges from behind the scenes to become integral not only to the process but also to the visual sparkle of the drawings. This incorporation of my technology into my look also extends to the printing of the drawings. They are now output as multiple panels, which function as compositional elements that reflect the modular nature of the digital medium. The digital drawings are drawn just like my charcoals, lithographs, and pastels except that I use digital tools, including a software program called Corel Painter 10 and a Wacom pressure-sensitive digitizing tablet and stylus. The images are printed on canvas and presented as hanging scrolls.<br />
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Related events:<br />
Opening Lecture: Sunday, February 27th at 1:30pm, "A Dialogue:" Artist Jim Dine and MFA curator Clifford Ackley at Framingham State University Dwight Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public and is funded by Framingham State University’s Arts and Humanities Council.<br />
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The Arches Student Print Show: a companion to the 2011 North American Print Biennial, this show will appear in second floor galleries of the Danforth Museum School. Since 1999, this exhibition has expanded the scope of Biennial activities to include printmaking from more than 20 New England colleges and universities. Sponsored by the Arches Paper Company, this show not only acquaints the public with emerging printmakers, but also gives students an opportunity to exhibit with some of our country’s most renowned artists.<br />
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Gallery Talk: exhibiting artists Don Gorvett and Sean Hurley, Sunday, March 6 at 12pm<br />
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Gallery Talk: Deborah Cornell, Boston Printmakers Executive Board Member, Sunday, April 3 at 12pm<br />
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Panel Discussion Remembering Mazur: Artists Michael David, Joel Janowitz and Betsy Garand present personal reflections on the life and work of artist Michael Mazur (1924 - 2009) Sunday, April 10 at 3pm<br />
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Links:<br />
DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />
Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/ <br />
MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />
Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />
Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br />
YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />
Anza Borrego Oak:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />
Acquarella:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />
Acquarella:the Fable ( a Chantal Harvey machinima)<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U</a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM </a>(Chinese narration)<br />
Metemspyche's Garden: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />
Studio Tour: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />
The Maze: <br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />
The Mysterious Forest:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />
The Winter Bear:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-59142897289320228262010-12-01T12:09:00.000-08:002010-12-01T12:19:01.991-08:00Update on my digital-virtual art exhibit in the Cahners ComputerPlace at the Museum of Science, BostonThe Museum is currently accepting applications for two Digital Art Exhibit Spring Internships for my exhibit. <br /><br />Please find the info for the Flash Programmer Intern here: <a href="http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/about_the_museum/internships&d=4750">http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/about_the_museum/internships&d=4750</a><br /><br />and for the Open Sim/Second Life Developer here: <br /><a href="http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/about_the_museum/internships&d=4752">http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/about_the_museum/internships&d=4752</a> <br /><br />My exhibit consists of a semi-permanent digital/virtual art exhibit for the Cahners ComputerPlace at the Museum. The exhibit will further visitors' understanding of digital image creation and manipulation (http://www.marthavista.com/). It will also introduce people to the idea of making virtual art. The physical design of the exhibit will be an immersive installation employing sound and video projection to simulate the experience of being inside one of the immersive art environments that I create as an avatar named Alizarin Goldflake in Second Life (R), a virtual reality platform. Bob Johnson (Thoth Jansen in Second Life) is currently working on the technical design.<br /><br /><object style="height: 250px; width: 400px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/93YYMJANpZs?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/93YYMJANpZs?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="400" height="250"></object><br /><br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/ <br /><br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br /><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-69075457561718363972010-10-21T08:07:00.000-07:002010-10-21T08:25:04.778-07:00The Winter Bear<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TMBX4jFbADI/AAAAAAAAADQ/y-1nfhp9uFs/s1600/The+Winter+Bear_The+Woods+Set.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TMBX4jFbADI/AAAAAAAAADQ/y-1nfhp9uFs/s320/The+Winter+Bear_The+Woods+Set.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530516971413241906" /></a><br />Another fun crossover project! I recently constructed Second Life sets for a Real Life play, The Winter Bear, that will premiere in Anchorage October 29, 2010. My machinima of the SL sets will be projected on a cyc (cycloramic backdrop) as a major component of the RL stage.<br /><br />There is a teaser for the play made up of short clips from the machinima that just went up on YouTube. A/V production by Alfred M. Ajami.<br /><br />View it here:<br /><object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMYSYJNkm1E?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMYSYJNkm1E?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />Or take the link: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1</a><br /><br />The sets feature my digital drawings, done with Corel Painter and a Wacom tablet, and my Second Life building skills, including sculpties (unique 3-D shapes created in Blender) , scripts (code), and particles (temporary phantom images) which I also use to make virtual Immersive Art.<br /><br />about THE WINTER BEAR<br />Written by Alaska State Writer Laureate Anne Hanley and directed by Jayne Wenger. Troubled Athabascan teenager Duane “Shadow” David is considering committing suicide when he’s sentenced to cut wood for elder Sidney Huntington. It’s only by combining the elder’s knowledge of old hunting ways with the boy’s expertise in video games that they stand a chance against a marauding Winter Bear. The Winter Bear delivers a message of hope that a young man can become a leader by using the wisdom of his traditional culture to transcend the traumas of his past.<br /><br />Previews of the play in Galena and Fairbanks were enthusiastically received, and I am very excited to be flying to Anchorage for the official premiere.<br /><br />Gala opening Oct 29th, 2010 at Cyrano's Off-Center Playhouse: <a href="http://www.cyranos.org/">http://www.cyranos.org/</a><br />Performances Thursday through Saturday at 7 pm and Sunday at 3 pm through Nov. 13th. Special added WEDNESDAY performance Nov. 10th.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TMBYHqcrROI/AAAAAAAAADY/AkSQKGmss6Y/s1600/The+Winter+Bear_Bear+Den+Set.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TMBYHqcrROI/AAAAAAAAADY/AkSQKGmss6Y/s320/The+Winter+Bear_Bear+Den+Set.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5530517231087863010" /></a><br /><br />============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/ <br />MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a> <br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />Anza Borrego Oak:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Acquarella:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Acquarella:the Fable ( a Chantal Harvey machinima)<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM </a>(Chinese narration)<br />Metemspyche's Garden: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />Studio Tour: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Maze: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />The Mysterious Forest:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />The Winter Bear:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMYSYJNkm1E&list=QL&playnext=1</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-54050296158695296012010-10-13T05:59:00.000-07:002010-10-13T06:23:03.254-07:00"Acquarella: The Fable" showing at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai now!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TLWvX8v9mII/AAAAAAAAADI/UHw3b3a1YXQ/s1600/AlizarinGoldflake_Acquarella_View1.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TLWvX8v9mII/AAAAAAAAADI/UHw3b3a1YXQ/s320/AlizarinGoldflake_Acquarella_View1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527516943646300290" /></a><br />It gives me great pleasure to announce that my digital and virtual art is now on view at the World Expo in Shanghai!<br /><br />Chantal Harvey brought her awesome machinima skills to filming "Acquarella: The Fable," and I did the story, storyboard, art, set, costumes, props management, direction, production, and acted the part of Acquarella. The parts of the three Nymphs were acted by soror Nishi, BridgetMarlane McDonnell, and Yman Juran. The sophisticated and lovely Chinese narration (in Mandarin) was translated from the English and performed by Wei Yin. Our collaborative effort is now showing in the Air Tree Exhibit in the Madrid Pavilion of the World Expo in Shanghai, curated by Spanish curator Cristina García-Lasuén (Aino Barr in Second Life), founder of the virtual arts group Open This End.<br /><br />You can watch the English version of the machinima, narrated by Alfred M. Ajami, here:<br /><object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KX1eFMtjV6U?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KX1eFMtjV6U?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><br /><br />and the Chinese version here:<br /><br /><object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8hhO2Rf88uM?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8hhO2Rf88uM?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><br /><br />To see the list of accepted machinima on the Madrid Pavilion web site, please go to<br /><a href="http://www.madrid2010shanghai.com/calendario.asp?evid=79&id=1 ">http://www.madrid2010shanghai.com/calendario.asp?evid=79&id=1 </a>(click on the English flag in the upper right corner). Scroll down to 3rd Exhibition, September - October 2010 . Our video is under the name of the machinimist, Chantal Harvey.<br /><br />"Acquarella: The Fable" was inspired by one of my immersive art creations by the same name: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ ">http://www.linkedin.com/ </a><br />MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a> <br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />Anza Borrego Oak:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Acquarella:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Acquarella:the Fable ( a Chantal Harvey machinima)<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1eFMtjV6U</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hhO2Rf88uM </a>(Chinese narration)<br />Metemspyche's Garden: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />Studio Tour: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Maze: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />The Mysterious Forest:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-38421997716603242992010-07-19T09:38:00.000-07:002010-07-19T10:19:39.946-07:00July UpdateThe Museum of Science Boston recently hired Bob Johnson, an acclaimed virtual artist with specialty in unique video installations, as the Technical Design Intern for my Digital/Virtual Art Exhibit project, and I am very much enjoying working with him. <br /><br />NEW VIDEO:<br />"ANZA BORREGO OAK: a Digital Drawing in 89 Days"<br />a short, humorous video about the daily progress of one of my digital drawings<br />video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8</a><br /><br /><object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5s_KRMi55v8"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5s_KRMi55v8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><br />SHOWS:<br /><br />"Hermione," one of my "Big Pixel" drawings, is included in The Museum of Computer Art "Summer Festival 2010." The show runs from July 6 to July 30. The gallery is located at 139 11th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in Brooklyn (718 788 1313). <a href="http://moca.virtual.museum/festival10/contestpages/page031.htm">http://moca.virtual.museum/festival10/contestpages/page031.htm</a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TESDU4OG2_I/AAAAAAAAAC4/BXEdl9zHbBQ/s1600/BRADFORD_Hermione_6x6%40150.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/TESDU4OG2_I/AAAAAAAAAC4/BXEdl9zHbBQ/s320/BRADFORD_Hermione_6x6%40150.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495661840011025394" /></a><br /><br />"Virtual Treeline," Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland, Australia, opened on May 21st. The exhibition features a slide show and a book of images and documentation of the work and thoughts of all artists who participated in "Virtual Treeline" in Second Life. Show curator Juanita Deharo gave a 'live' presentation on June 5th from my Second Life studio.<br /><br />PUBLICATIONS<br />Painter 11 WOW Book, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Peach Pit Press, 2010, page 199<br /> <br />Virtual Treeline: a Celebration of Trees in Virtual Space, Juanita Deharo/Judy Barrass, 2010, pages 14 - 16<br /> <br />Metaverse Art 2008 - 2010 Number 2a, published by Artspace Diabolus Cybernetic Research Project (CARP) 2010: Josina Burgess (Jose den Burger, Amsterdam Holland), Nazz Lane (USA), and Velasquex Bonetto (Laszlo Ordogh Diabolus, Stuttgart Germany), pages 17 - 24 <br /><a href="http://issuu.com/diabolus/docs/metaverse_art_book_02a_internet ">http://issuu.com/diabolus/docs/metaverse_art_book_02a_internet </a><br />============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ ">http://www.linkedin.com/ </a> <br /><br />VIRTUAL ART: <br />Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a> <br /><br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake</a><br />Anza Borrego Oak:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/1/5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Acquarella:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/a/u/0/u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Metemspyche's Garden: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/2/GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />Studio Tour: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/3/XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Maze: <br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/4/OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />The Mysterious Forest:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/user/AlizarinGoldflake#p/u/5/c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-4635799359557420932010-04-22T09:41:00.000-07:002010-06-27T12:48:44.060-07:00"Acquarella" Documentary Machinima now up on Youtube!<object width="400" height="250"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-lo6JosN0M&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/u-lo6JosN0M&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="250"></embed></object><BR><br />"Acquarella" is a machinima documentary about my Second Life (R) immersive art build by the same name. I did the filming, and Cobalt Zeplin/Alfred M. Ajami did the editing and sound remixing. <br /><br />When I was a child, I kept an aquarium and I would stare into it for hours, mesmerized by it then as I am now by Second Life, a magical weightless world also populated by strange and beautiful creatures. These memories were the inspiration behind the creation of "Acquarella." An aquarium on a cosmic scale, "Acquarella" is filled with swaying, lacey aquatic plants, schools of neon tetras, animated angelfish and goldfish, drifts of diatoms, and huge green lily pads that bob up and down in the invisible current. The build echoes with the songs of whales. Pose balls invite people to swim to their music, and throughout, there are traces of an untold story. A fragment of a submarine that torpedoed itself hints at an apocalyptic destruction that could possibly be a metaphor. Who is hunting whom with those ghostly sonar pings? Why does color sometimes creep into a largely monochrome vision? How to explain the fact that the black and white tetras school, while their rainbow-hued counterparts are solitary? Who is Acquarella? Is she a giantess or are we liliputian? <br /><br />"Acquarella" employs highly-detailed digital drawings done with Corel Painter software and a Wacom tablet. It uses scripts, animations, and sounds to provide an immersive art experience that is intended to create visual and psychic pleasure for the participant.<br /><br />The music was remixed with SmartSounds SonicFire Pro software, which lets you map the mood and the tempo, pitch, chording, phrasing and instrumentation to events and other sounds in the video. Doing the sound track this way adds extra power to the visuals, more so than just a straight line remix. <br /><br />Come visit Acquarella inworld here: <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/204/203/333">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/204/203/333</a><br />============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ ">http://www.linkedin.com/ </a><br />MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a> <br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake (Metaverse avatar of Martha Jane Bradford)<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a><br /> <br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS:<br />Acquarella: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Anza-Borrego Oak: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Metempsyche's Garden: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />The Maze: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />Atelier Alizarin Studio Tour: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Mysterious Forest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />Museum of Science Project Concept: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-22093306541053671472010-04-12T09:01:00.001-07:002010-06-27T10:02:54.270-07:00MOCA hosts an Alizarin Goldflake/Martha Jane Bradford Machinima!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S8NEEDr9CwI/AAAAAAAAACw/OduDWDswZ_A/s1600/Bradford_MOCABlogPost.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 196px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S8NEEDr9CwI/AAAAAAAAACw/OduDWDswZ_A/s320/Bradford_MOCABlogPost.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459282009803000578" /></a><br />The Museum of Computer Art in Brooklyn, New York is now hosting Alizarin Goldflake's "The Mysterious Forest" in the New Media Gallery section of its web site: http://moca.virtual.museum/newmedia/bradford/bradford.htm. There is also a link on MOCA's splash screen, upper right corner: http://moca.virtual.museum/. Visit this site to see all kinds of other interesting computer art as well.<br /><br />About "The Mysterious Forest:"<br />The subject of this machinima is a large-scale piece of immersive art that I did as a member of The Caerleon Artists Collective "Interactive Collaboration." The textures are all adapted from my digital drawing "Anza Borrego Oak." Artistide Despres was the project leader, and the Caerleon Sims in SL are hosted by Georg Janick/Gary Zabel, professor of philosophy at UMass, Boston, founder of the Virtual Artists Initiative, and organizer of "Through the Virtual Looking Glass" show (see my previous post). I filmed the footage using Fraps and a Space Navigator mouse and the AV production and SmartSound (R) remix were done by Alfred M. Ajami.<br /><br />About MOCA:<br />The Museum of Computer Art is a nonprofit US educational corporation chartered by the NYS Department of Education and part of the University of the State of New York. It is first and foremost an online museum but it is also a physical gallery located in Brooklyn NY. <br /><br />The MOCA site is host to hundreds of world-class digital artists and thousands of their images. It is one of the most heavily-trafficked, comprehensive, frequently-updated and respected computer art museums on the Web. <br /><br />MOCA was established in 1993 by computer artists Don Archer and Bob Dodson to promote digital art in its various forms and manifestations, including 3-D rendered art, fractals, enhanced photography, animation, mixed media, computer-painted and -drawn art, etc. In September 2008, MOCA established a brick-and-mortar physical gallery in Brooklyn NY showing advanced digital art in print and on-screen. <br /><br />Don Archer is MOCA's co-founder, director and administrator. He operates MOCA out of his studio in Brooklyn and Prattsville, NY. He welcomes your comments. Write to: admin@moca.virtual.museum Don is also a digital artist whose work may be viewed on his personal webpage at: http://www.donarcher.com <br /><br />About Alizarin Goldflake:<br />Alizarin is Martha Jane Bradford's avatar's name in the virtual worlds of Open Life, Open Sim, Reaction Grid, and, primarily, Second Life (SL). There I specialize in making immersive art, so called because it is meant to be experienced from the inside. Many of my sculpture are 3-D reinterpretations of my digital drawings. I create my work using the 3-D building tools of SL to shape the component objects, called prims; to texture them using images I draw with Corel Painter and/or manipulate with Photoshop; and to animate them with SL programs, called scripts. Most of my builds include sounds that I record myself or download from the internet and then remix using Audacity and also particles, which are phantom, temporary images that I draw with Painter.<br />============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: http://www.marthavista.com/<br />LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/ <br />MJB Blog: http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/<br /><br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake<br />Second Life avatar of Martha Jane Bradford<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35<br />Blog: http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/<br />Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/<br /><br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS:<br />Acquarella: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Anza-Borrego Oak: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Metempsyche's Garden: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />The Maze: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />Atelier Alizarin Studio Tour: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Mysterious Forest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />Museum of Science Project Concept: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-30559302383056371772010-04-01T08:39:00.000-07:002010-06-27T10:04:29.731-07:00Through the Virtual Looking Glass: A Mixed Reality Exhibition of the Art of Virtual Worlds<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S7S-vrINEcI/AAAAAAAAACo/wH4RfwPp1Jk/s1600/ThroughTheVirtualLookingGlass_Invitation.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 202px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S7S-vrINEcI/AAAAAAAAACo/wH4RfwPp1Jk/s320/ThroughTheVirtualLookingGlass_Invitation.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455194774892777922" /></a><br /><br />One of the most unique art events ever in Boston's history is about to happen!!<br /><br />Through the Virtual Looking Glass: A Mixed Reality Exhibition of the Art of Virtual Worlds opens at the Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston, April 7, 3 pm to 8 pm. The show will run through April 30, 2010. Please visit <a href="http://www.umb.edu/harborgallery/ ">http://www.umb.edu/harborgallery/ </a>for info and directions to the gallery or visit the show in Second Life at (link to be added).<br /><br />Hosted by the Virtual Art Initiative on the web and the Caerleon Sims in Second Life and OpenSim, the Boston exhibition is part of an unprecedented international collaboration which will exhibit the work of artists from more than twenty nations simultaneously in real world galleries in six countries: Italy, France, Holland, Germany, Brazil, and the USA. Check out the Virtual Art Initiative at <a href="http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/Virtual_Art_Initiative/Virtual_Art_Initiative.html">http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/Virtual_Art_Initiative/Virtual_Art_Initiative.html</a>.<br /><br />Virtual Worlds are computer generated, immersive, three-dimensional environments that allow people from around the globe to interact with one another through "avatars" (digital bodies) and to shape their environments, both individually and collectively, by using graphical and programming tools.<br /><br />In process of development since the 1980s, virtual worlds now have more than 12 million participants, and include such venues as Second Life, OpenSim, VastPark, Blue Mars, and World of Warcraft. Virtual worlds are like photography, cinema, video, and electronic music were in their early years in that they provide the opportunity, in the form of a new technology, for radically innovative forms of aesthetic expression.<br /><br />A "mixed reality" exhibition brings virtual art into real world spaces where it becomes accessible to wide audiences.<br /><br />The Harbor Gallery exhibition will bridge the gap between the real and virtual worlds through a variety of innovative methods, including digital projection of artworks from the virtual worlds Second Life and OpenSim with interfaces permitting real world audience interaction; images and machinimas (virtual world videos) shown on computer screens and in digital frames; prints of virtual artworks; physical sculptures and paintings inspired by virtual art, some with embedded electronic components; and musical performances occurring in the real world gallery space and streamed live into Second Life where they will be translated into avatar performances.<br /><br />Please join us for this unique event at one of the most advanced borders between art and technology.<br /><br />New England Artists participating with real life artwork in the Harbor Gallery show include Martha Jane Bradford (Alizarin Goldflake), Bob Johnson (Thoth Jantzen) , Mary Linley (Feathers Boa), Karina Mitchell (Misprint Thursday), Jason Pramas (Sunseeker Miklos), and Gary Zabel (Georg Janick). Also a New Englander, the real life art of Jeffrey Lipsky (Filthy Fluno) is a painting that will be exhibited in France at MUUSEAV in Nice.<br /><br />Other VAI artists include Adam Nash (Adam Ramona), Brigit Lichtenegger (Evo Szuyuan), Phillip Mallory Jones (Jacque Quijote), Thorsten Küper (Kueperpunk Korhonen), Dr. Andrew Burrell (Nonnatus Korhonen), Piotr Kopik (Olza Koenkamp), Seogwang Snim (Snim Hanley), Stephen Beveridge (Sowa Mai), and Second Life avatars Artistide Despres, Aurakyo Insoo, Botgirl Questi, Bryn Oh, Four Yip, Fran Benoir, Glyph Graves, luce Laval, marnie Reinard, Pete Jiminy, Pixels Sideways, Sabrinaa Nightfire, Trinity Halberstadt, and Ub Yifu.<br /><br />=============================================<br />Show Links:<br />Harbor Gallery: <a href="http://www.umb.edu/harborgallery/">http://www.umb.edu/harborgallery/</a><br />Virtual Art Initiative: <a href="http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/Virtual_Art_Initiative/Virtual_Art_Initiative.html">http://www.virtual-art-initiative.org/Virtual_Art_Initiative/Virtual_Art_Initiative.html</a>.<br /><br />My Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ ">http://www.linkedin.com/ </a> <br />MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake<br />Second Life avatar of Martha Jane Bradford<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a><br /><br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS:<br />Acquarella: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Anza-Borrego Oak: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Metempsyche's Garden: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />The Maze: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />Atelier Alizarin Studio Tour: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Mysterious Forest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />Museum of Science Project Concept: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-20775803597736704892010-03-19T07:15:00.000-07:002010-06-27T10:08:50.172-07:00A Taste of Second Life comes to the Cahners ComputerPlace at the Museum of Science, BostonI am pleased to announce my latest project - to design a digital/virtual art exhibit for the <a href="http://www.mos.org/exhibits_shows/current_exhibits&d=232">Cahners Computer Place </a> at the <a href="http://www.mos.org/ ">Museum of Science, Boston </a>. The exhibit will further visitors' understanding of digital image creation and manipulation (<a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a>). It will also introduce people to the idea of making virtual art. The physical design of the exhibit will be an immersive installation employing sound and video projection to simulate the experience of being inside one of the immersive art environments that I create as an avatar named Alizarin Goldflake in Second Life (R), a virtual reality platform.<br /><br />The Museum is currently accepting applications for a Technical Designer Internship for this exhibit: <a href="http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/about_the_museum/internships&d=4367">http://www.mos.org/visitor_info/about_the_museum/internships&d=4367</a>. The designer will research the technology and equipment best suited to realize the artist's vision, culminating in a technical design for the project.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OLAvCIUiI/AAAAAAAAACA/3x7BBAqVbj8/s1600-h/!MoSMockUp_100122_ExhibitSpace.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OLAvCIUiI/AAAAAAAAACA/3x7BBAqVbj8/s320/!MoSMockUp_100122_ExhibitSpace.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450352818790093346" /></a><br /><br />The picture above shows the latest SL mock-up of the design for the exhibit's visitor-interaction area. The kiosk in the center is an easy interactive - it allows the visitor to select various colored underpaintings for an upper layer containing a black-and-transparent digital drawing comprised of lines and tones. <br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OMAgt6NnI/AAAAAAAAACI/cQMjVpe4a_8/s1600-h/!MoSMockUp_100122_EasiestKiosk.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OMAgt6NnI/AAAAAAAAACI/cQMjVpe4a_8/s320/!MoSMockUp_100122_EasiestKiosk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450353914458814066" /></a><br /><br />The kiosk on the left provides the visitor with graphic elements to assemble into a finished digital collage, introducing the aesthetic decision-making process. <br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OMZJZ7jQI/AAAAAAAAACQ/SZ9_dlOXvDo/s1600-h/!MoSMockUp_100122_IntermediateKiosk.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OMZJZ7jQI/AAAAAAAAACQ/SZ9_dlOXvDo/s320/!MoSMockUp_100122_IntermediateKiosk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450354337697729794" /></a><br /><br />The most difficult interactive on the right will allow the visitor to experiment with a digital drawing program and with a virtual reality environment, using Open Sim local. <br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OMw0OamdI/AAAAAAAAACY/fm6DQJyDpu0/s1600-h/!MoSMockUp_100122_MostAdvancedKiosk.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6OMw0OamdI/AAAAAAAAACY/fm6DQJyDpu0/s320/!MoSMockUp_100122_MostAdvancedKiosk.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450354744329148882" /></a><br /><br />The backdrop to the kiosks is a video of Alizarin's SL immersive art, "The Maze," and it is framed by panels displaying two of her digital collages. The mock-up of this proposed visitor-interaction area can be found in Second Life at <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/205/175/1201 ">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/205/175/1201</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6ONK_f2imI/AAAAAAAAACg/xpLnbfqPufQ/s1600-h/!MoSMockUp_100122_AerialView.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 160px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_r6h3POGENkQ/S6ONK_f2imI/AAAAAAAAACg/xpLnbfqPufQ/s320/!MoSMockUp_100122_AerialView.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450355194031671906" /></a><br /><br />The overall proposed exhibit, “Digital Art – Martha Jane Bradford,” may also include some or all of the following: a display of framed digital drawings with wall text explaining various aspects of creating digital drawings and collages, framed SL photos of Alizarin's immersive art, LCD screen presentations, videos of virtual art displays in Alizarin's SL studio, pod casts, video casts, and live demonstrations. An introduction to virtual reality via Open Sim is also being considered.<br /><br />About the Cahners ComputerPlace: "<strong>Glimpse the Future; Encounter Cool Stuff; Engage Computers, Robots, Communications; Inspire Active Learning; Talk Tech with People</strong>." Here teachers, students, and visitors explore many aspects of computer science, technology, engineering and math via personal hands-on learning experiences. The exhibit space receives over 350,000 visits annually.<br /><br />A brief video of the visitor-interaction area can be seen below: <br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/93YYMJANpZs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/93YYMJANpZs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/ ">http://www.linkedin.com/ </a><br />MJB Blog: <a href="http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/">http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/</a><br /><br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake, Second Life avatar of Martha Jane Bradford<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />AG Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a><br /><br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS:<br />Acquarella: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Anza-Borrego Oak: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Metempsyche's Garden: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />The Maze: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />Atelier Alizarin Studio Tour: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Mysterious Forest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />Museum of Science Project Concept: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-85568563360015676122010-03-09T08:40:00.000-08:002010-06-27T10:14:13.963-07:00New Video Up on Youtube!"The Mysterious Forest" documents my contribution to the Interactive Collaboration of the Caerleon Artists Collective. Artistide Despres was the project leader, and the CAC is hosted in Second Life by Georg Janick/Gary Zabel of UMass, Boston. I did the filming, and Cobalt Zeplin/Alfred M. Ajami did the editing and sound remixing. The film features soror Nishi, along with Cobalt, Viridian Nightfire, and myself.<br /><br />The scenery is derived from my digital drawing "Anza Borrego Oak," which can be found on my RL web site at<br /><a href="http://www.marthavista.com/DigiDrawHoriz1.htm">http://www.marthavista.com/DigiDrawHoriz1.htm</a> (scroll down to the bottom row of images).<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c6Xv_pAf0Qc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c6Xv_pAf0Qc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-492905311381138514.post-84057099243539792552010-02-01T09:54:00.000-08:002010-06-27T10:16:13.010-07:00Art New England February-March 2010: Innovative PrintmakingI am pleased to have been quoted in the Art New England February-March 2010 issue on page 20 in an article titled "Innovative Printmaking" by Andre van der Wende. It is an informative article about new methods and materials in printmaking, with a large focus on digital printmaking. The author lays out the issues clearly and articulates the various positions that can be taken on them. <a href="http://www.artnewengland.com/">http://www.artnewengland.com/</a><br /><br />Here is the full text of my response to his email interview:<br /><br />1. When did you first start making digital prints? and do you still make prints using traditional methods?<br /><br />I started experimenting with digital drawing in 1992 using Painter software and a Wacom digitizing tablet and stylus. In the beginning I used it for prototyping ideas for paintings, but in 1997 I published my first digital print, "Marigold."<br /><br />Since you can do anything digitally that you can do with traditional media, plus a great deal more, I no longer use traditional media.<br />2. By making digital prints what do you feel you are both gaining and losing by trading in traditional methods for digital?<br /><br />The most important feature I gain by working digitally is the ability to use layers, which can be conceived of as transparent drawing sheets stacked on top of each other. The artist can put lines on one layer and tones on another and then can change one without affecting the other. To create negative space, you can simply draw with white on top of dark. Layers also offer the artist much more control; you can make subtle adjustments to the opacity of a layer, to it's position, and to it's color. By turning a layer on and off you can see whether a change is an improvement or not, which facilitates experimentation. Once the drawing is finished, you collapse all the layers onto the canvas, or bottom layer.<br /><br />Other advantages of digital drawing over traditional are the ability to "undo," to use a reference photo on a layer in lieu of time-consuming cartooning (I work in a photorealist style), to combine multiple paper textures and multiple drawing tools in one image, to have brushes in infinite sizes, and to be able to save stages and variations of the image as you draw. From a marketing point of view, digital drawing combines the creative freedom of unique work with advantages of multiples (prints), so that the artist can both keep a complete portfolio of his or her own art for artistic reference and promotion, while reaching wider audience at the same time. Creating digitally can obviate the need for expensive photographic documentation, and jpegs are far easier to work with than traditional slides. On a purely pragmatic level, you are free of dirt and toxic fumes; there is no heavy lifting; and cleaning up the studio consists of hitting the "Off" button.<br /><br />The only thing I lose by working digitally is that, because it is a new medium, people are slow to recognize it as a valid medium.<br />3. What has your experience been in terms of people being more open or more reticent toward digital technology and digital prints?<br /><br />It is finally becoming more acceptable to work digitally. People, oddly, have had no problem regarding their digital bank accounts as real, but there has been enormous resistance to digital prints on the grounds that somehow they are not "real," this, even though they consist of pigment on paper caused to be there by the artist's hand, just as with traditional media.<br /><br />Another obstacle to the recognition of digital art is the giclee, an ink jet reproduction of an artwork done in another medium. Many people assume that all ink jet prints are giclees, which is not the case.<br />4. Does digital technology further blur the distinction between printmaking and photography?<br /><br />In the hands of serious artists, rather than blurring a distinction, I think digital technology creates new options for combining printmaking and photography.<br /><br />An illegitimate (in my opinion) blurring of the two media is the practice of running a photograph through a Photoshop filter or using an auto-paint brush, where the finished art is actually made by the computer, not the artist.<br />5. Given that traditional printmaking techniques are often labor intensive, is the relative freedom of digital techniques liberating?<br />You must be joking! Working digitally is actually more difficult in many ways. You have computers and printers to maintain, software to learn and keep up with, the retraining of hand and eye to work on a tablet while seeing the results on a monitor, not to mention the difficulty of zoom levels to overcome. If you are zoomed in enough to see what you are doing, you are too far in to see the overall effect. If you are zoomed out to view the whole image, you can't see what you are drawing. In the end, my digital drawings end up taking slightly longer than my ones in traditional media used to, but I feel compensated by the advantages I cited above.<br />6. Within New England, who are some other printmakers you consider innovative and forward thinking?<br /><br />Deborah Cornell, head of the Printmaking Department at BU<br /><br />============================================<br />Links:<br />DIGITAL ART: Martha Jane Bradford<br />Web Site: <a href="http://www.marthavista.com/">http://www.marthavista.com/</a><br />LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/">http://www.linkedin.com/</a><br /> search "Martha Jane Bradford"<br />MJB Blog: http://marthajanebradford.blogspot.com/<br /><br />VIRTUAL ART: Alizarin Goldflake<br />Second Life avatar of Martha Jane Bradford<br />Atelier Alizarin (Second Life studio): <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35">http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lie/222/189/35</a><br />Blog: <a href="http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/">http://alizaringoldflake.blogspot.com/</a><br />Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/alizaringoldflake/</a><br /><br />YOUTUBE VIDEOS:<br />Acquarella: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-lo6JosN0M</a><br />Anza-Borrego Oak: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s_KRMi55v8</a><br />Metempsyche's Garden: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQGuNXWvLo</a><br />The Maze: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEa9rtEiINE</a><br />Atelier Alizarin Studio Tour: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDjrLmPpopA</a><br />The Mysterious Forest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Xv_pAf0Qc</a><br />Museum of Science Project Concept: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93YYMJANpZs</a>Martha Jane Bradfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05356209607906970491noreply@blogger.com0