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    <title>The Root of the Root at Devotion Gallery</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/10/20#root</link>
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&lt;p&gt;If you are in the Brooklyn area you have to check out this show.    I definitely list Watz and Prudence among my inspirations and influences and Meyers work looks fantastic as well. Thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.misszapata.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Miss Zapata&lt;/a&gt; for the heads up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.areyoudevoted.com/" target="_blank"&gt;DEVOTION GALLERY&lt;/a&gt; PRESENTS: THE ROOT OF THE ROOT&lt;br /&gt;
  Generative Art by Marius   Watz, Paul Prudence and Aaron Meyers&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;br /&gt;
  Opening 6pm on Friday, October 22nd.   On view until Sunday November 21st 2010.&lt;br /&gt;
  Marius Watz will be teaching a   special workshop on Processing at&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://www.areyoudevoted.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Devotion&lt;/a&gt; Mon Oct 18th � Tues Oct   26th.&lt;br /&gt;
  More details &amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  This exhibition showcases three artists   working with generative code&lt;br /&gt;
  to create abstract and reactive works. Marius   Watz and Paul Prudence&lt;br /&gt;
  have been contributing to the dialogue for   computational art since&lt;br /&gt;
  2005 with seminal essays, some of the foremost blogs   and&lt;br /&gt;
  ground-breaking software. As a seminal member of the   processing&lt;br /&gt;
  community, Marius Watz has, in many ways, defined part of   the&lt;br /&gt;
  aesthetic associated with code-based art. Paul Prudence works   with&lt;br /&gt;
  VVVV and with visual feedback systems to create   audio-visual&lt;br /&gt;
  performances. Aaron Meyers is an artist and programmer   using&lt;br /&gt;
  generative strategies in the creation of software and moving image.   He&lt;br /&gt;
  is currently a fellow at the Eyebeam Art &amp;amp; Technology center where   he&lt;br /&gt;
  recently led the Visual Music Collaborative workshop in   collaboration&lt;br /&gt;
  with Ghostly International.&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;br /&gt;
  In generative art, works   are created at least in part by some process&lt;br /&gt;
  that is not under the artist�s   direct control. Generative processes&lt;br /&gt;
  have been applied to music, dance, and   all forms of visual art over&lt;br /&gt;
  thousands of years. With the advent of   computers, complex digital&lt;br /&gt;
  generative art has become one of the defining art   forms of the&lt;br /&gt;
  twenty-first century. While this art may harnesses the power   of&lt;br /&gt;
  computation to create work enacted via machine, the human originator&lt;br /&gt;
  is   ever present, even if acting by proxy. The works in this show&lt;br /&gt;
  amalgamate the   organic and the methodical, seducing with pattern,&lt;br /&gt;
  texture and   beauty.&lt;br /&gt;
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  BIOS:&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;a href="http://www.areyoudevoted.com/artists/tag/marius-watz" target="_blank"&gt;Marius Watz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Works: Blocker, sound-reactive   software piece&lt;br /&gt;
  Images: &lt;a href="http://www.box.net/shared/7uxsnych5i" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.box.net/shared/7uxsnych5i&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Materials: Realtime   software, PC speakers or headphones&lt;br /&gt;
  Size: Variable (32� screen)&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;br /&gt;
  Artist   Statement: Marius Watz is an artist using software processes to&lt;br /&gt;
  explore   visual abstraction. His work is known for its bold colors and&lt;br /&gt;
  hard-edged   geometries.&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;br /&gt;
  Biography: �Watz (NO) has lectured and exhibited his   work&lt;br /&gt;
  internationally at venues that include K�nstlerhaus   (Vienna),&lt;br /&gt;
  Fondation Vasarely (Provence), Victoria &amp;amp; Albert Museum   (London), Itau&lt;br /&gt;
  Cultural (Sao Paulo) and Club Transmediale (Berlin). He is a   lecturer&lt;br /&gt;
  at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;a href="http://www.areyoudevoted.com/artists/tag/aaron-meyers" target="_blank"&gt;Aaron   Meyers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Works: 5 generative laser-etched wood pieces&lt;br /&gt;
  Images: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/4252091173/in/set-72157623158008618/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/4252091173/in/set-72157623158008618/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/4252182538/in/set-72157623158008618/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/4252182538/in/set-72157623158008618/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/4778254758/in/set-72157623158008618/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/admurder/4778254758/in/set-72157623158008618/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Materials:   Laser-etched birch plywood&lt;br /&gt;
  Size: 3 x 30�x16�, 2 x   16�x16�&lt;br /&gt;
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  Artist Statement: Often interactive, Aaron's work   playfully forges&lt;br /&gt;
  rich perceptual experience through the manipulation of   generative&lt;br /&gt;
  systems, physical simulation, data and media. Using a laser cutter   and&lt;br /&gt;
  custom software written in Processing, Aaron's work on plywood   pulls&lt;br /&gt;
  into sharp focus the interaction of complex line work with the   organic&lt;br /&gt;
  burning process.&lt;br /&gt;
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  Biography: Currently a fellow at the Eyebeam   Art &amp;amp; Technology Center,&lt;br /&gt;
  Aaron's work has been shown at Ars Electronica   (Linz), the Performa&lt;br /&gt;
  Biennial (New York), Fondation Cartier (Paris), Eyebeam   MIXER (New&lt;br /&gt;
  York), Wired NextFest (New York), and Where 2.0 (San Francisco).   As a&lt;br /&gt;
  teacher, Aaron has taught at UCLA Design|Media Arts and led the   Visual&lt;br /&gt;
  Music Collaborative workshop at Eyebeam in creative partnership   with&lt;br /&gt;
  Ghostly International.&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;a href="http://www.areyoudevoted.com/artists/tag/paul-prudence" target="_blank"&gt;Paul Prudence&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Works: Autotroph series 4   x b/w prints &amp;amp; Bioacoustic Study [Video,10mins]&lt;br /&gt;
  Video: &lt;a href="http://www.vimeo.com/14903121" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.vimeo.com/14903121&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Images: &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/transphormetic/sets/72157612289168910/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/transphormetic/sets/72157612289168910/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  Materials:   �Prints: Archival Ink Jet. �Video: HD mp4&lt;br /&gt;
  Size: 25� x 25� including   frame.&lt;br /&gt;
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  Artist Statement: Paul Prudence is an artist and real-time   visual&lt;br /&gt;
  performer working with generative and computational systems. He   is&lt;br /&gt;
  particularly interested in the ways in which sound, space and form   can&lt;br /&gt;
  be synthaesthetically amalgamated.&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;br /&gt;
  Biography: Paul has performed   and lectured at various international&lt;br /&gt;
  shows, festivals and conferences   globally including: The International&lt;br /&gt;
  Symposium for Electronic Arts,   Dortmund; Quartz Electronic Music&lt;br /&gt;
  Festival, Paris; Sonic Acts XIII,   Amsterdam; Artware 5, Lima;&lt;br /&gt;
  Hacktronic, Boston; Art.ficial Emotion, Sao Paulo   and Decibelio,&lt;br /&gt;
  Madrid.&lt;br /&gt;
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    <title>Postmodern Modernist Art Generator Updated in 2010!</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/10/03#pmmg_2010</link>
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/nationality-meek-335" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/pmmg/thumbs/nationality_meek_335.jpg" alt="Postmodern Modernist" width="550" height="349" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Postmodern Modernist&lt;/a&gt; featured in  &lt;a href="http://admag.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Art Digital Magazine&lt;/a&gt; September-October 2010 check it out!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Postmodern Modernist&lt;/a&gt; updated with modified algorithms and the ability operate autonomously! This project now creates art and promotes itself on the web without any intervention on my behalf. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/organic-lindsay-lohan-reportedly-enters-rehab" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/pmmg/thumbs/organic-Lindsay-Lohan-Reportedly-Enters-Rehab_573.jpg" alt="Postmodern Modernist" width="550" height="349" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have added the ability for the Postmodern Modernist to read news feeds and create works based off of current events. At the time of this update Lindsay Lohan is in the news so it will create works seeded by her image with greater frequency. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/learned-singer-mario-charged-assaulting-mothe" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/pmmg/thumbs/learned-Singer-Mario-charged-assaulting-mother_671.jpg" alt="Postmodern Modernist" width="550" height="349" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The updated algorithm is much improved from the old version. It now has a much wider variety of types of abstractions at its disposal. Its color database has been updated with new colors and it can  generate a suite of color relationships from photos it discovers while reading the news feeds. The above color combination is pulled from a photo of R&amp;amp;B artist Mario who recently is alleged to have assaulted his mother. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The naming of the current event seeded works is handled  crudely for now, I am thinking of ways to make this more interesting. Even so it will still make me laugh from time to time as it typically assigns an adjective to beginning which can transform the stripped headline in amusing ways, for example....&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/demonic-jon-stewart-mocks-rick-sanchez-contro"&gt;&amp;quot;demonic   Jon Stewart mocks Rick Sanchez controversy #320&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/demonic-jon-stewart-mocks-rick-sanchez-contro" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/boyfriend-clammy-288" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/pmmg/thumbs/boyfriend-clammy_288.jpg" alt="Postmodern Modernist" width="550" height="349" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the things I always liked about this algorithm was the intentional big pixels that boldly yet nerdishly assert its digital lineage, I definitely kept the big pixels. The new algorithm still generates works completely from scratch like &amp;quot;boyfriend clammy #288&amp;quot; (shown above), and it now saves out a print resolution version of each file before it resizes it down to a more web friendly size. If you would like a print send me an email and let me know. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can follow the Postmodern Modernist on its blog, twitter, tumblr or facebook page: &lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://pmmg.posterous.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://pmmg.posterous.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/Hawt_Modernista" target="_blank"&gt;http://twitter.com/Hawt_Modernista&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;a href="http://hawtmodernist.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://hawtmodernist.tumblr.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Add &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Hawt-Modernista/100001604615865" target="_blank"&gt;Hawt Modernista as your facebook friend&lt;/a&gt; today!&lt;br /&gt;
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    <title>Portrait of my wife Hye</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/06/06#hye_portrait</link>
    <description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/hye_10_1500.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/hye_10_550.jpg" alt="portait of Hye Relyea by Don Relyea" width="550" height="610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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  portrait of Hye Relyea by Don Relyea May 2010&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have been working on a new version of my particle drawing/painting program in openframeworks based on  the code used in the &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/bombshell.htm" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;Bombshell&amp;quot; video&lt;/a&gt; I made for this years &lt;a href="http://www.digitalgraffiti.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Digital Graffiti&lt;/a&gt;. This project still needs a lot of work. There are several math errors and some other problems that need to be solved but it is still fun to play with and I can get some decent results. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are generative elements to this work but its not pure generative art by any means. I am working on the right balance between &amp;quot;loss of control&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;control&amp;quot; in this project. As the particles do their thing the artist loses control of the image but I have added more direct paint like particles that give the artist the ability to push and pull the image in real time. The process of image creation becomes somewhat of a battle between the particles and the artist. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It will be interesting to see where this goes. If I can get all the bugs out of it and get the usability a little better I may put some effort into releasing this as an iPad app. I have been using it on an HP tablet with a stylus and its pretty fun.&lt;br /&gt;
  
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    <title>OBEY Obama poster near Bush's House </title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/05/13#obey_obama</link>
    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/obey_obama.jpg" width="550" height="615" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Saw this OBEY knockoff poster near former President George Bush's Preston Hollow house here in Dallas and had to chuckle. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I immediately had a mental image of dubya in a hoodie sneaking around at night pasting these up. I like the way the horns go outside the boundaries of the poster. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>My African Star by Tsevis</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/03/06#tsevis</link>
    <description>  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/4304036542/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/tsevis.jpg" alt="tsevis photo stream" width="369" height="500"  border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&amp;quot;My African Star&amp;quot; by Tsevis&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have been doing some research on patterns for my particle drawing project and found &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/" target="_blank"&gt;Tsevis photo stream on flickr&lt;/a&gt;. Tsevis is an  artist/designer and professor living in Greece who uses scripting combined with Photoshop and Synthetik Studio Artist. Tsevis' entire photostream is extremely compelling and worth checking out.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>Space Filling Curve Project and interview in +81 Vol. 47 Pattern Graphics Issue</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/03/02#plus81</link>
    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.plus81.com/publishment/magazine/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/plus81.jpg" alt="+81 magazine Vol 47 Pattern Graphics issue" width="527" height="535" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;I have a couple &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/hilbert_algorithmic_art_menu.htm"&gt;Space Filling Curve&lt;/a&gt; works and an interview in the &lt;a href="http://www.plus81.com/publishment/magazine/index.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Spring 2010 issue of +81, Volume 47, the Pattern Graphics issue&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.plus81.com" target="_blank"&gt;+81 magazine&lt;/a&gt; is a visual inspiration art and design magazine published in Japan in its 13th year of publication. It is in both Japanese and English. Check it out if you get a chance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This issue contains works and interviews for Ryan McGinness, Peter Kogler, Boris Tellegen, Dextro, Universal Everything, Jan Hakon Robson, Emma Lundgren, c.neeon, David O'Brien, Marcus James, Niessen and De Vries, Jeanne Boyer, Andy Gilmore, Lula, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Claire Leina, Don Relyea, &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2009/11/21#abillmiller"&gt;A. Bill Miller&lt;/a&gt;, Siggi Eggertsson, Johanna Basford.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>LA INCUBADORA by Grimanesa Amor�s 2010 at Lab Gallery at Roger Smith Hotel NYC </title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/02/01#la_incubadora_amoros</link>
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://grimanesaamoros.com/public/la_incubabora/la_incubabora.php?photo=0" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/INCUBADORA_4.jpg" alt="LA INCUBADORA by Grimanesa Amoros  " width="550" height="343" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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  &lt;em&gt;LA INCUBADORA&lt;/em&gt; by Grimanesa Amor�s 2010 at 
  Lab Gallery at Roger Smith Hotel NYC &lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;La Incubadora, by Grimanesa Amor�s, explores the interplay between biology and society. Amor�s asks the questions: To what degree are gender-specific roles biologically determined?   What happens to those roles as both society and biology evolve?&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;From her Artist Statement....&lt;br /&gt;
    &amp;quot;The ideas   arose in a very personal context; during my pregnancy, and afterwards when I was   nursing our daughter, I noticed how curious my husband was about my experiences.   More than once he pressed Shammiel against his own nipple to see if she would  suckle. I wanted to create a piece around motherhood, and the unbridgeable gulf   between the male and female bodies, specifically in the area of reproduction.   Then I began to imagine ways in which that gulf might be bridged.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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    &amp;quot;Central   to this work is the concept of male pregnancy. Given recent startling   developments in our understanding of genetics and medicine, we may soon see a   future in which women and men will both have the opportunity to carry a   pregnancy. This shift would have not only enormous biological ramifications, but   would also motivate a reexamination, if not total upheaval, of deep-rooted   social conventions. In You Cannot Feel It..., I fantasize what such a world   might be like.'&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://grimanesaamoros.com/public/la_incubabora/la_incubabora.php?photo=0" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/INCUBADORA_16.jpg" alt="LA INCUBADORA by Grimanesa Amoros  " width="550" height="467" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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  &lt;em&gt;LA INCUBADORA&lt;/em&gt; by Grimanesa Amor�s 2010 at 
  Lab Gallery at Roger Smith Hotel NYC &lt;/div&gt;
  
&lt;p&gt;The images of &lt;em&gt;LA INCUBADORA&lt;/em&gt; are very effective at challenging viewers to think about the roles we have inherited by our genders. While I do not fantasize about male pregnancy,  I do have three kids and I am quite familiar with this element of life experience. I have often wondered what it would be like and I have marveled at my wife's ability to deal with all of the physical changes that occur. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My wife and I do a lot together and I get in the habit of saying &amp;quot;we&amp;quot; when I refer to whatever we are doing or planning all the time. I made the mistake at a brunch with several friends of saying  &amp;quot;we are pregnant again&amp;quot;. I was corrected immediately by one of our mom friends that only my wife was pregnant, not me. She was right though, I cannot really feel what my wife feels throughout the pregnancy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Be sure to check out more of Grimanesa Amor�s work at her &lt;a href="http://www.grimanesaamoros.com/" target="_blank"&gt;web site.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;THE   LAB (for installation + performance art) is a New York based, converted   storefront turned fishbowl producing 20+ fast paced performance art and   installation exhibitions annually. Aimed at the furious midtown foot traffic,   THE LAB's programming is designed to confront modern relationships between art   and audience and seeks to force interaction between high energy, &amp;quot;outrospective&amp;quot;   exhibitions and nearly 25,000 daily passersby. For more information: &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thelabgallery.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.thelabgallery.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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    <title>The Aikon Project: computational drawing system</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2010/01/16#aikon_project</link>
    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/aikonproject/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/turing_01_aikon_project.jpg" alt="Aikon Project  Turing Sketch" width="550" height="767" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Alan Turing&lt;/em&gt;, 23 June 1912 � 7 June 1954. (Aikon,   2010)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="www.gold.ac.uk" target="_blank"&gt;Goldsmiths University of London&lt;/a&gt; has a great project called &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/aikonproject/" target="_blank"&gt;the Aikon Project&lt;/a&gt;. They have been awarded a grant to explore artistic drawing focusing on portraits. &lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/aikonproject/" target="_blank"&gt;The Aikon Project&lt;/a&gt; is supported by a&lt;a href="http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Leverhulme Trust&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 3 year research   grant.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;From their web site...&amp;quot;What can explain that for a non-draughtsman it proves so difficult to draw what   they perceive so clearly, while an artist is able to do so sometimes just with a   few lines, in a few seconds? Furthermore, how can an artist draw with an   immediately recognizable style/manner? How can a few lines thrown spontaneously   on paper be aesthetically pleasing? &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The sketch of Alan Turing above is really nice, it appears to be drawn with a single line. I love how at the point where the line takes a turn the lines weight gets a bit heavier just like it would with a felt tip pen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From their web site...&amp;quot;The main objective of our investigation is to implement a computational system   capable of simulating the various important processes involved in face sketching   by artists. The ensemble of processes to be simulated, including; the visual   perception the subject and the sketch, the drawing gestures, the cognitive   activity: reasoning. the influence of the years of training, etc., the   inter-processes information flows. &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://sites.google.com/site/aikonproject/" target="_blank"&gt;The Aikon Project&lt;/a&gt; is very interesting to me as I have a similar one. I have been evolving my Hair Particle Drawing Project into a plain old particle drawing project that will employ a variety of types of marks, open cv, face recognition, etc. My strategy is to keep the particle framework and modify the particle classes to accommodate several marks, continuous line regions, erasing, emphasis, etc. I plan to use the face recognition libraries to determine where to place the really important lines and add extra emphasis. I have been reflecting a lot on how I draw in real life for this project and I have been trying calculate ways to approximate this process based on my own experience.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am not as far along though and right now I only have some hatching, erasing and emphasis going on. Below is some output from last Fall. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; Our British friends at Goldsmiths are basing a lot of their work on archives of sketches and artists notes so I imagine they will have a lot more information to feed their computational drawing system. I really look forward to following the progress of this project. They have a mailing list you can sign up for on their web site if you are interested in following it as well.&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;em&gt;Marilyn Monroe&lt;/em&gt;, Don Relyea, Particle Drawing Project, 2009&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jenstark.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/Jen_Stark_prismacolor.jpg" alt="Jen Stark Prismacolor" width="531" height="624" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Jen Stark, &lt;em&gt;Prismacolor&lt;/em&gt;, hand cut paper 2009&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I ran across Jen Stark's work a while back somewhere and then ran across it again while reading a friends blog the other day and meant to post on her work. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stark is primarily known for her hand cut paper sculptures but she also draws and designs. Her use of color is smart and well done. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jenstark.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/jen_stark_high_on_constellation.jpg" alt="Jen Stark high on Constellation" border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Jen Stark, &lt;em&gt;High on Constellation&lt;/em&gt;, felt tip pen on paper, 2009&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p &gt;Stark's hand cut paper works and her drawings exhibit a great natural use of pattern as well. Be sure to visit her site. Her entire site is very well done, reminding me I have been meaning to clean my site up a bit this year as well =)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jenstark.com" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.jenstark.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;a href="http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm10/relyea.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;401_06&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Don Relyea at JMM 2010 Moscone Center, San Francisco&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm10/relyea.html" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;quot;401_06&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; from my &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/hilbert_algorithmic_art_menu.htm"&gt;Space Filling   Curve project&lt;/a&gt; at the Mathematical Art Gallery in Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. &lt;strong&gt;January   13-16,&lt;/strong&gt; 2010, as part of the &lt;a href="http://www.bridgesmathart.org/art-exhibits/jmm10/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;2010 American Mathematical Society - Mathematical Association of   America Joint Mathematics Meetings.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/hair_particle_drawing_OF.htm"&gt;&amp;quot;Meret Oppenheim&amp;quot;   from my Hair Particle Drawing Project&lt;/a&gt; will be on display at Nude 2010 &lt;strong&gt;January 16 � March 28, 2010�&lt;/strong&gt;at the&lt;a href="http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/galleries.htm" target="_blank"&gt; Lexington   Art League galllery&lt;/a&gt;, Lexington Kentucky.����&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/Meret_Oppenheim_LAL_Nude_2010.jpg" alt="Meret Oppenheim LAL Nude 2010" width="550" height="723" /&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/hair_particle_drawing_OF.htm"&gt;&amp;quot;Meret Oppenheim&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; at LAL Nude 2010, &lt;a href="http://www.lexingtonartleague.org/galleries.htm" target="_blank"&gt; Lexington   Art League galllery&lt;/a&gt;, Lexington Kentucky&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I received a lot of questions about the Meret Oppenheim piece from  LAL and I thought I would share my commentary on the piece here as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Meret Oppenheim piece was developed in C++ using &lt;a href="http://www.openframeworks.cc" target="_blank"&gt;Openframeworks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  Meret Oppenheim was the the artist loosely associated with the Dada movement who made the very famous fur lined teacup. The photo this image is sampled from was taken in 1937 by Man Ray. I thought Meret Oppenheim would be a great subject for a hair particle drawing project.&lt;br /&gt;
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  My &amp;quot;blank canvas&amp;quot; looks a little different from the usual artists &amp;quot;blank canvas&amp;quot;. I create my work in a software compiler ( &lt;a href="http://www.codeblocks.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Code Blocks&lt;/a&gt; ) so my &amp;quot;blank canvas&amp;quot; looks more like a word processor. Only when the program is executed is the visual output realized.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The hair particles are not real hair but virtual approximations of growing hair generated by my software. I have several works using this drawing engine. It is based around a particle fx engine I wrote for a game some time ago. I altered the particles to behave like growing hair. In the early stages of development the particles rendered long and flowing hair with loose curls. In general, hair growing in darker areas grows longer, thicker and maintains a tighter curl. This is to preserve some of the detail that would get overgrown otherwise. Hair will continue to grow over time. &lt;br /&gt;
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What is a hair particle? Video games are a good context to think about particles. When something explodes in a video game, debris flies everywhere. The debris is described visually using particles that keep track of various properties such as velocity, physics, scale, luminosity, color etc as the debris flies across the screen. Particles in the context of the Hair Particle Drawing Project can be thought of the same way but instead of a explosion metaphor, imagine 10's of thousands of pencils or dry point tools emanating from everywhere leaving a mark on the drawing plane to draw the portrait all at once. The particles are capable of behaving on their own and no two will ever behave exactly the same. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2009/12/06#vanishingmother</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I have written about Ellen's work &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/04/04#Ellen_Jantzen_2"&gt;before&lt;/a&gt;. This series caught me as most folks in my generation are now dealing with aging parents..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ellen Jantzen writes......&lt;br /&gt;
  I normally deal with issues of reality in my   artwork. I am intrigued with what is real, what is imagined. Are dreams real? Is   what one sees, hears, and feels real? Aren�t elements of the world flavored and   altered by one's own emotional makeup and history?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With all of this in mind, I was drawn to the reality of my mother-in-law�s   mental state as she slips into dementia. I created a series of images depicting   my mother-in-law, Patricia Jantzen, as she goes about her daily business while   suffering from Alzheimer�s Disease. I have titled the photo essay �Patricia �   Vanishing Mother.�&lt;/p&gt;
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      &lt;td valign="top" width="280" align="middle"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Her isolation is evident in &lt;em&gt;No Mail&lt;/em&gt; but her humor is   intact.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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        16�H x 12�W &lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;Archival inkjet on heavyweight matte paper&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;You can see some more of these interesting pieces as well as read more about what Ellen has to say about this project and her experience with her mother-in-law's Alzheimer�s Disease published at medical journal &lt;a href="http://www.hektoeninternational.org/Vanishing_Mother.html" target="_blank"&gt;www.hektoeninternational.org&lt;/a&gt;. More by Ellen Jantzen at her website &lt;a href="http://www.ellenjantzen.com/"&gt;http://www.ellenjantzen.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2009/11/22#buypass</link>
    <description>&lt;p align="left"&gt;William Brovelli is orchestrating a  conceptual art exhibition across the 5 bouroughs during the month of January 2010. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/buypass.jpg" alt="buypass william brovelli" width="154" height="239" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BUYPASS&lt;/strong&gt;�&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The idea is to encourage the spectator to   purchase an�item that will become the art object (&lt;em&gt;� la readymade) This event   is�dedicated to�the�life�and�work of Ann T. Kenyon 1932-1994.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This (multiple space) solo exhibition   is to take place within a 30 day period (Jan.1, 2010 �Jan.30, 2010) Location:   all&lt;em&gt; *&lt;/em&gt;Salvation Army locations within the five boroughs of   NYC.&lt;em&gt;�&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The purchased (personalized) item as well as the exhibition card and   documentation of the event (the receipt)�becomes the art object.�The artwork   will not be recognized as such without all three elements in place.�� &lt;em&gt;Through the act of selection and purchase, the buyer becomes the main player   via aesthetic control in the realization of the art object. It must be   understood that this project is less about the Readymade per se as it is about   using the readymade as a vehicle that will enable greater control on the part of   the spectator in terms of deciding what or even if the art object is going to   be.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There will be no artist reception, signatures or any other interaction   between artist and spectator(s) during the exhibition.� Anytime after the 30 day exhibition period,   participants may contact�the artist�for a free�exhibition card that will   validate the object.� (Postage paid by artist.)� &lt;a href="http://www.williambrovelli.com" target="_blank"&gt;www.williambrovelli.com&lt;/a&gt;���&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;*&lt;strong&gt;Note: &lt;/strong&gt;The artist only &lt;em&gt;suggests&lt;/em&gt; purchasing the object from the Salvation Army store. &lt;strong&gt;Any   object not purchased from a Salvation Army store and accompanied by a receipt   that falls within the exhibition date, will be considered void in terms of� its   relation to this project and exhibition.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Salvation Army is not   affiliated with the artist or this project.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.williambrovelli.com" target="_blank"&gt;William Brovelli&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/81169-buypass?tab=EVENT" target="_blank"&gt;ArtSlant&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <title>A. Bill Miller: Samples from the Gridworks Collection Project @ Some Walls</title>
    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2009/11/21#abillmiller</link>
    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/abillmiller2009install2.jpg" alt="A. Bill Miller at Some Walls" width="540" height="360" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A. Bill Miller: Samples from the Gridworks Collection Project   Archives&lt;br /&gt;
  November 15, 2009 � January 10, 2010&lt;br /&gt;
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  A. Bill Miller is   currently an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and   an Instructor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. He lives and works   in East Troy, Wisconsin. He is noted for his Gridworks Project, which comprises   abstract ASCII drawings, ink drawings, animated GIFs, video, and performances   which are frequently shown in the U.S. and internationally.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some Walls is pleased to exhibit twelve of Miller�s inkjet prints, with   additional prints available for viewing. This is Miller's first solo exhibition   in California. Additional ASCII drawings can be seen on Miller�s &lt;a href="http://t.ymlp115.com/ewaaaebqatauewhatauub/click.php"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, and more   images, animations, and video are at his &lt;a href="http://www.master-list2000.com/abillmiller/abillmiller.html" target="_blank"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A. Bill Miller�s ASCII drawings are made at the keyboard with text�   characters and letters.� He draws/types grid-based and grid-defying images that   are surprisingly varied and dynamic,� pictorial and spatial, rhythmic and   dynamic. As writing has overwhelmingly moved from the pen to the keyboard and   monitor, it also makes sense that drawing might make a similar move from the   pencil. By making prints, Miller transports his images from the flickering,   pixilated digital realm to our analog, tactile world of paper and ink. Seeing   his drawings outside the monitor is an entirely different experience from online   viewing; where the digital image scrolls by intangibly, the art work as object   allows the viewer to see and contemplate a crisp, satisfyingly still,   human-scaled image. In these prints one can fully assess Miller�s range of   ideas, visual invention, and unique skill.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some Walls is open by appointment only. To view the exhibition online please   visit &lt;a href="http://somewalls.com/" target="_blank"&gt;somewalls.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;from &lt;a href="http://www.chrisashley.net/" target="_blank"&gt;Chris Ashley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2009/10/18#monsters</link>
    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://donrelyea.com/monsters/00055_15.jpg" alt="generative monster"  border="0"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
    
    &lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="pagetitle"&gt;Generated Monsters -- done in OF 0.06&lt;/span&gt;&lt;BR&gt;
      I wrote a quick program to generate monsters for my kids this halloween. This is not a serious art project but fun for my family that turned into something cool enough to share.&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;It was done in c++ in openframeworks 0.06 using code blocks. You can download &lt;a href="http://donrelyea.com/monsters/src.zip"&gt;the source here&lt;/a&gt; (right click) and the &lt;a href="http://donrelyea.com/monsters/textures.zip"&gt;textures here&lt;/a&gt;! I'm sure you can swap out different eyes and mouths for different looking monsters. &lt;/p&gt;
    
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    &lt;p&gt;It uses a version the hair particle drawing class I wrote to do my hair drawings, I just swapped it out with opaque textures of eyeballs and mouths and placed the drawing origins in the lower right corner. I then copy the screen to a FBO Texture and draw that to screen flipped so the creature is both vertically and horizontally symmetrical and voila...a tentacled eyeball creature!&lt;/p&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;You can see all of these monsters at my flickr set &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donrelyea/sets/72157622607899144/" target="_blank"&gt;Generated tentacled eyeball monsters halloween 2009&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; there are over a hundred of them!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/635_commute_1200.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/635_commute_540.jpg" alt="635 commute" width="540" height="270" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.500x.org/events.html" target="_blank"&gt;500x annual open show &lt;/a&gt;has moved from the end of the Spring season to Fall. This years theme is &amp;quot;Landscape&amp;quot;. I always try to support 500x since it is the first place I showed anything a very long time ago.It is also a great place to try out new work and see what peoples reactions are at the opening. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This year I entered a piece titled &amp;quot;635 Commute&amp;quot; that uses two of my projects combined, my &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/slitscan_photography.html" target="_blank"&gt;slit scan photography project &lt;/a&gt; and the good old &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/reductionizer_project.htm" target="_blank"&gt;reductionizer&lt;/a&gt;. I recorded several minutes of my commute to work and generated a slit scan image of the video, I then reduced it using the reductionizer and combined the images. The result is a 22 x17 photo print which looks fantastic. You can pick it up for cheap at the show.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is still one more day to drop off art at &lt;a href="http://www.500x.org/events.html" target="_blank"&gt;500x&lt;/a&gt;, they are taking stuff Tuesday night from 5-8pm as well. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Open Show Theme: Landscape&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;h4&gt;Exhibition Dates: October 10-31, 2009&lt;/h4&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Opening Reception:&lt;/strong&gt; Saturday, October 10, 7-10pm &lt;strong&gt;Delivery Times: &lt;/strong&gt;October 5 &amp;amp; 6, 5-8pm &lt;strong&gt;Pick-up:&lt;/strong&gt; Sunday, November 1, 2009, 12-5 pm
&lt;p&gt;All work in the Open Show must explore the image, presence, or idea of the   landscape. Work in any media is accepted.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Requirements:&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;li&gt;$25 per entry -5 entries maximum &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Each piece must include name of artist(s), address, phone #, e-mail address,   title of work, media, year of execution and sale price on the back. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Payment may be made with credit card, check or cash. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;All work must be ready to hang-canvases, frames, etc. must have &amp;quot;D&amp;quot; rings or   wire; unframed works on paper will be pinned to the wall unless other hanging   systems are provided and prepared. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;All video, sound, and media work must come with equipment, and the artist is   required to come during the installation time to set up the work. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Work must not exceed 60&amp;quot; in any direction. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;500X Gallery will retain a 30% commission on all sales. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Work will remain on view until the show closes at 5pm on Saturday, October   31, 2009 &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Exhibited works must be picked up Sunday, November 1, 2009, 12-5pm. &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Other information &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;A storage fee of $50 will be charged for work that is not picked up on   November 1, 2009. 500X Gallery carries no insurance and accepts no   responsibility for work damaged while in storage. Stored work not picked up by   Sunday, November 29 will become the property of 500X Gallery. &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I have been using my &lt;a href="http://www.donrelyea.com/hilbert_algorithmic_art_menu.htm"&gt;space filling curve program&lt;/a&gt; to generate some textures with transparency for an open gl music visualization program I am working on for fun. &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;161 02&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;  was a keeper.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have ton of new ones I need to get around to posting on Flickr or here on my site soon. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://somewalls.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Some Walls&lt;/a&gt; is a new curatorial and writing art project located in a private home in   Oakland, California. For the inaugural exhibition, Some Walls is proud to   present �&lt;strong&gt;Jeffrey Cortland Jones: Recent Paintings&lt;/strong&gt;,� from September 10 �   October 31, 2009. Images and an essay about the exhibition are at &lt;a href="http://somewalls.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Some Walls&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jeffrey Cortland Jones is Associate Professor at University of Dayton in   Dayton, Ohio. A painter as well as a curator, he is much admired by peers for   his lush and serious work, disciplined and productive practice, broad and active   exhibition schedule, and friendly and generous spirit.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some Walls will show four small recent paintings made with enamel on acrylic   panels. Known for his use of industrial materials, institutional colors, complex   layering, and vigorous mark-making, Jones had in the recent past used a more   wild and vibrant palette. The four paintings in this exhibition head in a   slightly different direction, however. Returning to his previous use of green   and white, Jones has quickened, reduced, and softened his paint application,   resulting in images that, though abstractions with a strong physical presence   and object quality, with their vertical format and horizontal spatial divisions   hint at the wintery-like atmospheric image of haze just as the sun is about to   burst through. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Some Walls is open by appointment only. To view the exhibition online visit &lt;a href="http://somewalls.com/" target="_blank"&gt;somewalls.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <description>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/3874585928/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.donrelyea.com/front3/collagenator.jpg" alt="collagenator preview from flickr" width="450" height="600" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/" target="_blank"&gt;Quasimondo&lt;/a&gt; is teasing us with a generative collage project that blends several  images based on a source photo. This particular piece looks great. I have been working on something very similar in openframeworks but &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quasimondo/" target="_blank"&gt;Quasimondo's&lt;/a&gt; choice of source texture images is impeccable. Very well done.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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    <link>http://www.donrelyea.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2009/08/09#digital_slitscans_2009</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;I have uploaded 144 new images to &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donrelyea/" target="_blank"&gt;my Flickr account&lt;/a&gt; that I have been tinkering with for the past several months. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These images were created using a digital slitscan process. I wrote a program that generates several groups of 3d primitives. The separate groups of primitives are rotated in slightly different directions slowly while every frame of rotation a column of pixels is sampled from the middle of the image and used to make a picture.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/donrelyea/sets/72157621832083275/" target="_blank"&gt;Flickr set is here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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    <title>Vague Terrain Journal 14</title>
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    <description>&lt;p&gt;This issue of &lt;a href="http://vagueterrain.net/journal14" target="_blank"&gt;Vague Terrain&lt;/a&gt;(journal 14) is a must read for computational artists and enthusiasts...from Rhizome&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;A selection of artists, architects and writers were invited to   contribute work that dealt with biological, botanical and morphogenetic ideas   and processes. Some keywords and ideas to reflect upon were: Morphogenesis,   Algorithmic Botany, Emergence, Genetic Algorithms, Cellular Automata, L-systems,   Bacterial Aesthetics, Biomineralsiation, Autogenesis, Self-generation; Cellular   Division, Cosmobiotechnics, Biomimicry and DNA sequences. &lt;br /&gt;
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Contributing   artists include: Alisa Andrasek (Biothing), Daniel Widrig, David Lu, Emma   McNally, Jonathan McCabe, Kat Masback, Mark Fornes (THEVERYMANY), Michael   Hansmeyer, Robert Hodgin (Flight404) and Wilfried Hou Je Bek. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  &lt;a href="http://vagueterrain.net/journal14/jonathan-mccabe/01" target="_blank"&gt;Muti-Scale Radially Symmetric Turing Patterns&lt;/a&gt; by Johnathan McCabe&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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