Temporary Art Review is a platform for contemporary art criticism that focuses on alternative spaces and critical exchange among disparate art communities. Temporary is a national network, highlighting both practical and theoretical discourse through exhibition reviews, interviews, essays and profiles on artist-run spaces and projects.
This past week (September 19 – 24, 2012), the worlds of art, science and technology came together in Albuquerque, New Mexico for ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, the 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a six day international conference, kicking off a season-long exhibition and public programs.Temporary New Mexico regional editor, Nancy Zastudil, has organized ongoing coverage of the symposium with the ISEA2012 Insiders, a group of (ISEA2012′s Artistic Director) Andrea Polli‘s University of New Mexico students who are live-blogging the event. This photo essay is the second in a series of posts from the Insiders about the ISEA2012 symposium, exhibition and public programs.
Harrod Blank. Camera Van. ISEA2012 Block Party along Central Avenue. September 23, 2012.
Harrod Blank. Camera Van. ISEA2012 Block Party along Central Avenue. September 23, 2012.
Interactive tables as part of Intel Education Day, featuring speakers, panels and workshops that explore STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) + Art education.
Mirrors on rotating wheels that reflected the sunlight in patterns on the building across the street.
Marc Bohlem. WaterBar.
Ian Clothier and Janine Randerson. Bus Garden.
Ian Clothier and Janine Randerson. Bus Garden.
Ian Clothier and Janine Randerson. Bus Garden.
Ian Clothier and Janine Randerson. Bus Garden.
Clowns and Bus Garden.
Food truck on Central Avenue.
Playing music with objects instead of instruments.
Christopher Marianetti and Mary Margaret Moore. Symphony 505, a “vehicular orchestra.”
Music and dancing along Central Avenue.
Street performers.
Painting with a weedwacker.
Lucas Mafra and Fred Paulino. Gambiocycle at 516 Arts.
Anais Met Den Ancxt. Domestic Plant at 516 Arts.
Yulia Pinkusevich, Polyscape, with Lynn Cazabon and Neal McDonald, Junkspace, in the background at 516 Arts.
Anthony Goh and Neil Mendoza. Escape at 516 Arts.
Images courtesy of the author.
Erin Rhodes is a studio art student at the University of New Mexico who primarily works in photography.
