Millerprojects:Notes

Sweet Earth

In Plenty today there's a feature on Joel Sternfeld's new book Sweet Earth, about utopian communities, past and present.

Nina Berman

Nina Berman's Marine Wedding.

More here, including two "before" shots.

China Now

To see great photographs of the current massive transformation of Chinese cities, look at Sze Tsung Leong's work. There's also an interview in Guernica.

No. 15 Xiangluying Fourth Lane, Chun Shu, Xuanwu District, Beijing, 2004. (0403-044)

iMoMA

Go here.

Below is an excerpt from the website. To me, the grids themselves are the most interesting aspect of the project.

"iMoMa is a virtual museum. It will consist solely of photographs of works found within the Museum of Modern Art. While such a museum is nothing new—MoMA themselves have a virtual gallery of all their items—iMoMA will focus on the impressions of visitors to the museum.

For each item in MoMA’s collection, iMoMA will have a website displaying photographs visitors to MoMA have taken of that item, capturing their own unique impression of the art MoMA has on display.

The result will be a pastiche of images that will force the viewer to critique their own relationship to the artwork in the photographs. Furthermore, the viewer will have to question whether or not the photographs themselves are works of art. In this way, iMoMA is designed to educate viewers not only about the artwork in the photographs, but about art in general and the ways in which the Internet can change how we both see and perceive it.

Submissions to iMoMA will be collected via the Internet through a website established for the project."

Even Newer Studio

Here's the new new studio (which is now an Emily Little design that has an attached studio and lower level workshop/outdoor studio area). Hopefully will be moving there in June.

Massive Change

With the "news" today that global warming is really happening (really! it is! no kidding!), thought I'd post a bit on the Bruce Mau Massive Change exhibit making the rounds. I saw it in Chicago last November at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and my friend Rob, inspired by the exhibit, contacted Mau and arranged to do a series of VRs just before the exhibit closed. (Of course my favorite room was the image room.)