I had heard of Carl Jung’s Red Book before unintentionally receiving it at the library of my town. They left a message on my answering machine saying “Mr. Ortega, we would really appreciate if you would come pick up the book that you have on hold, frankly, one of the biggests books that we have [...]
This week I would like to show the work of my friend Judith Rocabert, a many-sided artist from Valencia currently living in Barcelona. Judith’s work invites us to enter in the personal dream world of seven of her friends who she asked to mail her letters about their dreams. The result is an edition of [...]
This week I wanted to post about the WAFA (We Are Fucking Awesome), a collective of artists I learned about from my favorite collage blog, NOTPAPER.NET. Consisting of members from around the world, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, North Carolina, St. Paul, Sydney, Brighton, and Norwich, all of the work posted on their website is a collaborative [...]
This week I would like to talk about the graphic identity that my friends Sara and Julio have developed for Russafart 2010. Russafart is an artistic event that will take place in Valencia on May 21, 22 and 23 where more than 100 artists from Russafa neighbourhood will open their studios to the general public.
For the [...]
by Matt Ortega
Our friend and artist Paco Rico tells us about his three projects, currently in progress, that explore the role of history and evolution in our perception of reality and the ways to interfere with images to affect our interpretation. Paco Rico lives and works in Barcelona, where he teaches art. If you would like to [...]
“Personal computing may have begun in the 1980s but the history of computer art started much earlier during a period when only a few visionaries sensed the impact computers were going to have on our lives.” (from: hyperallergic.com)
By Pilar Rico
by Matt Ortega
by Julia Newman