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Hiroshima Survivor Trees My initial interest in creating time-lapse work stemmed from my painting. I found that I wanted to capture the movement of the light. Watching a beat up Samizdat VHS copy of Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi projected on the crumbling wall of a squat in Prague in the 90’s gave me the idea I could do this with…

I wrote an article for Desert exposure. It was a punchy little piece, but obscure editing decisions, and sloppy layout rendered it somewhat illegible. Here is a corrected version, please read this one!

Much thanks for everyone who participated and helped! This is for the JuarezX show, with interview of Sarita Cordelero (translated by the ever awesome Dr. Lydia Huerta): This is for Landscape of the Gila, and the Gila Time-lapse Film Festival. Interviews of Casey Kiernan, Stephen Dirkes, Godfrey Reggio, Christin Necker, Victor Masayesva, and petit moi.…

Rose B Simpson lecture complete from peter bill on Vimeo. WNMU Cultural Affairs, Expressive Arts dept, MRAC, and WILL present The Edwina and Charles Milner Women in the Arts Lecture Series with inaugural lecture by Rose B Simpson

This is a current that runs through much of my work- you need to go to these fraught landscapes, where people’s histories clash, and talk and try and understand the granularity of the violence that marks every square inch of North America, Europe and Asia… Race and history in New Mexico are contested in a way…

I would put Tarkovsky up there with Kubrik fighting for the title of “greatest director of the 20th Century,” Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) firmly positioned himself as the finest Soviet director of the post-War period. But his influence extended well beyond the Soviet Union.  The Cahiers du cinéma consistently ranked his films on their top ten…

Glitch Feminism, Senior Thesis from Samantha Monarch on Vimeo.

Well Junchen Huang has not wasted a breath on arriving in the big city. The day after he arrived he was brunching in little Italy, and plotting guerrilla projections around town. This week brings the fruits of his labors working with the SHADOWPEOPLEPROJECT.ORG, taking footage he shot last March in Hiroshima through a trip organized…

First Friday’s El Paso is a great art party, at 501 Texas.  They do this every first Friday, in the 6 warm months of the year. Professor Peter Bill and New Media students set up animated projections and represented for Silver City and WNMU down in Texas. Next time, come on down!

Recently a student of ours travelled to Japan, this is his story:

Lets do some shadows people!! I am friends with these folks: Shadow People Project was inspired by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, where thousands of people were blown away, leaving only their shadows printed by heat on streets, bridges, walls, and granite steps. These shadow people were the first to be rendered faceless…

Neato contest- with prizes! Logo Contest! *** Over $250 in prizes *** Nuevos Comienzos (New Beginnings) is a new commercial kitchen at The Commons, and a project of The Volunteer Center; our vision is to build a healthy and viable food economy in Grant County through mentorship of potential food entrepreneurs, while creating sustainable local…

POPUP- new media mini festival from peter bill on Vimeo. POP-UP New Media mini festival like water for the desert new media for New Mexico Hosted on the campus of WNMU in Parotti Hall Thursday February 19th 6-7:30 PM Discussion: Electronic Literature sandy baldwin- WVU New Media Acoustics: bruce bennett-SFSU barry moon- ASU doug nottingham-…

Kate Brown, a multimedia artist and key figure in the new Mimbreno visual arts movement, has been working to get physical, as opposed to digital, animation back up and running here in SW New Mexico.  A key part of this is her Oxberry, an animation stand from the Disney era, used for title design and cel…

3. I’ve cobbled together many different streams of income, so that if the bottom falls out of one industry, I’m not ruined. My mom worked in packaging design. When computers fundamentally changed the field, she lost all her work. I learned from this. Molly Crabapple at bOINGbOING: http://boingboing.net/2014/11/04/molly-crabapples-rules-for-c.html

You do not need big budget.  You do not need special effects. You need a good story.  Oh yeah, and I wish Kurt Cobain was still around, and Weinstock too…

This is the kind of setup we are hoping to construct at Kate Browns… Astigmatismo from Troshinsky on Vimeo.

Are Thomason’s vestigial limbs, useless and lame- or are they evidence for what could have been, possibilities not realized?