Why make art when you could play video games?
Jill Zevenbergen earned a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa in 2001 with an emphasis in printmaking and photography. She then moved to Tampa and worked at the University of South Florida’s Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio. In 2005 she moved to Knoxville, TN to further study Printmaking at the University of Tennessee. Jill is currently enrolled at the Virginia Commonwealth University MFA program for Painting and Printmaking. She will graduate in May.
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FREAKOPOLIS featuring the Art of Andy Rementer
Your url is http://www.openspacebeacon.com/. With just a quick glance at it it seems you do a lot of different things at the space.
Can you describe how the evolution of the space came about?
- The space is our latest venture, and it has become the center of all of our projects. Kalene and I have always kept things pretty diverse and have always found ourselves involved in many projects at once. The space has been a natural progression of things for us. At first we were doing projects independently, then after meeting up in Brooklyn we moved in together and started working on projects together and helping each other with our independent projects. After our son was born and we moved to upstate NY. It made sense to find a space where we could focus on all our projects as well as develop a business out of some of them…
Check this shiz out. Here you have Akbar Lightning, in his online body, as CardnalSerilius, manning the gun. His friend Tim, in NYC, is driving. He’s an excellent Warthog driver. It’s our favorite way to roll. I gun them down and he maneuvers to keep our shields up. In the wider perspective you can see us engaged in a battle with 4 blue team members. Their bubble shield can be problematic, and it’s on a hill so it is more difficult to splatter them.
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Jacksonville.com, The Florida Times Union, has done a complete web site redesign and launched it today. They actually worked with a handful of local bloggers, UrbanJacksonville.info, and MetroJacksonville.com, Globatron.org, and others to get some input on the design. It’s a complete design overhaul which has many web 2.0 community building type functions. There’s a whole list of them on the site, but blogging is a real focus of the new site. Each columnist can have their own blog, and we the people can comment on the Read the full story »
For the first time in years I am creatively tapped. I have ideas, that I think are brilliant then I begin to make them and they just don’t work. I’ll outline a few of them and show you why they didn’t work, and then maybe you guys, my peeps, can give me some creative insight. Maybe we could do a collaborative piece off of this post even? I’m game.
1. Project One: Wrap roses in clear plastic tape, and then fasten them to a stick, and line them standing in the ground on my father’s park, as a tribute to him, and symbolic of the diseases that kill us all. The plastic being our environment and the rose being something alive and healthy being suffocated.
I did this to six roses and they really sort of sucked. I had dreamed about how powerful this project was going to be for at least a month. Read the full story »
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