The following originally appeared on Artlog.com in 2010 Increasingly, we are awash in data visualizations — that’s the name for the various animations, diagrams, and charts employed by information designers to make sense of raw numbers and facts. Call it the PowerPointization of information, the meticulous packaging of complex sets…

The following originally appeared on Artlog.com in 2011 In Mr. DeMarkis’s sixth grade class, a few of us managed to spend lots of time doodling. Usually the subject matter included some combination of spaceships, Arnold Swarzenegger, and roller coasters. Coasters were the specialty, zooming, looping and twisting in impossible configurations…

Joel Morrison’s sculptures, usually made from polished metal or encased in high-gloss fiberglass, ride a fine line between punk showmanship and high-minded conceptualism. Talking with Joel is always a rapid-fire roller coaster of disparate ideas that somehow manage to overlap, much like his work. …

The following is an article that first appeared on Artlog.com in 2011. CHERYL, the artist collective made up of Destiny Pierce, Stina Puotinen, Nick Shiarizzi, and Sarah Van Buren, sits somewhere on an axis that joins Mike Kelly and David Byrne, a mix of earnest absurdism and a regard for…

The following is an article I wrote for Artlog.com back in 2010 Fabienne Lasserre’s elliptical sculptures, which mix high-minded concepts with a scruffy process, attain a fairly uncommon balance: they are serious but not stuffy, intuitive while being systematic, and referential without being appropriative. …

I wrote the accompanying essay for the collaboration that Nadia Afghani, Finishing School and I did at Occidental College in March 2014. The essay was distributed as part of the public build of the drone. Here’s a link to the essay in layout. The text is below. “If you…