welcome
to the
traces library
for creative literacy
Traces is an ambient library and public art project with roots in Floyd, Virginia, USA. The Traces reading room & art space was last installed in studio 124 at the Jacksonville Center in Floyd on September 30, 2006. To learn more about the objects & artwork installed during Traces exhibits,or to learn how you can contribute your skills and talents to the Traces initiative for creative literacy, please stay attuned to the ideapark.org news loop.
theory
It's about time we did away with the notion that pretentiousness equals
professionalism in art, and that inaccessibility is some kind of magic
wand you can wave over creative works to make them "real".
featured link
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Dear reader - below is some content from the Traces archives. Thanks for your patience while I re-organize this.
Traces music announcements can be found on the northernmost point of the ideapark.org news loop.
Content
from the Traces stone sculpture archives can be found on the easternmost
point of the ideapark.org loop.
Sincerely,
Suzy Nees, Editor
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comics
Rick and Grendella make puppets
Grendella
is wearing her favorite, favorite sneakers today. They are perfect. Not
only are they brand new, they also have puppies on them. But Grendella
isn't thinking about her puppy sneakers right now. She is too busy freaking
out and acting like it's the end of the world. It all started when Rick
left the cap off the glue, and all the puppets got ruined. But please
do not remind Rick of that. He feels bad enough as it is.
writings
embracing
complexity in art
An
essay by Mitsunori Koike. "By stripping
away spirituality, human expression, and complication, and replacing them
with rationality and cold symbolism, Minimalism succeeded only in creating
a kind of novelty product: an extremely narrow lens which allows you to
fool yourself into thinking that the world is understandable."
art
& the cult of inaccessibility
Thoughts on democracy in art by S. Nees
a
message from the editor
regarding
the Traces project
art
& the search for sanity
A profile of Yayoi Kusama. Love her, hate her, say what
you will about her naked performance art; just don't dismiss her as a
weirdo.
impressionistic
trends in language use
An essay on search engine literacy and the haiku form.
projects
the
homeless museum
In the director's words, the Homeless Museum blends "absurdity
with sincerity...a dual critique of the cultural institution as enterprise
and the cult of the artist as shaman." This is a razor-sharp answer
to elitism and pretentious art rhetoric...I love it!
traces stone sculpture
journal
Dedicated to
helping artists find and share information related to stone sculpture.
resources
sito.org
An online artists' community which allows users to
post their artwork for free. This is one of the friendliest, most down-to-earth
websites of its kind, and I find it incredibly useful as a way of keeping
my portfolio up-to-date.
search
tools
google > directory > reference > knowledge management > knowledge
creation
Look here to find some very interesting curiosity-driven
material on everything from brain mapping to conflict resolution.