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"Technology and the Arts" is a podcast hosted by Brian and John, Brian is a communications professional, comic book-style artist, songwriter, and blogger. John is a designer, artist, writer, poet, technologist, consultant, open web advocate, and open source evangelist. Episode 56 has some good apps for you iPad musicians Both Brain and John are from Jersey and haven't been active since Sandy went through…

A group started for participants in Dickinson College's POSC290 - Mass Media, Communication, and Political Identity in MENA. Now open to all who are interested in the intersections of media and politics in the region, particularly new and emerging digital media. When requesting membership, please explain why. Note that this is for academic purposes, not for marketing.

Here is an interesting article about how technology has affected arts, but from a different perspective. As newspapers are downsizing due to more online content vs. print, the Boston Globe has begun opening up empty space in their building for community rental and arts events!

Through the Education Leaders Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts will convene decision makers from several states to develop coordinated state arts education strategies to design public education with arts at the core. Rocco Landesman, former head of NEA, delivers a wonderful speech explaining why the arts are so important and why they need to be included in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education.

There is much discussion about the manipulation of photographs using computers.  But as this exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art demonstrates, photo manipulation dates back to the 1800's.  So, is the method of manipulation actually relevant, or are computers just another step in a long history of the technological evolution of the medium?

Vine is an app for twitter that allows you to make short looping videos, which you can share with the world. I linked the wiki page here, as it has more information, but you can visit them on twitter at: https://twitter.com/vineapp The Tribeca Film Festival opened a competition for Vine videos for this year's event. http://www.tribecafilm.com/blogs/six-second-films-vine-competition

In demand as a guest conductor and clinician for school, church and community ensembles throughout the United States, Topher Keene is always open to new opportunities to share his love and passion for music with new singers. Keene shares his best work with his dedicated Patrons at Patreon.com/TopherKeene

Online courses in entrepreneurship and small business for artists and arts managers. The courses are offered through Fractured Atlas, a non-profit national arts organization that provides resources to every member of the arts industry. The courses look like great introductory refresher courses on a range of topics from marketing for career development.

I have used GIMP for years. It is a really powerful image program. But it does have a learning curve, that is well worth climbing. From their website: " It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X."

Interesting, I actually have this on my computer and never paid any attention to it...I will now!

A few years ago video projection mapping was a fledgling artform, with a handful of noteworthy examples. Now, no building opening, product launch, award ceremony, or birthday party worth its salt would be seen without a head-turning projection. Video projection mapping has the capacity to transform any object into a screen.

This is an article on visual mapping that links up with music for concerts. It is a new realm in experiencing sound which I am very excited about.

Van Gogh painted two version of this infamous "Bedroom in Arles". Thanks for a recent technology called "X-ray fluorescence", the original colors of the paintings can be seen for the first time.

This is amazing! "He described it in a letter to his brother Theo: "I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet coloured. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank, blue. The doors, lilac. And, that is all." "Casadio said Van Gogh had a room ready for Gauguin and he had worked for weeks to decorate the walls with art. "In the myriad letters he wrote to his brother Theo and friends, he said the color has to do the job here," she said. "When he was finished he slept for two days." And now there is an Air BnB where you can stay in his room! ( I'll post about it!) I'm in, he's a favorite of mine! Great post, thanks!

I recently stumbled upon the University of New Mexico's interdisciplinary program in Art + Technology. They describe it as such. " The program fosters an atmosphere of radical creativity and thoughtful engagement with emergent and established technologies. Students are expected to make work that comments on, engages with, and expands our notions of what technology based art can be through courses that explore high tech immersive environments alongside consumer electronic hacking and simple analog circuit building. Labs are equipped with industry standard software as well as free open source analogous software options. Studio production is coupled with critical inquiry into the relationship between art, technology, politics, society and culture."