Monthly Archives: December, 2012

F visits SAIC artist Tiffany Suh who paints her friends and rotoscopes her films.

annihilating assumptions about what it means to be a “video girl”...

Newsweek lays off critics, a victory for gun rights advocates, RIP Ravi Shankar, and more...

A comic by Eric J. Garcia

It is easy to imagine his music accompanying the soundtrack to nature documentary as the camera soars over ice-packed peaks.

It is safe to say that the Afrobeat movement is blessed with new torchbearers.

In a video the writer discusses his work and the issues he is interested in as an artist and activist

Chelsea Sound: A Festival of Experimental Sonic Performance.

Gray, glaring October light pierced the chilly air in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York, foreshadowed the approaching Hurricane Sandy that would soon devastate the neighborhood. I was there that breezy afternoon of October 27 to hear what kind of sound a hub of contemporary happenings would make at the first of, hopefully, Chelsea Sound. The day-long “Not For Profit Festival of Artists in Sound” was produced by four local galleries celebrating musicians, art and artists working with music, sound, and DIY culture.

noun: 1. The area of a fair, carnival, circus, or exposition where sideshows and other amusements are located.

Obama promised sweeping economic and social reforms but delivered few.

ICP vs. FBI

The link between hip-hop and violence is what allowed the FBI to make the leap between fandom and gang, love and hate. And yet no other sub-culture of music fans has been targeted by the FBI. So why target the ICP in the first place?

A deeper look at three reluctant songwriters caught in the spotlight.

A comic by Eric J. Garcia

It has been said that what distinguishes humans from other animals is suffering — that is, pain coupled with contemplation of the pain.

Student Jason Guo asserts his identity through provocation.