September was a frenetic month. My laptop died on September 12th, and a lot of the drawing sessions were cancelled. Plus QUELAB moved out of their old building, making it harder to work in the hackerspace. Most of the AI Art innovations were hype, so I did not keep up with them. However we managed to do a lot of EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Printmaking.
FRANK ROSE let us have a printmaking event in his gallery -- HECHO A MANO -- in Santa Fe on September 14, 2024:
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QUELAB hackerspace moved out of 680 Haines and into a new building behind UNM at 1511 Central NE. The AT&SF 2926 steam engine passed by while we were moving out on September 27, 2024:
PAVEL ACEVEDO arrived in Albuquerque on September 30th, to start his relief printmaking workshops at UNM:
I made a "Nostalgia" blog post, to list all the more intriguing and obscure things that I've done or come across.
BEST DRAWINGS
While I drawing five nights a week in Albuquerque, I missed sessions from each drawing group as most of them cancelled a few nights in September, and I went up to the drawing session in Santa Fe on Tuesday, September 3rd.
My laptop refused to boot up on September 12th, so I lost Photoshop Elements when we reinstalled Windows 11 on it (previously Windows 10). Therefore from September 6th I edited all my drawings with GIMP:
While we missed the first two drawing sessions at FUSION on Wednesday nights, we resumed for the rest of the month. They were going to cancel the sessions completely at the end of August.
PRINTMAKING
We had a very busy printmaking month as the EXQUISITE TESSELLATION Printmaking project blossoms.
The biggest Tessellation and Printmaking event was at "The Best Gallery in Santa Fe" -- HECHO A MANO -- run by Frank Rose. Julie Sola and I organized a printmaking night on September 14th, 2024:
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Previously we hand-printed Tessellation prints at Argos Studio/Gallery in Santa Fe on September 3rd, 2024:
Ellie Weadock pulled some Tessellation prints on the press on the westside campus of CNM in Albuquerque, before the class run by Aaron Bass, on September 17th, 2024:
On September 1st, I drove down to Socorro, New Mexico to get a Tessellation print made in front of the Axle Contemporary mobile art van:
I spent four nights at Quelab hackerspace printing most (but one) of the 55 individual Tessellation tiles I had. This was during the last days at the end of the month, when Quelab was moving out of the building.
- The individual Tessellation tiles are posted on the TESSELLATION 2024 blog
OTHER PRINTMAKING
Besides Tessellation Prints, there was other printmaking going on in September:
Henry Morales continued his annual printmaking workshop for the Muertes Y Marigold celebration on September 7th, 2024. I was only at the Hubbell House long enough to take some photos:
The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology was showing Oaxaca prints -- Oaxaca Ingobernable -- and I went to the reception on September 7, 2024:
Pavel Acevedo, originally from Oaxaca, was part of the Oaxaca print exhibition. He flew in from California to give relief printmaking workshops starting September 30th, 2024:
AI ART
UPDATE (October 16, 2024):
I uploaded the URL to my blog -- krrrl.blogspot.com -- and Notebook LM used AI to generate a podcast from it. It seemed mostly to refer to this September Summary blog post:
I actually backed into a YouTube about the election, made with this program before I even heard about NotebookLM. It took me a few minutes to realize that it was made with AI. And now these days, it seems like most of the YouTube videos are generated with AI -- because it is that easy.
However this month I did not use any new AI ART programs, though I did generate more AI ART in September:
Adric gave me a new hologram device -- the LOOKING GLASS GO display -- with a smaller screen than on my old Looking Glass Portrait device. We were both too busy to dive deep into the new hologram device, however I did manage to upload some of my creations to their online BLOCKS website, to share my "holograms" with others.
OTHER
Everything was entirely out of the old Quelab building on Haines -- a miracle. When I stopped by on October 1st the door was open, so I took a few pictures. Then I locked up the place entirely:
El Paso was advertising on various billboards around downtown Albuquerque:
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Globalquerque was free this year in the Civic Plaza downtown on Friday and Saturday -- I went on Saturday, September 28, 2024:
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I saw NINI at Globalquerque
at the Civic Center Plaza on September 28th, 2024
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Vaclav Pisvejc smashed one of Ai Wei Wei's sculptures in Bologna, Italy on September 21, 2024:
"In accordance with the artist’s wishes, the fragments were covered with a cloth and removed. They will soon be replaced by a life-sized print of the work and a label explaining what happened."
'Ai himself is known for smashing works as well. The exhibition’s curator Arturo Galansino noted that several works in the show document the destruction of a precious ceramic. The most famous of these is Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), a triptych of black-and-white photographs in which the artist holds and then drops a 2,000-year-old vessel. It is a commentary on China’s deliberate erasure of its cultural heritage."
Apparently Vaclav Pisvejc presented his portrait painting to Ai Wei Wei, some time before he smashed Ai Wei Wei's sculpture:
Vaclav Pisvejc presenting his portrait
to Ai Wei Wei
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