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http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2011/uncategorized/whats-art-got-to-do-ith-it/Saturday Art Academy, Chattanooga, USAAwarded £1,575 for equipment for a volunteer-led art evening and weekend academy. A group of around a dozen Fellows were awarded Catalyst funds for to run evening and weekend art classes in an inner-city state school. The city is ranked as a top US arts destination, but visual arts…See More
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Contribute to online art project - www.marineplastic.org at Global

April 15, 2010 all day
I am asking artists, photographers, beach combers, foragers and anyone else to send photos and location details of interesting Marine Plastic that they find beached during their wanderings of the shores of the world. The project aims to document the people, places and plastic that litters our coastlines, maybe along the way it will provide some interesting or useful data, as well as hopefully bringing a greater awareness of the plastic pollution of our oceans and seas. I ask you if you could…See More
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Fellows Art Network meeting - Arts for Artists or the Audience? at Lobby, National Theatre, Southbank, London

March 10, 2014 from 3pm to 5pm
After a frank and inspirational meeting in June the Fellows Artists’ Network has the pleasure of inviting you to an informal debate on the Arts and its relationship with its audiences:Date: Saturday 27 OctoberTime:  3 pm – 5 pmPlace: Lobby, National Theatre, SouthbankThe network is an enthusiastic group of Artist Fellows who have come together to encourage the debate on the arts by artists within the RSA Fellowship. So far our expertise spans filmmaking, writing, architecture, and sculpture.We…See More
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Phil Slade commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
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James Hunter replied to RSA Projects's discussion "Lucy" spam - filtering new users
"I ran a discussion forum once, and ran into the spam problem. I found a little program that required the person registering to answer a simple question -- which you could make up. Like "What color in the sky on a clear day." There is not a…"
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Tom Corby commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"Hi Will, it's been a while since I've been on here because of family illness so apologies. I've just set up a drupal gardens site. It's free with some limitations but quite good up to a maximum number of hits a day. Then you have…"
May 21, 2010
RSA Projects commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"... I think they're sticking with it and becoming paid nings. It doesn't cost that much. I need to find a way to get a budget. I'm seeing the Arts Council tomorrow... Also thinking of finding ways to hook up with Arts & Ecology…"
Apr 26, 2010
Phil Slade commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"do we know what the Other RSA Nings: OpenRSA Virtual Coffee House (NE region) Yorkshire Manchester Cymru West Midlands East Midlands Bristol Portsmouth and Chichester South Central London Fellowship Council ..................... are going to do…"
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RSA Projects commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"OK... will investigate all those options. Apologies for not being round here much I'm being dragged off for another project but hope to get stuck in more again soon."
Apr 21, 2010
Anne-Genevieve Hanway commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"What a pity. I would not like a facebook option. I have heard good thing about wordpress and do not know the SocialGo, elgg, and Igloo."
Apr 21, 2010
RSA Projects commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"Well... the RSA/Arts Council Partnership is coming to an end as it was only funded to the end of this financial year, but that doesn't mean that Arts & Ecology will end... The RSA very much want it to continue."
Apr 18, 2010
Phil Slade commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"of course Ning is not closing down completely, just the free version, so continuing on a paid basis should be considered if funds can be raised. Phil"
Apr 18, 2010
Cathy Fitzgerald commented on RSA Projects's blog post The end of Ning: what happens to this community
"Hi Will This is a real shame - I manage a few sites on ning. I think it might be wise to investigate the new buddypress on wordpress - this is the new social network that you can host on your own site - I haven't used it yet but at recent…"
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Question: why does art use funny punctuation?

Might seem an odd one to ask so early in the life of this ning site, but I've noticed a really odd use of inverted commas in art, which bugs me.

Unlike any other discipline I know, people who write about art seem to use double quotations for direct quotes, but single quotations for those sort of remarks that one would maybe wave one's hands in the air for. What this ends up meaning is that quotes of one or two words become single quotes, quotes of more length use double quotes.

This is a sentence from an article I'm just editing:

The artist Trish Adams then concluded the day by talking about ‘machina carnis’, an interactive installation developed after Adams changed adult stem cells from her own blood sample into beating cardiac cells, declaring herself to be her very own “human guinea pig.”

As an editor, this bugs me. It's not echoed in other areas of writing that I've met. There's nothing about it in the Guardian style guide or similar. I can't find anything to justify it in Fowlers. Although you might assume that 'machina carnis' is a concept and "human guineau pig" is a direct quotation, if you start thinking about it, they're both concepts and they're both quotations, so the distinction is artificial. From my point of view, nothing is really gained by this use beyond a kind of finickyness.

And yet the use is really widespread: am I missing something?

[I promise not to ask anything as tedious in future]

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RSA Catalyst award - Saturday Arts Academy

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Saturday Art Academy, Chattanooga, USA

Awarded £1,575 for equipment for a volunteer-led art evening and weekend academy. A group of around a dozen Fellows were awarded Catalyst funds for to run evening and…

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Posted on October 17, 2012 at 1:35pm

The end of Ning: what happens to this community

This morning's news is that Ning have announced they are stopping providing this kind of service.




I think we need to decide collectively what happens to this site; are we up for starting a debate in the forum…
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Posted on April 16, 2010 at 9:47am — 12 Comments

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Create art from industrial spoil?


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Posted on April 7, 2010 at 4:42pm

Dark Mountain Project looking for crowd sourcing for journal

I'm a bit of a fan of the Dark Mountain project. Set up by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine, they're trying to get art forms to look the realities of climate change in the eye.



Having set up the organisation with crowd funding, they're now trying to raise money to produce a high quality journal.



Take a look here.



http://www.indiegogo.com/darkmtn



There's also a Dark Mountain Festival at the end of may… Continue

Posted on January 20, 2010 at 12:40pm

Kate Thompson : The White Horse Trick

I've just written a blog post mentioning Kate Thompson's book The White Horse Trick here; if you're looking for a book for a teenager (at heart or otherwise) which encounters climate I heartily recommend it. It's funny and doom-laden simultaneously, which is a trick in itself. I haven't read the rest of the trilogy (which are possibly less related to… Continue

Posted on January 15, 2010 at 1:38pm

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At 2:29pm on July 17, 2009, Cathy Fitzgerald said…
Hi Ya Will,

Well done on setting this up.

Can I say you need to set up the Profile question page pretty quickly- really you ask a series of questions that members have to answer, some can be optional. Means you could ask them about what type of art they are doing, their skills, education, bio, their weblinks, their favourite quotes and its always shown on their members page. It means you can figure out what a person is up to. See http://www.artreview.com/profile/CathyFitzgerald

You also need to allow members to make groups - eg for me, I'd like to make an art and forestry one, check out http://www.artreview.com/groups

Cool

Cathy
At 3:09pm on July 17, 2009, Cathy Fitzgerald said…
Hi again,
Will, just looking at your front page (mind you I should be doing mentoring reports for artists...) - you might want to add some community guidelines and have the layout a bit like this http://transitiontownsireland.ning.com/, you could also have tabs to all your great blogs, main website etc

cathy
At 4:09pm on July 17, 2009, sandra masterson said…
Thanks william , yes the blog is down as I have recently lost my domain name and have had to re register. I am adding new work to the site in September (as I am away for August) and hope to get that back on its feet then. Good luck with this it is great to be in direct contact with people with the same concerns.
At 4:51pm on July 17, 2009, Luisa Santos said…
Thanks William. I am sure it will be interesting! Cathy made very good suggestions (below). let me know if I can help. best, luisa
At 5:03pm on July 17, 2009, jenny mannerheim said…
hi william

yes that was me. finally I will release for Fiac so it leaves a bit more time. Until mid September.
I would still love for you to participate.
best, jenny
At 5:12pm on July 17, 2009, steve mcpherson said…
hello

Glad to have joined - looking forward to being part of the discussions and community. I have badged my Blog already.

cheers steve
At 12:53am on July 18, 2009, CiCi Blumstein said…
Hi William,

Thanks - I've been meaning to get in touch with you for some time, so this is great! Am working on a new installation, The Green Felt, and related project, opening in Brighton in September ... more soon, CiCi
At 11:33am on July 18, 2009, Krishnaraj Chonat said…
Thanks William. Glad to be part of this community and will keep posted on things happening this side.
At 1:02pm on July 18, 2009, Trudy Lane said…
Hi William, thanks for your welcome - it's great and lovely to be here. I'm glad you've started this up as I was thinking it was a missing 'ning' network. You asked about Andrea Polli -- and yes I am a big fan also. Andrea and her partner Chuck Varga (ex-GWAR band member..!) joined us in 2006 for an artist residency I have been co-organising here in New Zealand. She has some beautiful works and we hope to be able to engage wit her in some form again soon as we start organising for the next residency. It is to be held in 2011, but we hope to start to build some longer-term projects that start before, and run beyond the 2-week residency. I look forward to joining in here and seeing what everyone is up to. Thanks for doing this :).
At 4:38pm on July 18, 2009, Bryan Lipscombe said…
Hi Williams
Thanks for inviting me to the new ning.
The earth arcade gets out quite abit and waste binvaders with it. I just got back from taking the Earth Aracade to a leisure centre in Urmston Gtr Manchester. This is about the 5th time out it over the last three months. Waste binvaders is actually a work in progress. It's playable but not quite finished. Alas I'm no Python programmer so have been relying on volunteers to take the concept into reality...No any python programmers who work for love?!

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