cmi openweb - sustainable media ecosystems

The Only Silent Pome I Ever Wrote is a post-modern examination of the old-fashioned silent film overlayed by current day aeronautic technique.
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Q U A N T U M E D I A F I L M S
Cultural documentary video images that examine the photographic truths hidden in our everyday global society, and the expressionistic influences of the very media through which they are captured. — in Denver, CO.

American Idolization (2007)
Painting / Drawing | 1979 | 1980 - 2006 | 2007 - 2009 | 2011 
Photography Projects (2007)
Film Channel (2006)
Audio Channel, Spokenword (2005)
Poster Design (2006)

My work is a continuous effort of innovative cultural documentation with an emphasis on the very media through which the work is influenced, created, and transmitted. Starting in the 1950s media theorist Marshall McLuhan held that "media are an extension of our selves." If this is true, and I believe it to be, we can further his theory, and posit that "the self can be a medium in turn". This ongoing process of life witnessed (documented) from the perspectives of various media is what I refer to as The Quantumedia Experiment^TM.

Mine is an ontological perspective on the concept of "life as art". My work, then, is a philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of the life energy we know, that of electro- magnetism at the quantum level. A poetics of experience. The veritably abstract. Works that fall into such a category are not necessarily individualized creative works of any particular medium, nor are they the medium itself, as McLuhan also held in his widely popularized theory "the medium is the message"...but, perhaps, the event of life itself as the work of art.

QUANTUMEDIATM (kwntm) n. pl. quan•ta (-t) n. pl. me•di•a (-d-) plural me•di•ae /-E-"E/ n. (theory + practice) 1. The philosophical pursuit of the fundamental unit of electromagnetic energy; 2. A potent cocktail of citizen journalism, digital narrative, poetry, and enviromedia; 3. Multimedia documentation; 4. Creative format critical analysis of one's immediate surroundings, their environment, and/or socio-global issues.

Over the years I've been fortunate to have been given awards for some of the visual artwork, writing, photojournalism, multimedia development, and teaching that I've done. All this work started as a motivation and certain set of ideas that I had which came out as mediated artwork. I started with paint in first grade, moved to photography in college, got back to oil paint and collage, moved into digital media, all the while writing poetry and prose, working as a writer and photojournalist around the U.S. I've tried to catalog as much of this work as possible on this site. Most of it appears by media, but some of it is more difficult to categorize. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut, so it goes. Have a look around. Enjoy.

American Idolization (2007)
Painting / Drawing | 1979 | 1980 - 2006 | 2007 - 2009 | 2011
Photography Projects (2007)
Film Channel (2006)
Audio Channel, Spokenword (2005)
Poster Design (2006)

See the list of Exhibition Venues

The Open Van Gogh Project is an open source initiative to make accessible to the global community all of the work of the 19th Century artist Vincent Van Gogh through a dynamic, usable, universal Internet application.

There are many aging, static browser-only accessible sites on the Internet that allow for partial access of Van Gogh's archive of work from a casual browser perspective, most without consideration of the United States Congress amendment to The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 508) which requires accessibility to information technology for persons with disabilities. Further, some of these resources offer severely limited metadata of each of the art works which renders them relatively incomplete and lacking in regard to specific academic study. Considering the vast resource that is the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (and its limited in function Web presence), and two available iPhone apps from commercial organizations, there are resources ranging in degrees of completeness, usefulness, and accessibility available online today.

The aim of The Open Van Gogh Project is to augment the good intentions of these resources -- while implementing an open-application programmer interface (API), dynamic relational database architecture, interactive locative geographic coordinate information, mobile device accessibility, full Section 508 and other Web standards compliance, and the highest adherence to DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) standards -- to bring the study and enjoyment of the post-impressionist artwork of Vincent Van Gogh not only to a much greater global audience, but into the 21st Century, doing so in a way that will preserve this high standard of accessibility to a valuable cultural resource well into the future.