Lesson One

Introduction to Learning Printmaking Online - He may be teaching printmaking in a new way soon, and the professor, entering the final phase of his lifelong career as a teacher, considers ways he will approach the vital first lessons of his plan to teach printmaking in the age of digital reproduction. 1125 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Studio Bound

Note from a studio of anticipatory studies - What would it be like, he asks, if he spent his entire day bound to his studio, like being housebound? Surrounding him are unfinished projects that he knows are part of the anticipatory world of Emeralda, his imaginary, perfect world of arts and artistry. 1180 Words. ©2009 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Driving Son of HAL Crazy

If Doug Lenat Made Movies - Turning points are features of a written script for a movie or plays that carry the audience from one event to another. The sequence is a combination gives us Acts I, II, and III. An Internet company, Cycorp, likewise develops dramatically along a course. 1928 Words. ©2000 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Holding Labor

I choose Emeralda - Ideas are the commerce of artists. Not only their productions in the form of paint, paper and other matter, but the impulse or notions—musings—behind them, their hands owe the brain of the artist. In economics, artists labor in the precarious professions. 744 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

IICS Asks, Ritchie Answers

Notes from a panel discussion - The International Interactive Computing Society members held an Annual Art Show in December, 1991. Board members called three artists together to show their work and speak in a panel. I wrote this based on the list of questions that guided our discussion. 5480 Words. Copyright 1992 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Card 40

Getting to the right language of art in the age of digital reproduction - The 14th collaboration session established the idea that XML would be the language for Emeralda Artist Trading Cards. Not Excel and not Access, as had been the dilemma. So the inventor turns his attention to the designing of card number forty for testing. 472 Words. Copyright 2008 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com