Friday, January 25, 2008

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

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

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

Saturday, January 5, 2008

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