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Peter Bill is an Artist, Activist and Educator. He has, since learning photoshop v. 1.5, been interested in connecting under-represented communities with digital tools so their voices may be broadcast. He has been involved with large scale video projections, guerrilla art actions, and community building since the 90s.

Peter Bill's award winning paint and video landscapes have shown in such diverse venues as The Kitchen(NYC), the Henry Art Gallery(Seattle), FILE Festival(São Paulo, Brazil), and other international venues. He continues in his Oil paintings and video work to weave the painterly with the digital, pixels and paint, indigo and 191970 blue. He envisioned and realized the first time-lapse film festival in North America, the Gila Timelapse Film Festival and has curated and directed shows on three continents. "Art must be realized on the streets, as an agent of change and progress."
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Much of my art has been about creating a vessel, a space for meditation. Through my painting and video installations I hope to create a moment of quietude, a contemplation of this world we have built.

In my mural and documentary film work I have balanced a certain transcendentalism in my heart with my didactic scots-yankee bones. In the public sphere arts role is to inspire and provoke. Therefore in my mural projects I have attempted to involve the local community in the conception and realization of my projects. In my animations and short films I have attempted critiques of the bathetic apocalyptic culture we live in, the false utopia of the California landscape, the contested landscape of New Mexico, and tried to get to the situation on the ground in war torn Bosnia, among other subjects. The world is a complicated, granular place. We cannot oversimplify with our stories, but we can in their telling change opinions, and thus change the world for the better.

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Uncategorized November 7, 2014 First Light on the Oxberry Project

Kate Brown, a multimedia artist and key figure in the new Mimbreno visual arts movement, has been working to get physical, as opposed to digital, animation back up and running here in SW New Mexico.  A key part of this is her Oxberry, an animation stand from the Disney era, used for title design and cel …

Uncategorized November 5, 2014 Good advice for all artists, young or otherwise…

3. I’ve cobbled together many different streams of income, so that if the bottom falls out of one industry, I’m not ruined. My mom worked in packaging design. When computers fundamentally changed the field, she lost all her work. I learned from this. Molly Crabapple at bOINGbOING: http://boingboing.net/2014/11/04/molly-crabapples-rules-for-c.html

Uncategorized October 17, 2014 Story is everything

You do not need big budget.  You do not need special effects. You need a good story.  Oh yeah, and I wish Kurt Cobain was still around, and Weinstock too… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmYOP9WVYa0]

Uncategorized October 9, 2014 stop motion animation using multiplane

This is the kind of setup we are hoping to construct at Kate Browns… [vimeo 59618486 w=500 h=281] Astigmatismo from Troshinsky on Vimeo.

Uncategorized September 2, 2014 HyperArt

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxKC1oKQi3w&w=560&h=315] Are Thomason’s vestigial limbs, useless and lame- or are they evidence for what could have been, possibilities not realized?

Uncategorized August 18, 2014 HYPERlapse

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcylVx2ex78&w=560&h=315]

Uncategorized August 5, 2014 Native advertising

More subject matter for digital literacy!    

Uncategorized July 21, 2014 Are the interwebs making us dumberer? #skimming #ADD #noconcentration

The findings indicated that various benefits provided by the online environment were unquestionable. Aspects noted largely reflected the literature such as: much more information being available and accessible (Liu, 2005). Such demands resulted in an increase in reading speed, and more selective and more discerning reading (Flavian & Gurrea, 2007). However, the demands also resulted …

general interest July 20, 2014 Collaborations are the new genius

From the NYT: But the lone genius is a myth that has outlived its usefulness. Fortunately, a more truthful model is emerging: the creative network, as with the crowd-sourced Wikipedia or the writer’s room at “The Daily Show” or — the real heart of creativity — the intimate exchange of the creative pair, such as …

Uncategorized July 14, 2014 First we had "Happy," now that's TACKY!

http://www.nerdist.com/vepisode/weird-al-yankovic-gets-tacky-with-pharrells-happy/    

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