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Report from NY: Creative Time Summit - art ltd. magazine

Christian L. Frock, art ltd., January 2012

Now in its third year, the Creative Time Summit is an annual daylong conference in New York on socially engaged contemporary art practice. As a trans-disciplinary form of art making, social practices are challenging to categorize; other names include "relational aesthetics" and "public practices."ÊEach term attempts to corral cultural production that zigzags between politics, activism, social services and what Robert Henri called art spirit.

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JD Beltran's 'Portal' Considers Our Relationship to Time and Place: Movies | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

Christian L. Frock, KQED Visual Arts, December 20, 2011

Throughout December, San Francisco-based artist JD Beltran's public video projection Portal (2011) is visible in the evenings in downtown San Jose, at the intersection of Almaden Boulevard and East San Fernando Street. Projected from the median onto the windowless exterior of a twelve-story AT&T building, Beltran's video draws on the local discovery of fossilized remains from a 14,000-year-old juvenile Columbian mammoth, now known as Lupe. Portal mines this recent discovery to explore our relationship to time and place through a collection of morphing images visible in the space of a red light.

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