Dr. Sandra Olsen will discuss Selections from the Permanent Collection: Her interview appear on Time-Warner Cable's "Crossroads: Eye on the Arts" 7/2/07 at 3 pm (ET).UB Art Gallery Director Dr. Sandra Olsen will appear in a television interview on "Crossroads: Eye on the Arts," produced by James Braun. The show will air 3:00 p.m. (ET) on July 2nd. Dr. Olsen will discuss the history and mission of UB's permanent collection, which is housed at UB Anderson Gallery. Her interview will focus on the current summer exhibition, Selections from the Permanent Collection. The program will feature images from the show.

Walter Raleigh isn’t mentioned in Harding and Taigel’s essay ‘An Air of Detachment: Town Gardens in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’ possibly because he was beheaded in the early 17th century. But lacking inclusion hasn’t diminished his reputation as a smoker and, more to the point, an early adopter of Peruvian cuisine. As a dedicated consumer of both Nicotiana tabacum and Solanum tuberosum I was anxious to interview one of the first Englishmen to share my addictions. Walter refused to conduct an email interview so we met last Saturday night at the Harcourt Arms in Oxford while he was in town to wrap up some business at Oriel College.

CP: The most important contribution for art of the so-called New Technologies is that they introduce and/or let appear new process and forms of thinking. Is it possible to define them and their characteristics?

Do you think that New Technologies reveal these forms of thinking or that they introduce some kind of innovation in terms of methodological thinking?

Q & A with Abbe DeLozier and Vickie Karp (Editors of "HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America")

After nearly a year of effort, editors Abbe Waldman DeLozier and Vickie Karp have compiled an astounding and weighty treatise on the issue of electronic vote fraud, its implication to the loss of our democratic process, and why Americans must start TODAY to reclaim their elections.

There were points in the early 90’s, when New Media was called Cyberarts, when I had not thought about the role fo the later sage New Media artist. What do I mean by this? When I speak of the later-stage New Media artist, I’m talking about the artist in their late 40’s or even 50’s who has a different set of experiences and skills than the 20-something who is whipping together amazing code-based works. It’s my belief that not only do their mental processes necessitate different practices, but their experiences provide a different civic responsibility for their utilization. However, this also necessitates a delicate statement to be made regarding the role of that artist in the creative process as well.

On the telephone, artist Wolfgang Staehle stated that I should get out of the house, that we all should get out of the house. ‘It is a kind of exercise.’ He suggested a small gathering at 149 Ludlow. The ground floor was being prepped for a sound installation by THE THING residency artist Mukul Patel, and a table could be set centre to host 8 to 10 people, sipping on bouillabaisse.

It is a very grand idea, indeed, to have a dinner party and an installation simultaneously. I was there.