The seventh annual Ybor Festival of the Moving Image (what the hell– let’s call it FoMI) has released its schedule of events.

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Thomas Allen. Fancy, 2006. 20 x 24 inches, chromogenic print. Courtesy Foley Gallery.
Who says pop-up books are for kids? Just check out artist Thomas Allen’s sly constructions, crafted from pulp fiction book covers and beautifully photographed to produce images that resonate with adult concerns: eroticism, repression and the enticements of nostalgia’s mirage.
Learn how to [...]

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Screenshot of World, Santiago Echeverry’s interactive database of 1874 cellphone videos. Courtesy santiago.cn.
For the past three years, Creative Loafing’s annual Sensory Overload has combined visual art, performance and music in an event of extravagant proportions. This year’s installment, Sensory Overload 4.0, aspires to be bigger and better than ever (of course) and distinct from [...]

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Christina Nguyen Hung. McCarshcroft: a morphology of extremism. Image of a 200 mm. square petri dish with nutrient agar and the bacterium S. marcescens grown to form a Joseph McCarthy/John Ashcroft hybrid. Color digital print 47” x 47.” Courtesy christinahung.net.
The University of Tampa’s Electronics Alive, a biennial invitational of digital art, continues through Mar. [...]

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This life-sized work by UF alum Matt Schaffer is featured in Florida Fire at Florida Craftsmen Gallery.
Dunedin collector Mindy Solomon, who curated Florida Fire: the UF Ceramic Faculty Experience, currently on view at Florida Crafstmen Gallery, will speak tonight on a panel about collecting contemporary ceramics with UF professor Anna Callouri-Holcombe, whose work is [...]

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Audio interview between Jim Wegener and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo with images of the artist’s work, via cynthialawson.com.
Every two years, the University of Tampa hosts Electronics Alive, an invitational exhibition of computer animated shorts, graphics and otherwise digital artworks with a global flair. During the exhibit, which runs through Mar. 24 and takes place in [...]

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Tonight’s the last chance to check out a performance by St. Petersburg-based “image-maker” Alice Ferrulo of Black Horse Theatre, whose creations meld theater, dance and visual art. Portraiture: In Three Movements is her take on Olivia, a composite personality inspired by portraits of former substance abusers by painter Thomas Murray (formerly of the Bay area, [...]

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This just landed in my inbox this morning:
Ringling Student Art Sale Comes to Campus Saturday, January 31!
On Saturday, January 31 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., Ringling College of Art and Design presents a one-day creative collaboration of emerging artists work along with an art materials showcase featuring top brands.
The art exhibition and sale [...]

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Leslie Shows. The Au Layer/ Storm Reflecting in a Pool, 2008. Collage and acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, via SFGate.com.
If you don’t already keep an ear out for visiting artist/scholar talks at the University of South Florida’s College of Visual and Performing Arts on a regular [...]

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Tomorrow, Tampa Bay Creative Network (not the same as Creative Tampa Bay, a different local group whose advisory network I sit on) presents Jelly, a casual co-working experience. More and more of us these days (especially artists and creative industry workers) seem to be living the free agent lifestyle, either out of layoff-driven necessity or [...]

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Check out Creative Loafing’s cover story for your guide to Lights On Tampa action this weekend. Drop in on tomorrow’s symposium at 4 p.m. at Tampa Theatre. Listen to CL’s ArtsSpeak podcast on LOT (below). And—if you’re really a glutton for punishment—tune in to see me and Casa Magica artists Sabine Weissinger and Friedrich Foerster [...]

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Tes One. Change We Made. 45”x60”, 2008.
Artworks by four Tampa Bay artists—Tes One, Bask and Phillip Clark and Chad Mize of Bluelucy—are headed to Washington, DC, where they will be featured in Manifest Hope, an exhibit celebrating the election of Barack Obama.
Shepard Fairey’s now-iconic, red-and-blue portrait of the president elect will serve as the [...]

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