Sensory Overload 4.0 has come and gone, but you can watch video of the event on YouTube (above) and check out pictures on Flickr (click on the image of artist Valerie George below). Congratulations to the judges’ choice winner of the student competition, Thomas Pregiato, Ringling College of Art and Design, and the audience favorite [...]

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3D rendering from Giancarlo Giusti’s Occupiable Highways
For the past two years, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing the artists who participated in Creative Loafing’s Sensory Overload and writing about their work in advance of the event—but I’ve never been involved in planning the annual art-music-performance party. This year, after CL staffers decided that Sensory Overload [...]

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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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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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Becky Flanders, “Untitled (from the Archetype series),” 2007, archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

Last week in Creative Loafing, I wrote about the work of Becky Flanders, a USF MFA student, whose work I just think is incredibly promising. One of the joys of encountering her photographs - and sculptural pieces as well as [...]

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Jade Dellinger, curator of MashUp at USF CAM, sent me a link to this highly amusing video earlier today. My only disappointment: the reporter didn’t rock out (which everyone else who participates in the project does) before smashing the guitar. I was there on Friday night for the opening and additional guitar smashings - most [...]

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Laura Bergeron helps a walker pick her poison.
A couple of weeks ago, I got to hang out with a group of USF students staging a collaborative performance designed to draw attention to the way we walk—or, most often, don’t walk—in Tampa Bay. (See the previous post, Desert Walk at Sulphur Springs, for more information about [...]

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Sous les pavés, la plage? Raul Romero (front), Victoria Skelly and Alan Moore walk the cracks at Big K.
It must have been about 90 degrees today on the expansive blacktop of K-mart’s concrete parking lot. That didn’t stop University of South Florida student Raul Romero from staging a relational performance titled “Desert Walk” in [...]

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A Non Grata performance in Boston last year. Courtesy nongrata.ee
Is it just me—or is the number of art events taking place this weekend insane?
On Friday, it’s a tough call. If you stop by [5]art at the West Tampa Center for the Arts for their Polaroid Show, you can also see the FLOCAS show of [...]

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