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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Cone of the past, point of the present. Diran Lyons’ Goodbye Victoria Artifact 5: Notes Written In Gilles Deleuze Text, a photographic print from Five + 5. To watch scenes from Lyons’ Deleuze-influenced movie, to go http://www.youtube.com/user/LYONSPOTTER.
Good things are afoot at [5]art.
The West Tampa exhibition space — synonymous with the quintet of artists who [...]

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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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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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A daylight shot shows the effects of a dozen mirror balls hanging from the Tampa Convention Center’s entrance portico, part of Chris Doyle’s Ecstatic City (Tampa).
Happy New Year, art lovers! What better way to ring in 2009 than by taking part in an event I think we can safely call, even at this early [...]

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Flocas 2008 opens tonight in Tampa, and I’ll tell you—my reaction to this project (the consortium of Florida university masters degree programs) is like, why didn’t someone think of this sooner? Best. Idea. Ever.
We have some really talented graduate students in the state, and it breaks my heart when they leave after graduation. We need [...]

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Jamey Grimes. Merge IV, 2007. Mylar, acetate, transparency film, thread. Courtesy DFAC.
This week in Creative Loafing:
These days, it’s hardly an exaggeration to call the evening news the stuff of nightmares. Between the implosion of Wall Street and the prospect of the other guy winning the election, the current state of national affairs might be enough [...]

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Rebecca Sexton Larson, Contemporary Retablo, “Before we can see” (verse: Henry David Thoreau). Mixed media on pinhole photographs, 29.5” x 28.” Courtesy sextonlarson.com.
Artsqueeze “hearts” Rebecca Sexton Larson and her ability to transform nearly any box-like object into a pinhole camera. (Pay a visit to the Big Draw Studio in Ruskin this week to see [...]

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A wall-mounted sculpture made of vynil records by Susan Janvrin of Papergeist.
Sooo… This is just a little recap of some things I saw last night for your reading pleasure.
I stopped by Art After Dark, the third Friday party-exhibit at the Tampa Museum of Art, to check out Sound Effects, an exhibit of music-related art [...]

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An update on Tampa-based artist Lori Ballard’s work, mentioned in this blog post recently. Tomorrow, an exhibit of her series of photo banners opens in Salt Lake City. Via email from Lori:
Saans Photography Gallery is thrilled to announce our dedication to promoting fine art photography. We will be featuring not only local but international photographers.
The [...]

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C. Wade Brickhouse, Paper Vessels, 2008. Courtesy Florida Craftsmen.
Most of you probably know the artists’ studios housed above Florida Craftsmen in downtown St. Petersburg as Artspace. I’m told by staff at FC, which owns the building, that a slight reorganization has taken place. The studios will be known as ArtLofts going forward, and the artists– [...]

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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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