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 University of Tampa’s digital art biennial Electronics Alive closes Mar. 24. Check out the exhibit– and a screening of award-winning 3D animations that takes place at UT’s Reeves Theater tomorrow night.

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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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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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On Friday, artists Yoko Nogami and Maria Saraceno appeared on JoEllen Schilke’s WMNF program, Art In Your Ear. Here’s a link to the MP3 online. (The interview with Nogami and Saraceno begins just past the half-way point in the program.)
On Friday, the Dunedin Fine Art Center opened Dreams, a group of five exhibits that includes [...]

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Jeppe Hein
Smoking Bench, 2003
Fog machine, bench (stainless steel and leather), mirror
Courtesy Johann König, Berlin
For most folks, Sarasota’s John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is synonymous with Old Master style: ginormous Rubens tapestries, Italian canvases in dramatic chiaroscuro, twisting Baroque columns. In comparison, the Ringling’s current exhibit of modern art from the mid- to late-20th [...]

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On Friday night, I paid a visit to Pride & Passion 2008, the Tampa Museum of Art’s annual celebration of gay pride, to check out Equilibrium, a one-night exhibit featuring three Tampa-based GLBT artists: Jen Saavedra, Santiago Echeverry and Kurt Piazza. Wish y’all could see the exhibit, but it’s gone now. Instead, check out this [...]

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Janae Easton
Golden Locks that Moss Grew, 2008
Floral foam, dried plant material, wrapping paper, Mylar, found paper, pen, colored pencil and polymer clay
Courtesy of the artist
If you haven’t been to see the exhibit Drawing Beyond the Plane at the Tampa Museum of Art, I urge you to drop everything and head over today (Saturday) to catch [...]

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Alan Moore has combined two of my favorite things—art books and Airstream trailers—into the Moving Thought Bookmobile. Click here to visit his blog, where you can see photos of the books and read about the project’s development.
The bookmobile is merely one among many attractions beckoning art lovers tonight to Seminole Heights for Neighborhood Watch: Projection [...]

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