Talking About Co-Working
Salon 111 focuses on the artists involved in Techspressionism Co-Working, created by Cynthia Beth Rubin and Cynthia DiDonato in July 2023. As described by Rubin and DiDonato: “Co-Working provides focus and creative inspiration for artists who want another meaningful and personal way to connect.”
Techspressionist Co-Working sessions are weekly free, Zoom-based gatherings that offer a focused, supportive space for artists to connect and create together. Each session begins with brief intentions, followed by one hour of independent work and an optional share-out. Total time: 1.5 hours. Artists meet on Zoom every Tuesday at noon, Eastern Time. If you would like to participate in co-working, a registration link is here.
Participating artists in this Salon will discuss how Techspressionism Co-Working impacts their creative work, including how structured time coupled with group feedback provides new insights or approaches ranging from aesthetics to software suggestions and technical advice, to simple accountability and focused work time. Additionally, co-workers will point to how sharing knowledge of reference materials from art history, culture, science enriches their practice.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Cynthia DiDonato
Providence, RI USA
http://cynthiadidonato.weebly.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cdidonato_art
Susan Lynn Detroy
Eugene, Oregon, USA
https://www.susandetroy.com
https://www.instagram.com/more_susandetroyartist
Cynthia Beth Rubin
New Haven, CT USA
https://CBRubin.com
https://www.instagram.com/cbrubinstudio
Michael Woodruff
London, UK
https://www.instagram.com/nectarmotion/
Michael Pierre Price
Phoenix, AZ, USA
https://www.michaelpierreprice.com
Bob Prata
Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA
https://www.instagram.com/RobertPrataArtist
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Miami Beach, FL, USA
https://web.archive.org/web/20070502071752/
http://www.geocities.com/cdavewesterman/
https://www.instagram.com/nstgrm_cha/
Stephen Paré
Houston, Texas, USA
https://www.stephenpare.art
https://www.instagram.com/verbonnet/
Sahar Moussavi
Iran
https://www.instagram.com/saharmoussavi_/
Mary Ahern
Northport, NY, USA
https://MaryAhernArtist.com
https://www.instagram.com/maryahern/
Karen LaFleur
Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
https://lafleurartworks.com
https://www.instagram.com/lafleurartworks
Dimitrije Martinovic
Toronto, Ontario Canada
https://www.instagram.com/d9.martinovic
https://www.instagram.com/polka_vox
Marya Triandafellos
New York, NY, USA
https://www.instagram.com/Marya.NYC
Lee Musgrave
White Salmon, WA, USA
https://www.leemusgrave.com
https://www.instagram.com/LeeMusgrave_art
Allen Hirsh
Chevy Chase, MD, USA
https://allenhirshartist.com/
https://www.instagram.com/the_abstract_gardener/
Techspressionist Salons now incorporate Zoom translated captions, which enable users to have the speech in a meeting or webinar automatically translated in real-time to captions in another language. For example, if the speaker is speaking English in a meeting, captions can be made available in Spanish, Chinese, Ukrainian, and more. Many thanks to Cynthia Beth Rubin for taking the lead on this initiative. Instructions on how to enable translated captions are available for mobile and desktop.
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Attendance is free,
but pre-registration is required.
Artists in attendance are always invited to share their work via screen-sharing.
Salon: 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Afterparty: After recording stops (1:30-???) – do you want to be on the Techspressionism advisory board? It’s the peeps at the afterparty.
If you would like to share your work via screen-sharing, please arrive at 11:45.
THIS JAM WILL BE RECORDED.
Techspressionist Salons are a time and place in cyberspace where artists gather once a month to hang out, share their work and discuss matters relating to art, philosophy, and technology. These meetups were conceived as a modern counterpart to the Surrealist salons of the 1920s and 1930s , in which artists could meet informally to socialize and discuss ideas. Techspressionism is a 100% volunteer-based international artist community.
The First Techspressionist Salon was held on September 1, 2020, and included artists Colin Goldberg, Patrick Lichty, Steve Miller and Oz Van Rosen, as well as art historian Helen Harrison.
In 1990, after serving as curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY, director of the Public Art Preservation Committee in Manhattan, and curator of Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, Ms. Harrison became the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, a National Historic Landmark museum and the former home of Abstract Expressionist painters Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. She served as Director of this National Historic Landmark museum and research collection in East Hampton from 1990 until retiring from her post in 2024. Ms. Harrison continues to serve Techspressionist artistic community in an advisory role.
During this first Salon session, the working definition of Techspressionism was decided upon by the participants as: “An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.”
Artist Davonte Bradley (aka DAVO) proposed the idea of recording the Salons and publishing them on the Techspressionism YouTube Channel, which was implemented starting with Salon #8.
Salons are moderated by a rotating panel of artist volunteers. After the recording ends, artists are welcome to hang out for the afterparty (aka advisory board meeting), in which the topic for the next Salon is decided upon, and other community-related ideas are discussed.
