Are.na Walkthrough With Travess Smalley & Daniel Lefcourt (16 Aug 2024)

Published: 27 Sep 2024 | Updated: 27 Sep 2024

Herein you'll find my notes from a virtual Are.na walkthrough: Travess Smalley & Daniel Lefcourt. They discussed how they use it to develop their ideas.

Travess and Daniel are going to be talking about visualizing sound and graphic notation, and walking us through their Are.na channels collecting examples of this kind of work. Both are wonderful artists who work with generative systems, so they will also relate these practices to their own work.

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Save everything you find interesting. You never know how it might inspire something later.
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Art is a language. And just as we study books to find how we write, we can study artworks to discover how we express ourselves.
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Paper is an excellent tool for processing information and engaging with a work.