EL Putnam
@fleshandcircuit.bsky.social
artist-philosopher; performer; creative coder www.elputnam.com
Livestreaming from @uminnpress.bsky.social in the wild! Someone just sent me this photo from a bookstore in Berkeley!
December 11, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Livestreaming from @uminnpress.bsky.social in the wild! Someone just sent me this photo from a bookstore in Berkeley!
cold water / golden light
December 9, 2024 at 7:52 PM
cold water / golden light
Let the Mirror Express the Room, the Westmeath Artists Award Exhibition at Luan Gallery Atholone curated by Benjamin Stafford (with over 30 Westmeath artists) opened last night. Show is up until 2 February and you can also check out my piece Displacement from the bridge next to the Gallery.
November 30, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Let the Mirror Express the Room, the Westmeath Artists Award Exhibition at Luan Gallery Atholone curated by Benjamin Stafford (with over 30 Westmeath artists) opened last night. Show is up until 2 February and you can also check out my piece Displacement from the bridge next to the Gallery.
magic on the surface
November 23, 2024 at 2:02 PM
magic on the surface
My video work Displacement has been selected for inclusion in the Westmeath Artists' Award exhibition, Let the Mirror Express the Room, curated by Benjamin Stafford at Luan Gallery in Athlone, opening next Friday 29 November at 6 pm. Show is up until 2 February 2025.
November 21, 2024 at 8:07 PM
My video work Displacement has been selected for inclusion in the Westmeath Artists' Award exhibition, Let the Mirror Express the Room, curated by Benjamin Stafford at Luan Gallery in Athlone, opening next Friday 29 November at 6 pm. Show is up until 2 February 2025.
breaking through the surface
November 20, 2024 at 8:51 PM
breaking through the surface
the underside of rain
November 18, 2024 at 7:35 PM
the underside of rain
watching an oak leaf drift
November 15, 2024 at 8:15 PM
watching an oak leaf drift
Currently reading. Highly recommend.
November 13, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Currently reading. Highly recommend.
I have taken to throwing myself in cold water again.
November 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I have taken to throwing myself in cold water again.
A time lapse/layered video from the first hour of the performance Imbue with Spirit (when GoPro battery died, actual performance duration was 2.5 hours) I recently presented at Bankley Gallery as part of the ongoing exhibition Planetary Thinking by the Cosmotechnics Group.
November 11, 2024 at 10:38 AM
A time lapse/layered video from the first hour of the performance Imbue with Spirit (when GoPro battery died, actual performance duration was 2.5 hours) I recently presented at Bankley Gallery as part of the ongoing exhibition Planetary Thinking by the Cosmotechnics Group.
I am well into shooting and editing for the forthcoming exhibition, Under the Feet of Shadows, at Mart Gallery in Dublin this September. Created in collaboration with Irish author Mike McCormack, we are developing a speculative origin myth for a yet-to-be built data centre in rural Ireland.
July 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
I am well into shooting and editing for the forthcoming exhibition, Under the Feet of Shadows, at Mart Gallery in Dublin this September. Created in collaboration with Irish author Mike McCormack, we are developing a speculative origin myth for a yet-to-be built data centre in rural Ireland.
fieldMode is intended to evoke the emotional complexities that can emerge when using techs, particularly those anxieties when tech breaks down.
April 13, 2024 at 11:04 AM
fieldMode is intended to evoke the emotional complexities that can emerge when using techs, particularly those anxieties when tech breaks down.
For my class on speculative fiction, I made a speculative eLearning tool with #p5js I am calling ProfBot as an alternative to powerpoint.
April 13, 2024 at 9:49 AM
For my class on speculative fiction, I made a speculative eLearning tool with #p5js I am calling ProfBot as an alternative to powerpoint.
I just received hard copies of my latest book, Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter, coming out soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social
January 9, 2024 at 1:52 PM
I just received hard copies of my latest book, Livestreaming: An Aesthetics and Ethics of Technical Encounter, coming out soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social
Today in Academic spam…
December 7, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Today in Academic spam…
I didn’t intend to become one of the those cold water swimmers, but here we are
November 30, 2023 at 2:25 PM
I didn’t intend to become one of the those cold water swimmers, but here we are
My piece Surface Tension is being presented as part of the Evaporate Festival at the Boston waterworks museum this weekend. It is comprised of performed gestures in Lough Lene in Ireland recorded with a hydrophone. The 4 hour 30 min sound piece does not loop and will only be played in full once.
November 3, 2023 at 9:00 PM
My piece Surface Tension is being presented as part of the Evaporate Festival at the Boston waterworks museum this weekend. It is comprised of performed gestures in Lough Lene in Ireland recorded with a hydrophone. The 4 hour 30 min sound piece does not loop and will only be played in full once.
From video to audio. Working on Surface Tension sound performance for Evaporate at Boston Waterworks Museum (unfortunately won’t get to be there)
October 25, 2023 at 6:31 PM
From video to audio. Working on Surface Tension sound performance for Evaporate at Boston Waterworks Museum (unfortunately won’t get to be there)
I have really been enjoying making visuals for a classical music trio. I am going all out with the cool weirdness.
October 24, 2023 at 8:00 PM
I have really been enjoying making visuals for a classical music trio. I am going all out with the cool weirdness.
A fictional character you’d give an invite code to
October 22, 2023 at 6:48 PM
A fictional character you’d give an invite code to