A.I.Miller

Flyman

2012-01-17T11:24:00.000-08:00

Character sketch for Episode 2 of the continuing adventures of Jessica Thimblewort and Vladof Vladimir.

Episode One

2012-01-17T09:39:00.000-08:00

Team Unicorn: Special Agent Rose

2012-01-08T07:12:00.000-08:00

Team Unicorn

2012-01-03T09:18:00.000-08:00

Perpendicularly Walking Machines

2011-12-15T09:30:00.000-08:00

Short Quick Comic.

Winter

2011-12-13T14:09:00.001-08:00

Ghost

2011-12-13T14:06:00.001-08:00

Small Study

2011-12-13T14:05:00.001-08:00

Old Painting

2011-12-09T20:33:00.000-08:00

Astronaut! A small painting on cardboard (with some mixed media, like spray adhesive and elmers glue)

Afghan Camel Painting

2011-12-05T09:50:00.000-08:00

Giant Bichon

2011-12-04T09:53:00.000-08:00

The fabled EFBOS
(Enormous Forest Bichon of Shenandoah )

Doppelgangers Character Sketches

2011-11-17T09:53:00.000-08:00

Astronaut 2

2011-02-20T09:23:00.000-08:00

Astronaut

2011-02-19T09:17:00.000-08:00

william burroughs?

2011-02-19T09:08:00.000-08:00

Zombie Wedding Animation

2010-10-07T06:52:00.000-07:00

Cyborg Lady

2010-08-19T20:06:00.001-07:00

A cyborg lady.

Naked Pixel People!

2010-06-16T03:39:00.000-07:00

Some Digital Paintings from MICA!

2010-02-04T11:24:00.001-08:00

-this one is still a work in progress.

Lucien Freud / Matrix mashup!

Doodle of someone

2009-07-15T10:48:00.000-07:00

Doodle of a bald person. Standing there.

More recent stuff

2009-07-13T16:28:00.000-07:00

A couple more paintings.

My cousins unattached head

Title: "When I grow up, I want to be a tyrannosaurus rex"
10' tall self portrait

Some older paintings

2009-07-13T16:15:00.000-07:00

Here are some different paintings from the last couple of years.

Conte-crayon drawing of Rose

Conte-crayon drawing of Rose

Painting of Rose's unattached head.

8' self portrait - two panels.

Self portrait using high intensity colors.

Robot Drawings

2009-04-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

For my thesis show I ended up scrapping the line following robots for many reasons. I instead created a couple of simple object avoiding robots based on the design found here:

I equipped on of them with a little spout that allowed me to pour ink into him and watch him draw pictures.

Artist Statement for Thesis Show

2009-04-17T12:34:00.000-07:00

AUTOBIOTECHNOLOGOPHAGE

Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile -- a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. People are nowhere near so fluid, being both material and opaque. Cyborgs are ether, quintessence.
—Donna Haraway

The Cosmic Schmuck Law, as defined by Robert Anton Wilson, holds that the more you suspect you may be thinking or acting like a Cosmic Schmuck, the less of a Cosmic Schmuck you become, and if you never suspect you might think or act like a Cosmic Schmuck, you will remain a Cosmic Schmuck for life.

Meaning, people who entertain the idea that their perception of reality is idiotic, tend to have less idiotic perceptions of reality.

My work is an attempt to seduce the viewer into reconsidering their ideas about reality and identity. The painting is a series of dysfunctions made to appear cohesive through paint; doppelgangers stitch each other together in front of a full bookshelf, and a tyrannosaurus sits nearby. None of the element fit nicely into any particular narrative. The dinosaur is out of place, dragged from the past and from imagination with awkward patches of paint. The robots are in the viewer’s space, expressing complex behaviors in reaction to “visual” stimuli; they function to extend the painting outside the picture plane and for me symbolize culture and language manifest as artifacts.

If I were to summarize this installation I would say that I am asking the viewer to adopt a more playful attitude about conceptions of identity and reality; to consider it a disjointed, changing and devious thing. The installation prompts the viewer with a reconfiguration of machines that commonly make up their world, and asks them to question the origin, purpose and validity of language, gender, culture, race, class, economy, nationality and history. I want them to consider these things machines that can be observed, analyzed, taken apart and reassembled, like the computer mice, tape recorders and VCR’s I cannibalized to create my robots.

RAR!

2009-04-17T12:27:00.000-07:00

I will post some images of the Robot drawings once I have photographs of them but for now here is a picture of my Senior Thesis show, before the reception.

The painting is 8 feet x 8 feet, and there are three robots total, though only two are visible in the picture.

I do not live in LA

2009-04-17T12:11:00.000-07:00

Surfing the internet of found a promotion for Tessar Lo's solo show and was excited because it looks super cool. However, i do not live in LA, so I am doomed to miss it.

Check his work though, it is nifty even in its digital reproductions.

He paints these mellow dreamlike underwatery landscapes populated by children, large stuffed bunnies. Intriguing and beautifully painted. They all say mixed media, and they look like some combination of gouche, watercolor and acrylic.

Tessar Lo's Website

Card for my Senior Show

2009-04-17T11:53:00.000-07:00

Its a bit late, but here is the sticker that I created to promote my Thesis show. There were only 200 printed and I believe they are all gone (except for the 10 i am saving.)

My opening was awesome, I did a short demonstration with my robots. I had them do three short drawings with india ink, and those drawings are now in the gallery with the rest of the show.

The show is actually coming down on Sunday at 2:00.

Thesis show update

2009-02-26T09:24:00.000-08:00

My thesis show now has a definite time and place!

My show will be in the 123 Gallery from April 13-17.

The reception will be April 13 at 5:00.

Now I just have to do the art...

Feminist Art Show

2009-02-26T07:49:00.000-08:00

One of my paintings will be in the Reve(a)ling: A Feminist Art Show coming up at GMU. The piece is title Bruised Banana and is a large oil painting on canvas. The reception will be at 4:00 pm on Monday, March 2nd at the 123 Gallery in the Johnson Center. At the opening, Prof. Ellen Wiley Todd of Art History will make some introductory comments.

Rose also was accepted into the show and she will be getting a prize for her awesomeness!

Everyone should be a feminist despite the negative connotations it has recently acquired. Feminism is not about man hating. Feminism is about establishing a standard for how humans behave towards one another independent of sex, gender, race or class.

Last Zombie today!

2009-02-16T02:32:00.000-08:00

One more zombie... for now.

Another Zombie

2009-02-16T01:03:00.001-08:00

I am staying up all night working, and drawing zombies helps keep me sane. That begs the question, do sane people feel compelled to draw zombies?

It is also a great distraction.

Here is an accompanying haiku.

Smelly zombie wanders.
Terror and mayhem ensues.
Grass sways in the breeze.

Some Zombies

2009-02-16T00:02:00.000-08:00

Zombies!
Only a little bit late to be valentine zombies.

The zombie stalks across the street
with waving arms and stubs for feet.
Though he is slow, and not to smart,
still he longs to taste your heart.

Something is missing

2009-02-11T18:34:00.000-08:00

I drew my hand today to practice "calligraphic line," but something is missing...

It is a little bit like the elephant optical illusion, where it has four legs and five feet.

Junkbot prototype! (failed...)

2009-02-11T18:13:00.001-08:00

Hooray!
I finished building the first of several Junkbots. This one however likes to spin in circles. So I have to fix that. This robot also killed two of my motors so I need to salvage more from somewhere.

It looks nifty though. I think I am going to build my own chassis rather than use the mouse case on the next one.

And I will post some images of the building process.

Studies for Thesis

2009-02-07T09:31:00.001-08:00

So for my show I going to be completing a series of five or six paintings, which will be mostly images of myself stitched together, literally and figuratively. My mother also sent me some photographs of a deer head that she is keeping in her refrigerator, and it may be incorporated into the series.

This is a painting by Jeremy Geddes, an amazing painter and illustrator, who has in many ways inspire me. You can probably tell.

A quick sketch in my notebook of headless stitched figure,

A quick two hour study using my hand and Geddes painting as source material, not quite as luscious as his.

I have to finish a draft of my proposal this weekend and will post that when finished.

Definitely look at Geddes work.
http://www.jeremygeddesart.com/
http://jeremygeddesart.blogspot.com/
http://beinart.org/artists/jeremy-geddes/

Furthering productive memes, or food for thought

2009-02-06T14:26:00.000-08:00

Here is an excerpt from and interview with Robert Anton Wilson by Jody Franklin on mungbeing.com.

Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was "a psychedelic philosopher, a postmodern trickster, an intellectual comedian, a twister ripping through the psyche," and he is currently providing me with much food for though while I am thinking about my senior thesis project.

He founded the Guns & Dope Party to combat the excesses of Tsarism. The three tenets that make up the party's platform are:

1. Guns for those who want them; no guns forced on those who don't want them [Quakers, Amish, pacifists in general etc.]
2. Drugs for those who want them; no drugs forced on those who don't want them [Christian Scientists, herbalists, homeopaths etc]
3. Bipedal unity -- equal rights for ostriches
4. Voluntary taxation: you pay for government programs you want; you don't pay a penny for any programs you don't want.

Any way, here a snippet of interview explaining some humorous and insightful ideas:

Let's seed them more widely right here! Can you explain to our readers what (Maybe Logic, the Snafu Law and the Cosmic Schmuck Law) are?

Maybe Logic is a label that got stuck on my ideas by filmmaker Lance Bauscher. I decided it fits. I certainly recognize the central importance in my thinking -- or in my stumbling and fumbling efforts to think -- of non-Aristotelian systems. That includes von Neumann's three-valued logic [true, false, maybe], Rappoport's four-valued logic [true, false, indeterminate, meaningless], Korzybski's multi-valued logic [degrees of probability.] and also Mahayana Buddhist paradoxical logic [it "is" A. it "is" not A, it "is" both A and not A, it "is" neither A nor not A]. But, as an extraordinarily stupid fellow, I can't use such systems until I reduce them to terms a simple mind like mine can handle, so I just preach that we'd all think and act more sanely if we had to use "maybe" a lot more often. Can you imagine a world with Jerry Falwell hollering "Maybe Jesus 'was' the son of God and maybe he hates Gay people as much as I do" -- or every tower in Islam resounding with "There 'is' no God except maybe Allah and maybe Mohammed is his prophet"?
The Snafu law holds that, the greater your power to punish, the less factual feedback you will receive. If you can fire people for telling you what you don't want to hear, you will only hear what you want. This law seems to apply to all authoritarian contraptions, especially governments and corporations. Concretely, I suspect Bozo knows factually less about the world than any dogcatcher in Biloxi. The Cosmic Schmuck law holds that [1] the more often you suspect you may be thinking or acting like a Cosmic Schmuck, the less of a Cosmic Schmuck you will become, year by year, and [2] if you never suspect you might think or act like a Cosmic Schmuck, you will remain a Cosmic Schmuck for life.

The entire interview is available at: www.mungbeing.com

Rose's Website!

2009-02-06T11:40:00.000-08:00

I finished Rose's website last week so now it is up and running!
www.deborahroseguterbock.com

Check out her paintings (The "Prophecy in Pink" was recently in the Honors show at GMU)

Art, and a zombie

2009-02-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

This is a painting from last fall. It isn't the greatest photograph.

more drawings (mostly in pastels)

2009-02-05T18:19:00.000-08:00

A couple more drawings,

Still life of my desk,

Model from a class with Chawky Frenn,

This is a self portrait from about three years ago in Rose's bra.

Old digital sketches

2009-02-05T18:14:00.000-08:00

Some more old images

A quick illustration of a scene from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story "Eyes of a Blue Dog"

An old doodle of a shrunken head.

Some old Ink Drawings

2009-02-05T16:50:00.000-08:00

There are a lot of images on my computer that have never seen the light of day.

Here are some old ink drawings from about three years ago.

These three are gestural drawings of Rose on a couch reading, drawn with a stick that I found outside and whittled to a point.

This was an in class sketch with a stick and wash,

Pen and wash of a butt,

Thesis Show: beginnings

2009-02-03T21:37:00.000-08:00

For my upcoming show I am going to build several variations on photo sensitive junkbots from old mice. There was one featured in Make a while ago (the second issue I believe.)

Some are going to photophobic (line followers) others phototropic.

I am waiting on some soldering equipment to salvage the bits I need.

Herbie Sample Plan