http://huntercross.com Art, Music, Web Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:50:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently received word that my session "Exhibiting Software" has been selected for the 2008 Ubuntu Live Conference. I am so excited to be involved and look forward to learning from everyone there. Ubuntu is a relatively new flavor of the Linux operating system that is aiming to be ... http://huntercross.com/archive/ubuntu-live-2008/ There is a local web designer named Kaz Raad re-selling my work without my permission. Dear Kaz, stop being a jerk and charging people for stuff I made that you modified slightly. If you are working with him, please know that he is charging you for work that I ... http://huntercross.com/archive/copy-mountain/ Open Doors Expansion opened this past weekend. These are a few photos of my installation, Stairway followed by pictures of the work in progress and the original scale model. The work features a 20-foot steel staircase with a 6-inch cement base that surrounds ... http://huntercross.com/archive/stairway/ ### Reception: November 17, 2007, 7 ~ 9:30p Dallas Contemporary announces its upcoming exhibition Open Doors Expansion, is viewable Saturday, November 10 through January 12, 2008. Open Doors Expansion features large-scale, site-specific installation works by Open Doors Collective, an Austin, Texas based group of artists. A members' opening reception, ... http://huntercross.com/archive/open-doors-expansion/ [Update: Oct. 31 2007 - I have stopped collecting trophies for this project and begun installing the work at The Dallas Contemporary. If you have not received a DHL waybill in the mail, then I will not be able to use your trophies inthis project and I apologize for any ... http://huntercross.com/archive/call-for-trophies/ Social Behavior and Organization Among Vertebrates presents societal forces such as reproduction, co-operation and competition with charismatic science. Serving as a thorough introduction to evidence gathered by his zoologist buddies, William Etkin describes animal society as a structured web of interactions created by individuals co-operating and competing in response ... http://huntercross.com/archive/among-vertebrates/ In order to read Salon's wonderful interview with Steven Johnson, an author admirably obsessed with emergence and urban systems, you must first click through a History Channel interstitial advertisement for its new show about plane-based killing, coyly named **Dogfights**. This is the passing glance, the war seeping into ... http://huntercross.com/archive/soapbox-optional/ Summer 2006 was busy. A rare, perfect strain of busy. With the help of motivated clients, I launched 6 websites, developed 4 WordPress plugins and embraced Subversion to track code changes. I no longer program from scratch what others have perfected. I am a gatherer, an installer, a ... http://huntercross.com/archive/well-built-websites/ My project, High Five, involves covering the roofs of 5 downtown Austin, TX buildings with violet tarp material in order to show up on the satellite imagery provided to services such as Google Maps. The proposal for High Five recently opened as part of Arthouse's annual New American Talent ... http://huntercross.com/archive/arthouse-highfive/ I've made some significant updates to my site's art portfolio. Older works have now been included, more pictures added, more context given. The newer works from Open Doors Collective's In Between are finally included. The selected works are organized by year because organizing by format feels limited. ... http://huntercross.com/archive/site-update-2006/