Articles of ‘Scott Thorp’

Gretchen Andrew is a rule-based artist challenging power structures by following the rules. Gretchen works in the realm of Google’s optimization algorithms to demonstrate she’s the “most relevant artist, ever.”

By Scott Thorp
“Hackers are free people, just like artists who wake up in the morning in a good mood and start painting,” stated Russian President Vladimir Putin as he denied Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (1). This is funny (ironic) coming from Putin. But in the overall spectrum of things, [...]

By Scott Thorp
When reflecting on a work of art, how often is the object of your attention a reproduction rather than the original? I’d guess it’s more often than you care to admit. Matt Sussman is an Oakland-based writer who earlier this year wrote a series of essays exploring “the aesthetic and affective [...]

Microclimates of nostalgia and exploration is how I describe the installations of Val Britton. Her complex work is composed of collaged paper forms floating and curving through space like weather patterns guided by gossamer tethers. In our discussion, Val openly comments on the evolution of her work and the relevance of maps as [...]

Scott Thorp is an artist, writer and educator specializing in creativity. He is chairperson of the Department of Art at Augusta University, as well as a contributing writer and editor for ARTPULSE. Additionally, he serves on the board of directors for Westobou Festival and is vice president of the Mid-America College Art Association. With an [...]

In the national conversation on racial inequity, one group is continuously left on the sideline-those who were here first. Given that Native Americans precedently inhabited America, one would think their inalienable rights should at least match those of any settlers. But as history demonstrates, they don’t.
Of the many atrocities against Native Americans, the [...]

By Scott Thorp
Alfredo Jaar’s view on politics is pointed. “We’re working with the awareness that politics has failed us, that politicians have failed us, that regrettably they’ve transformed politics into junk, that they’ve corrupted it, that they have insulted it [1].” This he revealed in a 2012 conversation with the conceptual artist and [...]