This time, Paul talks with Ryan Hamilton and Jencey Hirunrusme of Smile Smile about their very personal new album, Truth on Tape.

This week, Paul talks with Denton’s Midlake about one of the most hotly anticipated releases of the year, The Courage of Others.

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This week, Paul talks with Chris Holt of The Slack about the band’s new album, The Deep End.

UPDATE: You can now see all subsequent episodes of “Track By Track” (and subscribe to the feed) at the official podcast page.

Art&Seek is launching a new podcast!  ‘Track By Track” will appear every other week on Art&Seek and features KERA 90.1 at Night host Paul Slavens talking with musical artists about the creation process of [...]

Brad Kuhl
Brad Kuhl collects his imagery form television and movies, switching from channel to channel and movie to movie hunting for specific types of images. Kuhl is interested in “looking at television, not watching it”. Kuhl compiles his images into both printed and animated grids of images. Each moving image or [...]

What are the consequences of a world where so many personal and collective mindsets are shaped by the interpretation and decoding of imagery?
A generational disconnect has come to exist between people who have grown up using imagery as a means to send and receive essential messages and those who have not.
This is glaringly [...]

Penelope Umbrico
Gathering much of her subject matter from mail order catalogs, the source images Penelope Umbrico uses are almost always meant to make us desire something. Umbrico selects, categorizes and isolates one element from a larger image. Often these images are scanned and re-printed for exhibition. Penelope Umbrico’s Your Choice is a looping [...]

Every day this week, Associate Professor Michael Gibson and Assistant Professor Keith Owens, who both teach communication design in UNT’s Department of Design, will address a different question related to thinking critically about what we absorb visually. Technology brings us Facebook and You Tube, allows us to connect in an instant with people all over [...]

Sunset by Time
Jim Bumgardner, a.k.a. JBum a.k.a. Krazydad, participates, develops, and makes thoughtful work about the phenomenon of the mass proliferation and distribution of visual information. Bumgardner works at Yahoo as a designer and programmer, maintains a blog (krazydad.com) and flickr page, teaches art and lectures on a variety of technology and art [...]