![Colby Bird, "House Lamps," Photo by: Colin Doyle.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118095918im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BIRC_Installation2.5-150x150.jpg)
Interview with Colby Bird
Colby Bird is an artist born and raised in Austin, now living in Brooklyn, New York. He often blends the discourses of photography and sculpture, and is currently exhibiting 100 handmade house lamps at the Texas State Galleries in San Marcos. I met up with him to discuss the comfort of a studio practice, craft [...]
![“And That’s The Way It Is,” 2012. 6-Channel Video Projection. Photo by Paul Bardagjy.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118095918im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/MG9C7450_edit-3-150x150.jpg)
Interview with Ben Rubin
Ben Rubin is a media artist living in New York City who recently unveiled his 6-channel video projection, And That’s The Way It Is . . . on the University of Texas campus. The video presents archived text from Walter Cronkite’s newscasts and closed caption text from contemporary news feeds. Rubin’s work is in the [...]
![Interview with Waltercio Caldas](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118095918im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/w-image-150x150.jpg)
Interview with Waltercio Caldas
Portrait of Waltercio Caldas, image from http://blogs.elpais.com/el_rincon_del_distraido/2011/02/levedad-y-exactitud.html Waltercio Caldas is one of Brazil’s leading contemporary artists. His work is often linked to Neo-Concretism, a movement in Rio de Janerio in the 1960s that included artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Caldas is currently planning a retrospective spanning four decades of his work to [...]
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Interview with Fusebox Founder Ron Berry
Ron Berry is the founder and director of the annual Austin performance festival Fusebox. Katie Geha (who with Sterling Allen and Travis Kent organized Files Desks Chairs for the Fusebox Festival Hub) sat down with Berry to discuss hybridity in arts, difficult works and the importance of starting conversations in Austin. Fusebox runs from April [...]
![2012 Spring Preview](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/glasstire/20130118095918im_/http://glasstire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/PIC4-alt-potemkin-150x150.jpg)
2012 Spring Preview
Glasstire’s contributors suss out the season’s most promising shows. AUSTIN Evidence of Houdini’s Return Arthouse/AMOA January 4 – March 4, 2012 Arthouse and AMOA are officially conjoined twins and, as such, will be mounting an abstraction exhibition, Evidence of Houdini’s Return. While the title is slightly obscure (it’s also the title of a painting by [...]