Artist Statements Develop Over The Years

Presently I am applying for the Artadia grant for residents of San Francisco. I’ve been working on revising a 300 word artist statement. A wonderful byproduct of sorting out my computer files, and getting everything indexed on one machine is that I can see my growth. Below are a variety of iterations on an artistic …

Time To Preblog

After reading Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, my aunt Linda’s recent death, and the subsequent re-connection with family, I have been spending much of my energy thinking about cycles, relationships, temporarily, directionality, and scale. Convergence, overlap, pattern, and sequences also draw my attention. I will be releasing my writing in the order it was …

Rhizome 2010 Commission Proposal “Preblog” by Pete Ippel

Preblog: Time capsule to Midwestern Teenage Life Before the World Wide Web – Blogging as a 15-Year-Old and 30-Year-Old at the Same Time San Francisco based artist Pete Ippel travels to rural Illinois to unlock the fire-proof safe that’s been buried in the closet of his childhood home since 1997. Ippel investigates and interprets nearly …

100 Things to Enjoy, 2001

100 Things to Enjoy side view 100 Things to Enjoy top view 100 THings to Enjoy page veiw 100 Things to Enjoy Book Cover 1. Watching a 3am football game at Cornell in the snow and seeing people act like kids again. 2. Hugging Jennifer, putting my nose in her hair and smelling strawberries. 3. …

3D Internet Projects

Back in 2001-2002 I was experimenting with 3D Internet technologies. I was using Active Worlds in an artistic context as well as toying with Viewpoint and Cult 3D. The Cult 3D plugin works on Internet Explorer, and Firefox. Viewpoint Player works in many browsers as well. The above is a model of a demon maped …