“Aleatoric Art, a new web-based not-for-profit gallery featuring artists whose practice blends new-age ritual with old-fashioned automatism is emanating from Houston. The site’s author, J. Coleman Miller, says the site “began as a way for me to catalog artists who deal with chance methods in composition” and will be updated twice yearly. He invites submissions from artists who think they fit it’s criteria. From Zoran Zugic’s surrealist fantasies to Mike Bloom’s abstract watercolor blots, the spirit of Arp, Ernst and Cage is alive and kicking, all against a background music of gentle waterfalls.”

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online - Aleatoric?!??!!.

“WE ARE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD VIDEOS

- like art?

- are you a clever gal/dude?

- have a knack for shooting and editing video?

SHOW US YOUR STUFF, AND WE COULD FEATURE YOU AS A REGULAR VIDEO CONTRIBUTOR ON GLASSTIRE!

We are looking for talented, aspiring videographers for regular gigs on Glasstire. For this call, please send a video walkthrough of an art exhibition. You may appear on the video, interview subjects or do voiceover (or any combination thereof). The subject matter and commentary are at your discretion. Exhibits in Texas preferred, but not required.”

Click below for complete details. *Deadline for Houston area extended to April 6, 2009

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online - Call for Video Auditions.

Douglas Britt brings to light some interesting administrative developments over at the University of Houston’s Blaffer Gallery…

Arts in Houston: Blaffer seeks new deputy director, calls terms of Vollmer’s departure ‘confidential’.

Cite magazine and the Rice Design Alliance have launched OffCite.org, a new blog about architecture and design in Houston and elsewhere, but, having caved to the digital-media future, they can’t quite swallow the internet’s populism: according to the press release, “blogs often broadcast personal angst or feast on political partisanship. When OffCite.org comes up on the screen, the elegant layout and lush photography immediately set it apart from the clamor and fray.” And we thought clamor and fray was the whole blog idea!

via Glasstire: Texas visual art online - Clamor and Fray, et al.