ART FOR HUMANS Lead Artist Paul McLean is accomplished in new & traditional fine art media and a pioneer in dimensional production and integrated exhibit practice.

McLean begins doctoral studies at the European Graduate School in Summer 2010 [Communications and Media]

The artist's current projects include:

• Gramática Parda
• Notes on Dimensional Time
• Matterhorn Project
• New paintings in the "I Love You, Monster" and 1000 Revolutionary Actions Series
• A new online book project, a sequel to the thesis, called "THERE'S NO ART IN HELL"
• An AFH proposal for a new WPA - the NEW Art in Action program [NAIA]
• The launch of the AFH MONSTER COLLECTIVE site and the AFHMC Social Network [Ning], to support a major collective production in conjunction with the ILUM + 1000RA project sequence
• The launch of two new AFH Ning projects to prototype proposasl included in McLean's responses to questions posed during the Artists Perspective section of the six-week National Endowment for the Arts/Federal Arts Policy Forum (hosted by WESTAF, the Western States Arts Federation on Barry's Blog); McLean was one of nine US artists invited to particpate on this historic panel forum, which included luminaries spanning the arts field
  • The AFH Artists Portrait Project
  • The International Artists Union - USA
• A family of new blogs
  • Real "PURE" Digital
  • "I Love You, Monster" Exhibit Design
  • ALT.dimension
  • HOW TO START A COLLECTIVE DURING A RECESSION
  • CURSOR
  • Defining Art
  • Transthesis
  • VisiOn + Beauty
  • Proposals
  • American Road
  • Cali Car Culture
  • Transmissions from Marfa
  • NOT AN ARTIST
  • White Buffalo: The story of a Mayan prince & others; Paul Joseph McLean among the scholars of war
• The expansion of 4Dpop (through 2010+) into a Web 2.0/3.0 nexus for Dimensional Art + Digital Humanities exploration & collaboration
  • Features such as an AFH Delicious site and an AFH Zotero library will add to research transparency and invite participatory threading mechanics (access to Zotero library by invitation and request)
  • We plan to add moderated forums, several unified WIKI apps, polling and syllabus/curriculum repositories, and CMS tools for creative/educational collaborative production
    • AFH WIKI
• A November 2009 exhibition of "I Love You, Monster" to complement the Peter Drucker Centennial presentation of "Song of the Brush" (see Thesis)
• New animations, audio projects and video works (see AFH YouTube)
• The establishment of the American Commonwealth Party
• Much more

LONG-TERM GOALS (General Aesthetic):

• The establishment of a multi-use facility for 4D production, presentation, conservation and education (+ community-building)
• The promotion and support of Dimensional (4D) studies worldwide, including:
  • The establishment of a 4D Archive
  • A library for documentation of 4D production, a catalog of historical references and influences, and other helpful humanities aids
  • The development of a practicum for Dimensional art methods, in all modes (New + Traditional Media)
• The establishment of a Dimensional (4D) Art Festival

LONG-TERM GOALS (Artistic):

• The production of "I Love You, Monster" | An American Opera (14-year timeline, starting in 2010)

Those interested in participating in any of the programs/productions/projects described above please contact the artist at artforhumans (at) gmail (dot) com.

Paul is now seeking to establlish a permanent base attached to an educational institution, and an appropriate Doctoral program for further dimensional studies. Click HERE to view the Craig's List ad (BETA - not posted yet).