Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

It is finally summer time and what that means here is time to destroy paintings. We have a second bedroom full of works of art that will either go one of two places: to your house or to the fire. Literally.  read more »

I have been working on this program for several days, attempting to start from scratch and write the entire program myself by using what I have already learned from the previous work in file input-output (IO). For this program, instead of copying a tutorial, I determined the design of my program before I began to code and set it within the linguistic parameters of what I knew, which at this point was only IO. We got rid of the textbook and have been tailoring my lessons more closely with what it is that I want to learn.  read more »

I resumed training in java this week, requesting that Rebecca teach me some things about reading and writing to external files. Now that I have a rough beginning in programming java, I have decided that I want to learn how to access database files and mine the information. So after I have the groundwork laid for understanding IO interfaces, I will soon learn about algorithms.  read more »

I have been listening to a podcast from the MoMA THINK series on Brice Marden, following his retrospective at the museum. Brice Marden has quickly become a hot item in the past 30 years (is that quickly), but people are collecting and talking about him in the "art scene." The podcast is of a panel including Francesco Clemente and Christopher Wool (others as well) discussing Marden's work and forms.  read more »

I have been reading Steven Best and Douglas Kellner's Postmodern Theory over the past week. I believe I will be able to retain this information if I put some of my thoughts down into writing.  read more »

The following text is taken from a presentation I gave on my work up to the end of my first semester in graduate school. It follows a powerpoint presentation.  read more »

These are images from a show in the White Gallery. I worked with six other artists in collecting all the receipts from every transaction we made. This show was an analysis of that experiment and the resulting data.  read more »

What follows are excerpts from a conversation with Julie Jacobson about my paintings at the beginning of graduate school. Her questions are highlighted and my answers are the responses.  read more »

/** * */ package tutorial;

import edu.byu.phun.*;
import edu.byu.phun.body.*;

/**
* @author Wayne
*
*/
public class TutorialMain {  read more »

/** * */ package echo;

import java.util.Scanner;

/**
* @author wayne
*
*/
public class TheCodeB {

/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scan = new Scanner (System.in);
double pounds, kilos;
System.out.println("Please enter amount of pounds:");
pounds = scan.nextDouble();
kilos = pounds * .45359237;
System.out.println("You currently have " + kilos + " kilograms of stuff.");

}

}