HELLO, my name is, is the title of Juliana I. Smith’s installation for her final exhibition with MAPS, Master of Art in Public Sphere. The installation includes two video works, objects, and drawings mainly from performances she has done in public places. Juliana works with themes of chosen home (Wahlheimat), mobility, tourism and voluntary migration. [...]
Possibly this blog’s favorite art blog, Art Fag City gets a total overhaul today. From Paddy (via email): In an effort to curtail redesigning Art Fag City every two months, I asked House of Pretty to work with me on a new site design. The result is a blog you can actually read. Hurray for [...]
The Dublin Art and Technology Association, originally founded by Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Nicky Gogan, was re-launched after a year-long hiatus, as as part of this year’s Darklight Festival, last night. Featured works / artists included: Paul Makepeace, a technologist who donates much of his income to artists, and encourages others who make decent cash to [...]
We love her. Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, iSummit07, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, stimulus
Some nice further discussion in the comments section of Tom Moody’s post about my Wireframe Series, and I’m glad for the crit – some positive, some negative, all useful for when I implement the next iteration (hopefully in Joburg in September). I’m even more grateful for his second post, a point by point comparison to [...]
Tom Moody defends Sentimental Construction #1 after Paddy Johnson’s initial slate. Although I tend to take criticism well, and Paddy and I are “still friends” (we met through professional channels, and now I like to think of us as such), I was very pleased to see my name on Tom’s channel in my RSS reader, [...]
I’m not sure Paddy’s post on the panel represents my position very well, and moreover seems to fall in line with the (de-contextualized – David is actually saying something else) claim that my attention to try and make a little money for my art is exploitative (see the comments here). I think Tom Chance does [...]
Of money, meaning and artists in residence is a lovely response to our artist talk and work by Tom Chance, while Paddy’s insightful review is slightly more critical (especially of my own work). It inspired a great conversation, actually, and I’m excited about where I might go with the next Wireframe, as I think through [...]
Go/diva of the Icommons is an extension of Patrick Lichty’s (re)constructing Cicciolina project in which he, recontextualized as real-life avatar Cicciolina, questions the translations of mythology, culture, normative sociology, gender and IP issues. Here, Lichty stood in the iCommons art gallery for 30 minutes, then rode through the iCommons performance area before exiting. While the [...]
Opening went really well last night in Dubrovnik (still open for 2 days if you missed it)! There are a constant stream of pictures on flickr from the iCommons Air stream, as well as write-ups (more coming) on the iCommons site (we love you Paddy). Great turn out and response, and several net stars made [...]
Forgot to blog this, an interview I did with Paddy, and also hers with Kathryn. Awesome. Actually, as you would imagine, the iCommons site is booming right now, so I highly recommend the feed. Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, iSummit07, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, reviews, south african art, stimulus, theory
The Art Happens Here Opens 15 June @ 21h30, Croatian time Lazareti Art Workshop, Dubrovnik Croatia Simulcast to Annenberg Island in SL, 12h30 PDT Second Life The Art Happens Here is a contemporary art exhibition and presentation at the iCommons Summit 2007, resulting from an ongoing artist in residence programme. Six international artists and a [...]
More from Croatia soon, but we performed the first “Sentimental Construction” here before guests started arriving, and I’m not sure it could have gone any better. Watch the video! Sentimental Construction #1, part of The Wireframe Series site-specific, publicly performed “spaces,” made of rope (2007), support by iCommons These are ephemeral arrangements that, nonetheless, carve [...]
our posters!!!! Here’s the posters of the Summit and art exhibition and music posted all over Dubrovnik, Croatia – I started a new collection of images, so watch that space, here. More soon! Tags: flickr
Although I leave for Croatia tomorrow, and so can’t make the second day, I’m giving a paper at this UCD Philiosophy Department conference this afternoon: Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment Since the investigations of phenomenological theorists such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, the themes of embodiment and situatedness have enjoyed increased popularity over a [...]
For those if you still unfamiliar with Paddy Johnson and her fabulous blog, artfagcity – “As relevant as Eric Fischl. New York art news, reviews and gossip” – WAKE UP. She’s clever, plugged in, and a great, honest critic with a sometimes snarky and sometimes generous attitude: as a writer should be. And today, as [...]
Here’s a little preview of one of the pieces I’ve done (produced this week) for the iCommons Summit in two weeks – it’ll simulcast in SL as well… Conceptualized in collaboration with Nicole Ridgway, for Broad Cast Response, I captured the entirety of the 1990, teen angst, pirate radio movie Pump Up the Volume, then [...]
blossom on the dodder, 220 x 300mm (2007), nathaniel stern & angel shoreditch, 780 x 100 mm (2007) Paul La Rocque My first Irish exhibition, a duo show entitled Landscapes and Icons, opened at the new Haydn Shaughnessy Gallery for Innovative Contemporary Artists in West Cork on Thursday evening, and it was a great party [...]
