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{ Monthly Archives } January 2008

Catch of the day: Second Life’s new gallery

A little press from the Guardian’s art blog, here. Mark Hooper runs a bit cool on SL and its economy, but speaks positively about the gallery itself, and my and the other artists’ work. Snips:
 Three artists are showcasing their art in a new virtual gallery. But is this really the best place to see their [...]

Simulate Editions at Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life

Simulate Editions
unique and authenticated virtual art objects
Premiering at:
Crossing the Void II
Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life
opening receptions 31 January 7pm EST (1pm SLT) and 1 February 7pm GMT (8am SLT)
SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/depo%20park%201/200/55/22

Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern have each been exploring performance and performativity in their archival prints. Kildall restages then remediates iconic performance artworks in [...]

Election

Hillary channeling Reese Witherspoon.

Tags: news and politics, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, youtube

ten cubed

I’m involved, via Haydn Shaugnessy (my Irish gallery) in a funky new project, where he’s hired a ‘Real World’ architect to build an astonishingly beautiful gallery out at sea in Second Life: Ten Cubed (pictured). Via some of Haydn’s blogging on the subject:
About a year ago I decided to set up a real life gallery. [...]

Ralph Borland at Wits (Johannesburg)

If in Joburg, go see a great speaker and artist (and my classmate from ITP, peer in South Africa, and colleague in Dublin), Ralph Borland, next Friday.

Ralph Borland
Photographs by Pieter Hugo
Suited for Subversion, 2002
Nylon-reinforced PVC, denim, padding, speaker, pulse-reader, circuitry
Edition of 3
We are very pleased to kick off the 2008 Digital Soiree series with a
presentation [...]

screening

Forgot to mention that at interval was screened at the  Enormous Room, Boston last night as part of Andrew Shea’s Fourth Wall program.

Tags: art, art and tech, creative commons, pop culture, re-blog tidbits, technology

DATA (Dublin Art and Technology Association) Workshop 2.0* - *E-Waste 3.0™

Workshop by Benjamin Gaulon (Recyclism™), Lourens Rozema (Blue Melon), with the support of Tim Redfern (Eclectronics) for the Dublin Art and Technology Association the February 2nd-3rd at the Moxie Studio Dublin.
Summary:
Moore’s law dictates that the complexity of computer chips doubles each 18 months. This causes a rapid decrease in the value of existing [...]

artreview.com

A little overwhelming at first, the new artreview.com web site (currently in beta) has some really great features, the potential to pair up emerging artists with known entities (a plus), and to sustain a growing interest in the contemporary, fine and visual arts despite the upcoming American recession (whose effects people are arguing over in [...]

ingrid michaelson

I rarely look up a song I’ve heard on television. Maybe on a late night show now and again (I think I found Corinne Bailey Ray thanks to a meta-late night show, Studio 60), or something in a movie, but on TV, not so much. But after the third time I had turned to my [...]