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This Friday, a collaborative talk at the Museum of Wisconsin Art.
This Sunday, Maria Bolivar and Nadav Assor at MOCT.
See ya there!
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FROM ONE, MANY: Contemporary Wisconsin Prints
Officially opens 12 July. Note that Jessica and I are also giving a talk at the Sneak Preview next Friday 10 July…
From One, Many
The Museum of Wisconsin Art is proud to showcase some of the state’s best printmakers in
“FROM ONE, MANY: Contemporary Wisconsin Prints”
This is an original MWA exhibition and the range of print media will be matched only by the diversity of artists: established practitioners will be on display beside younger, up-and-coming artists.
Sneak Preview Friday July 10th, 10:30AM featuring an artist talk with collaborating exhibitors Jessica Meuninck-Ganger and Nathaniel Stern.
Exhibit will run July 10 – Aug. 30
Attists exhibiting are:
John BALSLEY, Larry BASKY, Brad CORSO, Bob ERICKSON, Ray GLOECKLER, Lisa HECHT, John HITCHCOCK, Jayne REID JACKSON, Dara LARSON, Gregory MARTENS, Colin MATTHES, Jessica MEUNINCK-GANGER, Mark MULHEARN, Frances MEYERS, Dorota BICZEL NELSON, Michael NITSCH, Gaylord SCHANILEC, Paula SCHULZE, Jan SERR, Nathaniel STERN, Christine STYLE, Ken SWANSON, Paul YANK and Rita YOON
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July 12 at MOCT: Upgrade! Milwaukee presents Nadav Assor (Israel) and Maria Bolivar (Venezuela)
More information: http://digiwaukee.net/upgrade
Upgrade! Milwaukee presents Nadav Assor and Maria Bolivar!
Sunday July 12, 7 – 9 PM
MOCT, 240 E Pittsburgh Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Please come to the second Upgrade! Milwaukee, featuring Nadav Assor (Israel) and Maria Bolivar (Venezuela)!
Nadav Assor, Tunneling (performance)
On Nadav Assor (who was the founder of Upgrade! Tel Aviv):
“I am greatly interested in theories and explorations of urban architectural, emotional and ideological sub-structures. One tactic I use in exposing and reshaping the structures around me is digitization, in the sense of reduction to a primal, reconfigurable matter. The transformed digital matter is recast into its original context, physically manipulated in an ongoing live process that ranges from the absurd to the violent. The outcome often presents various transgressions or inversions of the technological, socio-political structures that served as a starting point. Many of the mechanisms inherent in my work require palpable, physical effort or struggle to manipulate, thus exposing the constant friction between body and media. I do not want my devices to ‘run smoothly’.
My work has been shown in Berlin, Chicago, and in many Israeli venues, including several showings at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, the C.Sides International electronic media festival, the Laptopia festival, the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel-Aviv, The Haifa and Bat Yam Museums and more. I have received a 2006 Leumi (the Israeli national bank) award for excellence in the arts.
I am currently pursuing my MFA with full fellowship in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.”
Maria Bolivar @ UWM
Maria Bolivar was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She was significantly influenced by her father, Cesar Bolivar, who is a well-known film director in Latin America. After attending the most important design academy in Venezuela: El Instituto de Diseño de Caracas, Maria spent three years as a professional designer. Due to the violence and her involvement in the 2002 National Strike in Venezuela, Maria was forced to come to Milwaukee where she received her BFA in communication design from the Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) in 2006. Maria is currently pursuing a Master’s of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee with an intermedia focus.
Hope to see you there!
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Upgrade! Milwaukee is a regular gathering of digital creatives – artists, musicians, performers, writers, curators and the public – that fosters dialogue and creates opportunities for collaboration within the local new media community. It features 1-3 guest speakers at each event, held at a rotating venue: informal, free, and open to all. We welcome suggestions for speakers, panels or gatherings. Upgrade! Milwaukee will continue to grow as a local node within the global Upgrade! International (UI) network.
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Upgrade! is an international, emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. While individual nodes present new media projects, engage in informal critique, and foster dialogue and collaboration between individual artists, Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. There are currently over 30 nodes in UI, across North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Second Life.
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makin art
Spending lots of time in the studio these days. Working on many pieces that continue my still very very new Distill Life series (using mostly machinima video from Second Life and combining that with prints and drawings), some Compressionist prints, and a kind of mixed reality minimalist video installation called Given Time that I am very excited about (doing avatar design with my assistant now). Have also been playing with openFrameworks a lot lately (updating my interactive pieces built in Director in the early 2000s – so they run on new machines – while learning its idiosyncrasies). Can I just say “awesome”? Am about done with stuttering “2.0,” which hasn’t worked on any machine I have owned since 2003; it feels so good to see the piece again! Coming up: elicit, enter:hektor, and then a new work; all four will be released as “Body Language,” a suite of interactive installations, some time in the next year. Much of the more object- and print-based stuff will feature in upcoming shows in South Africa and on the East Coast in early 2010.
Hooray for stuff and things! Yay art!
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SnapMilwaukee
Billed as a “haven for our community’s many voices,” a critical arts journal called SNAPMilwaukee will launch Thursday. The online-only journal will cover architecture, visual art, film, music and performing arts.
SNAP will be a place for “informed critical discourse in and around the arts through in-depth study, commentary, historical analysis, synthesis and discussion of what’s going on in this place at this time,” according to a post on Facebook announcing the launch.
A few articles have already been posted to SNAP, including a piece on the Menomonee Valley by Don Hanlon, a professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee., and a piece on book arts in Milwaukee from Petra Press. Other categories show only headlines, images and the tag “Coming Soon.”
Artist Joe Riepenhoff will serve as editor. Other editors and production staff include artist Cat Pham, Green Gallery East owners John Riepenhoff and Jake Palmert and co-owner of the recently closed Armoury Gallery Jessica Steeber.
Section editors include Pham for architecture, Sarah Buccheri for film, Julie Strand for letters, Amelinda Burich and Carly Rubach for music and Neil Gasparka for visual arts. The performing arts editor has not been named yet.
The Journal is being launched with a party at the Green Gallery East, 1500 N. Farwell Ave., Thursday from 8 to 10 p.m. Parking is available at the gallery and adjacent lot on Curtis St.
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Wikipedia Art in Venice: call for remixes
SEE THE CALL AND THE REMIXES SO FAR
Wikipedia Art – originally an editable encyclopedia entry as art work – applied for and was denied citizenship on Wikipedia. It now seeks refugee status in Venice through the establishment of The Wikipedia Art Embassy. Encyclopedic ambassadors, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, invite writings on, and creative remixes and alternative wiki postings of, the Wikipedia Art project itself. Each will be featured on their now infamous site, wikipediaart.org
Wikipedia Art , officially part of Venice Biennale, has been called “more Wikipedia than Wikipedia†by Miltos Manetas, curator of Padiglione Internet (the Internet Pavilion). It is an incorporation of not only the artists’ primary concept, but the debates, biases and power struggles behind how it continues to exist. Now, Kildall and Stern are re-releasing Wikipedia Art – the story, the concept, the logo, its texts and name – under a Creative Commons license (CC-by). They request public remixes, transformative art and derivative works. They offer the piece up to business and info Wikis, to songwriters, fellow artists and filmmakers, to journalists and storytellers. Despite its absence from the number one source of online information, it perseveres in its temporary yet virtual housing in Italy (and Everywhere Else).
Kildall and Stern continue their examination and intervention into how Wikipedia has reframed knowledge, by asking the public to re-look at and re-make Wikipedia’s mode of online knowledge production. Wikipedia is not open to any editor, not a democracy, and in a great position of power. While an amazing resource, as with any powerful institution, its users – the general public – should continuously question Wikipedia’s methodologies and the power brokers that control them. Wikipedia Art re-engages that general audience; it features any artist or writer who wishes to take part; it frames all public discourse and activity as an ongoing intervention into knowledge and authority – on Wikipedia, on the Internet, in Venice and beyond.
Download the call for remixes (pdf)
See the call and the remixes so far