Am doing some research for a lecture I have to give on Tuesday about Experimental Film theory and aesthetics in 12 Monkeys, and I found this interesting article: Time Travel . So, he lost me on the last two paragraphs, but the rest is really interesting. It’s a cool adaptation of the (in terms I can understand) probability and average theories of quantum mechanics, as applied to the supposed paradoxes of time travel.
getawayexperiment.net featured as the A R T T H R O B _ P R O J E C T of the month!
oooh… and more good news (added on later), they also listed my students’ show
And, quoting myself from 7 march 2004, “you know those times when you have loads to do, but don’t want to do any of it, and despite this situation, you are bored out of your wits, and still can’t manage to do anything besides surf the web and read through old emails?”
that’s me, right now.
But when it really comes down to it, television without pity (especially omar, who does the smallville episodes) is just the best waste of time of the new millenium.
First production meeting for a new piece with PJ Sabbagha and the FATC tomorrow. woot!
link: Apple unveils CD-sized mini Mac, one ounce iPod
Man that Mac Mini looks hot – the perfect installation art machine!!!! . Also on the apple site you can find out more about their new iPod shuffle (your picks of the day for under $100), iWork 05 – competing with MS Word! – and iLife 05, with updated features. Looks like their might be an updated Final Cut Express, too.
I want! (Thanks to Angus for the link)
Hello world.
And welcome to another exciting year with nathaniel and the non-aggressive – whatever the f@ck that means.
Did everybody out in webland have a good holiday? Yeh, I did ok. Me and my better 2/3rds headed down to Cape Town for a few days to see some special peops, then drove up the garden route with my folks (visiting from NYC). This here is a picture of Bonnie – one clever little Ossie (not to be confused with Aussie) that we met while over in Oudtshoorn:
I probably ate her cousin for dinner that night, and she tasted real good. Mmmmmmmmm, ostrich steak….
So there are new issues of Art SA and Itch out, and my guess is that artthrob will see some action tomorrow or next Friday. As usual, worth checking out – especially the article on SA Video Art by James Sey, and the features on Penny Siopis and Kathryn Smith. I’d like to say I went to see lots of interesting work while on holiday, but it seems contemporary art takes a holiday along with everyone else (and sometimes longer, neh?).
Anyhow, you can bet your butt I’ll be back on the scene as soon as the galleries start opening up again, and writing some ranty, praisey – and every now and again, slightly critical and interesting – b_llsh!t right here on this very page. You can’t wait, can you? Can you?
I’m nearly rearin’ to go on this side, so as I try to keep up with myself, feel free to send me notes from the pharcyde….
Some very recognizable names asking for simple interactions in order to help… from networked_performance: Thank You – posted by Jo-Anne Greene, but originally from Mary Flanagan on grandtextauto.
altruism, interaction and exchange
Please visit the exhibition Thank You’Äîan activist art project conceived by Danish/Australian/U.S. group Wooloo Productions (I’Äôm in it!). It launched yesterday on World AIDS day, December 1st, 2004. Thank You “confronts its audience with the relationship of exchange between Africa and the West. Dealing specifically with issues of exploitation and disease, the project utilizes possibilities afforded by online technology to illustrate the absurdity of today’Äôs co-existing economic reality.” [blogged by Mary Flanagan on grandtextauto.]
The show is meant to be a platform to critique altruism and exchange while at the same time help real people (this contradictory stance of critical activism is driving me to read a lot of Negri, by the way’Äìand much of his writing is liberated!!).
Wooloo Productions invited one American (mary) and four South African artists to create interactive artworks. Each viewer interaction with the works results in the release of one South African Rand (approx. US$ 0.15) towards the cost of setting up an HIV Education Center in Khayelitsha. So when visitors click on projects they help raise $$’Äì we can collect quite a large sum from donors to help build the center if people visit our works. So click away!! The Thank You show takes place simultaneously in two physical locations’ÄîArtists Space and a public stage in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa’Äîas well as online. If you’Äôre in nyc, visit Artists Space (38 Greene st, 3rd Floor). In Khayelitsha, its on the center stage area at Site B, where Wooloo member Sixten is acting as host for the show . The works are presented on computer monitors in the two project locations from Dec 1 – 11 2004. There is a video hook up linking the sites.
I made the game [six.circles] specifically for this show. Players connect triangles to form shapes, but while playing, must introduce illness into the community. Players have to negotiate and sacrifice to cooperatively prevent the spread of the disease or cure pieces while still attempting to win the game by creating ’Äúsix circles’Äù out of the shapes. A circle cannot be “closed,” however, unless it is 1/2 infected, showing that communities must work together and embrace problems as a whole.
Right now [six.circles] is functioning as a game for two players on a local machine, with cross-net gameplay coming this weekend and single player mode soon to follow. Lots of people to thank for inspiration and help, including Ruth Catlow, Joline Blais, Jon Ippolito, and Sebastian. I’Äôm also working with the amazing Chris Egert, an old friend. He is technical engineer on the project and he’Äôs faculty in RIT’Äôs Information Technology Dept (where there are ruminations of gaming program afoot). You can also visit the project from my website, which has more writing about the [six.circles] game.
Nice work, impressive lineup, surfing donates money….