Your annual pirate joke:
What has 8 hands and 8 feet?
8 Pirates!
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Winkleman Gallery: Editioned, Networked Video Art Objects
Eve Sussman & Rufus Corporation, along with the Edward Winkleman Gallery, have produced a large edition of an ongoing video art work that comes complete with a player and screen. As if this isn’t enough of a breakthrough in the commercial art gallery realm (and one Jessica and I have been admittedly contemplating for our Distill Life series for some time; we can attest to the fact that, as noted by Winkleman, it indeed is a lot of work and research – not to mention cash), the players can also go online to download latter parts of the artists’ ongoing series.
… Sussman selected the ARCHOS 5 player for this Compound Edition for its high-fidelity audio and video and internet capability. This last fact will allow collectors of this Compound Edition to continue along the White on White journey in the near future. As episodes of White on White become available fans of the work can collect them and have them streamed to their Archos player – thereby owning a limited edition film-in-progress and simultaneously becoming a co-producer of the final film noir.
It’s a big risk, but one that seems to be paying off already. Bravo to the artists and gallery for what looks to be a beautiful work – a wonderful hybrid of conceptual, new media, and object-based art.
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Central Booking Gallery launch in Brooklyn, NY!
Central Booking is a new gallery in DUMBO dedicated to the art of the book:
We exhibit the breadth of the various approaches to the form, since the artist book can be anything from a pamphlet done inexpensively on a copy machine to a letterpress codex bound book integrating words and images to a sculptural piece that is an object itself. Brooklyn has taken its position as a major art center in the world and it now has a space where artist’s books from established artists to emerging ones can be seen all in one place and on a continual basis.
A very promising space, in a great area, with a clear focus and a dedication to more experimental understandings of the form. I’ve spoken to one of the curators, and he is keen to foster an undertsanding of the book through print, space, interaction, video and, of course, more traditional books.
Yours truly has a couple of prints on the inaugural exhibition, which has an impressive list. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 6-9PM, 111 Front Street in DUMBO Brooklyn, Gallery 214.
Central Booking inaugural exhibition invite (click for larger image)
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blah blah blog
OMG I have a blog.
But I’ve been makin art and teachin instead. I do not tweet, but the book of faces tends to let some know my state (er, state-us). You can find me there. Still, will have pics of the kid and maybe some of the new work with Jessica up in a couple of weeks. We put most of the work together (finally!) only yesterday, and it’s totally awesome, if I do say so myself. Maybe I will put photos on the book of faces, even, as some keep suggesting I do so. Lots of shows coming up!
Some things:
- cute that all my friends suggest i see district 9 since they know my connection to south africa. it’s hard with a 3 year old, but i’ll try
- nyc was awesome – family, friends, art, the high line, some new connections. hope to be back again soon. Shane Hope show at Winkleman was as good as everyone says, and the group show at Bitforms (as well as the show in the gallery next door – don’t remember their name) was also a real treat. (Tangential shout out to Ceci Moss at Rhizome – nice to see my bud Goldblatt at the New Museum – and the Kildall and Lichty folks at Eyebeam.)
- milwaukee is growin on me – for pretty much the same reasons (happy family, good new friends, getting to know the art, some new connections). and although this trip to NY showed me how much I miss it, it also reminded me what a privileged position I am in with my job, my space, my family, etc. Miltown is a bit of alright. i want my peeps to come visit!
- wasn’t quite ready for classes to start, but have to admit i do love an audience. got some great students this term and lookin forward to seeing what they make
- welcome to all my new colleagues in the Visual Art Department at UW-Milwaukee!
- although my blog is only “my” blog now – updates about me, as opposed to the massive amounts of reviews I used to do – i am planning some writing/reviews for rhizome, the journal sentinel and snap-milwaukee in the coming months, so keep a look out!
- I’m mapping out a good year. Courageously cartographically cool. Hooray.
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Ploch Art Gallery Call for Artists
I’m on the selection committee for this call – they’re great to work with:
The Wilson Center continues its recognition of exceptional Wisconsin artists with an invitation to submit proposals for solo and collaborative exhibitions for the 2010 through 2012 season of the Ploch Art Gallery. Click here to learn more about the gallery and view a list of current and upcoming exhibitions.
This call is open to all artists 18 and older. Artists must currently reside in Wisconsin OR be a native of Wisconsin OR be a graduate of a four-year fine arts college program in the State of Wisconsin. All media will be considered.
Click here for submisson requirements and more details.
Proposals must be postmarked by September 22, 2009 and sent to:
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts
Attn: Ploch Art Gallery
19805 W Capitol Dr
Brookfield, WI 53045
Artists will be notified of their status by mid-November 2009.
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Networked: a networked_book about networked_art
The amazing folks at turbulence.org have done it again! See below.
Networked_Performance — Networked: a networked_book about networked_art
Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) INVITES YOU TO PARTICIPATE: Two years in the making, Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art) is now open for comments, revisions, and translations. You may also submit a chapter for consideration.
Please register and then Read | Write:
The Immediated Now: Network Culture and the Poetics of Reality
Kazys Varnelis
Lifetracing: The Traces of a Networked Life
Anne Helmond
Storage in Collaborative Networked Art
Jason Freeman
Data Undermining: The Work of Networked Art in an Age of Imperceptibility
Anna Munster
Art in the Age of Dataflow: Narrative, Authorship, and Indeterminacy
Patrick Lichty
BACKGROUND
Networked proposes that a history or critique of interactive and/or participatory art must itself be interactive and/or participatory; that the technologies used to create a work suggest new forms a “book†might take.
In 2008, Turbulence.org and its project partners — NewMediaFix, Telic Arts Exchange, and Freewaves – issued an international, open call for chapter proposals. We invited contributions that critically and creatively rethink how networked art is categorized, analyzed, legitimized — and by whom — as norms of authority, trust, authenticity and legitimacy evolve.
Our international committee consisted of: Steve Dietz (Northern Lights, MN) :: Martha Gabriel (net artist, Brazil) :: Geert Lovink (Institute for Network Cultures, The Netherlands) :: Nick Montfort (Massachusetts Institute for Technology, MA) :: Anne Bray (LA Freewaves, LA) :: Sean Dockray (Telic Arts Exchange, LA) :: Jo-Anne Green (NRPA, MA) :: Eduardo Navas (newmediaFIX) :: Helen Thorington (NRPA, NY)
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Networked was made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (United States). Thank you.
We are deeply grateful to Eduardo Navas for his commitment to both this project and past collaborations with Turbulence.org.
Jo-Anne Green and Helen Thorington
jo at turbulence dot org
newradio at turbulence dot org