by Aden Renkai, via Political Wire (thanks Teresa Nielsen Hayden!) via boingboing
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david&GOLIATH: artists versus corporate crime (updated)
Reember this? Gerhard Marx had his art work pretty much stolen by an ad agency for a series of BMW ads. That lawsuit is about to come to a head; many artists want to help – and also don’t want to allow this to happen again.
Here’s how the bag factory plans to help:
You are hereby invited to attend the david&GOLIATH auction to be held at The Bag Factory in Fordsburg, Johannesburg onThursday, 25 September 2008 at 19h00. Preview and auction registration will be possible from 17h00.
The relationship between the arts and commercial industry is one in which issues of creative ownership and copyright infringement is frequently contested. It is generally financially impossible for the individual artist to address these issues legally when faced with a corporate giant.
The david&GOLIATH initiative is aimed at creating a platform through which the arts can support the arts in protecting creative ownership. Prominent South African artists have generously sponsored artworks to be auctioned off at this fundraising event, which is proudly hosted by The Bag Factory. Funds raised at this event will be used to support the case of Gerhard Marx vs. Ireland Davenport and BMW due to occur in the High Court on the 9th of October 2008
Any further profits from this auction will enable the establishment of the david&GOLIATH trust, which will aim to financially support artists against copyright infringement and commercial exploitation.
Supporting Artists: Wim Botha Jo Ractliffe Penny Siopis Aiden Dom Bronwyn Lace Clive van den Berg Conrad Kemp David Andrew Diane Victor Dorothy Kreutzfeldt Ellen Rose Gerhard Marx Jeremy Wafer Jonah Sack Joni Brenner Kim Lieberman Lehlogonolo Mashaba Liam Lynch Maja Marx Marco Cianfanelli Marcus Neustetter Minette Vari Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi Nhlapo Senzo Nirupa Sing Olaf Bisschoff Penny Siopis Philip Miller Richard Forbes Richard Penn Robyn Penn Sabelo Mlangeni Santu Mofokeng Stefanus Rademeyer Stephan Erasmus Suzanne du Preez Usha Seejarim Walter Oltmann William Kentridge Wim Botha Yvonne Harvey Zander Blom and more.
25 September 2008 from 17h00 onwards. Auction commences at 19h00
The Bag Factory
10 Mahlatini Street
Fordsburg
011 834 9181
update: look at some of the works!
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Arrrrrrrr!
I totally forgot that it’s international talk like a pirate day!
Your yearly pirate joke (edited from here):
One pirate said to his fellow crewmate, “Arrrgh, that be a fine looking hook and peg leg ye got for ye’self!”
The pirate replied, “Arrrrr, it cost me and arm and a leg!”
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Lumens
The fantabulous Marianne Petit and Matthew Belanger (Greylock Arts), along with the – also great – turbulence.org, launch a new project worth checking out….
An interactive light installation (re)connecting personal artifacts, histories, & communities.
Online at: turbulence.org/works/newadams/lumens
Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery51, and Turbulence are pleased to announce Lumens, an interactive light installation by artists Ven Voisey, Sean Riley, and Matthew Belanger.
A project of Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses, Lumens is an installation of lamps networked across three spaces: Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery 51, and Turbulence.org. Scores of personal lamps that usually inhabit and illuminate the interiors of homes and shops have been borrowed from the residents of Adams and North Adams, Massachusetts, filling two gallery spaces: Greylock Arts in Adams and MCLA Gallery 51 Annex in North Adams. In addition, their images and stories are represented on turbulence.org, which also serves to connect the two locations telematically.
Clusters of lamps have been outfitted with proximity sensors and arduino microcontrollers. Lamps illuminate in response to a visitor’s presence and simultaneously illuminate lamps in the counterpart spaces. Thus, an individual in Adams can communicate his/her presence to an individual in North Adams, and vice versa. Additionally, as visitors investigate the history of a particular lamp online it will also illuminate in the physical gallery space.
Lumens (re)connects North Adams and Adams — originally a single community — through an exploration of location, influence, history, and the present.
Networked Realities: (Re)Connecting the Adamses is a collaboration of Greylock Arts, MCLA Gallery51, and Turbulence. Lumens has been made possible through the generous support of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the LEF Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
http://greylockarts.net/lumens.
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John McCain = disgusting (updated!)
Sorry for the blatant politics amidst a general lack of blogging, but I can’t believe I actually used to respect this man.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0xzsogzAk]via Andrew Sullivan
The Obama response (finally):
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Doin my part
There’s a brief review of the Jozi and the (M)other City net.art site on Artthrob, by Chad Rossouw. Snip on me:
Nathaniel Stern, a natural on the web, produced the most engaging work. He challenged the above-mentioned Sean O’Toole to live without electricity for a day. The documentation of their correspondence is a good insight into the process of negotiation, slightly more interesting than the concept of negotiating urban life without power.
I’m glad Rossouw took some time to read said negotiations. As I say in the piece itself, the texts surrounding the “event” – both before and after – were undoubtedly the “work”of the work, and most effectively got to the heart of the social relationships I was trying to accent. (There are some neat photos and a video, too, of course…)
The physical exhibition opened yesterday in Cape Town – I have no idea how the installation version looked, or about much of anyone else’s work (although online, it all looks very interesting; I especially like Marcus Nuestetter’s piece). Will post reviews and/or pics as I have them.
PS I moved to Wisconsin about 4 weeks ago. More on that when the dust settles….