implicit art

myartspace scholarship

Separate ones for grad and undergrad artists:

myartspace.com has created a scholarship program for students of artistic merit wishing to continue their education in an approved MFA, BFA or higher level degree program for the arts. The scholarship is intended for students who exhibits exceptional artistic excellence in all mediums of the visual arts including photography and video, both contemporary and traditional in nature. The scholarship arises from the commitment to supporting artists who are committed to their skill and development as an artist. For two years myartspace has been a key figure in availing opportunity in the arts on the web and in global events. Myartspace is providing a 3 scholarship prizes for undergraduate students and separately 3 scholarship prizes for graduate students.

The First Prize is $5000 cash awarded scholarship for the top undergraduate entrant and graduate entrant. The second prize is a $2000 cash awarded scholarship. The third prize is a $1000 cash scholarship award.

The deadline for registration and online submission of work is November 21, 2008. You must upload your JPEGS/videos into a myartspace online gallery. Up to 20 images can be submitted for consideration.

Scholarship winners will be announced on December 19, 2008.

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we apologize (updated)

I just saw this sign for the first time. It reads, “Connecticut Welcomes You. Birthplace of George W. Bush. We Apologize.”

Awesome (Updated note: it turns out that this sign is a mash-up / fake, but still awesome in my opinion. See comments for more.)

Connecticut welcomes you. Birthplace of George W. Bush. We apologize.

Banksy outed

Jamaica 2004, believed to be Banksy
The man in this photograph, taken in Jamaica four years ago, is believed to be Banksy. From here.

Yup. And it’s pretty much what we’d expect. And I hate that it matters – his work is just as good (or bad, depending who you ask; I think he pretty much rocks, if you care to know) as it was two days ago…. I like Francesca Gavin at the Guardian’s take:

Gasp, horror! Banksy isn’t a fictional character. His cover has been blown. He’s an actual person who makes art. Worse than that, according to the Mail on Sunday, he went to public school. He’s middle class! He lived in suburbia! What did people expect? That just because he started with graffiti and grew into street art that he was some council estate hoodie with a knife?

The Mail on Sunday allegedly spent a year tracking him down – discovering the earth-shattering news that Banksy is a bloke called Robert Gunningham (who went to the same school as Sophie Anderton – though at different times). Spiced up with old interviews, the life the Mail describes is pretty dull. Bloke has middle management parents, goes to school, likes graffiti, makes some art, lives with some mates, moves to London from Bristol. Not exactly headline worthy.

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13 July 2008 by nathaniel

ArtHeat call for submissions

For my South African readers:

ArtHeat is calling for submissions for it’s new Project page. Depending on funds this will be happening every three months on a permanent basis. Here’s the deal:

ArtHeat is offering a grant of up to R1500 to any artist or group towards the production of new work. The medium is up to the artist although consideration must be given to it’s effective translation into a digital format. A portion of the money must be spent on producing editions of a print(or negotiably any other real-world manifestation), of which a least one must be donated to ArtHeat.

Submissions must include a detailed proposal, budget, and your name and can be emailed to artheat@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday the 25th of July, and the first series must be ready by the 1st of August to coincide with the launch of the new ArtHeat site.

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09 July 2008 by nathaniel

send us your command (UPDATED)

Acting on orders is a new project by the likes of South African artists Barend de Wet, Douglas Gimberg and Christian Nerf. Please note that this opportunity is only open to American citizens. Feel free to email your order today to MuseumOfContemporaryArt@gmail.com

Me? I asked them to share a really good cheeseburger. I’m admittedly unsure what all the images on their site are, but they are fascinatingly odd juxtapositions of the everyday along with notions of terror. I guess others’ orders were far more interesting than mine…. If you’re a citizen, please go ahead and outdo me.

Act 018, c. 2008, De Wet | Gimberg | Nerf

Acting on orders is part of the Emergence: Creative pioneers in uncharted territory show at â€˜Commanders Houseâ€™ (Building 14) on Governors Island, NYC. Other friends of implicit art on the exhibition include Avant Car Guard and Chris Jordan, and I’m sure the longer list of artists contains several other people I’d probably like to be friends with.

More info here. Check it out if in town.

update: apparently, “Act 020 has been produced in response to [my] command.” Ahem:

Act 020, c. 2008, De Wet | Gimberg | Nerf

It does look a bit like it could be a wrapped up cheeseburger, no?… So I guess it’s the artists and not the commanders who are more interesting than me.

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07 July 2008 by nathaniel

Jeanette Ginslov @ the Upgrade! Joburg, 11 July 2008

I’ve done some work with Jeanette Ginslov in the past, and she often re-uses my CC / open source ware from elicit in her productions – in ways I never imagined or foresaw. Jeanette was an early adopter of new technologies in the dance world, and that goes double for the fact that she is based in South Africa. Should be interesting!

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