implicit art

Rudy Giuliani

via Tom Moody:

You might have noticed the CBS News story “McCain Backs Bush’s Iraq Strategy” on the blogroll to the left for several months now (or maybe not–well, it’s been there). Lots of other people linked to the story, too, and now it shows up in the top 10 Google searches if anyone is looking for information about Mr. Flak Vest in the Baghdad Market (aka Mr. Bomb Bomb Iran). It looks like his presidential campaign is tanking with the announcement this week of huge staff departures (yay!) so some blogroll space will now be devoted to another overrated individual aspiring to be the leader of the free world, with the inclusion of the following three articles:

Rudy Giuliani was kicked off the Iraq Study Group because he never showed up for meetings.

Rudy Giuliani was the only candidate not invited to speak to the Firefighters presidential Forum.

Rudy Giuliani is worse than Bush.

If the thought of Giuliani as president makes you queasy and you have a blog or links page, you might consider getting the word out by pointing to these mainstream media stories, with the link around the words “Rudy Giuliani.”

See also: this Firefighters Union video about “Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend”–it mentions Giuliani’s foolishness in locating his mayoral “Command Center” in WTC 7–destroyed on 9/11/01 and forcing him to go operate out in the street (while running away from the danger).

Frans Masereel Centre residency

litho stone in progress, piece will be 1080 x 380 mm

Am on residence at the Frans Masereel Centre in Belgium at the moment, working on a new series that is being printed by printmaker and artist Zhane Warren, and published by Art on Paper Gallery (Johannesburg). It’s an extension of my Compressionist works, and my last solo show at AOP, Call and Response.

Compressionism is a “digital performance and analog archive.â€ I traverse bodies, spaces and objects with my scanner face, while its head is in motion. After being Compressed into digital images the size of a small sheet of paper, the files are then stretched, cropped and colored by hand, then printed as editioned, archival works. Later pieces in the series further transform details of these prints into hand-made art objects: etchings, engravings, aquatints, planographs, carborundum, monotype and more.

Compressionism is an exploration of media and perception, a transfiguration in time and seeing.

I’ve done some new performative scans since my show with Haydn Shaughnessy (these will be printed on metallic paper through photographic processes), and am amidst working in stone litho, silk screen, wood cut and dry point. We’re playing up the bands of light and color that Brenton Maart remarked on in Art South Africa, a relic of the digital scanning performances, by creating manufactured spaces on our stones and screens. Will post links to images of the finished works in a little over a week!

LINK: the flickr set in progress :)

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12 July 2007 by nathaniel

greg shakar at greylock arts

The extremely underrated Greg Shakar will have a (I think his first) solo exhibition opening at the new Greylock Arts gallery in Massachusetts – an endeavor by the wonderful and wondrous Marianne Petit and her partner Matthew Belanger. The former was my supervisor when I was at ITP; she is a total star many times over, and you should watch any and every thing she ever does.

Greg is a very smart, technically clued-up and thoughtful artist. I’m sure it’s gonna be a great show. The re-blog:

Gregory Shakar: MoodVectors

Greylock Arts is pleased to announce its first exhibit with Gregory Shakarâ€™s MoodVectors.

Gregory Shakar creates interactive audio sculptures and immersive environments. As an artist and musician he is devoted to the creation of emotive and expressive electronic art. Viewers participating in his interactive installations encounter melodic bolts of lightning, giant sonorous metronomes, and enormous undulating pixels. His performance work includes audience participatory symphonies performed on hundreds of mobile phones and music for quasi-harmonic audio-visual environments.

Shakarâ€™s work has been exhibited internationally including at Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Digital Arts Festival (Tokyo, Japan), Nagoya City Museum of Art (Nagoya, Japan), Sonar Festival (Barcelona, Spain), the London Institute for Contemporary Art (London, UK), the Smithsonian Museum of American History (Washington, D.C), Lincoln Centerâ€™s Avery Fisher Hall (New York) and The Kitchen (New York).

For more information about the artist visit his website at: moodvector.com.

We are pleased to present the first survey of the artistâ€™s work in an exhibition entitled â€œMoodVectorsâ€.

Exhibit Dates:

July 13th â€“ August 18th

Opening Reception:

Friday July 13th, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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11 July 2007 by nathaniel

Opening of The pre-Crapalites at David Krut Projects

belated re-blog about upcoming Top Billing feature:

Artists, celebrities, fashionistas, various creative types and practically anyone swarmed to The pre-Crapalite opening at David Krut Projects this past weekend. Artists Johan Engels and Robert Whitehead have transformed the space into their own pre-Crapalite universe that includes various flamboyant installations; their combined Tele-Pathetic Conception; Engelsâ€™ extraordinary Word of Mouth cover designs; Whiteheadâ€™s enigmatic monotypes and range of limited edition prints and art works. The enormous crowd that gathered at David Krut Projects on Saturday appeared to be overwhelmed not only by the art works but also by the theatrical antics that were arranged by the pre-Crapalite duo. Such antics included â€œDaphne de la Reyâ€ perched on a strawberry-decorated pedestal with an outfit to match at the entrance to the space; opening presentations by both Grethe Fox and The Right Honourable Pamela, The Lady Harlech and custom-made hors dâ€™Å“uvre designed by the pre-Crapalites themselves.

For those that missed the event or are fascinated by this creative duo, The pre-Crapalites will feature on Top Billing Thursday the 28th of June at 19:30 on SABC 3

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07 July 2007 by nathaniel

NOW can we impeach those fuckers?

Seriously.

Look at these frikkin numbers. That’s double those who wanted to impeach Clinton, and also more than wanted Nixon ousted. When will Congress catch up? It’s an evenly divided split*, for God’s sake, the least you can do is start hearings and probes!

*note the split is evenly divided for Bush, while Cheney’s impeachment is in the solid majority of Americans’ minds….

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06 July 2007 by nathaniel

greetings from Belgium

Yo.

Brussels was fun. I saw good art and Zhane Warren and Simon Gush, among others (my new friends Ivan Durt and Jean Hoffman, for example). Currently working my ass off in Kasterlee, at the Frans Masereel Centre, a printmaking residency: Compressionist images as silk screen, litho, wood cut, engraving and dry point…. Pix soon (my camera broke).

Been Kasterlee? The weather is even worse than Dublin, apparently….