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Talking in string

Chiara Passa — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:44:35 -0500

Dear friends,

I'm glad to share with you my generative video installation "Talking in string", time variable.

Best regards, Chiara

"Talking in string" is a generative video installation inspired by the 'Rotor', famous Luna Park rotating carousel. "Talking in string"
develops into a cylindrical space around the audience that create the installation itself in real time by sending text messages via Twitter.
Also the not present public on site can participate as well by sending messages by their remote Internet locations. The sentences run a
recording system are displayed immediately – The texts speedily rotate around the space, changing direction, color, font, and some of them
ramble in absence of gravity - The generated phrases, dissolving and wrapping themselves around disoriented people who are watching as texts become 'strings', no longer readable. These ‘strings’ slowly disappear as light’s bundles surrounding the body of the spectators like colored trails left by comets or as if we were inside of Newton’s disk.
Video preview: http://www.chiarapassa.it/videoenglish.html Images: http://www.chiarapassa.it/talkinginstring.html

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Chiara Passa - new media artist
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"Kissing Zeppelins" over the Bosphorus

Genco Gulan — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:16:23 -0500

Conceptual artist Genco Gülan’s new project named “Kissing Zeppelins" will be exhibited on 27 May, over the Bosphorus sky. This aerial installation is composed of two Zeppelins, each 5 meters attached to each other from their front.

The zeppelins, each have 16 m3 helium capacity, will be able to be seen with bare eye from the Asian side, while the installation is taking place over the sky of Gould Hall, Robert College. This project is, within the scope of Robert College Fine Arts Festival 2012, is going to be exhibited for the first time in Istanbul.

Gulan exhibited his flying sculptures first in Duisburg Accente festival. Genco Gülan’s another work that used inflated sculptures called “Black BP” a multi-media work, has been exhibited at CER Modern.

On the same day of the festival, Genco Gulan will have a workshop is called “Symmetry in Art and Art in Symmetry”. He is going to talk about the symmetry and dissimetry in our bodies and ways for applying this into contemporary art.

Gülan has been nominated and selected as a finalist for European Art Awards in 2011, and is a jury member of Turgut Pura Art Awards. His project is called “Kissing Zeppelins” is funded by Fine Arts Faculty of Okan University.

The Agency and MK Gallery presents - Antistrophe

Betty Martins — Sat, 26 May 2012 02:53:05 -0500

The Agency and MK Gallery presents - Antistrophe
Entr'acte

Theo Burt
Musarc Choir
Tim Wright - Film

Agency

Jo Thomas
Tom Richards
Entr'acte

Theo Burt
Musarc Choir
Tim Wright - Film

Agency

Jo Thomas
Tom Richards

My Dance The Skull

Blood Stereo
Janek Schaefer
Tom White
Clive Graham, Anthony Donovan, Steve Beresford and Noura Sanatian
Mama Baer/Hjuler - Film

In September 2011 curators Simon Wright and Emma Dean from Milton Keynes Gallery and Bea de Souza, the artistic director of the London based independent gallery the Agency came together to lend their shared interest in sound art a platform. Regular performances by sound artists such as Sculpture, Simon Schaefer, Clare Gasson and Mimosa Moize are continuing to be held at both venues. For ‘Antistrophe’, in collaboration with record labels Entr'acte and My Dance the Skull, we are utilising the format of a live concert for the first time. Antistrophe represents a progressive approach to merging the different approaches of art performance, sound art, film and experimental music fluidly for an audience to reflect, listen and hopefully dance.

£10 on the door/£8 in advance
swright@mkgallery.org +44 (0) 1908558309

Torsten Zenas Burns DEMOFORMANCES: YELLOW(MOBILERS)

gallery4 — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:39:18 -0500

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 7, 6 - 9 PM, part of the Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Night

Neither easy to categorize nor to comprehend, Burns' work plumbs the recent cultural unconscious to address our anxieties of mortality and the potential for extending our Post-human life(form)s. He does this through the tropes of survivalism, re-imagined choreography, speculative fiction and collaborative relations.

"What If? In The Days When The Tiger Smoked" with Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin

gallery4 — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:36:06 -0500

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 7, 6 - 9 PM, part of the Dumbo First Thursday Gallery Night

Burns and Martin's project explores a four-way union of real-world artists Orlan and Stelarc and fictional comic-book superheroes The Scarlet Witch and The Vision. Each of these characters symbolizes transmutation and the ability to cross boundaries, be they biological, mechanical or cultural. The exhibition will take the form of photographs, graphic works, videos and and interactive sculpture that allows a viewer to be situated in the story.

SNUFF: WIRELESS NETWORKS SONIFICATION WORKSHOP

Ryan Jordan — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:16:49 -0500

SNUFF: WIRELESS NETWORKS SONIFICATION WORKSHOP

Snuff is a workshop about wireless telecommunications, traffic and data corruption. Participants will create an electronic device that amplifies wireless Internet traffic, Bluetooth data transfer, mobile phones, microwaves and other devices with electromagnetic activity in the 2.4 GHz range.

During the workshop topics related with vulnerability, data transfer interruption and sniffing will be discussed.

Documentation of the device can be found here: http://r-aw.cc/snuff

The workshop is limited to 15 participants. Experience in electronics is not necessary. Participants keep the devices they create.

INSTRUCTORS:

Mario de Vega. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. His work explores causes and effects that determine the construction of realities, through processes and objects that physical or conceptually connect with acoustic activity. His practice investigates aesthetic and social realms, via controlled accidents and its outcomes. His research focuses on the overlaps between stability, failure, simulation, and vulnerability. He works out of a multiplicity of mediums that include: site-specific interventions, actions, photography, video, sculpture, and sound installations. He has performed live and exhibited throughout various platforms, which include festivals, galleries and museums in Europe, Mexico, United States, Canada, Russia, Korea and Japan.

Victor Mazón Gardoqui. Born in North Spain in 1982, lives and works in Berlin and Bilbao Fine Arts Studies at the University of Vasc Country, UPV-EHU, in the speciality of Lithography and Engraving. Since 2009 working as a Tutor of the Experimentelle Technologien im Kunstkontext, in the A/V Labor of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB-Leipzig), with Prof. Dr. David Link. His works has been performed or shown on Museums, Galleries and public spaces in different countries like Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Morocco, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Austria.

Booking email ryan@nnnnn.org.uk

Title: Snuff. Wireless traffic sonification workshop

Praxis and theory: http://r-aw.cc

Duration: 8 hours

Max participants: 11

Target: People interested in data sonification, animism, entropy, magic, vulnerability, tactical media, unstable systems,

noise, actionism, custom electronics, editorial processes.

Language: English / Spanish

Cost: £70 (per participant). Including all electronic components and black matt electro-less gold immersion PCBs.

Required skills: No electronic experience needed. Patience is mandatory, SMD components soldering.

Required materials: Fine tip soldering iron less than 25W (1 per participant)

Tags: non-regulated traffic, high frequency demodulation, microwaves, narrow band spectrum, 2.4GHz, wireless networks, routing, addressing, network packet capture

Press kit and photos: http://r-aw.cc/down

Black Death London Workshop

Ryan Jordan — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:12:41 -0500

Black death London workshop

Tuesday 19th June : 12midday - 7pm :

Black death London attempts to reveal the contagious side of substrate; literally scratching a needle, a pickup across the dark earth carted from Whitby to London so many years ago, the vampiric base and carving of all technology.

Deploying the twin methods of excitation and detection, borrowed from Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), the workshop attempts to scry the city's buboes, its electromagnetic plague eruptions, to play back these earth engraving; the stone tape, the message.

Workshop participants will learn the basics of electromagnetics and EVP, actively constructing and customising a scratching/radio broadcast apparatus, before embarking on the aural, energetic exhumation of an historic plague site.

Fee: 25 pounds inc. all materials (travel card additional!)

Workshop Leader: Martin Howse http://www.1010.co.uk/

Booking email: ryan@nnnnn.org.uk

noise=noise.theory | EVOL | Wilkins | Jordan | Monroe

Ryan Jordan — Fri, 25 May 2012 12:07:33 -0500

noise=noise.theory

an evening of discussion, presentation, and performance

EVOL [computer music for hooligans]
http://vivapunani.org/

Inigo Wilkins [EVOL conversation]

Ryan Jordan [axon hillock & long-range runaway feedback]
http://ryanjordan.org/

Alexei Monroe [dr. who and the death factory]
http://pluralmachine.blogspot.co.uk/

http://nnnnn.org.uk/

Friday 8th June 2012 19:00-23:00 £5

nnnnn, Unit 73a, Regent Studios
8 Andrew's Road, E8 4QN

"Adding To Subtract" Exhibition at Contemporary Gallery, Tel Aviv

Doron Golan — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:18:45 -0500

Exhibition at Contemporary by Golconda

"Adding To Subtract"
Curator: Ory Dessau

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 24th at 8 PM

Artists:
Francis Alÿs
Doron Golan
Lothar Hempel
Benni Efrat

Kenneth Goldsmith's lecture "From a collector to an archivist: seven thoughts", for the "MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with..."

A R — Wed, 23 May 2012 11:13:18 -0500

We reproduce Kenneth Goldsmith's text for the "MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with..." lecture series, which took place on April 20th, 2012 at the MACBA. In "From a collector to an archivist: seven thoughts", the founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), shares his experience as a sound collector.

Link: http://bit.ly/MGpw8r
PDF: http://bit.ly/LCN1ju

Kenneth Goldsmith is the founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), a universal source of reference for avant-garde art on the Internet. An underground project that has no institutional backing or budget of any kind, UbuWeb is an exhaustive and also personal repository that reflects the tastes, quirks and obsessions of its creator. A compulsive digital collector, Goldsmith's personal archive extends far beyond the in itself unfathomable UbuWeb.

MEMORABILIA. Collecting sounds with... at Ràdio Web MACBA http://bit.ly/LqcIgM

Follow us at http://twitter.com/Radio_Web_MACBA

HABIT: A Film Festival

awashko — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:14:49 -0500

In conjunction with the exhibition "Deconstructing the Habit," Angela Washko has organized “HABIT: A Video Festival” at Spattered Columns on June 13 at 7:30pm. The short videos presented in this program question the reality that we are passively consuming and the dangerous confines of systematic expectations regarding acceptable lifestyle choices. The artists included in HABIT create realistic fictions and diaristic narratives based on real-life experiences in combination with bizarre surrealism and hyperbole. “HABIT: A Video Festival” features video works by Pauline Bastard, Mike Bonanno (The Yes Men), Kerry Downey, Dynasty Handbag, Ann Hirsch, Jaime Iglehart, Sunita Prasad, Robby Rackleff, Nathaniel Sullivan, The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in RPGs, and Angela Washko.

Deconstructing the Habit

awashko — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:09:27 -0500

NEW YORK, NY – Spattered Columns, an exhibition space operated by the non-profit Art Connects New York (ACNY), is pleased to announce the opening of “Deconstructing the Habit” curated by Angela Washko on June 6, 2012.

In an era characterized by conspicuous consumption, ...a slipping middle class, 60 hour work weeks, and systematically habitual models and standards for living, the exhibiting artists respond to the foundations of routine. The artists in “Deconstructing the Habit” respond to contemporary lifestyle models shaped by the blurring of news and advertising—the dissolving of “wants” into “needs”. Exhibiting artists include Pauline Bastard, Yana Dimitrova, Hannah Heilmann, Ann Hirsch, Zehra Khan and Tim Winn, Kristoffer Orum and Anders Bojen, Molleindustria, Nathaniel Sullivan, and The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in RPGs.

Looking at the dangerous archetypes of women created in reality television, Ann Hirsch shares her experience and mental state on “Frank the Entertainer in a Basement Affair.” Hannah Heilmann, Zehra Khan, Nathaniel Sullivan and Molleindustria look at the effects of consuming projected models for successful lifestyles on quality of life. Pauline Bastard and Yana Dimitrova present detailed moments that are consumed daily and frequently taken for granted. The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in RPGs unearths both subtle and not-so-subtle gender-based stereotypes in role-playing video games while Kristoffer Orum and Anders Bojen create live action role playing opportunities for already marginalized enthusiasts.

During the opening reception, visitors will have the opportunity to experience the "Raccoontown Beauty Boutique" -a live performance by collaborative pair Zehra Khan & Tim Winn. While the traditional process of beautification often involves hair grooming, hair removal, applying make-up and product, Raccoontown Beauty Boutique encourages hair, whiskers and claws. The more beastly, the better.

Maria Anwander: Analyzing

Holly Crawford — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:59:07 -0500

June 7 – June 16, 2012
Opening Event: Thursday, June 7, 6-8pm

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Contact: info@artcurrents.org

Analyzing:
Influenced by conceptual art, my works are established between the fields of performative and installation art. By utilizing different kinds of artistic media, including photography, video and sculpture, my work questions authenticity of artworks and the gap between the art-market and the artist as its potential participator. Instead of giving refined didactic answers my work shows the formal process of my investigations.

Memories and archives in the form of text, which by its anticipation evokes images in the viewers‘ mind, is one important aspect of my work. I perform simple interventions in ordinary items to detach them from their original context and to allow the recipient a different point of view.
My latest works deal with issues of collecting, ownership and authorship. I am highly interested in the creation of notional images by removing other already existing images. The dematerialization and deconstruction of images into pure descriptions of themselves and vice versa are part of my deliberations.

For the video Analyzing, Adolfo Profumo, a psychoanalyst in New York, whom I've never met before, tries to tell me who I am just by looking through my portfolio. The video questions the certainty of art interpretations.
--Maria Anwander

Bio:
Maria Anwander works and lives in Berlin. After her diploma at the academy of fine arts in Vienna in 2008 she spent one year in Bilbao for a residency, three months in the Harlem studio fellowship program in New York and two months at the Casino Luxembourg.

Beside solo and group exhibitions throughout Austria and Germany her works were also shown in Utrecht, London, Bilbao, Cyprus, Illinois, Venice, New York, Moscow and Sydney including the 4th Biennale in Moscow and a satellite-project at the Venice Biennale. Since 2008 she won several prizes and competitions such as the Alexander-Reznikov-Award, the Pfann-Ohmann Group-Award and an art-as-construction competition from the Vorarlberger Landesmuseum in Bregenz, where she created the 230-meter long construction fence. For the Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis in Bregenz she further curated the show "Gaming the System - rank the ranking or fuck the curator" which examined the commercial art scene.

www.maria-anwander.net

Brigid Mc Leer’s Horizontal Ontologies: One + One (The Reading) and Vexations

Holly Crawford — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:54:03 -0500

June 7 – June 30, 2012
Opening Event: Thursday, June 7, 6-8pm

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Brigid Mc Leer’s practice is concerned with ‘staging’ or ‘imaging’ complex and contingent models of the ‘subject’. She does this through developing durational performative responses to pre-existing texts, sites or images. The two works shown here at AC Institute are One + One (The Reading) (2010/12) and Vexations (2007/8). Both use visual documentation of extended performance activities as the basis of their form.

Vexations is based on Eric Satie’s enigmatic 1893 musical composition of the same title. Famously, Satie’s short but difficult score included an epigraph that stated “to play this piece 840 times one would need to prepare oneself in the greatest silence with serious immobility”. For this work the artist spent 15 days in a gallery relearning how to play piano by learning this piece. While doing this, she also produced a vast wall drawing reflecting her experience. This drawing was continually photographed, producing the set of 840 images - a vast new visual score – that are on show at AC Institute.

One + One (The Reading) is work in video and drawing taken from a 7 hour public performance of the artist reading all the proper nouns from James Joyce’s Ulysses. The performance was filmed using a specially commissioned 12.5m miniature rail track. This scene of a tracking shot of a woman reading was itself inspired by the opening sequence to Jean Luc Godard’s Le Mépris -a film about the making of a film of The Odyssey, which of course is the epic tale of homecoming upon which Joyce based Ulysses.

Such circularities and refractions of image and subject are central to the structure and idea of both works.

BIO:

Brigid Mc Leer is an Irish artist based in London. She trained in Fine Art at NCAD, Dublin, University of Ulster, Belfast and Slade School of Art, London. She is interested in ideas of duration and contingency and works in various media/modes including video, performance, photography, and drawing/writing.

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘One + One’, at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda and Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland, Isoli [cont.], Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, and ‘Vexations’, Site Gallery Sheffield, UK. Group exhibitions include ‘A Game of Two Halves’, Lewis Gallery, Rugby School, ‘L’Ulitma Cena’, Reffetorio di San Michele, Pescia, Italy, ‘Beyond Fontana’, curated by Stephanie Moran, Studio 1.1, London and ‘Unspeaking Engagements’ curated by Steve Dutton and Brian Curtin, Chulalongkorn University Gallery, Bangkok and LGP Coventry. Mc Leer is currently Course Director of Fine Art (BA) at Coventry School of Art & Design.

More details of her work can be found at www.brigidmcleer.com.

Artists of 35 Claver Place opening their studios to the Public

Artists — Tue, 22 May 2012 12:05:45 -0500

The Artists of 35 Claver Place will open their studios to the general public as part of the 2012 SONYA Stroll. Artists Kennis Baptiste, Poogy Bjerklie, Peter Schroth, Deborah Kammer, John Bjerklie, Melissa Gorman, Gary Bachman, Samuel Owens and Joel Mellin will provide a unique glimpse of their creative process showcasing their work in portrait photography, sculpture, painting and audio and performance art. Select works will be available for purchase during the stroll.

INDETERMINATE HIKES+ AND BASECAMP.EXE

Lindsay Howard — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:41:16 -0500

319 SCHOLES PRESENTS INDETERMINATE HIKES+ AND BASECAMP.EXE
part of Bushwick Open Studios

June 1 – June 2, 2012

Scheduled "Indeterminate Hike" tours begin at 319 Scholes:
Friday, June 1: 4pm and 7pm
Saturday, June 2: 2pm, 4pm, and 7pm

319 Scholes presents ecoarttech at Bushwick Open Studios for a wilderness excursion through Bushwick’s sublime, pristine industrial landscape. The journey begins at the basecamp.exe installation at 319 Scholes to prepare for an Indeterminate Hike through urban wilds. With their new Indeterminate Hikes+ app, ecoarttech will be leading impromptu hikes throughout the weekend, departing from the gallery, as well as a series of scheduled hikes.

Indeterminate Hikes+ is a mobile phone app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings, and the basecamp.exe installation psychically prepares hikers for IH+ wilderness excursions. Most of us use our smartphones as instruments of rapid communication and consumerism. IH+ re-appropriates this technology as a tool of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of the places we inhabit and slowing us down at the same time. The app imports the experience of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps, encouraging its participants to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention usually accorded only to nature, such as canyons and waterfalls. Visit the IH+ website to learn more and view the latest hiking trails pioneered by IH+ hikers.

Participating artists: ecoarttech (Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint)

Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint founded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. Their collaborative explores what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, they investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature,” built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces. Their recent work includes commissions for the Whitney Museum, Turbulence.org, and University of North Texas and exhibitions/performances at MIT Media Lab, Banff New Media Institute, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery, and Neuberger Museum of Art.

For additional information and image requests, contact: info@319scholes.org.

CYBORG ALARM - When Technology, Imagination and Body Collide

Streaming Museum — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:20:38 -0500

Curated by Tanya Toft, Curatorial Fellow, Streaming Museum

OPENING EVENTS – May 28, 6 to 10 PM
Panel discussion: 6 – 7:30 PM in The Screening Room
Eventi Hotel, 851 Avenue of the Americas, 5th Floor, NYC

Exhibition launch: 6 – 10 PM at Big Screen Plaza
Sixth Avenue between 29th and 30th Street, NYC, behind the Eventi Hotel
On view through June. Schedule at bigscreenplaza.com

Party: 7:30 -10 PM in the newly opened Brighton overlooking Big Screen Plaza
835 Avenue of the Americas

Panel and exhibition FREE
Food and Beverage available at Brighton

RSVP: tanya@streamingmuseum.org

Streaming Museum will open the exhibition CYBORG ALARM: When Technology, Imagination and Body Collide on May 28 from 6 – 10 pm at Big Screen Plaza, NYC, featuring artwork by 2011 NYFA Fellows and Finalists. A panel discussion in the Eventi Hotel’s screening room, will take place 6 – 7:30 PM with the artists: Karolina Sobecka, Michael Greathouse, Sophie Kahn, Jason Bernagozzi, James Case-Leal, and the artist team caraballo-farman. Following the discussion, guests will view the exhibition on the big screen at an opening party at Brighton. The exhibition will be on view at Big Screen Plaza through June 2012.

The exhibition and panel discussion address the timely topic of being human in a world in which digital technology and the body are colliding and giving us new experiences, ideas and capabilities for inventing and imagining our physical and virtual identities. The artworks explore the digital persona as it transcends the human body in representational situations of the contemporary world where norms and behavior are reformulated. The discussion will also address the attributes that make art accessible to a global public in open spaces and online.

The exhibition is inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s description of how art acts as “an early alarm system” and anticipates future social and technological developments. This prompts us to reflect whether what we see in today’s art might anticipate a new reality for future generations. Has the idea of the cyborg, a fictional technologically dependent organism popularized in the 1960’s, gained new relevance as digital technologies continue to enhance our human capabilities and affect our behavior and imagination?

The artworks featured in CYBORG ALARM exemplify how art can translate these issues across time, space and cultures. Telling a story through images of the human dimension in the digital world, they could be considered “contemporary hieroglyphs.”

The works include:

Karolina Sobecka’s Capacity to Act in a World (2011) investigates the limits and meaning of human agency. It explores behavior within an interdependent matrix of elements, sets of norms and constructed histories. The piece exposes our capabilities for navigating and understanding the world in our overtly mediated environments.

In Dreams (2009) by Michael Greathouse is inspired by film noir and b/w Hollywood horror films and produced exclusively with composited computer animation. It depicts continual repetition of a single moment of a human portrait floating in animated waters. In Dreams addresses identity in terms of continuity and journeys through an anachronistic world with endless dimensions.

04302011 (2011) by Sophie Kahn is a collection of laser portraits of New Yorkers inspired by rotating 3-D models of people on large public screens in sci-fi movie scenes. The portraits appear incomplete and fragmented as a result of disruptions caused by the models’ movement and breathing during the scanning process, suggesting a metaphor of instability in our digitally mediated identities.

James Case-Leal’s republic of heaven (2010) presents a lyrical interpretation of the world in which we live. The piece illustrates a spiritual departure from the material world into “the next world” – that is fantastic and perhaps ideal – one which might be possible in the digital realm. It reflects human aspirations and a sense of endlessness, perhaps mirroring the experience in the world’s endless chain of Internet links.

Jason Bernagozzi’s The Presence of Something in its Absence (2008) illustrates a perceptual experience in a digital world. In this poetic universe, there is a sense of ‘getting lost in code’ or virtual worlds; perhaps a search for identity, perception and rhythm, covered in great expectations for the future.

Venerations (Applause) (2009) by caraballo-farman questions the dictates of logic and free will. Why does an audience produce shared emotional states and erupt in collective applause, bound beyond reason? This ritual mirrors situations of collective behavior in a manipulative, commercial, and participatory culture, which is becoming increasingly complex and opaque.

The artists: Karolina Sobecka, Michael Greathouse, Sophie Kahn, James Case-Leal, and the artist team caraballo-farman, are 2011 Artists’ Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Jason Bernagozzi is a 2011 Artists’ Fellowship finalist. This presentation is cosponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a public program Administered by NYFA with leadership support from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

Inside is not the Opposite of Outside

mitsu2 — Mon, 21 May 2012 00:44:25 -0500

The next Synthetic Zero show at BronxArtSpace, "Inside is Not the Opposite of Outside" is co-curated by Emily Roberts-Negron and Mitsu Hadeishi.

Define extrovert. Introvert.

These two words have been interpreted and reinterpreted to conform to a general understanding of disposition. But perhaps these varying definitions illustrate a much more complex idea, that they aren't really in opposition of one another. Perhaps the two exist on their own; individual spectrums which echo one another like the rise and fall of an ocean's tide.

How does one describe an array of emotion, taking account of every nuance and change? This show will be an exploration of the behavior/idiosyncrasies/characterstics of introversion both as an emotional mode and a space of introspection and creative incubation, not as the polar opposite of extroversion, but overlapping with it, undulating together with it, in waves. We are looking for works across the full gradation of emotion and expression. They can be romantic, pessimistic, hairy, toothsome, frustrated, proud, intellectual, courteous, hungry, lonely, horny, cautious, congenial, meditative... together they will form a collective depiction of this singular paradoxical relation.

still work

Rosemary Taylor - "Secrets and Instructions" - paintings - Brooklyn, NY
Nora Herting - "Free Sitting" - photography - Brooklyn, NY
Grace Kim - "Constellations" - collages - New York, NY
Gary Duehr - "Interior View" - photography - Cambridge, MA
James Zeske - installaton - New York, NY
James Luckett - photographic fragment - Springfield, OH

experimental film

Filipe Afonso - "Atracados/Moored" - Lisbon, Portugal
Heather Warren-Crow - "Listen 2 me work" - Milwaukee, WI
Matteo Pasin - "Risonanza Orbitale" (Orbital Resonance) - Berlin, Germany
Simone Bailey - "Evidence of Things Unseen" - San Francisco, CA
Marianna O'Reilly - "Meta Morph" - London, UK

video installation

Hector Rodriguez - "Gestus" - Hong Kong, China
Robert Ladislas Derr - "I don't give a shit about the masses" - Columbus, OH
Wonbin Yang - "Species series" - Nyack, NY

performance:

shooting star experiment of lights - performance - New York, NY

If you would like to submit work for a future show, email us at events@syntheticzero.com with information about your submission; links, video clips, images, etc. If you need to contact us via mail:

Synthetic Zero
305 E 140th St #1A
Bronx, NY 10454
718 772-4961

Preferred formats for video are Vimeo or YouTube clips or files sent via a file sending service. In general, we discourage you from sending DVDs or other discs.

DIRECTIONS:

The art space is at 305 E. 140th St., #1A, Bronx NY 10454.

We're about 20 minutes from Union Square. From Manhattan, 4-5 train to 125th, transfer to 6, one stop to 3rd Ave/138th St, it's 2 blocks from there. Note there are two exits at 3rd Ave/138th, one at Alexander Ave and one at 3rd Ave. Ring 3A or 1B if 1A does not answer.

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Martha Mysko Solo Exhibit

paige — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:31:56 -0500

MARC STRAUS is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by American artist Martha Mysko.

Martha Mysko uses desolated materials to create restless compositions that upon close inspection are deluged in harmonious abstraction and beauty. Mysko's work at times brings to mind a screen of a bad TV where the image flickers between reality and fantasy. Discarded electronics, lumber, furniture, and masonry are the tools of her trade. Her acquisitions distinctly become her own language; checkerboard flooring, pillows, textiles and drywall are among her materials, hand painted to create just the right environment.

Her work investigates the current state of consumerism with a critical eye, but concurrently derives from and depends on it; one man gathers what another man spills. Mysko creates her own space, sometimes wall bound two-dimensional objects, other times complete environments that entrap. These constructs remind of Jessica Stockholder but Mysko, a generation later, is less entropic. Indeed her work seems incomplete without people - without us. Material objects have redefined their purpose, as individual creations full of form. A Rubik’s Cube only has one solution, but the steps to get there vary greatly. Sometimes it just takes an artist to show us the way to solve the puzzle.

Martha Mysko was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1982, and received her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 2011. She was an artist in residence at The Homestead AK in Alaska (2009) and Takt Kunstprojektraum in Berlin (2008). Mysko has exhibited throughout the United States, and in Austria and Germany. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

For further information please contact info@marcstraus.com or 212.510.7646.

Art Murmur at Johansson Projects

kimberly4 — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:20:50 -0500

Johansson Projects presents Jennie Ottinger's "What to Do with Your Orphan: A Manual", in which orphans partake in orphan-like activities. These include sleeping, playing dodgeball, and eating breakfast. But don't be fooled into thinking an orphan's life is just like yours or mine. Ottinger nonchalantly renders a mouth too far unhinged or a patch of flesh a bit too pink, making her gouache ghosts look almost human, but not quite. Horror invades the lullaby of the sweet, little orphan.

Ottinger's collection depicts groups of children who, for some reason or other, do not have a place to call home. Yet her subjects don't even seem to be at home in their own skin, which morphs and erodes before your eyes. In fact, in the face of her paintings, you won't feel at home either. With a style that evokes Marlene Dumas and Francis Bacon, Ottinger creates her own orphan legend, part "Annie" and part "The Bad Seed". She skillfully balances levity and dread, the sweet and the grotesque, making her aesthetic a visual manifestation of gallows humor. Ottinger's orphans need something to laugh at in their unfortunate situations. The lucky ones get godparents who exploit them, while the unlucky ones... well, we don't really know where they go.

Ottinger gives cliched scenarios a funhouse mirror treatment, rendering every nun into a monster, every schoolgirl into a freak. But it is a topsy-turvy world when a child is left without parents at such a young age, and a world filled with ugly indeed.

Jennie Ottinger was raised in Massachusetts and currently lives in San Francisco, CA. Ms. Ottinger earned her BFA from California College of the Arts and her MFA from Mills College. What to do with Your Orphan: A Manual will be Jennie's third solo show at Johansson Projects. She has also mounted solo exhibitions at Eleven Gallery in London as well as a solo booth at Volta NY Art Fair. Her works have also been included in the NADA Art Fair in Miami, Southern Exposure, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Adobe Books in California, as well as galleries in New York, Dallas and Los Angeles. She was awarded a residency at the Kala Art Institute as well as two Graduate Research Grants from Mills College and the Sara Lewis Scholarship Award. Ottinger's reviews appeared in Art in America, San Francisco Chronicle, ArtSlant, Daily Serving and 7x7 Magazine.

First Friday: June 1, 6-9pm
Show runs until June 16, 2012

Exquisite Fucking Boredom: Polaroids by Emma Bee Bernstein

andreamontistudio — Fri, 18 May 2012 15:07:00 -0500

Exquisite Fucking Boredom 
Polaroids by Emma Bee Bernstein
 Curated by Phong Bui
May 24 - June 25
 Opening Reception Thursday May 24, 6-9pm

Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present Exquisite Fucking Boredom, Polaroid images by artist/writer Emma Bee Bernstein (1985-2008). With intimate as well as often staged photographs of the artist and her close friends, Bernstein – who committed suicide in Venice, Italy at the age of 23 – transforms the spontaneous, on-the-spot Polaroid aesthetic into a generational portrait of hyper-self-conscious, passionately alluring young women and men taking on adulthood with deadly serious abandon. The roughly 200 photographs in Exquisite Fucking Boredom were taken during Bernstein’s college years, 2003 to 2007 and have never before been seen. The photographs have been assembled from Bernstein’s personal archive and private diary notebooks by curator Phong Bui in collaboration with her parents artist Susan Bee and poet Charles Bernstein and will also be on view.  

Bernstein who earned a BA in Visual Arts and Art History from the University of Chicago writes, “The perfect projection of the internal imagined self, if it exists, only does so for the duration of the photographic performance.” Bernstein is indebted to the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Francesca Woodman, and Cindy Sherman. Her works are marked by an acute awareness of the fleeting and temporary nature of existence. The Polaroid series are just one of several bodies of photographic works by the artist who also worked with 35mm film and digital formats.

Bernstein’s short film Exquisite Fucking Boredom (2006) also will be shown during the course of the exhibit. And, film-maker Henry Hills will premiere on June 18 a new 80-minute version of Emma’s Dilemma, a film that documents Bernstein’s adolescent years (1997-2002), and features her conversations with Carolee Schneemann, Jackson Mac Low, Ken Jacobs, Richard Foreman, Keith Sanborn, Lee Ann Brown, Susan Howe, Kenneth Goldsmith, and others.  

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EMMA BEE BERNSTEIN’s works have been previously exhibited at the University of Chicago; Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NYC; A.I.R. Gallery; the Smart Museum, Chicago; and at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her book GirlDrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, co-authored with Nona Willis Aronowitz, was published by Seal Press in 2009. Belladonna #4, which features her writing and photographs, was published in 2009.

PHONG BUI is an artist, writer, independent curator (curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1 2007 – 2010) and publisher of The Brooklyn Rail.

More info at www.microscopegallery.com

Pattern Variants New York Edition

Holly Crawford — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:00:24 -0500

Writing Installation:
Thursday, May 24, 10am-1pm
Friday, May 25, 6pm-9pm
Saturday, May 26, 10am-1pm

This event is free and open to the public.

USTREAM Live Broadcast
On channel: Pattern Variants New York Edition AC Institute

The collaborative writing installation, Pattern Variants, will be open to the public and available for viewing on LIVE WEBCAST. Conceived, directed, and produced by Buzz Evers, Pattern Variants represents the first of three programs focused on the art of dialogue and the collaborative process.
Pattern Variants is a new writing experiment highlighting the poetic techniques of OULIPIAN and LINKED POETRY featuring the work of Daniel Levin Becker, Roman Muradov, Max Giteck Duykers and nine distinguished NY poets, including Marcella Durand, Anselm Berrigan, Paolo Javier, Lee Ann Brown, Tim Trace Peterson, Johanna Fuhrman, Vincent Katz, Adeena Karasick, and Jena Osman, with Edmund Berrigan serving as an alternate for the last set of rotations.

Executed over three days (May 24-26), in 3 three hour sessions, Pattern Variants brings together nine landmarks chosen by our nine poets, including Harryette Mullen's Muse and Drudge; The Puppet; The Chrysler Building; The Book of Formation; The Hays Code; Moveable Type; New French Feminisms; "Sayings Of The High One" from The Poetic Edda; & Breton's 'L'amour fou'.

The writing installation intersects two other collaborations involving, first, a series of eight 3X3 flash fiction grids realized by Daniel Levin Becker and Roman Muradov with their own set of combinative potentials in delivering six of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium, along with two additional memos, Symmetry and Obscurity. Additionally, our sound design by Max Giteck Duykers elucidates on patterns within the writing schematic added with an undercurrent of percussive vowels. Pattern Variants sets in motion an experiment in creative writing with the liberating uses of form as the catalyst for enabling creative discourse.

Contact Buzz Evers at gatehouse334@netzero.com for any additional information.

Bios:
Buzz Evers is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, arts administrator, director, and producer. He attended Pitzer College receiving a degree in organizational studies and gravitated toward the arts based on his interest in collaboration and the creative process. His diverse list of experiences include works in the visual, performing, and language arts.
Labyrinths, Synergies, and the Art of Dialogue represents a return to earlier themes bridging his interest in the traditions of linked poetry and the constraint driven propensities of the OuLiPo group of writers, poets, and mathematicians. The three programs developed under the guise of its leading title illustrate Evers' commitment toward interdisciplinary projects that explore the requisite synergies that optimize the creative dialogue, from an in-situ writing experiment with nine poets (Pattern Variants); a libretto written by seven poets (Verse in the Circle of Fifths); and an experiment in letters by three poets on the art of the book, L'Art du Livre: ÉPÎTRES Trois.
Experiences in the fine arts include serving as a studio assistant in glass, metal, and wood with additional experience as a self-taught painter. He has also served as an artists’ rights representative involving copyright, collections management administrator, and museum coordinator, with additional experiences in community development involving the promotion of educational centers for creative learning.
Evers is currently in discussions with The Salmagundi Club in negotiating the use of their notable art library as both sanctuary and part muse for the seven poets collaborating on the libretto for Verse in the Circle of Fifths.

Daniel Levin Becker is reviews editor of The Believer and the youngest member of the Paris-based Oulipo collective. His first book, Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, was published by Harvard University Press in April 2012. He lives and works in San Francisco.

Roman Muradov is an illustrator/cartoonist from Russia. His drawings & comics appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Village Voice, Washington Post, Nobrow magazine & other nice places. He loves tea and dislikes most other things. www.bluebed.net

Max Giteck Duykers is a composer whose work is dedicated to unusual beauty. His numerous commissions and premieres include "The Apricots of Andujar" by the Jerome Foundation, "Arborescence" by the Avian Orchestra, and “Sette Momenti” by the Le Ville Matte Residency in Sardinia, Italy. Others include The Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra, the Oakland Youth Orchestra, The Seattle Chamber Players, Anti-Social Music, Trio Tara, The Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, HERE Arts Center, PS122, La Mama ETC, and the Stony Brook Department of Theater Arts. His "Glass Blue Cleft" was released by the Escher String Quartet on Bridge Records in 2010, and has also just won the New York Composers Circle Composers Competition. His music has been featured at festivals throughout the U.S. and abroad, including the Seattle Chamber Players’ Icebreaker IV, curated by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross. He has also been commissioned to compose music for over 35 theatrical, dance, film, and multimedia projects in the New York City area. He is a PhD candidate at Stony Brook University where he studies with Sheila Silver.

Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and teacher. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, two books of translation, and numerous articles and essays. Katz curated an exhibition on Black Mountain College at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid and edited the catalogue, Black Mountain College: Experiment In Art (MIT, 2002). He is the author of The Complete Elegies Of Sextus Propertius (Princeton, 2004) and Alcuni Telefonini (Granary Books, 2008), a collaboration with painter Francesco Clemente. He is the publisher of the poetry and arts journal VANITAS and of Libellum books. He currently teaches in the MFA Program in Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts.

Tim Trace Peterson is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007) and Violet Speech (2nd Avenue Poetry, 2011) and is the Editor/Publisher of EOAGH. Peterson is co-editing with TC Tolbert the forthcoming Anthology of Trans and Genderqueer Poetry (EOAGH Books), co-editing with Gregory Laynor the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Poems (Chax Press), and has curated for the past few years the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer poetics and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center.

Marcella Durand’s recent books include Deep Eco Pré, a collaboration with Tina Darragh published by Little Red Leaves in 2009; Area, published by Belladonna Books in 2008 as part of the Council of Literary Magazines and Small Press’s FACE OUT program, and Traffic & Weather, a site-specific book-length poem written during a residency at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in downtown Manhattan (Futurepoem Books, 2008). She has collaborated with artists on various projects, including most recently a collaboration with New Orleans artist Karoline Schleh titled, “Stare: What Wild New World Is This?” (exhibited at Barrister’s Gallery, Fall 2010). She has talked about the potential intersections of poetry and ecology at Kelly Writers House, Poets House, Small Press Traffic, Naropa University, and other venues. Her essays and poetry have appeared in The Nation, Ecopoetics, NYFA Current, Conjunctions, The Poker, HOW(2), Critiphoria, The Denver Quarterly, and other journals. She was a 2009 fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Adeena Karasick is a poet, media-artist and the award-winning author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (Talonbooks 2009), The House That Hijack Built (Talonbooks, 2004). The Arugula Fugues (Zasterle Press, 2001), Dyssemia Sleaze (Talonbooks, Spring 2000), Genrecide (Talonbooks, 1996), Mêmewars (Talonbooks, 1994), and The Empress Has No Closure (Talonbooks, 1992). Marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges normative modes of meaning production, and engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, her work is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. Karasick has lectured and performed worldwide and regularly publishes articles, reviews and dialogues on contemporary poetry, poetics and cultural/semiotic theory. She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John's University in New York and Co-coordinator of KlezKanada Poetry Festival and Retreat: Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion. Forthcoming is This Poem, Talonbooks, Fall, 2012.

Anselm Berrigan is the author of five books of poetry, most recently the book-length poem Notes from Irrelevance, published in 2011 by Wave Books. Other books include Free Cell, Some Notes on My Programming, Zero Star Hotel, and Integrity & Dramatic Life. He is the current poetry editor for The Brooklyn Rail (brooklyrail.org), an arts and culture monthly, and from 2003-2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.

Lee Ann Brown was born in Japan in 1963 and was raised in Charlotte, N.C. She is the author of Polyverse (Sun and Moon), The Sleep that Changed Everything (Wesleyan University Press), a song cycle, The 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and In The Laurels, Caught, (Fence Modern Poets Series). She is editor of Tender Buttons press, and of The Spirit of Black Mountain College, a collection forthcoming from Lenoir-Rhyne University. Brown is Associate Professor of English Department of St.John’s University in New York City, and the founder of The French Broad Institute (of Time & the River), a collective for poetry and performance in the mountains of North Carolina.

Joanna Fuhrman is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Pageant (Alice James Books 2009) and Moraine (Hanging Loose Press 2006.) In 2011, Least Weasel published her chapbook The Emotive Function. She is a poetry editor for the journal Ping Pong and served as the Monday night coordinator for the readings at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church from 2001-2003 and the Wednesday night coordinator from 2010-2011. She teaches poetry writing at Rutgers University and in New York City public schools.

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Poet Laureate, and author of several plays, comics, poetry chapbooks, and full-length books of poetry, including The Feeling Is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press). The recipient of grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, he publishes 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com), a tiny press devoted to innovative language art. OBB: Sunday Nite, his comics collaboration with Brooklyn artist Alex Tarampi, will be published in the fall by VSK Press in the U.K.

Jena Osman's books of poems include The Network (Fence Books 2010, selected for the National Poetry Series in 2009), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Book, 2004), and The Character (Beacon Press, winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poet's Prize). Her book Public Figures is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in 2012. Osman was a 2006 Pew Fellow in the Arts, and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Howard Foundation and the Fund for Poetry. She co-edits the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr and is a professor of English at Temple University, where she teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program.

Edmund Berrigan is the author of two books of poetry, Disarming Matter (Owl Press, 1999) and Glad Stone Children (Farfalla, 2008), and a memoir, Can It! forthcoming from Letter Machine. He is editor of the Selected Poems of Steve Carey (Sub Press, 2009), and is co-editor with Anselm Berrigan and Alice Notley of the Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2005) and the Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (University of California, 2010). He is an editor of Vlak magazine, Brawling Pigeon, and is on the editorial board of Lungfull!. He has received three grants from the Fund for Poetry, and was named a NYFA Fellow in poetry in 2009.

Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities | Rome (Italy) . July 06-08, 2012

Itsliquid — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:30:47 -0500

Call for Artists

Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities | Rome (Italy) . July 06-08, 2012

Deadline: June 21, 2012

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films and photo works to include in the next 2012 Exhibition:

Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities - International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition at Ripa Hotel in Rome, Italy (July 06 – August 05, 2012)

The deadline for applications is June 21, 2012.

The selections will be based on the main concept of “Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities” that analyses the hybridization of physical and social identities in the contemporary cities.
The number of works with which you can participate is unlimited.

All video works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The maximum length of videos should be 10 minutes. All photo works on every kind of support are accepted. The maximum dimensions allowed per each image are 100 cm per side. Send your works submissions with a CV/biography, videography and some still images (only for videoartists) and some samples of photo works (only for artists) through one of the following ways:

- by e-mail
The forwarding of all documents and artworks has to be carried out through online transfer services (as for example: wetransfer.com, filecentral.se, yousendit.com or other similar) at lucacurci@lucacurci.com

- by mail to:
International ArtExpo Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33 70122 Bari, Italy

The participation in Hidden Cities & Hybrid Identities requires an entry fee for every artwork submitted and selected. Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

International ArtExpo
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 33
70122 Bari (Italy)
+39.0805234018
+39.3387574098
lucacurci@lucacurci.com
www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Late Night Art Party @ Morgan Junction/Pianoland featuring Cara Christopher

cathleenmcdonald — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:46:11 -0500

The Late Night Art Party at Morgan Junction/Pianoland in Jersey City, NJ presents, Cara Christopher.

Morgan Junction is right off the Grove St. Path Station - 2 stops from Christopher St. - behind Dunkin' Donuts.

Cara Christopher, b. 1988, is a fine artist and graphic designer who lives Jersey City, NJ

Her current body of work centers around self portraits and vibrant pop art.

http://carachristopher.com/

"Brazil" @ Electricity is Magic Gallery

electricityismagic — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:33:12 -0500

Brazil
Lee Blalock
Lauren Hall
Sean Smith / Department of Biological Flow

Opening Reception:
24 May 2012, 7pm - 11pm
EiM Gallery
715 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, ON

Gallery Hours:
Sun/Mon/Tues 12-5

www.electricityismagic.com

*****

Sam Lowry: My name's Lowry. Sam Lowry. I've been told to report to Mr. Warrenn.
Porter - Information Retrieval: Thirtieth floor, sir. You're expected.
Sam Lowry: Um... don't you want to search me?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No sir.
Sam Lowry: Do you want to see my ID?
Porter - Information Retrieval: No need, sir.
Sam Lowry: But I could be anybody.
Porter - Information Retrieval: No you couldn't sir. This is Information Retrieval.

*****

Lee Blalock
Lee Blalock is an interdisciplinary artist working with ideas of self-similarity, repetition and post-humanism. For object and image based work, this idea is translated as replication. For sound work, it is expressed through the use of the loop and the chorus. Her sound practice also extends to a radio show, Brkn Concrete, which broadcasts every Monday at 10pm (CST) on NUMBERS.FM. Performance work is often generative, relying on repetitive behavior and actions. Drawing from training in both martial arts and dance, Lee's movement practice seeks to break convention and find new vocabulary for the 'future' body. Lee's work describes the 'amplified' human, destroying the existing framework of identity and replacing it with the re-engineered body. In all cases, the work is often binary, mechanical, even defensive. Lee recently received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is a part-time Instructor. Her studio is near the West Town neighborhood in Chicago where she has both an art and graphic design practice.
leeblalock.com

Lauren Hall
LAUREN HALL has exhibited her work nationally and internationally with recent exhibitions at the University of Waterloo Art Gallery; CAFKA; YYZ Artists' Inc, Toronto; Modern Fuel, Kingston; Artspace, Peterborough; and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. She is the recipient of emerging artist grants from Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Reviews of her work have appeared in Canadian Art Online, The Toronto Star, Magenta Magazine, and The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.
www.lauren-hall.com

Sean Smith / Department of Biological Flow
The Department of Biological Flow is an ongoing experimental dialogue of research-creation between Sean Smith and Barbara Fornssler. Spanning performance, installation, text, image, poetry and motion capture, our consideration of biological flow attempts to develop processes that have just ceased to be fragile enough for one's imagination to take over and build upon the framework. Everything more or less falls apart, eventually. Sean was most recently the inaugural Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario's Department of Visual Arts, where he developed work concerning surveillance, identity and memory. He lives and works in Toronto.
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New York Japan CineFest: Short Film Program

printern2 — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:34:37 -0500

Highlighting some of the most exciting new voices in cinema, these seven award-winning shorts, including live action and animation, offer rich insight into the imagination and creative impulse of seven U.S.-based filmmakers. Program attended by filmmakers. Reception to follow, sponsored by Asahi Beer.

Australian Short Film Today

printern2 — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:31:21 -0500

Featuring the latest and most exciting short films from Down Under, the annual program returns with award-winning shorts, including Anthony Maras' The Palace (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, Sydney Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival), The Telegram Man starring Jack Thompson, the Oscar short-listed animation Nullarbor, and many other exciting films. Curated by Susan Talbot. Reception follows.

Songs For People I Will Never See Again

info181 — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:05:31 -0500

SONGS FOR PEOPLE I WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN

“Sometimes you have to breathe fire into dreams that come to you for fire, whoever's dreams they turn out to be. They might be yours and you don’t know it yet.” - From Songs For People I Will Never See Again

This will be the first performance of a new live multimedia show by Irish writer, singer and songwriter, Lucy Foley, accompanied by her four piece band. Instrumentation will include guitars, steel pan, synthesizers, laptops, toy piano, clarinets with a driving and playful rhythm section. Live and recorded music and projected imagery weave through a spoken word narrative.

The performance will include stories and songs such as: the wood turner of Sunset Park who turns devastating loss into beautiful objects, a woman who discovers her beauty accidentally by the side of the street, the great courage of daisies, Philoctetes the Greek air traffic controller who returns nightly to a cave to mourn his lost youth, and an unexpected love affair with a French mosquito. Songs For People I Will Never See Again is a show about people frozen in the moment of their appearance and of their disappearance. We celebrate tonight the moment freed from time into story and song, and hear of people I will never see again.

Sound design and additional music composition by Ross Bonadonna.

Duration: approximately 75 mins.

Improvise Combustion

Con Artist — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:51:11 -0500

Improvise Combustion is a show concept to liken the visual medium to a group jazz ensemble. For this particular session, soloists perform as a single form or band unit, an opportunity for the artists to re-unite and re-ignite collaborative connections. There is no head or tail but rather like an organic landscape, a sound-scape and visual-scape that embraces and connects to create and unfold a story of improvising magicians unleashing and expressing for the sake of creating. The end result is a story of atoms colliding and energy bursting, creating chaotical in the midst of controlled expressions, ultimately, an 'Improvise Combustion'.

This show is about unity, society and true collaboration among old friends from different parts of the world. Some are friends from childhood, having a connection of shared experiences and roots that run deep, but only separated by physical proximity and time. Despite a decade of collaborating, somehow in all this time, this particular group has never individually fully connected to concert a single collaborative show concept, until now.

LUMEN 2012

frankfcoahsi1 — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:49:24 -0500

LUMEN: June, 23rd, 2012 - 6PM-midnight

The Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI) is excited to present the third annual LUMEN festival, a video and performance art festival featuring site-specific projections, new media, installations, and performance art by an international group of over 50 artists. Making use of Staten Island’s under-utilized waterfront, LUMEN will take place on the site of Atlantic Salt, a company that supplies road salt to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

   LUMEN 2012 will feature video installations, new media projections, animation, performance art, art interventions, and sound art, curated by Christopher Eamon. He has been involved in Pulse, Art Basel, the Whitney, and multiple projects abroad. Grace Exhibition Space will be curating performance art at this year's festival.   

Atlantic Salt Company, along with Mr. Eamon, will transform the raw waterfront property into a luminous playground, equipped with cargo containers that have been turned into video screening rooms, and specially formed salt sculptures that will be used as projection screens and installation pieces. Over 2,000 people attended LUMEN 2011, and more than 3,000 are expected to attend this year’s event.   

Please visit the official LUMEN website at www.lumenfest.org to learn more about LUMEN, and to see images from previous years. LUMEN will be free of charge and open to the public.  

For more information about the festival, please contact Monica Valenzuela | t: 718.414.6904 | e: mvalenzuela@statenislandarts.org  

For media information, images or interview requests please contact: Racquel Cornali | t: 718.414.6907 | e: rcornali@statenislandarts.org

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  About COAHSI: The mission of COAHSI is to cultivate a sustainable and diverse cultural community for the people of Staten Island by: 1) making the arts accessible to every member of the community; 2) supporting and building recognition for artistic achievement; 3) providing artists and organizations technical, financial, and social resources to encourage the creation of new work. COAHSI does extensive outreach to communities that are underserved geographically, ethnically, and economically. The organization works hard to impact the arts across all borders.

Cool Hunting, Architizer and Dwell Present: Sound, Space and Object: The Intersection of Interior Design, Architecture and Acoustics

Ryan Urcia — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:58:36 -0500

Exploring the choices made by architects and interior designers to create the perfect auditory interior environment. Moderated by Cool Hunting, Architizer and Dwell, the panel will discuss what it takes to create unique, sonically-tuned venues. The Sonos culture team will discuss the concept, design and build of the newly completed Sonos Studio.

Conversation with Jonny Trunk on his record collection (specialised on film and library music)

A R — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:51:28 -0500

Conversation with Jonny Trunk on his record collection (specialised on film and library music)

Link: http://bit.ly/KhNsK8
PDF: http://bit.ly/JTjEXg

This is a conversation by email with record collector Jonny Trunk, which took place on April-May 2012, to prepare a monograph on his library music collection.

Jonny Trunk founded the label Trunk Records in 1995, and it soon gained a cult following as a result of its specialisation in unpublished jazz recordings and film and television soundtracks. Trunk Records was the first label to feature non-commercial library music, a genre that Trunk has written about extensively. Trunk hosts a radio programme at London radio station Resonance FM, and he regularly DJs around the world. He began collecting records around 1982, but rather than focusing on traditional record stores, he chose to comb second hand outlets and street markets. It didn’t take long for him to realise that his obsession was not pop music or modern sounds, but film soundtracks and television music. His record collection now consists of around six thousand LPs and his library music collection focuses on the period from 1966 to 1978 and exhaustively explores british, french, italian and german productions.

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Sonos Listening Library and SCALE for Noho Design District Festival at The Standard, East Village

Ryan Urcia — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:44:06 -0500

SONOS Listening Library
The Sonos Listening Library, located at The Standard East Village, is a custom space debuting one-of-a-kind furniture and design pieces along with Sonos home audio speakers to create the optimal, high-quality music listening experience. The focal point will be a custom Sonos "Soundalier" created by Kiel Mead and Lindsey Adelman. The "Soundalier" utilizes Adelman's contemporary iron chandeliers with the lighting replaced by Sonos' Play: 3 wireless speakers. Suspended above the custom designed room, the sound from above creates an unparalleled listening experience.

Other designers and studios showcasing work include: Brendan Kiem, Taylor Mckenzie-Veal, Evan Dublin, Peter Oyler, Brendan Timmins, Tim Richartz, Ashira Isreal, Reed Wilson, Henry Julier, Ian Geoghegan, Michael Cummings, Hästens Beds with work from The Future Perfect.

SCALE presented by Cool Hunting, Architizer and Dwell
A curated collection of objects that explore the relationship between architecture and furniture, at the scale of a chair.

Online tastemakers Cool Hunting and Architizer join forces with Dwell magazine to curate a collection of objects that explore the relationship between architecture and furniture. The pieces speak to a new generation of architects who are testing radical ideas about materiality, computation, and fabrication — all at the scale of a chair. Featuring furniture, objects and prototypes by Snarkitecture, Drura Parrish, Jonah Takagi, Patrick Gavin, Seth Alec Keller, Thaddeus Wolfe, Bec Brittain, Studio Dror and more.

Architecture is seldom just about walls, floors and ceilings — it’s also about the pieces that fill those spaces and define how they are used. The collection will be on display at the The Standard, East Village as part of the Noho Design District. The collected pieces, on view from May 18th to 21st, speak to a young generation of architects who are testing radical ideas about materiality, computation, and fabrication—all at the scale of the chair.

Augment It! -Stedelijk Museum @ Trouw

Will Pappenheimer — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:15:38 -0500

4 – 6 pm: Poetry on the Screen program
8 pm – 1 am: Augment It! program

Location: TrouwAmsterdam, Wibautstraat 127, Amsterdam
Language: English
Entrance price: € 10 / € 7,50 (students) for evening program / afternoon program is free of charge
Tickets and reservations: On sale at www.trouwamsterdam.nl. Please make a reservation for the afternoon program ‘Poetry on the Screen’ via www.letterenfonds.nl/rsvp.

The Stedelijk Museum and TrouwAmsterdam are very pleased to present Augment It! This special program in the TrouwAmsterdam building is devoted to all the possible forms of Augmented Reality (AR) that artists, poets, architects, and designers are experimenting with at the moment. With an extensive exhibition in De Verdieping, lectures in the clubroom, AR performances throughout the building, and a dazzling finale with an AR DJ, Augment It! presents all the many different possibilities of AR today!

Augmented Reality involves complementing reality with virtual digital images. In a search for the seamless interface between man, machine, and reality, a great deal of work is done to develop AR, for example, using special spectacles, smartphones, or webcams. But what are the latest trends? What can poets do with this new medium? What does AR DJing look like? How does the human body relate to this virtual reality? Augment It! will answer this and many other questions.

Improvise Combustion

Con Artist — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:55:11 -0500

Improvise Combustion is a group show organized by member Chris Mendoza, featuring a collection of collaborations and new work by Michael Miyahira aka Mike Ming, Kenji Hirata, Pablo Power, & Naomi Kazama.

Improvise Combustion is a show concept to liken the visual medium to a group jazz ensemble. It is the two day studio session of soloists to perform as a single form, a band unit, similar to the work of great improvisational musicians. For this particular session, it is an opportunity for the artists to re-unite and re-ignite collaborative connections. The end result is an opening featuring the mural canvas, or perhaps the bands melodies and rhythms, as the rest of the gallery space is transformed to the soloist's moods and collaborations.

These artists are old friends from different parts of the world, and are only able to connect because of travel timing. Some are friends from childhood, having a connection of roots that run deep, having shared experiences and the support of each other over a long period of time, but sometimes only separated in physical proximity and time. Despite a decade of collaborating, somehow in all this time, this particular group has never individually fully connected to concert a single collaborative show concept, until now.

This show is about unity, society and true collaboration. There is no head or tail but rather like an organic landscape, a sound-scape and visual-scape that embraces and connects to create and unfold a story of improvising magicians unleashing and expressing for the sake of creating. This is the story of atoms colliding and energy bursting creating chaotical in the midst of controlled expressions, ultimately, an 'Improvise Combustion'.

Finally Naomi and Strange are on a live screen printing tour, and will set up outside "Improvise Combustion" for some unique live screen printing. More details to come soon when we have the exact date and time.

Matthew Stadler - Big Ideas in Art and Culture

danicaevering — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:29:13 -0500

Musagetes and the Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA) are pleased to announce that Matthew Stadler will be speaking as part of the Big Ideas in Art & Culture Lecture Series. The lecture will take place at the Guelph Youth Music Centre (75 Cardigan St., Guelph, ON) on June 6, 2012 at 7 pm. Admission is free.

Stadler will introduce us to Publication Studio (created with co-founder Patricia No), a print-on-demand publisher that serves as a space for publication in its fullest sense. He proposes that publishing doesn’t simply produce books, but also produces new publics through the shared experience of reading. Central to the studio’s philosophy is the creation of a digital commons, where anyone can read and annotate books for free; the dialogue formed by reading is carried into unique social events, such as dinners, symposia and puppet shows. This breathes life into the written word on paper, online and through discussion.

Stadler is a writer and editor from Portland, Oregon, and formerly the editor of Nest magazine and co-founder of Clear Cut Press. Stay tuned to the Bookshelf (bookshelf.ca) and Musagetes (musagetes.ca) for more details about an upcoming collaboration with Matthew Stadler. To find out more about Publication Studio, visit publicationstudio.biz.

There will be a complimentary shuttle departing at 6:00 PM from the Duke Street entrance at Kitchener City Hall the evening of the lecture. Please contact CAFKA at cafka@cafka.org or 519 744 5123 to reserve a seat.

To learn more about this lecture, please visit cafka.org/lectures.

Image Credits: Sara Ludlow. Courtesy of Matthew Stadler.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Danica Evering
Project Assistant, Musagetes
519 836 7300
danica@musagetes.ca
musagetes.ca

Donnarumma, Tanaka, Parkinson, Biophysical and mobile music

Marco Donnarumma — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:04:03 -0500

In a double bill on May 19th, Marco Donnarumma starts with a performance utilizing the award-winning biophysical instrument Xth sense, that he teaches this weekend in a class at Harvestworks. This is followed by Adam Parkinson's and Atau Tanaka's exploitation of a common consumer electronics device, the iPhone.
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Marco Donnarumma's Music for Flesh II is a seamless mediation between human biosonic potential and algorithmic composition. By enabling a computer to amplify and augment the muscle sounds of human tissues, the work approaches the biological body as a means for computational artistry.

Adam Parkinson & Atau Tanaka reappropriate the iPhone and its advanced technical capabilities to transform the consumer object into an expressive musical instrument for concert performance. In a duo, with one in each hand, they create a chamber music, 4-hands iPhone.

Picture: Donnarumma live at Cafè OTO, London, UK, 2012. Courtesy of Parag K Mital.

Three's a Crowd: Recess Benefit 2012

RecessActivities — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:18:05 -0500

Join Recess for a night of celebration, marking three years of ambitious artists projects. Three’s a Crowd will feature a silent auction with extraordinary works from artists who exemplify Recess’s mission to create rigorous artwork for an active public.

Live Auction up now on Paddle8. Preview and bid leading up to the event. http://www.paddle8.com/forgood/recessauction.

Ticket levels range from $75.00 - $500.00, each with extra-special perks. Information on pricing and sponsorship can be found here http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/234036

WYSIWYG - WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

Can Henne — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:38:26 -0500

Gallery 5th People Project is pleased to announce the exhibition:

“WYSIWYG - What You See is What You Get”

Artists:
Can Henne and Laserinks (Alejo Lopatin + Felix Larreta)

Exhibition: May 25th – June 16th, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, May 25th at 19:00

Yasuko Fujioka Gallery, 5th people project
Malplaquetstr. 28, 13347 Berlin, Germany

Thu-Sat: 5:00pm - 9:00pm / Sun: 2:00pm - 5:00pm

www.facebook.com/5thpeopleproject

Exhibitiontext:

"But she had the invisible thread, to which she could hold fast; far she was ahead of all the others, because she had a gift: the sense. This was a determination to throw herself entirely into whatever she undertook, and it made her feel as if she had eyes even at the tips of her fingers, and could hear down into her very heart. Quietly she went forth into the noisy, bustling, wonderful world, and wherever she went the skies grew bright, and she felt the warm sunbeam, and a rainbow above in the blue heavens seemed to span the dark world.
-from the fairy tale "The Philosopher’s Stone" by Hans Christian Andersen

What we are able to see and feel beforehand is relatively similar to what is about to be created and the outcome which is about to be viewed. Stating this, it implies the ability to directly manipulate the cause of an appearance. Or is the result already a foregone conclusion before the manipulation of perception? The actual meaning depends on the point of perspective.

The works of both artists in this exhibition correlate to the entailment of a manipulative process and the impact it has on what is displayed. As Alejo Lopatin and Felix Larreta (Laserinks) intervene in the way viewers are enchanted into a beguiling realm of perception - Can Henne pilots them into the unknown with image worlds of subtle characteristics in an biomorphic cosmos of color and form.

A non-material world is about to take over the space at 5th people, sign on!

WYSIWYG is an acronym that's usually used in the electronic-publishing community to refer to document-creation systems (such as page-layout software and illustration software) that allows a user to interact with something on the computer screen that looks a lot like the document will look in its final form.

Text:Can Henne

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Laserinks - Alejo Lopatin + Felix Larreta

Laserinks is a project that uses phosphorescent inks and pigments in the tradition of geometric abstraction, constructed by superimposing paint and light layers. These paintings are the basis of this interactive work. Images and sounds are projected over the paintings creating a dialogue with the forms, thereby multiplying and extending the painting and enabling it to become site-specific.

Artists Alejo Lopatin and Felix Larreta co-created the platform for a multiple experience, a space of blurred boundaries, redefined in real time and subject to the random evolution of the action. Laserinks is a formal creative model, the result of years of work and research. It is an invention that is a departure from traditional forms of artistic classification, an innovative and contemporary experience that goes beyond established paradigms.

The space offers each spectator a way to evolve into the work itself. In its evanescent and rhythmic forms, the viewer never remains static even though his body stands still. Stimulation is a form of transition, a path to experience intimacy. The spectator’s body is captured in a "magnetic" field, where retina, body and spirit gradually fuse and melt with the piece. The authors exploit pure forms´ standardization beyond narration and a closed, univocal statement. The meaning of the work is expressed through multiple interlaced layers, which form an abstract visual, musical, and spiritual narrative. It is a region delimited by art, where time and space redefine its habitual function.

Laserinks is an interstice that joins two artists’ creative synergy and allows for collaborative development, interaction and dialogue. This union creates an experience where individualities merge to enhance their reach towards the infinite. It is the outcome of a collective creation and coexistent strategy which is ruled by aesthetic and emotional criteria.

www.optikglow.tv

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Can Henne

Enlightened Paintings – Utopia, Fine Art Prints on Aludibond in varying size, - 2012

"I am painting out of light. The canvas is the monitor of my computer. Over the past years I have been making images on the threshold between photography and painting. Although there are photographies included, it is no photo and there are no negatives. But some recipients question whether the work may even be called photographic. Originally my approach was to create new images by reorganization of found photo cutouts and their colors; but the work has evolved beyond that. I started a kind of painting with digital tools inside the virtual canvas and sticked parts of photos and drawings into it. In the process it became a mixed media collage. Also real paint, scanned and digitally processed is part of some of my works.

It is not surprising, that these images have taken on emotional characteristics that seem satisfying for many viewers. People tend to be drawn to the images, but they are not sure why. Perhaps because I form an atmosphere out of colors and forms which reminds us of conditions from another world than the physical one we live in. But we have no other reference system than the material world for our eyes. But an inner eye can see so much more. Therefore, as I continue to explore new technical possibilities I am now consciously directing the emotional impact of color and the composition in my work..."

www.hotelcancan.de

Teun Hocks: Recent Works

P.P.O.W — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:51:25 -0500

P.P.O.W is proud to present Teun Hocks’ ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. Through these Recent Works, the Dutch artist expands his body of constructed imagery with fourteen photographic works that flex his mastery of process while narrating actions of futility and possibility.

Hocks’ photographic paintings are tedious with layers of production that reveal the enduring patience of the artist while challenging the acute eye of his viewers. He begins each work by constructing a scene in his studio with the help of various props (i.e. ladder, books, and briefcase). Setting a timer on his camera, he jumps in to the scene. Then by hand Hocks paints the gelatin silver print with layers of transparent oil paint; creating a muted palette akin to Dutch still life painters Jan Weenix and Willem van Aelst. The final works operate as a bridge between the traditional process of photography and painting.

In these scenes Hocks positions himself amidst the psychological and philosophical struggles of everyday life; constructing narratives that contain the artist's tragic wit and comedic humor. Hocks' love of graphic novels helps to inspire the construction of his work. For example, in his Untitled (crossroad) we find Hocks confronted with a choice of paths and instead, his reaction is to dig himself into the proverbial hole.

Teun Hocks was born 1947 in Leiden, Holland and started taking photographs at fourteen years old. From 1966-70, he studied at Academies Sint Joost, in Breda, where he continued to live and began painting his photographs at twenty-six. In 1980, Hocks started to teach drawing at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, combined with teaching photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam (from 1991 - 2000). In the early nineties Hocks moved to Breukelen and in 1991 he joined P.P.O.W. He has exhibited internationally for twenty years. There are many publications of his work including the Teun Hocks monograph published through Aperture in 2006 with an essay by Janet Koplos and also The Late Hour a monograph published by De Geus with an essay by Donald Kuspit published in 1999. His work is included in museums and private collections and has been reproduced in major publications worldwide.

sliveRider

curt cloninger — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:56:19 -0500

A video collaboration between A. Bill Miller and Curt Cloninger. Audio by Low. Bill and Curt swapped files back and forth until the person receiving the file felt it was finished. Links to the video files in progress are included.

Terminal Announces the Launch of "Horror Stories" by Jillian Mcdonald

Barry Jones — Tue, 15 May 2012 09:56:10 -0500

Terminal is pleased to announce the launch of Horror Stories by Jillian Mcdonald. Mcdonald is a winner of a 12-13 Terminal Award.

Horror Stories is a web-based artwork that enables an interactive and collaborative film-making experience. The work is not a film per se, it is a contemporary update and visual equivalent to ghost stories told around a campfire. That everyone wants to shoot a horror film might be an exaggeration, but the genre’s signature low budgets, repetitive motifs, and minimal narratives make the feat possible for many amateurs and fans. In Horror Stories the viewer’s experience depends on his or her own expectations of horror films. Programming by Julie Gill.

Recession Art presents Everything is Index, Nothing is History

Emma Katz — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:33:35 -0500

On Saturday June 2, Recession Art opens

Everything is Index, Nothing is History
at the Invisible Dog Art Center, 51 Bergen Street Brooklyn
Curated by Melanie Kress and Natalie Bell

Opening June 2, 6-10 pm
On view June 2–17, 2012
Wednesday–Sunday, 2–8 pm

Everything is Index, Nothing is History explores a world chronicled by gestures and physical traces that establish a factual connection to the world independent of cultural codes. Nearly a century and a half ago, philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce defined index as a sign that is caused by that which it refers to. A footprint, a scar, the smoke of a fire—all are signs that simultaneously demonstrate what they signify. An index may attest to the immediate truth of a substance or physical state, as fever announces illness; or it may depict the truth of time, like the sun dial’s reading of a minute and the dust pile’s accumulative presence. As our relationship to history and the present change in an expanding field of information, Everything is Index, Nothing is History presents works that point to physical realities and trace purported histories through archives, found objects, photographs, material states, and physical actions.

Curated by Melanie Kress and Natalie Bell, Everything is Index, Nothing is History features work by Kate Bonner, Eric Carlson, J and James Carpenter, Courtney Chappell, Sarah Crofts, Lizzy De Vita, Shannon Finnegan, Ben Garthus, Max Glaser, Sam Keller, Yujin Lee, Antoine Lefebvre, Hudson Lines, Saul Melman, Peter Neu, Leah Raintree, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jordan Rathus, and Nancy Woods. Everything is Index, Nothing is History features the following events, which are free and open to the public.

The League of Darters' B.Y.O. Darts Workshop: Wednesday, June 6, 7–9 pm
$10/person includes refreshments and dart-making supplies. RSVP required; maxiumum 15 participants.
Tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/247617
The League of Darters is an evolving installation that includes crafting darts with artist Ben Garthus. Participants are encouraged to bring their own scissors and needle-nosed pliers.

8 Hours of Work | A Performance by Shannon Finnegan
Saturday, June 9, Performance 11 am–7 pm, Reception 6–8 pm
Shannon Finnegan addresses ideas of productivity by pursuing the same action at length. For this performance, she will write for 8 hours, “I should be working more,” and “I should be working less.” The work’s ephemera will be included in Landfill Quarterly, a project that studies social art works through the material surplus they generate.

Film Night: …Then Again, Maybe Not: Thursday, June 14, 7:30–9 pm
Join us for an evening of short films and performances, curated by Melanie Kress and Natalie Bell, featuring a group of artists whose works delve into the themes of Everything Is Index, Nothing Is History. The program will include Peter Fankhauser, Nate Flagg, Theresa Himmer, Jordan Rathus, and others.

The League of Darters’ Pin-The-Tail-On-The-Invisible-Dog: Saturday, June 16, 3–5 pm
The League of Darters is an evolving installation that is accompanied by a series of activities and games that aim at symbolically claiming both interior and exterior spaces within the building and throughout the city, all while leaving a trace of the territory that has been claimed. Return with your darts from the BYO Darts Workshop or borrow some of ours to play.

Melanie Kress is a New York-based independent curator . She is the curator of RAC, Recession Art's Manhattan gallery and store, as well as the Development/Communications Assistant at the American Federation of Arts. Her curatorial work includes: the POTLUCK series at Art in General (2007-2009); the French-American collaboration DIALOGUES with programs at Artists Space, New York and Bétonsalon, Paris (2009); and the exhibition and publication i am not a good enough feminist (2011). In 2009 she was the recipient of a Curatorial Fellowship at Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, and in 2010 founded the project space Concrete Utopia (www.concreteutopia.org). She received her BA in Art History with a concentration in Visual Arts from Barnard College in 2009, and in September will begin her MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths College, London.

Natalie Bell is a New York-based writer, researcher, and curator. Her previous experience includes work at the Guggenheim, The New Museum, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. She is a frequent contributor to Art Papers and the recipient of the Arts Writing Workshop award through Creative Capital (AICA/USA). She received her BA in philosophy from Barnard College and will complete an MA in philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center in May 2012.

Recession Art is an arts organization that connects emerging artists with aspiring collectors and provides an affordable and accessible alternative to the traditional art market. Visit Recession Art at The Invisible Dog during Everything is Index, Nothing is History, or at RAC on 9 Clinton Street between Houston and Stanton streets, accessible from the 2nd Avenue F Station and Essex Street J/M/Z trains. To learn more visit RecessionArtShows.com or email info@recessionartshows.com.

The Invisible Dog Art Center is located on 51 Bergen Street between Smith and Court streets, near the Bergen F/G stops. Gallery hours are 2–8 pm Wednesday–Sunday.

Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index exhibition at EMPAC

Jason Steven Murphy — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:27:26 -0500

Jennifer + Kevin McCoy: Index exhibition
On view through Saturday, October 13, 2012

Index is an EMPAC-commissioned public art installation by Rensselaer Arts alumni Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, which consists of multiple sculptures filmed via small, live cameras. The resulting video projection, as well as the models, will appear throughout our public spaces during an extended residency with the artists.

Inspired by a J.G. Ballard short story called The Index, in which an alphabetized list of people and places are turned into an implied, overarching narrative, the McCoys’ list spans the 1960s to today, referencing globalization, technology, mass migrations, and war. Corporate campuses, film sets, Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, and factories all collide in a globalized mediated framework that exists to support utopian goals, even as it rests upon resource depletion, financial instabilities, and entropic decay. These problems of environmental and economic collapse persist in the face of the never-changing rhetoric of the assumed benefits of the technological future.

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's multimedia artworks examine the genres and conventions of filmmaking, memory, and language. They are known for constructing subjective databases of existing material and making fragmentary miniature film sets with lights, video cameras, and moving sculptural elements to create live cinematic events. Recent projects extend this work to autobiographical and political themes. They are the 2011 recipients of a Guggenheim Fellowship and were the 2005 recipients of the Wired Rave Award for Art. The McCoys’ work has been widely exhibited in the US and internationally—their most recent shows include z33 in Hasselt, Belgium, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the British Film Institute Southbank in London, Hannover Kunstverein, the Beall Center in Irvine, CA, PKM Gallery in Beijing, the San Jose Museum of Art, Palazzo delle Papesse, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, and Artists Space in New York. Their work can be seen in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the 12c Museum in Louisville, KY. They live in New York City.

The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday – Saturday from 12 PM – 6 PM. Free two hour parking is available adjacent to EMPAC on College Avenue and 8th Street.

ART HK 12: Galerie Gmurzynska presents Wifredo Lam exhibit with new works and booth designed by Zaha Hadid

Ryan Urcia — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:14:40 -0500

Galerie Gmurzynska will return to ART HK 12 with a unique booth designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid and a special exhibition on Wifredo Lam.

Hadid will present a new series of paintings of her Hong Kong Peak project and showcase recent design pieces including the acclaimed Liquid Glacial Table for David Gill Galleries, Z-Chair for Sawaya & Moroni and Zephyr sofa. Almost 30 years ago, the Peak project launched Hadid on the international platform, which she continues to pioneer. The project demonstrated a radical new approach to presentation drawings, which she has further developed, experimenting with innovative technologies and media.

Representing the Estate of Wifredo Lam, Galerie Gmurzynska is proud to present an important exhibition of the works of the only 20th century classic modern artist of Chinese origins, Wifredo Lam. Published on the occasion will be a catalogue on the work of Lam with text by the artist and rare documentary images. The paintings on view—including ceramics and pastels—offer a retrospective selection, from his Cubist-inspired School of Paris days to his ’70s canvases.

Other highlights at the show will include a selection of important works by 20th century classic modern masters from the collection of the galerie, including Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Robert Indiana, and Fernando Botero.

Zaha Hadid will be present during the Press and Collector’s Preview on Wednesday, May 16 at 2:00PM at Galerie Gmurzynska’s booth, 1B16, as well as Eskil Lam, son of the artist and representative of the Estate of Wifredo Lam.

About ART HK 12
Back for its fifth year, ART HK 12 will take place May 17-20, 2012, preview May 16, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). This year, ART HK 12 will showcase the very best in contemporary art from 266 galleries representing 39 International territories. Widely acknowledged as an important platform for networking in the international art community, ART HK brings together leading collectors, curators, artists and galleries from across Asia and the rest of the world. ART HK is the only fair in Asia bringing together such an exceptional scope of work, and as dynamic a gathering of people. ART HK 12 is produced in collaboration with Art Basel. For more info, visit www.hongkongartfair.com

About Galerie Gmurzynska
Galerie Gmurzynska has been a leading international art gallery for almost 50 years, specializing in masterpieces of both classic modern and classic contemporary art. Galerie Gmurzynska is also the leading gallery for artists of the Russian Avant-garde. The gallery’s programs, in its three locations St. Moritz, Zürich and Zug (all of them in Switzerland), seek to inform viewers about the most important art of the last century. In the past 47 years Galerie Gmurzynska has published over 150 important books, which are renowned in the field of art history and form part of major art libraries worldwide. Galerie Gmurzynska represents estates such as Yves Klein, David Smith and living legends such as Robert Indiana. For more info, visit www.gmurzynska.com

For media inquiries, contact STATE Public Relations, Ryan Urcia at +1(646)714.2520, ryan@statepr.com
For galerie inquiries, contact Mathias Rastorfer/ Jeannette Weiss at galerie@gmurzynska.com

Just A Girl: Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch

awashko — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:24:49 -0500

An evening of two performances by Angela Washko and Ann Hirsch at Microscope gallery.

7pm-8:30pm
... $6
4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY. Myrtle/Broadway JMZ or Morgan or Jefferson L

Cause A Flat Chested Woman Might As Well Be A Man

As an extension of her recent founding of The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft, Angela Washko will bring audience members into the incredibly misogynistic realms within WoW. There she will invite them to evaluate player responses to her questions regarding feminism.

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Growing up, Ann Hirsch was a late bloomer. It has taken longer than normal, but she has finally developed her womanly body. She will be doing a brand new performance where she grapples with her new body, including appropriating a famous William Wegman video performance and imitating bodily functions as she continues to investigate what it means to be a female performance artist in the age of the internet.

Angela Washko is a visual artist and independent curator based in New York City. Exploring the territories of advertising psychology and perceptions of women created in the media, her works are a call-to-action, demanding a drastic attitude change in our collective consciousness. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including most recently at The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Spanien 19c in Denmark, Grace Exhibition Space in NYC, LUMEN in NYC, Garage Gallery in San Diego, Carnival of e-Creativity in New Dehli, Videopolis in Barcelona, and The Budapest Short Film Festival. Washko has recently been granted the Terminal Award from Austin Peay State University and has completed artist residencies at Flux Factory in NYC, Gullkistan in Iceland, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside in Troy, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Her work has been written about on Rhizome, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Time Out NY, and the Huffington Post.

Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist engaging with the contemporary portrayal of women in media. She often acts as an amateur social scientist, inserting herself into popular culture and reporting back her findings in the form of art works. Hirsch has exhibited incarnations of her projects nationally and internationally, including video installations at the Video and Digital Arts Festival in Girona, Spain, SKOL in Montreal, Central Utah Artist's Space and has given performances at Vogt gallery in Chelsea, Flux Factory in Queens, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NOMA gallery in San Francisco, Sarah Lawrence College and more. She has completed residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Yaddo. Her work has been written about by The New York Times, Rhizome and Artinfo.com. You can read more about her shenanigans at TheRealAnnHirsch.com.

reCAPCHAT. Jimpunk at Domain Gallery

Manuel Fernández — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:15:17 -0500

Domain Gallery is pleased to present reCAPCHAT, a solo exhibition by french artist Jimpunk curated by Manuel Fernández.

Jimpunk is a wellknown net-artist who has been using Internet as context for his art practice from late 90's.

reCAPCHAT use the reCAPTCHA system, an extension of the CAPTCHA test that recognizes text in images to determine when the user is human or not. Jimpunk has modified these systems to generate a nonsense chat, an intervention in Twitter where every time a user fills out the reCAPTCHA, is published in an account open for the project, creating a new and unexpected spontaneous way of experimental communication.

Jimpunk
lives and works in Paris.

www.domain-gallery.net
www.jimpunk.com/.net/
www.manuelfernandez.name

the further history of annlee

Michael Szpakowski — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:49:35 -0500

3 contributions to this project:

http://nimk.nl/blog/annlee/

(1)
"the further history of annlee"

oil on board 51X61 cm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/7184582408/in/photostream

(2)
"ariel"

animated GIF with two unsynchronised soundtracks, dimensions variable

http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/ariel/

(3)
"revenant"

pencil & soft pastel, 32X41 cm

http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako/7160764528/

cheers,

michael

fresh paint 5

Esther Naor — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:43:05 -0500

Fresh Paint contemporary art fair is Israel’s largest, most influential annual art event. The fair is held each year in a surprising, new location in Tel Aviv – the beating heart of the Israeli cultural world, and attracts over 30,000 visitors. The fair brings together all the leading galleries and significant forces of the Israeli art scene, collaborates with all the Israeli museums, and enjoys the support of leading international art institutions.

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Esther Naor
I Am Forever Fog, 2012
Soft wax, variable dimensions

The new series of works by artist Esther Naor deals with pain and fear through the genre of portrait. She sculpts heads with anonymous facial features, with a special technique that uses soft wax to fake marble. The head sculptures, reminiscent of classic sculpture portraits, range from the perfect to the wounded and bleeding. Several ones are reminiscent of works of art that were made as a reaction to violent events, such as Picasso's Guernica, or Tumarkin's wounded figures. Except that Naor doesn't react to a concrete reality; she relates to a fragile, threatened universal existence, under constant pain and anxiety. Naor wishes to grab these feelings and turn them into physical bodies, a sort of Voodoo puppets whose role has been reversed and aim now to release the body from the pain, to allow an external look at it, to rediscover the sense of compassion and suggest consolation and healing.

The series in question here is a continuation and development of the installation in the Florentin 45 gallery, earlier this year, which used fleshy and bloody images in contrast to pure white gauze sails. The aesthetic aspect was one of undefined internal organs which were removed from the body, perhaps in an act of violence, perhaps in an act of healing. The recent works, however, are figurative and concrete, in black, white and shades of gray in between, unlike the dominant red in the previous installation. Paradoxically, the monochromatic blurring of the facial traits gives each figure its own and unique identity, despite the generic and identical point of start. The unique and generic (hence the individual and public) merge into one multi-faceted identity who wishes to gather the pieces and redefine itself.

Mia Araujo “Into the Woods” and guest artist Nouar

angelique1 — Sat, 12 May 2012 11:24:58 -0500

Mia Araujo
“Into the Woods”

Featuring guest artist Nouar

Opening Reception Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 7‑10pm
On View May 12 – June 2, 2012

Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232
T: 310-287-2340
www.coreyhelfordgallery.com

On Saturday, May 12, Los Angeles artist Mia Araujo returns to Corey Helford Gallery to unveil her first solo exhibition at the gallery, “Into the Woods.”

Mia is known for her beautiful and ethereal imagery, tempered with the darkness and horrors of reality. “The worlds I create are heavily charged with mysticism, magic, and mythology — things that I find mostly lacking in contemporary times,” she notes.

For “Into the Woods,” Mia drew inspiration from a variety of sources: Miyazaki’s film Princess Mononoke, the writings of John Muir, and Timothy Egan’s book The Big Burn. Her newest body of work is about connecting with the outdoors to go inward and discover your truest self. Nature is a sanctuary, and “a place to heal from all the exhaustion, stress, and wounds that each of us carry in our daily lives.” Mia adds, “I feel that people today need to be reintroduced to the raw power and beautiful honesty of nature, an experience that no manner of technology can ever replicate.”

Layered with the emotions, ghosts, memories, and dreams of the main figure in each piece, her narratives have matured in every sense - color, anatomy, detail and composition. “I love to tell stories with many facets, like a diamond,” Mia adds. The main floor of the gallery will showcase seven new paintings and ten drawings, including her largest piece to date, a 60” x 40” painting.

The upstairs gallery will feature “Confectionary Affections” a new body of work by Los Angeles artist Nouar. The title of the exhibition alludes to how “the sweet things in life can seamlessly lead into the not so sweet,” Nouar adds. “Dissolved,” is one of ten new works in the show illustrating this concept. In the piece, a bubbly bottle of pop bounces along with the remains of its hapless victim inside.

Nouar continues to feature confectionary-themed resin works created from a unique process of casting and then painting each one. However, For “Confectionary Affections” Nouar embeds objects inside, producing seamless combinations to further push the medium. For the exhibition, Nouar’s signature brightly-colored, sugary-sweet works are infused with darker flavors such as skeletons, apparitions, and symbols of mortality.
Nouar adds “It creates a literal sense that the good things and bad things in life, two opposing forces, can collide and meld into one.”

The opening reception for the “Into the Woods” and “Confectionary Affections” takes place Saturday, May 12 at Corey Helford Gallery. The reception is open to the public, and both exhibitions will be on view through June 2, 2012.

Mia Araujo
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Mia graduated as valedictorian from Otis College of Art and Design with a BFA in Illustration and a minor in Creative Writing. Fascinated by story and character, Mia’s paintings are “personality portraits” that illustrate the spirits, inner demons, conflicting emotions and imagination of her subjects. Mia currently shows her work in prominent galleries across the U.S., and her work has been published in ImagineFX, Spectrum, the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, and the Creative Quarterly. For more information about Mia, please visit art-by-mia.com.

Nouar
In 2004, Nouar graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She has since worked in many artistic facets, including work as a background painter in the television animation industry, and as a freelance illustrator. As a painter, her love of animation, food and vintage ephemera, coupled with darker personal narratives continually act as an inspiration for her work, and her work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide. For more information about the artist, please visit noirnouar.com.