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Woodstock Digital Media Festival, June 18th

2011-06-14T22:54:00.004-04:00

Come to Vermont for the first Woodstock Digital Media Festival, happening this coming weekend! Presenting projects/speaking are ecoartech, eteam, Jeremiah Johnson, Will Pappenheimer, Christiane Paul, Christopher Robbins, Magdalena Sawon & Tamas Banovich, Jack Toolin, CJ Yeh and more! Organized by David McGowan (Chairman), Joe McKay, Townsend Belisle, Mary Flanagan, Kristin Lucas, Roger Neal and Marcin Ramocki.

eteam, 2011

More info about "Out of Place" in Vermont on Paddy Johnson 's blog!

"Made in Internet" showcase @ ARTBOOM Festival

2010-06-11T01:15:00.004-04:00

ARTBOOM Festival 2010 and Marcin Ramocki have the pleasure to introduce
Made in Internet: an online showcase featuring 23 international web based artists.

http://www.artboomfestival.pl/pl/85/0/10/Made-in-Internet

June 11-28, 2010, Krakow, Poland

Featuring works by: 0100101110101101.org, Tamas Banovich, Michael Bell Smith, Petra Cortright, Paul B. Davis, Ursula Endlicher, Eteam, Joel Holmberg, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, MTAA, Luke Murphy, Marisa Olson, Paul Slocum, Jessie Stead, Harm Van Den Dorpel and Cj Yeh. Organized by Marcin Ramocki.

Joe McKay, "Utube Progress Bar", 2010

"Made In Internet" is a showcase of short video forms created by web artists. This selection reflects the trends and concepts of contemporary new media in the last 5 years, which revolve around blogs, streaming video and social media: the late, consumer-oriented Web 2.0. In this new artistic universe appropriation is taken for granted, the attention span is short and the reward often takes the form of a conceptual charade. The works in the show stem from the web: they either have been created from found internet material or produced specifically for that platform.

"Made In Internet" will be physically on display for the duration of the festival (June 11-27) @ ARTBOOM headquarters: Pawilon Wyspianskiego, Plac Wszystkich Swietych 2, Krakow. The web showcase will remain online.
Public screening and lecture by Marcin Ramocki on Saturday, June 12, 5pm. (PDF outline)

ARTBOOM is an annual urban and public space festival in Krakow, Poland.
Past participants include Pipilotti Rist, Miroslaw Balka, Roman Singer and Clemens von Wedemeyer. This year lineup includes Guy Ben Ner, Gustav Metzger, Joan Jonas and Barbara London's talk about Nam Jun Paik.

http://artboomfestival.pl

Artist Talk: Lillian Schwartz

2009-11-12T12:49:00.006-05:00

Friday, November 13 @ 1:30PM

Drew University, Madison, NJ

Lillian Schwartz is a pioneer in computer graphics and computer art. Her work is represented in major art collections and museums around the world, and has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Georges Pompidou, Centre Beauborg, and Grand Palais museums in Paris. A frequent lecturer at universities throughout North America, she has been a visiting or adjunct professor at New York University, Princeton University, Rutgers University and the School of Visual Arts. For many years she was a consultant in computer graphics at AT&T's Bell Labs.

Postscript for ArtBlog

Douglas Henderson

2009-11-09T06:30:00.002-05:00

Douglas Henderson

Music for 100 Carpenters at The Boiler

Live Performances | 8pm. Saturday, November 7 + Sunday, November 8*
*Seating is limited. We regret that latecomers cannot be seated

Video/Sound Installation Exhibition Dates | November 12–December 20, 2009
Hours | Noon –6pm, Wednesday through Sunday, and by appointment
Location/Directions | The Boiler @ #191 N. 14th St. (bet. Berry St. + Wythe Ave.)
Take the L train to Bedford Ave. Walk 1 block west to Berry St., turn right, cont to N. 14th St.
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Video: Aron Namenwirth

"system:system": 21 Monitor Street

2009-10-24T21:54:00.010-04:00

I was genuinely excited to find this make-shift exhibition venue just a few blocks away from our old space. This rather ambitious show made me think of the early glory days of PS1.

Pardon the iphone quality images, click on them to check out more detail...

Here is some info from the curators Adam Henry and Christina Vassallo of Super Square:

System:System

Opening reception: Friday, Oct 23, 7 pm – 10 pm
Hours: Friday Oct 23, 7 pm – 10 pm / Saturday & Sunday Oct 24 – 25, noon – 6 pm
week of Oct 26-30 by appointment. Saturday Oct 31 and Nov 1 noon-6 pm.
Location: St. Cecilia’s Convent, 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY

A failing economy has decided the recent fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Formerly a nun’s convent, the grand three-story house now stands uninhabited due to the declining membership of St. Cecilia parish. Rather than let the building fall into disrepair the parish has found ways to breathe new life into it through a rotating schedule of film shoots, screenings, dance performances, and art exhibitions.

Taking its cue from the friends-of-friends network that has allowed access to 21 Monitor Street, system:system is a three-day event that reflects on the nature of associations between parts of a whole. The title is a play on the term “complex systems,” which are characterized by their connections and tendencies toward unpredictable behavior. The organizing of this event evokes these qualities and embraces the small world phenomenon of strangers being linked through minimal degrees of separation to form a dynamic structure.

The unoccupied nun’s living quarters will now showcase work that experiments with the building up and/or breaking down of systems: mathematical, scientific, social, perceptual, economic, and otherwise. Much like the social and economic factors responsible for this event, the behavior between the separate elements—artistic interventions and performances—will result in an atmosphere of emergent interconnectedness. The act of creating artistic content in a temporary context will feature prominently, remaining true to the fluid way in which these works were executed.

Exhibiting Artists:

Abby Manock, Anya Kielar, Arthur Ou, Bonnie Pipkin Presents, Chris Dorland, Curver, David Brooks, Derick Melander, [dNASAb], Emily Mae Smith, eteam, Ethan Breckenridge, Francesca DiMattio, Gandalf Gavan, Garth Weiser, Ian Davis, Inna Babaeva, Jeff Konigsberg, Johannes VanDerBeek, Kai Vierstra, Lisha Bai, Maria João Salema & Lee Wells, Marius Watz, Matthew Monteith, Matthew Schenning, Melissa Brown, Meridith Pingree, Mike Hein, MiYoung Sohn, Nika Sarabi, Peter Kirn, Phil Vanderhyden, Saira McLaren, Skyler Brickley, SOFTlab, Studio Mode, Suzanne Song, Tom Brauer, Yeni Mao

Music performances by: Matamoros and New Idea Society

Recession or not, it is so nice to see so much confident, contemporary work in one place.
Relevant, coherent and aware of its surroundings... I really liked the dollar bill & fireplace installation .... there is something oddly "internet" about it.

Anyhow, I hope this venue continues... it would be such an awesome permanent addition to the local art scene. Congratulations!

Player 1!

2009-09-24T14:12:00.000-04:00

How cool is this, I can't wait to order a bottle and check it out. I'll keep you posted!

"8-Bit Vintners is the creative love child of Mike James. His passion for wine and love of gaming has come together to create the coolest mash-up since The Flintstones met The Jetsons. All fruit comes from high-end vineyards within Columbia Valley and Walla Walla Valley AVA's. It is produced with the highest winemaking standards in Walla Walla, WA and aged in a selection of fine cooperage.

My wine is for anyone who spent time trying to save a princess or fit odd shaped blocks together. We may have never met, but we have more in common than we ever knew. So blow out that old Contra cartridge, give the NES a good dust off, and pour yourself a glass"

Player 1

The inaugural vintage of Player 1 displays the quality and diversity of fruit that is being produced in Eastern Washington. Player 1 is blended from various vineyards throughout the Columbia Valley, Wahluke Slope, and Walla Walla Valley. 2007 was a moderately warm growing season with long, dry, sunny days that allowed for extended hang time during harvest. This wine shows an accessible and approachable style that is both fun to drink now and has the acidity and tannins to hold up for 5 years plus.

Appellation: Walla Walla Valley, Wahluke Slope, and Columbia Valley
Blend: 50% Syrah, 30% Tempranillo, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Carmenere, 5% Malbec
Harvest Date: August and September 2007
Bottling Date: July 2009
Cooperage: French, American, and Hungarian for 18 to 22 months
Alcohol: 14.1%
pH: 3.74

The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics

2009-07-16T17:27:00.015-04:00

The Klein Art Gallery at the University Center Science Center in Philadelphia is proud to host its first national juried exhibition entitled The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics. The exhibition runs July 24th through September 5th 2009, with an opening reception on Friday, July 24th from 5pm to 8pm.

Monstrosities in San Francisco

2009-06-16T11:37:00.003-04:00

Jillian Mcdonald
Monstrosities
June 20 - July 23, 2009
Rosenthal Gallery
365 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103
opening with Zombie Makeup Station, Saturday June 20, 2009, 4 to 9 PM

"Opening Saturday, June 20th at Michael Rosenthal Gallery is the premiere of Canadian-born, New York-based Jillian Mcdonald’s Zombie Apocalypse filmed in the Northern California Headlands, alongside three other video works and a series of lenticular photos, all of which comprise Mcdonald’s upcoming exhibition Monstrosities."

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am to 7 pm

ARTBOOM 09'

2009-06-06T00:30:00.010-04:00

Marcin Ramocki and ARTBOOM 09' have the pleasure to present the European premiere of "Brooklyn DIY: A Story of Williamsburg Art Scene".

The screening will take place on Saturday, June 13th, 7pm
Kino Pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27, Krakow

ARTBOOM Festival
Krakow, Poland - June 12-22, 2009

ARTBOOM 09 is a first edition of a cyclical event which will focus on art in the urban space.

featuring works by: Paweł Althamer, Mirosław Bałka, Rahim Blak, Rafał Bujnowski, Brad Downey, Karolina Kowalska, Norman Leto, Teresa Murak, Joanna Rajkowska, Marcin Ramocki, Pipilotti Rist, Jadwiga Sawicka, Roman Signer, Paul Slocum, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Julian Tomaszuk, Twożywo , Erwin Wurm, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Zeus

lectures/presentations by: Adam Budak, Michaela Crimmin, Regine Debatty and Robert Rumas

With special Atari music performances by Paul Slocum.

Organized by the Krakow Festival Office and the East of Art Foundation Curated by Małgorzata Gołębiewska.

Brooklyn DIY @ El Parqueadero, Bogota

2009-05-23T20:22:00.004-04:00

Please joins us for the Latin American premiere event of "Brooklyn DIY: A Story of Williamsburg Art Scene" at El Parqueadero, Bogota.

The screening will take place on Saturday, May 30th, 5 pm, first floor of Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Calle 11 # 4 – 21, Bogota, Colombia.

Curated by Ernesto Restrepo.

Related events:

"Hacker Art y prácticas alternativas de navegación por Internet ", lecture/workshop by Marcin Ramocki, May 27-28, 2009

"8 BIT" (Ramocki, Strawhand 2006), screening and Q&A, May 29, 5pm

All events are free and open to the public.

El Parqueadero is a collaborative project of Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño and La Banco de la República promoting contemporary media arts.

"2 X 3 X 10" @ vertexList, opening Saturday 05.23

2009-05-17T15:23:00.007-04:00

vertexList has the pleasure of presenting

2 X 3 X 10: MARSHA COTTRELL, MATT HARLE, JAMES SHEEHAN
an exhibition organized by Charles Goldman.

A reception will take place on Saturday, May 23, 2009, from 6 to 9 p.m.
And the exhibition will be on display through Sunday, June 21st, 2009.

2 X 3 X 10: MARSHA COTTRELL, MATT HARLE, JAMES SHEEHAN, examines two works made ten years apart by each of these three mid-career artists.
“Marsha, Matt and James are some of the first people I met when I moved to New York over 10 years ago. There’s something about "intimacy" in this show -- it exists between these artists and within (and between) their works. The work suggests a language just beyond the viewer’s reach. One that is simultaneously infinite and intimate in scope and one that continues to resonate.”–Charles Goldman

Marsha Cottrell has exhibited solo in New York and Paris and been included in group exhibitions at the Tang Teaching Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Cottrell has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the N. Y. Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Matt Harle has exhibited widely, including "Linked" at Heskin Contemporary in New York City and "The Medium is the Message" at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. His upcoming exhibitions include "Silent as Glue" at The Oakville Galleries in Toronto. Harle is the recipient of Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner grants.

James Sheehan has had solo shows in New York, Zurich and Montreal. Selected group shows include "181st Annual: An Invitational" The National Academy of Design Museum, NY, "Working in Brooklyn" at the Brooklyn Museum, "Ehrenshal" at the Haus der Kunst Museum in Munich, Germany, “Painting as Paradox" at Artists Space in New York City. He has received numerous awards, grants and residencies, including NYFA, Pollock-Krasner. Charles Goldman multifaceted practice explores the cyclical nature of life and the standardized units used in its measurement. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is included in public and private collections.

Charles Goldman multifaceted practice explores the cyclical nature of life and the standardized units used in its measurement. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work is included in public and private collections.

vertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment. We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard Street. For more info please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call (646) 573-5837.

Undead in the Night, Jillian Mcdonald

2009-05-14T02:59:00.005-04:00

Undead in the Night May 28 - 30, 9pm to 1am.
Malmö, Sweden
*Already sold out!*

The performance Undead in the Night is a collaboration between Jillian Mcdonald (New York) and Lilith Performance Studio in Malmö, Sweden that involves over 100 actors, out in the forest in the middle of the night. The artist places two undead creatures (hideous Zombies and stunning Vampires) in the same scenes with their victims, violating the codes and boundaries of the horror genre, and creating an impossible scenario. The observer becomes a visitor in a living horror movie. Starting at twilight a bus transfers the audience 8 people at a time to an undisclosed forest location. Following a path in the dark various scenes come alive along a 3 km long horror path.

Info here.
More info including press release here.
Article in Sweden's People magazine by Mirjam Johansson here.

"Kiosk" @ STRP, Eindhoven

2009-04-27T19:50:00.003-04:00

via: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com

http://www.strp.nl/strp/artist/125

Blanka Amezkua @ vertexList: opening Friday, April 17

2009-04-10T18:09:00.005-04:00

vertexList space has the pleasure to present “Mala Moska”, a solo exhibition by Blanka Amezkua.

A reception will take place on Friday, April 17th, 2007 from 7pm - 10pm, with the artist in attendance.

The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, May 17th, 2009.

Blanka Amezkua presents several series of image and text works made from modified and reconfigured Mexican adult comic books. In these new works, Ms. Amezkua explores and reveals the codes and language of pulp pornographic comic books commonly found through out Mexico. She uses invasive techniques and materials to isolate the images and separate the text from its’ original context, creating intensely disembodied figures and a cacophony of dialogue. The works in the exhibition celebrate the vernacular language and slang of pulp fiction and popular culture prevalent in Mexico as well as demolish the prevalent sexist clichés and stereotypes in a transgressive act of reclamation.

Ms. Amezkua hails from the Bronx wher she initiated the Bronx Blue Bedroom Project in 2008. She was included in How Soon is Now? (AIM 28) at The Bronx Museum of the Arts and has shown at El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) in San Jose and recently had a solo show at The Taller Boricua in Spanish Harlem. Mentions of her work are included in the New York Times, TimeOut, Daily News, Queens Chronicle, among others. Her fututre exhibitions include: There Goes My Hero, curated by Erin Riley-Lopez at The Center for Book Arts; A Complex Weave, curated by Marty Rosenberg and Susan Isaacs at Rutgers University; and an upcoming project for Jersey City Museum in 2010 curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado.

VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.
We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard St. For more info
please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 573 5837.

Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery

2009-03-29T14:18:00.006-04:00

April 7th
Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition premiering 3 works commissioned by Turbulence, Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery.

View sound, web, and video works by R. Luke Dubois, Stephanie Rothenberg, and G.H. Hovagimyan with Christina McPhee

Opening reception Tuesday, April 7, 5 - 7pm
(Artists' presentations, 5PM; Reception, 5:30PM)
Exhibition runs April 7 - May 1, 2009

Info, directions, + Artist's Bios and Project Descriptions are available on the website.

Images, top to bottom: R. Luke Dubois, Hard Data; Stephanie Rothenberg, School of Perpetual Training; G.H. Hovagimyan with Christina McPhee, Plazaville

(re)terrain @ vertexList opening Friday, March 6th

2009-02-28T12:34:00.008-05:00

vertexList has the pleasure to present (re)terrain, a three-person exhibition by Daniel Bejar, Rebecca Loyche, and Laura Napier.

A reception will take place on Friday, March 6th, 2009 from 7pm - 10pm, with the
artists in attendance. The exhibition will be on display through Sunday, April 5th, 2009.

(re)terrain examines spaces and places of the heavily urbanized and conflicted world we live in. The exhibition looks at the social production of space as well as the malleable and volatile nature of public space. The works in the exhibition ask us to (re)consider the complex nature of the world we inhabit and the very ground we stand on.

Daniel Bejar reconfigures one of the most familiar representations of New York City- the MTA

vertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.
We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard Street. For more info
please visit our website or call (646) 573-5837.

"Brooklyn DIY" : images from the premiere

2009-02-26T23:08:00.011-05:00

Brooklyn DIY premiere screening sold out!
Most of the cast was present in the audience...
The images below were taken by John Berens.

Sally Berger, the curator of Documentary Fortnight introducing the film.

Marcin Ramocki and Gene Pool, (Q&A after the screening)

The crowd.

Meredith Allen and Mike Ballou in the audience.
A short "mobile" video below.

Joe McKay speaks at Pace University

2009-02-22T23:33:00.005-05:00

Join us on Thursday, February 26 for an artist's talk by Joe McKay!
Followed by the talk there is a reception for The Aesthetics of Gaming, curated by Michelle Kasprzak.
Pace Digital Gallery
163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets)
New York, NY
visit the website for info + map + directions

5PM - 6PM Joe McKay lecture
6PM - 7PM Reception with the artist

On view in the exhibition are Avoid by Joe McKay (top image), and CuteXdoom II by Anita Fontaine and Mike Pelletier (bottom image).

"the future is not what is used to be" @ Postmasters

2009-02-20T23:41:00.005-05:00

February 28 – April 4, 2009

"the future is not what is used to be"

Opening: saturday, february 28th 6-8 pm

"the future is not what is used to be” brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings, photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction in a networked world, reflection in the times of speed, new communication tools and smart technologies affecting cultural and sociopolitical reality, sustainable strategies for contemporary life, connectivity and dis-connect, digital/analog divide, instantaneity and obsolescence, the web as the largest image depository ever, and new forms of appropriation, means of production, and modes of political engagement.

What we do today shapes our tomorrows.

Kevin Bewertsdorf conducts Google searches for images that he then orders printed onto variety of objects employing online services like walgreens.com. These remotely made “Promotional Objects” transcend banality of its origins as private found imagery: from infinite web space onto a limited product, the unwitting subjects are made physical once again, staring at you across time and space.

http://www.maximumsorrow.com/

Charles Broskoski’s "Films" reverse the culture of image overload. On his site, six well known films (Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2 and When Harry Met Sally among them) play continuously on a fixed daily schedule. There is a catch: the screen is black save only for the subtitles of the dialog; an absurd comfort of knowing that the movies are always there to serve as a catalyst for visual memory.

http://www.supercentral.org/9/

Marc Horowitz found an analog way to connect with his fellow twitterers: "for the next 100 people that add me on twitter ( twitter.com/ineedtostopsoon ) I'll send you a small drawing.” The 100 drawings on view will be mailed out at the end of the show. In addition every afternoon Horowitz will broadcast “AnHourADay.me” - a livestream video and chat talkshow with scheduled field trips, interviews, concerts, covert meetings, cooking instruction, comedians, reviews, round tables, celebrity guests, LA artist studio visits, road trips, and more

http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marchorowitz/sets/72157607123055883/

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era” His collages and animations composed entirely of imagery appropriated from the web deliver a biting political satire. New series -“In God We Trust” - presents global and domestic challenges facing the new Obama administration with the savior president cast as different deities (Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Krishna, prophet Abraham, Yoruba Orisha Trickster God Elegua/Eshu, Buddha, and Guadalupe)

http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/

http://www.tinkin.com/

Kristin Lucas pays hommage to the ever-replacable technological marvels: maclassic, a 25 years old icon of personal computing, and other nearly forgotten hardware objects are cast in colored wax as beautiful yet perishable candles

http://www169.pair.com/klucas/archive/

Michael Mandiberg’s altered encyclopedias, dictionaries, and newspapers, words incised into them with a laser cutter, highlight the loosing battle of printmedia at a time of rapid online delivery and the never ending newness of information. Everyday a fresh copy of The New York Times with the words “old news” cut onto it will be delivered to the gallery, a stack accumulating over the course of the exhibition.

http://www.mandiberg.com/

Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org) inject new synthetic life into art long gone. Their avatars in a virtual world Second Life re-enact seminal performance works from the seventies. Gilbert and George’s “The Singing Sculpture” and Marina Abramovic and Ulay’s “Imponderabilia” are staged for a very different audience.

http://www.0100101110101101.org/

Joe McKay finds the ghosts of Google Street View van and Mapjack car. His photographs recreate these stealth vehicles from partial reflections in store windows in San Francisco.

http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/

JooYoun Paek’s inflatable objects are smart appliances for urban survival. A bicycle cover made from garbage bags provides inconspicuous “blend-in” protection for a city cyclist, and a self-sustainable chair inflated by walking offers its user an independence from the urban infrastructure.

http://www.jooyounpaek.com/

Sharing and communal nature and of online engagement has lead to formation of surfing clubs: group blogging sites with fast-paced conceptual exchange based on treatment and analysis of online material. Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum (with Spiritsurfers) will present “Where is it?,” a short video based on the blog posts of Spiritsurfers.

http://www.spiritsurfers.net/

http://ramocki.net/surfing-clubs.html

*The title of this show is a quote from Paul Valery

Postmasters Gallery located at 459 west 19th Street between 9 and 10 Avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 - 6 pm.

Postmasters Gallery 459 W 19th Street New York, NY 10011 212 727 3323 postmasters@thing.net

Feb 25th: "Brooklyn DIY", World Premiere @ MoMa

2009-02-16T07:15:00.003-05:00

Marcin Ramocki and The Museum of Modern Art have the pleasure to invite you to the world premiere of "Brooklyn DIY".

Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 8:30 p.m.

The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497

Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1

Brooklyn DIY. 2009. USA.

A Story of Williamsburg Art Scene 1987-2007

Directed by Marcin Ramocki.

Brooklyn DIY is a long overdue examination of the creative renaissance in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Home to underground warehouse parties, anarchistic street creativity, and artist-run galleries and performance spaces, Williamsburg gave birth to one of the most vibrant and rebellious artistic communities to arise in the 1980s, permanently changing the city's cultural landscape. Featuring interviews with a host of artists and neighborhood characters, Ramocki's film captures life in a utopian universe made by artists, for artists—along with its inevitable decline in the face of real estate development, gentrification, and the post–September 11 market collapse. 71 min.

Cinematography: Lalo Molina
Edit: Jessie Stead

Associate Producers: Carlton Bright, Jason Roque
Assistant Director: Jessie Stead
Production Assistants: Zoe Willoughby, Jenine Orzechowski
Sound Mix: Chris Burke

Featuring interviews with: Joe Amrhein, Daniel Aycock, Mike Ballou, Ken Butler, Don Carroll, Lauren Cornell, Ebon Fisher, Matt Freedman & Jude Talllichet, Jillian Mcdonald, Aron Namenwirth & Nancy Horowitz, Sarah Schmerler, Ward Shelley, Amy Sillman, Becky Smith, Larry Tee, Conrad Ventur and Eric Z.

Special appearances by: Medea, Gene Pool, Adam Simon, Brian & Leon Dewan, Brian Conley, Charles Beronio, Mike Smith, Lexy Grey, Golden Triangle, Tim Spelios and many more.

http://brooklyndiy.com

http://ramocki.net

trailer: http://vimeo.com/3230069

World premiere. Q&A with director

In the Film exhibition Documentary Fortnight 2009

Screening tickets info: http://www.moma.org/visit_moma/admissions.html#top

Two Scary Shows: The Bronx and Saskatoon

2009-01-20T18:20:00.013-05:00

If you dare, see these shows!
Visit the Bronx between now and mid-March, and check out Shivers, at The Bronx River Arts Center featuring 2 videos (1 interactive) about haunted chandeliers.

Also showing is a series of lenticular prints where ordinary people turn into zombies right before your eyes. Freaky. More here.

If you're in Saskatoon, Canada, you're probably already shivering. Jo-Anne Balcaen and I installed a collaborative billboard titled "Scream" which requires 3D glasses, available at Paved Media Arts where our 2-person show featuring scream-related videos is on view through Feb 20. More here.
~Jillian Mcdonald

Rubbernecking Democracy: Pepsi endorses president-elect

2009-01-15T13:51:00.002-05:00

While watching an AP report from the war in Gaza on YouTube, an advertisement at the bottom of the screen invited me to contribute to America. I think the exact words, from the new Pepsi campaign, were "Dear Mr. President, Help us refresh the nation." Everyone it seems has jumped on the Obama merchandising bandwagon. Yesterday in the New York Times, a briefly quoted DC lawyer astutely observed the recent Obama consumption mania thusly: "when Americans want to express their excitement, they turn to merchandising."

With so many people having voted for Mr. Obama (or claiming to after the fact), it's no surprise that everyone wants a piece of him. How many articles have been written about the president-elect and his choice of cell phone? A quick search on news.google.com listed over 1,000. In addition to the usual T-shirts, bobbleheads, bumper stickers, key chains, mugs, jewelry, and tote bags, collectors will be going mad for more obscure tchotchke such as DC Metro faircards and toilet paper. Is it that far off to predict that one day Obama memorabilia could outnumber that of Elvis's? The younger set may even live to see thirty Obamas parachute from an airplane.

It's nice to see a multinational corporation such as Pepsi contributing to the celebration of democracy. (According to the Center for Responsive Politics, out of the $279,561 PepsiCo contributed to federal candidates in 2008, 58% went to Republicans.) Perhaps after the inauguration Pepsi could turn its resources and attention to promoting peace in the Middle East. Now that's change we need. But then again, that would require Pepsi to actually take a position on a live issue, not after the fact.

—Lance Wakeling

Made in U.S.A. -Party On (part 2)

2008-12-16T10:45:00.002-05:00

Charles Beronio the new director of VertexList with Glomag
*Show Extended by appointment only through Feb. 28th call 917.301.6680 0r 646.5735837

Mary Baronne and Tom Moody who writes first review
Marcin Ramocki: Founder of VertexList
Aron Namenwirth, Jay Davis, Kelly, and Dan Kopp the next Julian Schnabel
John Best (left) Jillian Mcdonald (right)
Photography: John Bailey- Thanks!
Due to some editing via blogger half initial post was edited.

Made in U.S.A. -Party On

2008-12-15T11:29:00.002-05:00

*Show Extended by appointment only through Feb. 28th call 917.301.6680 0r 646.5735837

Photography: John Bailey

Mary Alpern, John Illig, me, Sakurako Shimizu

John Berens, Bin Laden
Nancy Horowitz, John Illig

Zoe Sheehan Saldana with cellphone

1981 Atari Ring by Sakurako Shimizu

2008-12-07T16:37:00.000-05:00

Sakurako Shimizu: 1981 ATARI Ring, 2008

"1981 ATARI Ring", 18 K Gold, hand fabricated, edition of 7.

This man's ring features a precise cast of the original Atari computer chip out of 18 karat gold.

detail views

Bit Shifter @ Blip

2008-12-07T15:31:00.000-05:00

Managed to make it to one evening of the 2008 Blip festival! I checked out the new stuff by Role Model, Glomag and Bit Shifter. The ambiance was super, as always: i also liked the Brooklyn location.

I remember people were worried back in 2005 that chiptunes would be shamelessly incorporated into mainstream pop... well, seems to me like they are doing just fine on their own. It is good to see how much this scene grew! I literally knew nobody in the (rather large) audience, which is a sign that micromusic is no longer an insider playground...

Also, for the record, chiptunes have never been the same since the Scandinavian scene collided with Blip last year. Both local artists and Europeans took their music to a whole new level thanks to this rare cross pollination.

Check out an awesome bit of Bit Shifter below, and come to see Glomag next Saturday at vertexList!

Notes from ZKM

2008-12-06T00:43:00.002-05:00

I finally got around to post some images from "What Was Old is New Again", a fabulous event/conference organized by Henry Zemel (Caeno Foundation) and hosted by ZKM, Karlsruhe. This most unique gathering brought together assyriologists, architects, anthropologists, art historians, new media artists and dealers.

The most memorable presentations included the short history of "computer user" by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied, a lecture on transformation of Nam Jun Paik's work from minimalism to maximalism by Barbara London, Luke Murphy's demonstration of uranium decay driven Geiger counter-perfect-randomness generator, a 3 thousand years old Babylonian song reconstructed and performed by Theo J.H. Krispijn and a very strange lecture by Bazon Brock, which made no sense at all, but everyone thoroughly enjoyed .

Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied

The full list of participants: Mel Alexenberg / Netanel Anor / Michael Bielicky / Bazon Brock / Yiyi Chen / Michael Cohn / Brian Dillon / Dragan Espenschied / Dmitry Gutov / Jenia Gutova / Wayne Horowitz / Th. J. H. Krispijn / Bo Lawergren / Olia Lialina / Barbara London / Naomi May / Luke Murphy / Muzaffer Ozgules / Marcin Ramocki / Morty Schiff / Irene Sibbing / Joey Skaggs / Peter Weibel / Martin Williams / Jocelyn Wolff / Henry Zemel.

The conference opened symultaneously with "Medium Religion", a huge and quite interesting exhibition curated by Boris Groys and Peter Weibel, which "aims at demonstrating the medial aspect of religion using current examples of religious video propaganda and the work of contemporary artists".

Fore some moving images of the symposium/exhibition check out the short video below.

Review: Indirect Articles

2008-12-02T08:19:00.001-05:00

Les Lettres Tristes, an exhibition by Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth at Foxy Production, does not ask for your focus, but for your distraction. It could take weeks to wade through the tide of information presented. In addition to four floor sculptures, a series of diptychs, two video projections screening several short vignettes, a directional audio piece of the artists reading statements, and, in the back room, a fetish to the creative process, the artists are distributing an eponymous weekly newspaper, Les Lettres Tristes.

The title’s reference to Lettrism, Isidore Isou’s proto-Situationist movement, seems to end at the amusing play on words. Although, to see this show one must not look straight at the work. All references are oblique, jumping-off points. The cacophony of sound and conflation of visual-textual elements are best observed askance in distracted snatches. The guiding motif of the exhibition is an unfinished feature-length film starring people-size signs of the letters of the French alphabet carried about New York City.

Entering the gallery one is met by the Set Pieces, four chroma-key green, powder-coated, steel floor sculptures, each accompanied by a two-channel video projection. On perpendicular walls, the eight fugue-like vignettes play through two projectors in a discombobulated call-and-response.

Opposite the projections, are four nearly identical diptychs each titled A Hole in Copenhagen, which include a collaged New York Times image of the World Trade Center pit, another guest appearance of the color chroma-key green, and act II, scene III of an unfinished play. The directional audio piece, Les Lettres Tristes—a work which also encompasses the weekly newspapers—is directly beamed at A Hole in Copenhagen. With so much emphasis on the spoken and written word, reading/listening is a trial of concentration, as every artwork draws the viewer’s attention away from the others.

The installation is an informational hall of mirrors. Though it poses as an exhibition of discreet artworks, everything overlaps and is the subject of reinterpretations. Described by the artists as “reportage on the road to an idea,” the exhibition rushes past the observer, and then loops behind to the beginning. If you stick around long enough you will eventually see the whole show, but it will never appear complete.

Les Lettres Tristes
Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth
Foxy Production
21 November 2008 – 10 January 2009

MADE in USA: new works by Aron Namenwirth

2008-11-30T15:42:00.000-05:00

vertexList has the distinct pleasure to present “Made in U.S.A.”,

a solo exhibition by Aron Namenwirth.

A reception will take place on Saturday, December 13th 2008 from 7pm - 10pm, with the artist in attendance.

The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, February 1st, 2009 (by appointment December 26st through January 8th).

Live performance by glomag at the reception, 8 PM.

"Obama", acrylic on wood panel, 2008

Aron Namenwirth presents “Made in U.S.A.”, a series of meticulously rendered “pixel paintings” depicting current presidential figures (including a winner, loser, and lame-duck), as well as religious prophets and spiritual and cult leaders, and one international villain, along with several abstract works. “Made in U.S.A.” marks several years of diligent work by Namenwirth exposing the manufactured and fabricated reality presented by media production and representation of political figures as celebrities in the post-American era. The work reveals our televised reality as an atomized and reified dislocated abstraction. In other works, global mapping, satellite imagery, and landscape images are fused into a new genre of Cartesian landscapes. Seen as an accumulative process of negation, the renderings merge the tradition of painting with contemporary digital imaging in fragmentary grids that appear as frozen blurs. Namenwirth’s work certainly announces that New Media has become “now” media.
- Charles Beronio

"Hillary", acrylic on wood panel, 2008

vertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.

We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues at 138 Bayard St. For more info
please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 573 5837.

Photographs by Mimi Kim @ Queens Museum

2008-11-24T13:00:00.000-05:00

November 30 – December 22

"Queens Museum of Art “
Joy and laughter are essential for life...”
curated by Ada Cintron.

Opening Reception, Sunday, November 30, 3 - 7 PM

Mimi Kim, Photograps from Kenya, 2008

Presenting works by Mimi Kim, Ari Tabei, Sofia Maldonado, Randy West, Dominique Di Piedtrantoni, Melisa Anderson, and many more.

The Opening Reception, Sunday, November 30, 3 - 7 PM, includes ELECTRONIC SOUNDS by recording artist Costanza with (B_CO.ME) Marco Mesina, and SPOKEN WORD POETRY by acclaimed writer, Emanuel Xavier; performance artist, Caridad De La Luz a.k.a La Bruja; and slam poet, Roberto Vassilarakis a.k.a. Simply Rob. The Closing Event, Sunday, December 21, 5 - 7PM, will feature the MEDIA PERFORMANCE of Ari Tabei, and an ARTIST TALK session with participant guest artists, community AIDS activists, and representatives from AIDS Center of Queens County, ACQC.

FRAMING AIDS 2008, Queens’ Annual Observance of World AIDS Day Through the Arts, a program of QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, presents an Art Exhibition, Film Screenings, Panel Talks, and Online Multimedia Projects from November 30 through December 22, 2008 in various venues in Queens, NYC.

Brice Brown: American Boy @ Francis Naumann

2008-11-13T16:02:00.002-05:00

Check out the new works by Brice Brown: the master of neo-feudal, post-deco queer conceptual art... ok, this whole category has been created just for him!

American Boy, a multimedia installation by Brice Brown just opened at Francis M. Naumann gallery. Presenting new work that combines painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and Internet-based art, Brown demonstrates how codified or repressed information always lurks just beneath the surface of things. Through his investigation of how covert innuendo is used to redirect, even corrupt the perceived intent of an object, Brown exposes the act of communication as a highly subjective and infinitely malleable phenomenon. His pieces offer an immediate and visually snappy first impression, while layers of manipulated and coded images shift the viewer’s initial understanding of what is being observed.
www.bricebrown.com

“Faggot Queen”

“Faggot Queen” (above) is a large site-specific installation consisting of multi-colored screen-printed aluminum tiles. It is a continuation of Brown’s ongoing long-term project of creating modular works that can be dispersed and reassembled in any configuration on any scale, at any time, in any location. Alternately referencing such diverse sources as landscape, baroque minimalism, and Pop art, this piece contains, among other elements, coded images sourced from gay “bear” pornography, replacing traditional notions of the classical homoerotic figure with those of stout, hairy, kinky men.

“Faggot Queen” (detail)

November 11 to December 19, 2008
Opening reception Tuesday, November 11
6-8pm

Francis Naumann Fine Art
24 W 57th St
New York, NY 10019

T +1 212 582 3201

limited edition multiple: “Princess II,” 10 karat gold (electrum)

David Clark and Michelle Gay lecture and reception on Thursday November 13th

2008-11-06T10:05:00.003-05:00

Pace Digital Gallery presents Canadian new media artists David Clark and Michelle Gay.
David Clark lecture, 6pm; reception for the artists, 7pm.
Work on view Nov 13th through Dec 4th.
163 William Street, Rm 313; Pace University, New York City.

info + map: http://pace.edu/digitalgallery
Free and open to the public - please join us!

David Clark is a media artist who lives and works in Halifax, Canada. He is best known for his website A is for Apple that has been shown at over 50 film festivals around the world including Sundance, Transmediale in Berlin and the American Museum of the Moving Image. A is for Apple won Best in Show at the 2003 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austen, Texas and First Prize at FILE2002 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has also made a feature film, numerous shorter videos and installation works. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Program in New York, and the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto. He currently teaches film and media arts at NSCAD University in Halifax.

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein (to be played with the Left Hand) is an interactive, non-linear net.art piece that explores the life and philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein through a series of animated vignettes. Each of the 88 sections corresponds to one of the 88 constellations in the night sky. This work considers the questions that Ludwig Wittgenstein pondered in his eventful lifetime - logic, language, the nature of thinking, the limits of knowledge - all in relation to our contemporary digital world with it's symmetries, asymmetries, and doubles.

In Michelle Gay's work, drawing and photography are blended into low-tech animations combined with sophisticated software engines and interfaces which complicate these digital and real spaces. She employs drawing in her digital works to play the precision of the algorithm against the hand-drawn and inexact ink and graphite on paper. Concepts such as gender and its relation to technologies, the blending of synthetic and real experiences, and the possibilities of deriving meaning from non-linear narratives are grist in the mill of her studio practice. The Poemitron artware functions something like a dialogue with the computer. Employing a custom built natural language processor engine (including its mistakes), it creates texts that begin with a selected passage and morph into something entirely different. Also on view, Error Code.

Michelle Gay studied art and art history at the University of Toronto and then received her MFA from NSCAD in Halifax. She integrates a range of media, investigating the junctures between bodies and technologies. She builds computers to make and operate her interactive artworks. She collaborates with Colin Gay (a particle physicist). Interested in the possibilities of touch and poetics within new media projects, they develop artworks designed to play with technologies in non-useful ways. She is represented in Toronto by the Birch Libralato Gallery.

Noah Loesberg & Kelli Miller opening Saturday, Oct 25th

2008-10-19T16:18:00.006-04:00

Noah Loesberg & Kelli Miller, October 25th to November 23, 2008.

VertexList has the pleasure to present Noah Loesberg: "Infrastructure" and Kelli Miller: "Believer"

A reception will take place on, Saturday, October 25th 2008 from 7pm - 10pm. The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, November 23, 2008.

Noah Loesberg, Smoke Detector, 53" diameter x 9'' deep, 2000

Noah Loesberg presents Infrastructure, a suite of familiar and recognizable yet overlooked objects from domestic and urban environments. From an enlarged plaster copy of a storm drain to stacks of sewer pipe fabricated with cardboard to a giant smoke detector he weaves a narrative and allegory of the banal and sublime and impending disaster, catastrophe, and entropy.
http://noahloesberg.net/

Kelli Miller, The True Believer, video installation, 2008

In Believer, Kelli Miller presents a range of work from renderings of computer and electronic equipment circuit boards, to a ten-minute video parody of self-help infomercials. Her work mocks the false promise of technology and utopian ideals and subverts the logic and rhetoric of motivational philosophies and undermines the relentless positivity of advertising media.
http://www.goodgrrrldesign.com/

VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.
We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard St. For more info
please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 258 3792.

Oct 16: Brooke Singer and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga at Pace Digital Gallery

2008-10-10T14:16:00.013-04:00

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to host informal evening lectures with new media artists Brooke Singer and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, followed by a reception for the artists, whose web-based artworks are on view through November 6.

Thursday Oct 16, 6:00pm (lecture); 7:30pm (reception). Room 313, 163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets), New York.
This event is free and open to the public, please join us!

inquiries: jmcdonald2 [at] pace.edu | visit website for more info/bios/map/directions

:: Brooke Singer likes to work with emerging technologies not only because they are fun but also because they are malleable. She is cofounder of the art, technology and activist group, Preemptive Media, and currently Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York. She exhibits and lectures internationally, including at The Andy Warhol Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; and La Biennale de Montréal. With her collective Preemptive Media, Brooke was awarded the first Social Sculpture Commission by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2005. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), and Franklin Furnace.

Brooke Singer's work explores and blurs the borders between science, technology, politics and arts practice. The form may include a web site, video, installation, performance, toolkit, workshop, lecture or combination of these elements. Her projects generally attempt to make the invisible visible (pollution, surveillance, databases) and turn dusty data into dynamic experiences. She views collaboration as a type of microcosm (or beta-testing) for the larger dialogue she hopes her work provokes.

:: Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga is an artist based in Brooklyn and an Associate Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey. He had recent exhibitions at Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City; The National Center for Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, Russia; Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; and The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. Currently he is a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow and a Tides Foundation Lambent Fellow.

VOTEMOS.US questions how the 2008 United States Presidential Election would differ if all residents of the United States could vote. Currently only citizens registered to vote may participate in the election for the next President. However within the borders of the United States reside nearly 40 million non-citizen residents, permanent residents, most legal, some undocumented, but all are active members of the U.S. economy and society. The artist feels that the majority of these residents would eagerly vote if given the opportunity. VOTEMOS.US presents an online Spanish language portal to the US presidential elections that allows users to register, vote and give their opinion on the US elections.

Micro-review: The Gravity of Source Material

2008-09-30T08:48:00.005-04:00

Appropriating the “And babies?” poster, as a component to another artwork, is hard to get away with. The iconic poster, designed by the Art Worker’s Coalition, is a simple, but profound juxtaposition of two historic sources: a photograph of dead bodies on the road after the My Lai massacre and four words from the 1969 “60 Minutes” interview with Paul Meadlo. As part of another artwork, the image is such a historic heavyweight that it threatens to appropriate the surrounding materials for itself. Matthew Day Jackson juggles this weight with another less historic image in his work And babies? And babies, one of eleven works on view at his Nicole Klagsbrun show Drawings from Tlön. The counterpoint to the carnage is a NASA image of two astronauts tethered to a remote manipulator arm dangling sublimely in the blackness of space. The two posters are connected to each other by a glaring fluorescent bulb that juts downward, tunnels through the black frame of the NASA poster, and then parallels the robotic arm securing the two astronauts. The NASA poster simultaneously seems to prop up the AWC poster—as if it were the picket of a protest sign—and to be swinging from it like the end of a pendulum. The juxtaposition is a fruitful non sequitur. Jackson has not successfully appropriated the AWC poster. Instead, he has demonstrated its gravity.

Matthew Day Jackson
Drawings from Tlön
Nicole Klagsbrun
Through 18 October

Zombies in Condoland

2008-09-28T12:48:00.006-04:00

If you find yourself in Toronto on October 4th, please come participate in Zombies in Condoland: a new performance in which anyone can star!

October 4th to 5th, 7pm to 7am (all night long)
Jillian Mcdonald for Nuit Blanche Toronto

Zombies in Condoland, a large scale performance commissioned by curator Gordon Hatt for Nuit Blanche Toronto, continues McDonald’s interest in the horror film genre, grafting it onto the phenomenon of urban gentrification. Referencing Toronto’s rich history of zombie movies, the annual Toronto Zombie Walk, and the condoization of downtown artist communities, McDonald directs a legion of zombies who will perform in various late night film scenes in Toronto's College Park. Zombies in Condoland is a series of night actions that mimic a film set for a low budget horror film such as those by director George Romero whose latest film, Diary of a Zombie, was filmed in Toronto.

Zombies achieved cult status in the past few years, with their popularity growing wildly. Enormously popular zombie walks and pub crawls occur annually in cities like Toronto, Montréal, San Francisco, Austin, Vancouver, and Liverpool. Zombies are instantly recognizable and carry a metaphoric reference to the working class. The Zombies in Condoland are responding to gentrification, moving in on an area which is rapidly changing.

The Zombies in Condoland website invites participation and provides information about the project. Zombies are encouraged to come in character - nurse zombie, business person zombie, geek zombie, sports zombie. They are encouraged also to do their makeup en route, in cafes, bars, and mass transit for more zombie fun! Zombies will also be created on site by professional makeup artists, therefore no experience is necessary. Instructional videos and a map are included on the project website.

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian artist, based in New York, whose work infiltrates film genres such as horror in part to tap into the fan culture that fuels them.

Very special thanks to Nuit Blanche, Gordon Hatt, and Thea Munster of The Toronto Zombie Walk.

Jillian Mcdonald Hot and Sexy

2008-09-24T20:37:00.001-04:00

http://www.jillianmcdonald.net

Apocrypha @ OKOK

2008-09-20T15:56:00.004-04:00

"Pillars", 2008

Apocrypha: New Works by Sean Higgins

September 13th - October 5th

OKOK Gallery
5107 Ballard Ave. N.W.
Seattle, WA 98107
206.789.6242
http://www.okokgallery.com/

OKOK Gallery is pleased to present Apocrypha, a new works by Los Angeles-based artist Sean Higgins. Man’s pursuit of the unknown, and the isolation inherent in such ventures, has remained a consistent theme throughout Higgins’ career as an artist. Apocrypha continues to build upon Higgins’ fascination with the indefinite, albeit with an entirely new set of imagery, the NASA photography archive.

Higgins is part of an American generation in which science fiction underwent a sort of pop culture renaissance that bled into government policy as evidenced by Reagan’s Star Wars program, a failed attempt to develop a defense system that could intercept nuclear missiles from space. Higgins is a member of the generation that witnessed the Challenger tragedy unfold on live television, which one could argue marked a collective loss of American innocence rivaled only by September 11th.. In all likelihood he was one of the millions of children enamored with E.T. and Star Wars toys. Perhaps coming of age during this period in history subconsciously led Higgins to cull source material from the NASA archive, or maybe it can be attributed to Higgins hiking and bike riding above NASA’s jet propulsion lab in Pasadena over the course of the last couple years. The source of his inspiration is debatable but the parallels and contradictions that coexisted between the historical and pop culture milestones of that era are present throughout this body of work.

"Co-conspirator", 2008

It is easy to be transfixed by the beauty of the billowing clouds that unfurl in the frozen explosions, the white glow of rockets’ trails, or the shimmering foils concealing machines that appear too foreign to be of human origin. There is a nerdy charm to the work, a comforting feeling of misplaced nostalgia and vague familiarity. But with time the aesthetic splendor and adolescent playfulness of the imagery begins to fade into a feeling of ominous threat and uncertainty. Higgins has noted that over the course of developing the work certain pseudo religious qualities began to surface in the imagery. This is a fitting observation considering the source imagery represents the documentation of man forcibly penetrating the heavens so to speak. The menacing nature of the work is compounded further by a sense of disorientation achieved through the absence of humans and the intentional removal of most reference to scale. The viewer is invited to form their own fiction, left only the occasional clue to guide the narrative, evinced in works such as Drive-In in which a staircase is illuminated by a shaft of light reminiscent of a Nuclear-cooling tower flipped inside out.

The question of authorship is also a point of interest for Higgins. The concern is reflected in the exhibit’s title. Apocrypha is derived from a Greek word meaning “those having been hidden away.” The broadest definition of the term is “writings, statements, etc., of doubtful authorship or authenticity.” When applied to a Judeo-Christian context Apocrypha is defined as “a group of 14 books, not considered canonical, included in the Septuagint and the Vulgate as part of the Old Testament, but usually omitted from the Protestant editions of the Bible.” Higgins begins his own exploration of authorship by sourcing material from a public archive, with the aim of utilizing these images as the framework for original works of art. This sort of appropriation is nothing new in the art world but Higgins manages to provide a unique perspective by purposely transforming documentary images into a disjointed fiction, a fiction that succeeds in spanning the edges of pop culture, history, science, and religion.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

-Carl Sagan

What are we doing here? It’s like… something out of a dream or… I don’t know. Maybe I’m just going crazy.

-Luke Skywalker to R2-D2 on Dagobah

Micro-review: Justin Kemp at Club Internet

2008-09-17T18:11:00.005-04:00

Justin Kemp’s Pseudo Event, an animated loop of red ribbon-cutting photo ops cobbled together in a more-or-less seamless progression, wryly mocks the notion of progress by satirizing the accompanying inauguration ceremonies. The subjects range from politicians in bad suits, and ten-scissor teams, to hapless chumps with outsize scissors. The sheer number of these images available seems to mock the inane ritual itself. But what inauguration would be complete without a ribbon cutting? Apparently, not many. More significant to Pseudo Event is the question of just what is being inaugurated. And here, the removal of each ceremony’s referent is the linchpin of the piece.

The Club Internet version of Pseudo Event, where the 13,900-pixel-long red ribbon-cutting event seems to continue ad infinitum in its jittery progression—versus the post on one of the artist’s websites that requires viewers to scroll horizontally for sixteen feet—is the more successful version. This sleight of technical wizardry transforms the piece from a string of still images into a developed and poetic work, if still only a witty one-liner.

Keep It Simple Stupid, curated by Constant Dullaart
Through 30 September 2008

New Blood Opening

2008-09-17T04:10:00.007-04:00

Inside
Nao Bustamante perfoming Given Over To Want

Outside

The opening was very well attended with a raw and visceral performance by Nao Bustamante

Mark Napier and Kelly Richardson at Pace Digital Gallery, Sept 18

2008-09-13T20:51:00.004-04:00

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to host an evening lecture with new media artist Mark Napier, followed by a reception for Mark Napier and Kelly Richardson (UK), whose work is on view through Oct 8.

Thursday Sept 18, 6:00pm. Room 313, 163 William Street (between Beekman and Ann Streets), New York.
This event is free and open to the public, please join us!

inquiries: jmcdonald2 at pace.edu | visit website for more info/bios/map/directions

:: Mark Napier explores the excitement and anxiety of this moment in history, as we transition from a world of physical objects to a world dominated by electricity, magnetism and light: the raw materials of digital media. In the Cyclops Series he created a "soft" Empire State Building: a 3D model of the famous skyscraper that appears to soften and melt, writhing almost organically, then struggle to return to it's original form. Inspired by Cubism -- a form that arose during another period of rapid transition -- these artworks combine aspects of painting, sculpture, photography and animation, bringing these forms together to represent an object that is immaterial, ephemeral, almost cloud-like, yet completely durable and real in it's own right.

:: Kelly Richardson's video installations adopt the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real versus the unreal. She creates contemplative spaces which offer visual metaphors for the sensations associated with the hugely complicated world we have created for ourselves, magnificent and equally dreadful. In Exiles of the Shattered Star, Richardson presents a beautiful countryside showered with what appear to be remnants of another place. Inhabiting a place between fantasy and reality, Exiles of the Shattered Star evokes trepidation and fascination in equal measures.

"NEW BLOOD" opening Saturday, Sept.13th

2008-09-07T23:46:00.011-04:00

VertexList has the pleasure to present “New Blood”, a group exhibition which "probes the empty, vacant, and vacuous nature of a world full of things where perception and the direct experience of “real-life” are blurred by the dense atmosphere of media, consumption, and entertainment."

Feturing video, new media and installations by
Nao Bustamante, Sasha Dela, Sergio De La Torre, Double Happiness, Sujin Lee,
Jeanne Verdoux and Lance Wakeling

Curated by Charles Beronio.

The reception will take place at vertexList on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, 7pm - 10pm.
The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, Oct 12th 2008.

"Given to Want", a live performance by Nao Bustamante @ 8.30pm (free)

"New Blood" marks a turning point at vertexList and the beginning of a new 5-year plan of growth and development. The work in the exhibition looks back several years through the different subjective lenses of the artists and also considers our current cultural landscape. The artists of New Blood examine their experiences and surroundings to engage and embrace the world we live in to reveal its’ submerged and hidden meanings and narratives. Examining the banal, absurd, and sublime nature of the overlooked, day-to-day surface manifestations of our consumerized culture and its deeper (il)logic, inner structure, and architecture--– New Blood reveals the forces at play in the spaces and places we inhabit and reside in as well as the concealed range of emotional experiences that occur in these settings– from boredom, loneliness, and longing, to desire, love, and violence (both bodily and economic). The exhibition probes the empty, vacant, and vacuous nature of a world full of things where perception and the direct experience of “real-life” are blurred by the dense atmosphere of media, consumption, and entertainment.

Charles Beronio

http://www.vertexlist.net

Nao Bustamante

Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. Currently Bustamante holds the position of Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. www.naobustamante.com

Sasha Dela

Sasha Dela, originally from Atlanta, currently resides in Houston and has recently completed a residency at the Museum of Fine Arts’ Core Program. Dela’s work embodies her concerns regarding the intersection of ecology and the marketplace. Her sculpture, installation, digital photography and video investigate the complex issues surrounding resource use and the potentially unexpected and unforeseen outcomes of industrial production and its impact on culture, society, and its relation to ecology. She completed her Master of Fine Art in San Francisco at California College of the Arts in 2005, and her Bachelor of Fine Art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2000, and was awarded the DeCosse Fellowship, to study at the Accademia Di Belle Arte, Florence, Italy in 2000. In 2009 Dela will be presenting a large-scale pubic project on location at the Mexican American Cultural Center in Austin for the Texas Biennial. Currently Dela has a solo exhibition, Natural Commodity, at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary. Dela’s recent exhibitions include the Texas Biennial, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, the Houston Area Exhibition at the Blaffer Gallery, the Museum of the University of Houston and the Arthouse traveling exhibition.

Sergio De La Torre

Sergio De La Torre works have focused on issues regarding immigration, tourism, surveillance technologies and transnational identities. These works have been exhibited in a variety of venues both national and international. He has received grants from the NEA, The Rockefeller Foundation, Creative Capital, the Protrero Nuevo Fund and the Creative Work Fund among others. De La Torre’s latest project MAQUILAPOLIS |city of factories|, an hour long video documentary done in collaboration with film maker Vicky Funari and the Tijuana based NGO Grupo Factot X has partivipated in more than 50 international film festivals and has received many awards, among them the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2006.

De La Torre is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco’s Art + Architecture Department.

Double Happiness

Double Happiness is a research institution and 4-person collective founded in 2007 and dedicated to constructing new frameworks for the artifacts of failed systems of logic. They are located online at http://doublehappiness.ilikenicethings.com/, and at various outposts throughout the world. They are currently testing methods of merging our online and offline operations.

Sujin Lee

Born in Seoul, Korea, Sujin Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a combination of video, performance and text. She currently lives and works in New York. Sock monkeys and gummy worms are comforting. http://www.sujinlee.org

Jeanne Verdoux

Jeanne Verdoux was born in Paris. She lives and works in Brooklyn. She is a MA Graphic Design recipient from the Royal College of Art, London (1990) and a BA Visual Communication recipient from ENSAAMA, Paris (1987). In 2008, she participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has shown her work at Galerie Magda Danysz (Paris, 2007), The Bronx Museum (How Soon is Now?, 2008); Pulse, NY (2007); ‘80+80, photo_graphisme’ (Galerie VU, Paris, 2007); Scope Miami (2006); Scope NY (2005). She received the Villa Medicis “Hors-les-Murs” prize (1999), The International Studio Residency (NY, 1999), the Rotunda Gallery/BCAT artist residency (2006) and the Centre National des Arts Plastiques Grant (Paris, 2006). http://www.jeanneverdoux.com/

Lance Wakeling
Lance Wakeling was born in 1980 in Tacoma, Washington. He grew up working in sign shops and moved to Brooklyn, New York in 2004 where he now works in magazine publishing. He has shown work at Consolidated Works, Western Bridge, Exit Art, Dam Stuhltrager, Artists Space, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, and Pierogi 2000. http://canarymagazine.net/some-work/

Austin show: some images

2008-09-07T20:19:00.006-04:00

Reset/Play: a short video walk-through

Visitors playing Katamari Damacy at the Arthouse entrance

Cory Arcangel "Beat the Champ" and Alex Galloway "How to Play World of Warcraft"

Mike Beradino "Atari 2600 Electric Paint"

Also: check out an interview with Paul Slocum

RESET/PLAY in Austin

2008-09-03T13:40:00.001-04:00

RESET/PLAY
September 6 – November 2, 2008

Cory Arcangel
Beat the Champ (Sega Genesis Championship Bowling: Dana), 2008
installation with hacked Sega Genesis game controller
dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery, New York, NY

The video game as a medium and a style of life has reached its middle age along with the first generation of people who grew up playing them. The non-linear, interactive, processor based narratives, which at first mimicked Hollywood and struggled to convey their simple content with 8-bit processors, gradually became the largest entertainment industry in the history of electronic media. RESET/PLAY is an exhibition attempting a critical exploration of contemporary art inspired by video games. Questioning the history, control mechanisms, political and art-historical implications of electronic games, RESET/PLAY assembles a formidable group of international artists who made a significant impact on this growing post-game artistic sub-genre. Artists include Cory Arcangel, Michael Bell-Smith, Mike Beradino, Brody Condon, Alex Galloway, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Michael Smith, Eddo Stern and Keita Takahashi.

Brody Condon
Judgment Modification (After Memling), 2008
self-playing video game
Courtesy of the artist and Virgil de Voldère Gallery, New York, NY

Talking Art with RESET/PLAY guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum

Saturday, September 6, 3:00 pm

RESET/PLAY is organized for Arthouse by guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum, both of whom are practicing media artists who also run independent spaces in Brooklyn and Dallas, respectively, that focus on media art. The exhibition will be accompanied by an 8-bit music and film festival co-organized by the Austin Museum of Digital Art.

Review of SIGGRAPH Art & Design Galleries

2008-08-27T21:13:00.004-04:00

Latte Art Machine at SIGGRAPH 2008

Ephraim Russell: vertexList Summer Resident 08'

2008-08-18T12:12:00.003-04:00

Ephraim Russell is a Philadelphia based sculptor and media artist currently in residence at vertexList.

The reception for the artist will take place on Saturday, august 23, 2008.

S.A.D. Sculpture, (Seasonal Affective Disorder Sculpture)
painted aluminum, acrylic sheet, full spectrum lighting, expansion electrical socket, 12” x 18” x 43”

S.A.D. Sculpture or, Seasonal Affective Disorder Sculpture was developed not only a response to having enduring the extended Seattle winter for five years before moving to Philadelphia, but also as an experiment with the notion that art is good for you. Fitted with a full spectrum lighting system, S.A.D. Sculpture, under the right circumstance, is actually good for you to look at. The light emitted from the sculpture mimics daylight and can be used to reduce the amount of melatonin the body produces, theoretically lessening the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder.

BITMAP @ Drexel, images

2008-07-15T14:19:00.009-04:00

Some images and installation shots from the Philly version of B I T M A P: as good as new.

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery is a super slick modernist space which gave the work a whole new context. Check out the small review by Molly Eichel in Philadelphia City Paper:

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/06/26/in-the-event-that-2

"BITMAP: as good as new" & "8 BIT" in Philly, Thursday June 26th

2008-06-20T22:38:00.010-04:00

"B I T M A P: as good as new" is proud to feature:

Cory Arcangel, Lee Arnold, Chris Ashley, Mike Beradino, Mauro Ceolin, Petra Cortright, Paul Davis, DELAWARE, Notendo (Jeff Donaldson), Eteam, Dragan Espenschied, Christine Gedeon, Kimberley Hart, Daniel Iglesia, JODI, Olia Lialina, LoVid, Kristin Lucas, David Mauro, Jillian Mcdonald, Tom Moody, Aron Namenwirth, Mark Napier, Nullsleep, Marisa Olson, Will Papenheimer, Prize Budget for Boys, Jim Punk, Akiko Sakaizumi, Paul Slocum, Eddo Stern and CJ Yeh.

The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery
Drexel University
33 and Market St.
Philadelphia PA 19104
215 895 2548

Opening reception:
Thursday, June 26th, 5-7pm + special screening of "8 BIT" @ 4 pm.

please note the reception/screening is not on the first day of the exhibition.

Solid Gold

2008-06-05T11:44:00.005-04:00

at Vox Populi in Philadelphia

Obsolescence/Invention conference @ NSCAD

2008-06-02T17:25:00.008-04:00

Michelle Gay, "Error Code", hand stiched computer crash

"Obsolescence and the Culture of Human Invention" was a conference / related group exhibition(".txt"), which I attended last week in Halifax, Canada. The participants included artists Robert Bean, David Clark, Michelle Gay, Jillian McDonald, Michael Maranda, Luke Murphy, Marcin Ramocki, Ilan Sandler and the keynote speaker N. Katherine Hayles. Katherine gave an excellent and slightly scary talk on transhumanism: a political/philosophical movement interested in replacing humans with technological beings.

works by researchers Robert Bean and Ilan Sandler

Obsolescence and the Culture of Human Invention will cover a three-year investigation into language, technology and artistic production in the context of digital media. It involves researchers, artists and Cultural Studies scholars.

some Nasty Nets posts

I have put together a paper/presentation about the art practice of net surfing clubs, specifically discussing Nasty Nets, Loshadka, Spirit Surfers and Double Happiness. I guess I was trying to make sense out of it for myself for a while... and this piece is an outcome. During my talk I discussed the topic in much greater detail, but this text is a good outline and an introduction to the subject (I hope).

"Surfing Clubs: organized notes and comments"

this is a 4.5 Mb pdf file.
if you prefer a smaller, crappy and ugly looking html without links I have it here.

Paul Slocum on Spirit Surfers

opening + LoVid performance

2008-05-10T15:58:00.007-04:00

"Blankly, perfect summer" opened last night accompanied by pouring rain.
Big thanks to all hard-core art lovers who braved the storm!

Norman Leto explaining his piece to collector Voytek Wilczak.

Audio/video performance by LoVid (the image was color corrected).

Below is a video clip of the exhibition overview we shot right before the opening, and fragments of LoVid performance.

"blankly, perfect summer": online catalogue

2008-05-04T20:24:00.012-04:00

blankly, perfect summer
curated by Malgorzata & Marcin Golebiewski

WOJTEK DOROSZUK
KAROLINA KOWALSKA
BARTOSZ KOKOSINSKI
WOJTEK KUBIAK & LIDIA KRAWCZYK
NORMAN LETO
JACEK MALINOWSKI
AGNIESZKA POLSKA
JANEK SIMON
GRZEGORZ SZTWIERTNIA
JULIAN TOMASZUK
ALICJA ZEBROWSKA

May 09, 2008 - June 08th 2008,
vertexList in association with Galeria NOVA

WOJTEK DOROSZUK
The Dissection Theatre

video, 10’20”, DVD pal 16:9;, color, sound;, Kraków 2006

“Searching for the genuine and revealing the inauthentic is a characteristic motif in Wojtek Doroszuk’s work (...). “The Dissection Theatre”, a film showing preparations of a corpse for the funeral, touches the genuine and transgresses the artificial. The extreme experience of breaking a taboo through the lens of a seemingly “objective” camera, shown in an aesthetically perfect form, makes the artist and viewer immune to shock. The effect is reinforced by references to the rational Renaissance art of Andrea Mantegna, Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo.”

http://www.artfacts.net/

BARTOSZ KOKOSINSKI
Hagia Sophia

VD, 11:03min., 2007, with music by Aldéa & Chiossone

,,Hagia Sophia” starts out with a sound of church bells: one moment later a wax sculpture of the famous temple Hagia Sophia is placed on a hot plate. The wax miniature of the temple melts gradually and the hot wax drips down to a plaster cast, where the building slowly reconstitutes itself back to its original from. ”Hagia Sophia” is a contemplative film, showing symbolic process of destruction and repeated becoming this Christian/ Muslim temple, now functioning as a museum in secular Turkey.

http://www.nova.art.pl/

KAROLINA KOWALSKA
JPG / TXT

2007, [slideshow and projection]

The project is a collection of jpgs and texts found on the internet. Both texts and images are taken from blogs and web sites about art, music, art and media theory. At the moment there are apx. 300 jps and 12 texts in the archive. They were all found in 2007, so the collection keeps expanding. Files are available on the internet just for some time, then they are no longer seen by the Google search engine. The two video projections consist of material collected from the internet, which are saved in an archive as a continuous project. The material examines the special conditions of perception and representation of art works and art related concepts on the web. Images of art works are mixed-up with non-related imagery, which seems to gain certain kind of pictorial quality online that competes with the art images.

http://www.karolinakowalska.pl/

LIDIA KRAWCZYK, WOJTEK KUBIAK
Kaleidoscope

from cycle Genderqueer, music Adam Roman, DVD 9:35 min., loop, 2008.

Movie Kaleidoscope (min. 9:35, 2008) is part of a bigger cycle Genderqueer. We have used in this film materials that we made during photographic session for a group of paintings. The main aim here is to introduce the viewer to a particular trance related to identity issues. We show fragments of faces, hair and clothing accessories resulting in an complex, multifaceted ornament. The name gendergueer refers to human identity, both cultural and sexual, as well as the general discourse of queer theory. We approach the "queer" as a space for conversation, where we can deconstruct the typical, heterosexual norms and disclose their essence as social fabrications.

http://krawczykkubiak.blogspot.com/

JACEK MALINOWSKI
HalfAWoman

digital video,12 min. 50 sec, USA, 2000._directing, script, camera, editing, set design: Jacek Malinowski_actors: Joan Fitzsimmons, Jacek Malinowski (voice)-producer: Jacek Malinowski

"HalfAWoman" is the three part film I work on since the year 2000 when I finished it's first episode. Then "Half A Woman 2" emerged in 2005 and "Half A Woman ...three years later" is going to be released in April 2008. I can say that this project is so far the most complex of my work. Although it looks documentary, it is more likely to confuse viewers rather that explain anything. There isn't a single frame audience could believe with no reservations. The project entirely relies on fiction.

"HalfAWoman" tells the story of a handicapped woman, who lost the lower half of her body to a mysterious disease called PDS Syndrome. The film shows her in different state of her life and mental condition. Once she is energetic and positively thinking, then involved in some interpersonal relationships and activities, when finally, in last episode, she seams very vulnerable and fragile - completely lost in her overwhelming depression and frustration.

Thank to naturalistic performance of Joan Fitzsimmons, the film conveys the content of multi layered nature, that is - by its esthetics - very close to documentary genera. My idea was to transform a simple, made up story, into an equivalent of genuine documentary film and furthermore into an equivalent of reality. That manoeuvre was very important to me for its reference to contemporary life. Mimicking reality, faking it this or that way, always carrying for details and credibility - are the main features of all my films. That is the way I express my surprise to what I see myself in the surroundings.

http://www.jacekmalinowski.com/

NORMAN LETO
BUTTES MONTEAUX 1

DVD, loop, 2008

[ … ] No, actually we always play ON THE SPOT, we never know what it will be, Norman records test on the camera, we cut out out already recorded songs from that and never correct anything just to allow those to sound the same as when they were played in the room. They are melodious and totally crude. We play them later on during exhibitions or add to movies, although sometimes it happens they really don’t match. Norman says: I do not correct images and I stopped caring about that. Why do I have to correct anything? Why do you correct things, why don’t you quit steering, since physics isn’t in force here? We all know about FREE-DOM. Music, painting, movie and so on, are the only domains of life that you don’t have to care anything about in. However, it’s quite the opposite: I see, I really can see, that we rather do care or rather did care: fashionable -unfashionable, art, painting-smile-paiting -shit, „I AM A CONCEPTUALIST”, „I AM A PAINTER ”, religion, queer, gender, faggot, faget, lesbian, George Bush, provocation, Duchamp, engagement, fashionable -unfashionable, happening, this has already been, or no, this has not , LOOK HOW UNTALENTED I AM or LOOK HOW TALENTED I AM, community, scandal unscandal, I’m going to be a painter, I’m going to be a conceptualist, I am a musician, those scribblers and not-scribblers, the driving force of art, antiglobalist, faget, pop, pop, faggot, cross...Don’t you have any moments when you feel this is NOT THAT, that this - I apologize for the word - that THIS IS FUCKING completely NOT THAT and that’s not the way? That things can occur on some TOTALLY different areas? A real big effort is needed to get out of that swamp. The knowledge about being indefinite is a strict science. Jesus, I really do feel so. A hard fact kills everything in this field, as now playing with fact and categorization is being a very popular pastime. I’m not able to define it precisely, but more or less : Gradually I’m stopping any minding, especially the future, especially me myself and that’s the best kind of emotion. I can see the same happens with the movies, images and music we produce.
You aren’t responsible for anything, you are just given the opportunity of a thorough examining human affairs in terms of error, inefficiency and inconsistency. There’s nothing you have to do, this is a realm rules of which can be developed just by you, and all that angular joke with socially focused art is to be put straight into your ass. You rather should reverse your eyeballs inside. This is the point of origin. I assure you - if you have any core of personality, you are able to find an interesting landscape more likely inside yourself than in anything that surrounds you. So now, confused spectator with rectangular-rimmed glasses, stop taking care of us too. I apologize equivocally for my having broken into a run, I don’t speak too much in general. It’s provocatively punkish to talk a lot in a radical manner about some obvious things. (Be there soft and dispersed, you fucking delegate, if you have the angular landscape and running through it disconcertingly two-dimensional, far too human monkeys)

I do like you all more or less equally, best wishes
Norman Leto

http://www.nova.art.pl/

AGNIESZKA POLSKA
Medical Gymnastics

DVD,8min02’,photographs

“Medical gymnastics” is based on found material from the books about physical activities and touches upon the questions of education, established order and the forces that unsettle it. The procedures that should protect from irregularity and deviation turn themselves into something abnormal, insane and even ridiculous. The thing intended to provide with freedom in fact delivers strange and dangerous order, disturbed by the scenes of massage and touching.

The photographs come from a book about medical gymnastics for children and are modified in Photoshop (clothing removed).

JANEK SIMON
Odlot [Departure]

2003, computer animation, projection

A panoramic view of Krakow from a high building. Towers, churches, cupolas, and expanses of roofs, all familiar and stable. Suddenly, smoke rises around the Ratusz (Old Town Hall Tower), the noise level increases and the tower lifts off and blasts into space under rocket power. All the visible churches are sucked along shortly after. The city is left flat, featureless, unrecognizable, and diminished.

http://www.culture.pl/

GRZEGORZ SZTWIERTNIA
Action painting

Video, 26’24”, 2001/2002

Movie presents daily operations of a person from the lower class of the society (living in a basement) combating with disabilities of his body and reality outside (the stairway inaccessible to people with limited motor ability). The result of this dual strife is a mark – erased belts of the wall over the paneling founded by perennial ritual of “passage” across the area of stairway. Painter's result is a painting “action painting”, monumental work of unnamed painter, whose daily trouble didn’t fail: they stay for the posterity. The film and the whole action end with a small yet significant intervention: the apartment building owner installing a handy banister.

http://www.culture.pl/

JULIAN TOMASZUK
Deconstruction

7 photos from “deconstruction” cycle,
Photography on PCV, 20x15 cm, 2008

Photos represent objects and the aftermath of the spontaneous collaboration between the artist and a group of children. Julian Tomaszuk organized workshops „destruction – construction” during which he inspired children by his creations. The next step was a collaboration in which the children interacted with their toys.
The main purpose of this project was to examine the emotions related to children during destruction of their toys and recombination of remaining parts. The seemingly destructive act led to a wonderful display of creative abilities, analytical skills and abstract thinking.

http://www.artbiznes.pl/

ALICJA ZEBROWSKA
Mystery is looking

video, 1996, 1’40 min

It opens up and reveals a deceptively life-like glass eve. Through inner contractions, pressure and suction, the vagina is able to move the eye, open and close the vaginal lips like eyelids, or oven, in the end, spit the eye out. This game with the eye vagina, that is watching you, is a visual nightmare. In contrast to "Original sin", though, the painted and made-up shaved vagina is more strongly aesthetisized. Nevertheless, the sight of this ogling vagina is not only a shock to the eye. It goes right through the body of the viewer, jolting him to the border of nausia and dread.
Hidden by hair and leading into unknown depths, this silent, dark mystified, protected and, every so often, opening site of desire and yearning turns the dominant cultural code abruptly around, when it stares back. Traditionally, the silent and sightless vagina is taken into possession by the man. The vagina is the object of a seizure. The symbolic centre of all possessive gestures of dominance is the eye, which 'captures' its object. For this reason, the male gaze is phallic. It penetrates. Symbolically, the vagina means nothing other than that the woman is looked upon. She is the object of the gaze. Here. Though, in "The mystery is looking", Alicja Zebrowska turns the central axis of our sexual culture around. By opening its eye, the vagina becomes a subject. This awakening to self-awareness causes shuddering and dread. The gaze is so imprisoned in the schema of male-dominated culture, that the (involuntary) sight of a seeing vagina calls forth a deep-scatted animosity. Seeing the “mystery” cast off its secrecy and through its gaze, itself become a subject, one has the feeling of witnessing a process of emancipation. Nevertheless, it has the effect of a visual monstrosity.
I expect that the eyevagina, especially in its extremely feminine make-up, is also an absurd game, a burlesque masquerade not without wit and laughter. This would be a laughter originating in the grotesque, which is closely related to fear and monstrosity, disgust and pain. And we realize, that Alicja Zebrowska, as a woman, has gone far beyond what the man George Bataille dared to do in that most famous document of pornographic surrealism, "L’histoire de l’oeil" (1928).
http://www.onone.art.pl/

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A/V at Blue Seats

2008-05-02T10:01:00.004-04:00

A/V
videos and animations by
Lee Arnold
Sarah Chokyi Bauer
Rob Carter
Mathew Dipple
Mike Egan
Jordan Harris
Kara Hearn
John Herschend
Ragnheidur Karadottir and Tarik Abdel-Gawad
Yumi Kinoshita
William Lamson
Jay Lizo
Lilly McElroy
Alisa Ochoa
Benjamin Ritter
Catherine Ross
Jee Young Sim
Waterbound Pictures/Naftali Rutter

Thursday, May 8th 7-9pm
Blue Seats
157 Ludlow St
New York, NY 10002

“blankly, perfect summer” @ vertexList

2008-05-01T16:29:00.007-04:00

VertexList and Galeria NOVA have the pleasure to present “blankly, perfect summer”, a group exhibition featuring emerging media artists from Krakow. The exhibition is curated by Malgorzata and Marcin Golebiewski of the Galeria NOVA.

Featring video, new media and installations by WOJTEK DOROSZUK, KAROLINA KOWALSKA, BARTOSZ KOKOSINSKI, WOJTEK KUBIAK & LIDIA KRAWCZYK, NORMAN LETO, JACEK MALINOWSKI, AGNIESZKA POLSKA, JANEK SIMON, GRZEGORZ SZTWIERTNIA, JULIAN TOMASZUK, ALICJA ZEBROWSKA.

The reception will take place at vertexList on Friday, May 09, 2008, 7pm - 10pm, some artists will be in attendance. The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, June 08th 2008.

Live performance by LoVid @ 9pm (free)

“The title of this exhibition was randomly generated by a robo-poet (and we were assured that the generation was 100% random). We couldn’t be more satisfied with the outcome: in this case the concept of the show was not in the poetic integration of the material or a selection of intriguing juxtapositions… We wanted to find a common denominator with vertexList gallery, which mainly deals with computer generated work. A traditional curatorial “thread” seemed questionable and futile; we decided to assemble a cross-section of interesting phenomena from one of the most happening and exciting art scenes of new European culture. Let’s think about “blankly, perfect summer” as a tasting menu, a cross-media selection of what we thought should be recognized as significant.” M&M Golebiewski

LoVid

vertexList -- 138 Bayard St Brooklyn NY 11222 * Tel/Fax: 646 258 3792 * email:info@vertexlist.net

Mike Beradino @ The Kitchen

2008-04-30T21:55:00.006-04:00

Parsons MFA show @ The Kitchen
512 west 19 St.
New York, NY 10011
212 255 5793

Opening Thursday, May 01, 6-8pm

Mike Beradino: "Liquid Pixels #2", a farrofluid piece that works in real-time off of a video camera and a TV.

"HELLO WORLD", a raccoon and a grid of lasers that scroll text while projecting a sparkly pattern
on to the ceiling.

8 BIT in Australia

2008-04-30T00:08:00.005-04:00

8 BIT made it around the world all the way to Australia! Last Thursday, April 24th we premiered at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. It was well worth the 24 hour trip: 8 BIT sold out and ACMI turned out to be an excellent venue, up there with the NYC MoMa and Montreal S.A.T. The screening was a part of "Game On", a massive exhibition about the history of video gaming, featuring every game I have ever seen + some brand new machinima by Eddo Stern.

I was super excited to meet the few Australian chiptune people: DJ Trip opened the event with an awesome 30 minutes Commodore/Gameboy + PC set, and the after party was quite successfully rocked out by 10kfreemen and Dot.Ay.
For more info on Australian chiptune scene check out http://gameboyaustralia.com/.

Huge thanks go to Tim Webster (the organizer), Anna Svedberg, Helen Stuckey and the entire ACMI crew, which made my week in Melbourne truly special!

Image above: Tim Webster, DJ Trip and Anna Svedberg.

And last but not the least: my Melbourne micro-video documentary;)

"Your Documents Please" @ Itami Museum, Japan

2008-04-17T18:31:00.010-04:00

"Your Documents Please" The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami
2-5-28 Miyanomae, Itami, Hyogo 664-0895
Phone: 072-772-5557 Fax: 072-772-5558
April 04 to April 20, 2008

This exhibition is a touring show curated by Alma on Dobbin, Rumiko Tsuda and Daniel Georges, featuring "personal identification papers" created by 270 artists from all over the world, including pieces by Matt Freedman, David Brody, Jude Tallichet, Eungho Park, Marcin Ramocki, Lance Wakeling and many more.
The next venues of the exhibition:

April 26 - May 11 2008
ZAIM
34 Nihon Odori, Naka-ku
Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0021 Japan

November 2008
2B Gallery
Budapest IX. Ráday u.47 Hungary

January 2009
GALÉRIA Z
Bratislava, Slovakia

The full list of participating artists:

ABHA DAWESAR USA, Aimee Lee USA, Aine Scannell GBR, Akane Kirimura FRA, Akos Wechter HUN, Alec Finlay GBR, Alexandra Moses USA, Alissa Kaplan USA, Amanda Trager USA, Amarie Hill USA, Andra Georges USA, András Böröcz USA, Anne Holliday NZL, Annette Minchin AUS, Annette Munk DEU, Arezoo Moseni USA, Arimichi Iwasawa JPN, Audrey Daniel USA, Babs Reingold USA, Barbara Hashimoto USA, Barbara Schauwecker USA, Beata Wehr USA, Beatrix Piesh USA, Betsy Davids USA, Carl Pope USA, carl fairweather NZL, Carole Naggar USA, Catya Plate USA, CeCe Cole USA, Cham Giobbi USA, Charles Hobson USA, Che Song Gyu JPN, Christine Ponelle USA, Clara Pechansky BRA, Cordula Kagemann DEU, Corrine Bayraktaroglu USA, Dale Copeland NZL, Daniel Georges USA, Daria Dorosh USA, David Lantow USA, David Opdyke USA, David Poppie USA, David Brody USA, David Ambrose USA, Deborah Masters USA, Debra Jenks USA, Debra Bretton Robinson USA, Dede van der Roove POL, Denise Deleray USA, Dennis Summers USA, Diane Sophrin USA, Dina Bursztyn USA, Don Porcaro USA, Donna Maria deCreeft USA, Dorothea Fleiss DEU, Doug Beube USA, Dr. Friederun Friederichs DEU, Dr.Juszuf Istvan Antal HUN, Edna Cantoral Acosta MEX, Eileen Foti USA, Eleonora Lecei USA, elise Engler USA, Elizabeth Zois USA, Elizabeth Ross MEX, Emily Martin USA, emily harris USA, enrique castrejon USA, Enzo Salanitro ITA , Eric Doeringer USA, Esperanza Cortes USA, Etta Säfve NLD, Eungho Park USA, Ford Crull USA, Frank Gillette  USA, Gabor Andor Tooth HUN, GELAH PENN USA, George Alamidis AUS, Georgia Grigoriadou GRC, Gerhild Ebel DEU, Gianluca Bianchino USA, Giovanni Bonanno ITA, Goso Tominaga JPN, Greg Neville AUS, Gregg Nowell AUS, GRIMANESA AMOROS USA, GYULA MAJOROS HUN, H.M. Murphy USA, Haejin Yoon USA, Hanna von Goeler USA, Harley Spiller USA, Heather Hart USA, HELEN MALONE AUS, HELEN Schamroth NZL, Hiro Sakaguchi USA, Ian Laughlin USA, Ichi Ikeda JPN, ioulia Terizis AUS, ivan puig MEX, Jake Klotz USA, Janet Jones USA, Jaromir Svozilik NOR, Jason Irwin USA, Jennifer Pepper USA, Jesse Walker USA, Jesus Manuel Montero ESP, Jo Cook CAN, Joan Snitzer USA, joan ryan USA, Joan Mellon USA, Joan Schulze USA, Johannes Gérard NLD, John Roach USA, John Mark Sager USA, Jonathon Johnson USA, Jordan Crandall USA, Jordana Maisie AUS, Jorge Meijide ARG, Jose Ruiz USA, Joyce Cutler-Shaw USA, Juana Valdes USA, Jude Tallichet USA, Judith Page USA, Judy Gittelsohn USA, Julia Wigent USA, Karen Atkinson USA, Karen Balos USA, Karen King USA, Kate Wall USA, Katsura Okada USA, Kayo Miyaji JPN, Kayo Nakamura USA, Kazuko Miyamoto USA, Kazuya Taoka JPN, Keiko Kubota-Miura USA, keith smith USA, Keith A Buchholz USA, Ken Butler USA, Ketta Ioannidou USA, Kiyotaka Kumano JPN, Kurt Stoeckel USA, L.M. Noonan AUS, Laurel Shute USA, Lauren Simkin Berke USA, Laurinda Stockwell USA, Leigh Craven USA, Lester Pidgeon USA, Lex LoebUSA, Lili Rusu ROM, Lisa Cooperman USA, Lise Menu-Noack FRA, Lorraine Pemberton NZL, Louise McCagg USA, Luisa Sartori USA, Madam X USA, Maddy Rosenberg USA, Marcin Ramocki USA, Mari Oshima USA, Marian Macken AUS, Marie Sivak USA, Marina Salmaso DNK, Markus Shimizu DEU, Mary Ellen Long USA, Masaki Tamura JPN, Mathew Rogers USA, Matt Freedman USA, Meghan Keane USA, Melanie Rochat USA, Melody Winnig USA, Michael Pribich USA, Michelle Loughlin USA, Mike Mollett USA, Miki Hayashi JPN, Mille Kalsmose DNK, mimi shapiro USA, Miriam Schaer USA, Mirta Kupferminc ARG, Mitsuo Hayashi JPN, Mitsuo Toshida JPN, Myoung Soo (IVARY) Kim KOR, Nancy Guerrero GBR, Nancy Morrow USA, Nancy Storrow USA, Nancy Lehet AUS, Nancy Azara USA, Nancy Kay Turner USA, Naomi campbell USA, Natalie Moore USA, Natasha Shapiro USA, Neddi Heller USA, Niku Kashef USA, Nina Czegledy CAN, Nina Waisman USA, Nora Gergely HUN, Noredin Morgan USA, Norma Markley USA, Norman Moore USA, Ottfried Zielke DEU, Patrick Killoran USA, Paul Baumann USA, Petala Eftihia GRC, Rena Masuyama JPN, Robbin Silverberg USA, Robert Tucker USA, Robyn Challis NZL, Roger Sayre USA, Roland Halbritter DEU, Rumi Tsuda USA,Russel Hulsey USA, Sam Erenberg USA, Sarah Wentworth USA, Sarah BarkerUSA, sarah julig USA, Sarantis Gagas GRC, sasha chavchavadze USA, Scott McCarney USA, Scott Randall USA, Scrapworm Wrenn USA, Sebastiaan Bremer USA, Senol Sak TUR, Sheila Ross USA, Simone Gad USA, Sivanon Nax Chaichorfa JPN, Skowmon Hastanan USA, Stephen Lack USA, Steve Cox USA, Suejin Jo USA, Susan Bee USA, Susan Breitsch USA, Susan Share USA, Susan Newmark USA, Susumu Sakaguchi USA, Suzanne Anker USA, Tadashi Hashimoto USA, Taisuke Morishita JPN, Tamas Veszi USA, Tammy Wofsey USA, Taryn Wells USA, Tasuku Matsushima JPN, Tatsuo Osawa JPN, Thomas Simpfendoerfer USA, Tommy Flynn USA, Truman Capone USA, Undine Brod USA, Ursula Clark USA, Vaiva Kovieraite LTU, Vernita N'Cognita USA, Victoria Alexander CAN, Wesley Mulvin CAN, Yoko ArisakaJPN, Youme Landowne USA, Yuka Mae JPN, Zoltán Hermann HUN, Zona Sage USA,

"Bear Charm", Jude Talichet

"Seven Deadly Sins: Anger", Marcin Ramocki

Flint Weisser: magnetic fields @ Pratt gallery

2008-04-16T12:59:00.006-04:00

magnetic field drawing
Flint Weisser

Steuben South Gallery C.
Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn NY

The show features victorian scientific equipment, and drawings created by
manipulating magnetic fields.  Heres a couple of shots from opening night. . .
The exhibition closes on Friday, the gallery is open from noon to five.

The crookes tube, is a type of early cathode ray, the precursor to tv,
neon, and xray. It's a spark gap with the resistance of air being
decreased by applying a vacuum. This causes the glass to glow.
With the static generator, turning the handle causes the acrylic
cylinder to rub on the rabbit fur which creates a static charge. The
ball chain lifts the charge and transfers it to the leyden jar. Leyden
jars are like capacitors, positive on the inside, negative on the outside.

Pace Digital Gallery hosts Programmable Media 2: Networked Music

2008-04-05T18:14:00.007-04:00

Programmable Media II: Networked Music, a one-day symposium examining the current and future possibilities of network-enabled music, will be held on April 11, 2008 at Pace University, NYC. The symposium is free and open to the public, and will include artist presentations and live performances. More info, including directions and Artist bios at Pace Digital Gallery website.

Based on the rapidly expanding archive of music/sound experiments to be found on Networked Music Review and the fifteen short works recently commissioned for it, the symposium aims to stimulate critical and far-ranging discussion on emerging music and sound art practice.

To register, email turbulence at turbulence dot org with "Programmable Media II" as the subject.

Symposium Program

Date: Friday April 11, 2008
Venue: The Multipurpose Room, 1 Pace Plaza, Pace University

10:00 am – 10:45 am: Introduction by Helen Thorington and Peter Traub

Thorington and Traub will set the groundwork for the conference by introducing a variety of recent works from Networked Music Review and discussing the history, ideas, tools, and theory behind today’s creative practice.

11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Round-table discussion

Panelists: Dan Trueman, Peter Traub, Zach Layton, Sawako Kato, Jason Freeman (moderator)

Panelists will be given 5-10 minutes to make a basic statement about their work. The discussion will center on the significance of networks and whether they – and the collective behaviors of their machine or human nodes – can form the basis of compelling musical experiences.

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: LUNCH

2:30 Performances
Jason Freeman with Andrew Beck and Mark T. Godfrey, "Flou"
Tobias c van Veen, " til death do us a part"

3:00 - 5:30: Round Table discussion

Panelists: LoVid, Tobias C. Van Veen, Adam Nash, Helen Thorington (moderator)

Panelists will be given 5-10 minutes to make a basic statement about their work. Discussion will continue with emphasis on cross-over works (music w/images, text, video, video games etc.). Nash will speak to the symposium from Second Life, which he calls a “post-convergent medium.”

Short performances by Jason Freeman with Andrew Beck and Mark T. Godfrey and Tobias C. Van Veen will be given during the course of the symposium.

Eddo Stern: QQ More @ Light Industry

2008-04-05T13:25:00.005-04:00

QQ More

curated by Eddo Stern

April 8, 2008 at 8pm
55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
http://www.lightindustry.org/

Artist Eddo Stern presents a screening of fan-made machinima from the
massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft, focusing on videos that
operate outside the traditional reverence of fan art and the game world's
own parameters, such as those dealing with real-life death, pornography, and
drugs. While only dubiously subversive, they nevertheless reflect a
compelling phenomenon, one in which a more hermetic idea of "fantasy"
as
cordoned-off reality (seen in hardcore role playing) is being replaced by
pseudo-fantasy genre games like WoW that spill over into the real world, and
vice versa, through the homebrew manipulations of its multitudinous fan
base.

Featured titles, among others, will include:

Rest in Peace Ignoramus
Amongst Fables and Men
Serenity Now
Drakedog's Suicide
Where Evil Grows
Welcome to Exploration (DOPEFISH)
Sex Junkie (French)
Broadcast Yourself (Gunter Soundtrack)
Wowsexual
Tribal Gnome

Stern will also be showing his recent video Best... Flame War... Ever...
(King of Bards vs. Squire Rex, June 2004), which recreates an argument about
degrees of expertise within the computer fantasy game Everquest, as followed
by the artist in June 2004 on the Alkhazam online gaming message boards.
Rendered in 3D animation at once elaborate and oblique, it serves as a
spot-on ethnography for a particular slice of 21st century nerd culture and
the thorny political terrain that surrounds it.

Followed by a post-show discussion between Stern and Alexander R. Galloway.

Tickets - $6, available at door.

About Eddo Stern

Eddo Stern is an artist and game designer. He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel,
and lives in Los Angeles. He works on the disputed borderlands between
fantasy and reality, exploring the uneasy and otherwise unconscious
connections between physical existence and electronic simulation. His work
explores new modes for narrative and documentary, experimental and
multidisciplinary computer game design, and cross-cultural representation in
new media. He is the founder of the now-retired art and technology
cooperative C-level, where he designed and co-produced the experimental
computer gaming projects Waco Resurrection, Tekken Torture Tournament,
Cockfight Arena and LA MOOd. He is currently developing Darkgame, a sensory
deprivation computer game. His work has been widely exhibited at
international venues including the Tate Gallery Liverpool, the Walker Art
Center, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, E3, GDC, Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf, the ICA London, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, ICC Tokyo,

and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

http://www.eddostern.com

About Light Industry

Light Industry is a new venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New
York. Developed and overseen by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, the project will
begin as a series of weekly events in Sunset Park this spring and summer,
each organized by a different artist, critic, or curator. Conceptually,
Light Industry draws equal inspiration from the long history of alternative
art spaces in New York as well its storied tradition of cinematheques and
other intrepid film exhibitors. Through a regular program of screenings,
performances, and lectures, its goal is to explore new models for the
presentation of time-based media and foster a complex dialogue amongst a
wide range of artists and audiences within the city.

FAAN adoption of Aron Namenwirth's painting

2008-03-31T16:46:00.004-04:00

acrylic on canvas 9x12 feet 2001

FAAN adoption

"My largest painting "The Loading Dock" adopted by Miriam Cotto has been abandoned at The Rockland Independent Living Center. I was just called by Audrey Rosenfield President of the Board that they were going to put it out on the street.
I talked to Adam Simon he said, "this is the worst thing that has happened with FAAN"
this is a statement i wrote at the time of adoption-

“Loading Dock” 2001 by Aron Namenwirth

This painting was inspired by the conclusion of my art moving practice, both as performance and work. The loading dock is an archetypical destination for all material possessions that have some value but no place in the world. In depicting the painting, (a facade of three closed gates), I see a portal to all that’s abandoned. It is like the mystery curtains in the game show, “The Price is Right”. The painting was made by projecting a digital photograph, taken of a dock deep underground in the far reaches of industrial Queens, onto canvas. At the time I conceived and executed the piece, I was looking at the work of Lisa Ruyter, an artist, whose studio was across the hallway, and thinking about the epic kiosk pieces by Devon Dikeou made in the early 90’s. Some time was spent driving around the city , in a truck with Matt Bua and Eric Heist, and a few other artists who made this a living. My recent paintings have further examined the implications of digital representation and content. This work was aquired by Miriam Cotto through the Fine Art Adoption Network. www.fineartadoption.net
Special Thanks to Adam Simon who is the founder of FAAN.
After looking at the Rockland Independent Living Centers website, I can see how it is a bad fit.
Man have I had it.
If someone will adopt this painting maybe i can save it. Will negotiate transport. Call me asap 917.301.6680" Update: thanks to Adam Simons email I have 2 potential adoptees.

IT'S ALIVE

2008-03-29T10:08:00.004-04:00

Director 11 is available for download! Vertexlist owes it's name to this grand old software package. When Adobe bought Macromedia most felt that they would leave the venerable Director behind but low and behold a new release is upon us. Has Adobe outdone itself buy fully integrating Director into the Adobe suite of software packages? No. Have they at least made it so there are multiple undo's? Nay. Are they saying anything about it on the Adobe home page? Negatory. Will it work on your intell mac running Tiger? Yes, maybe - (the demo download sounds like it's a bit buggy). Is it time to leave Hypercard and try something new? Sure, time to get a 5600 baud modem too.
There's an excellent podcast which will tell you all you wanted to know and more.
Skip actually describes the community as "All huddled around the casket trying to resurrect Director".

Off the Grid

2008-03-29T09:49:00.003-04:00

A bunch of FOV (friends of Vertexlist) are in this fun show at the Neuberger Museum which opens on Sunday sunday sunday (march 30th). The Neuberger is on the Purchase College campus just a short train (and cab) ride away from New York.
http://www.neuberger.org/

Artists include:

Matt Bua; Benjamin Cohen, Dylan J. Gauthier, and Stephan von Muehlen; EcoArtTech: Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint; eteam; Max Goldfarb; Tovey Halleck and Andes Sprouts Society; Louis Hock; Nina Katchadourian; Kristin Lucas; Joe McKay; Trevor Paglen; Temporary Services; Seth Weiner; and Bart Woodstrup.

Holy Fire in Brussels

2008-03-28T01:13:00.002-04:00

HOLY FIRE: art of the digtal age
curated by Yves Bernard & Domenico Quaranta • April 18 – 30, 2008

iMAL
30 Quai des Charbonnages / Koolmijnenkaai 30, 1080 Brussels
(metro Comte de Flandre / Graaf van Vlanderen)

Holy Fire is probably the first exhibition to show only collectable media artworks already on the art market, in the form of traditional media (prints, videos, sculptures) or customized media objects. The artworks collected in Holy Fire are not new media art, but simply art of our time: art which appropriates institutional or corporate identities, creates fictional identities, hacks softwares and game engines for its own purposes, infiltrates online or offline communities in order to portray them or their own myths, subverts existing tools or creates its own tools; or, more simply, uses hardware and software in order to create art.

Artists: Cory ARCANGEL, Gazira BABELI, BOREDOMRESEARCH, Christophe BRUNO, Grégory CHATONSKY, Miguel CHEVALIER, Vuk COSIC, Shane HOPE, JODI, LAb[au], Joan LEANDRE, Golan LEVIN, Olia LIALINA & Dragan ESPENSCHIED, Eva and Franco MATTES aka 0100101110101101.ORG, Alison MEALEY, Mark NAPIER, Casey REAS, Charles SANDISON, Antoine SCHMITT, Yacine SEBTI, Alexei SHULGIN & Aristarkh CHERNYSHEV, John. F. SIMON, Jr., Paul SLOCUM, Wolfgang STAEHLE, Eddo STERN, UBERMORGEN.COM, Carlo ZANNI.

spiritsurfers.net launch + Bubblyfish performance

2008-03-23T14:00:00.003-04:00

Paul and Kevin putting final touches on spiritsurfers.net

The INFOspirit

The INFOmonk is often disinterested in physical art and is not always fulfilled by objects. Rightfully, the INFOmonk turns to the spirit world for fulfillment, surfing for boons that will give him clarity. The INFObrats still believe in physical masterpieces. The INFObrats try to produce physical masterpieces, and they even use Google to search for physical masterpieces so that they can go visit them or purchase them.

The greater masterpiece isn't something that can be found on Google. The greater masterpiece is the INFOspirit that constructs all of Google. The greater masterpiece is the INFOspirit that constructs all YouTube videos and all celebrity gossip blog posts and all jpegs of Van Gogh paintings and all of officemax.com and all net art yet made. While the physical connections of copper and silicon that contain the web could be destroyed, the INFOspirit cannot be destroyed. The INFOspirit is not bound by the constraints of the universe. The INFOspirit reveals to us an art that is unreachable, but right at our fingertips -- an art that is infinitely sized, but as simple as a cigar box of thimbles.

The goal of spiritsurfers.net is equally simple: surfers, reveal to others the majesty of the INFOspirit.

fragment from "Spirit Surfing" by Kevin Bewersdorf

Wonderful game boy set by Bubblyfish :)

Black Cloud

2008-03-20T22:23:00.006-04:00

http://www.gregniemeyer.com/

Greg Niemeyer, an artist at UC Berkeley has an excellent blog going in which he outlines his recent projects. As you might guess from its title "Free Change", Greg actively promotes an open source aesthetic in his artwork. We get to see the conceptual and technical problems in his work hashed out in a well written and engaging manner.
Currently Greg is knee deep in "Black Cloud" a pervasive game that will be played out on the streets of L.A. this summer. Greg and his team are using custom build Arduinos wired to cell phones to send realtime data via SMS to the players. Should be fun, but I think the game is limited to teenagers (they get all the fun).
His site looks good too, right down to the carefully chosen font.

2008-03-19T23:54:00.002-04:00

Rhizome 2008 Comissions!

2008-03-17T19:32:00.001-04:00

Rhizome.org assembled a luminary group for the 2008 Rhizome Commissions jury. In collaboration with the Rhizome staff, the jury will determine five artists/ collectives to receive awards ranging from $3,000-$5,000. The remaining two are awarded by member vote. In contrast to previous years, this jury will review all the applicants -- not just the finalists.

The jury includes Oliver Laric, artist and co-founder of VVORK, Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Emma McRae, Curatorial Projects Coordinator, Experimenta, Melbourne and Rick Rinehart, Digital Media Director and Adjunct Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

From Rhizome, they will be joined by Luis Silva, our Lisbon-based Curatorial Fellow, and Lauren Cornell, Executive Director and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum.

The application deadline is midnight, March 31st, which means two more weeks! Read more about the program and how to apply now!

American Dreams at Pace Digital Gallery, New York

2008-03-09T15:49:00.009-04:00

Animation and videos by artists living in the U.S.
curated by Jillian Mcdonald
show runs March 5 - 28, opening Tuesday March 25, 5 - 7pm
Pace Digital Gallery
163 William Street
New York, NY
more info at gallery website
also screening at Digital Media 1.0 in valencia, Spain April 24 + 26

Artists: Marina Zurkow, Liselot van der Heijden, Paul Slocum, Rick Silva, Tricia McLaughlin, Stephanie Lempert, Orit Ben-Shitrit and Harold Moss

"Natural Interpretation. Rick Silva's poetic intervention plugs the white dune, snow-crusted brook, and other quiet wonders into his scheme as hapless instruments in a sublime analogue remix. Stephanie Lempert translates the mouth movements of passive goldfish into English monosyllables.

Relentless Remix. Orit Ben-Shitrit and Harold Moss's magazine imagery montage permits us a glimpse of their subterranean dreamworld populated by strange monsters. Liselot van der Heijden finds innuendo and ridiculous machismo in one familiar posture from a Hollywood western. Paul Slocum's solicited recreations of a melodramatic scenario from sitcom television are fascinating in their subtle variations.

Fantastic Mischief. Marina Zurkow's space invaders cavort unseen as they infiltrate New York City's gritty textural infrastructure. Tricia McLaughlin's "machine for living" posits an architecture that happily destroys and asexually reproduces itself in a satirical romp."

"Spirit Surfers" at vertexList

2008-03-08T17:39:00.011-05:00

"Four Seasons", Paul Slocum

VertexList has the pleasure to present “Spirit Surfers”, a two person exhibition featuring recent new media projects by Kevin Bewersdorf and Paul Slocum.

The reception will take place on Saturday, March 22, 2008, 7pm - 10pm, artists will be in attendance.

Live electronic music peformance by BUBBLYFISH at 8.30pm (free)
The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, May 04th 2008.

"Maximum Sorrow Throw Blanket #2", Kevin Bewersdorf

Exhibited works by Kevin Bewersdorf include: “"Two videos for the Mitchell Chiropractic Clinic Separated by Eighteen Years" (two channel video) and “Maximum Sorrow Throw Blanket #2” (digitally produced quilt).

Also in the show “Four Seasons” (gicle print on canvas) and “You're Not My Father” (video) by Paul Slocum. Both artists will collaborate on the launch of a brand new web-surfing club “Spirit Surfers”, which will premiere at the opening reception. (http://spiritsurfers.net/)

"You're Not My Father", Paul Slocum

This joint exhibition is an exploration of a new type of objecthood, which emerged as a product of the information era: the ephemeral-imperfect, forced back into the palpable reality from the domain of codes and numbers. Kevin Bewersdorf and Paul Slocum work toward establishing the contemporary expressive vocabulary, capable of transforming the internet-mediated, generic content into meaningful statements.

"Two videos for the Mitchell Chiropractic Clinic Separated by Eighteen Years", Kevin Bewersdorf

Paul Slocum is a new media artist, curator and a musician, currently living and working in Dallas. Slocum was recently included in Nexus Texas at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas. He has also been included in exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas, and the National Center for the Arts, Mexico City, Mexico. In 2004, his work was exhibited at the Liverpool Biennial in the United Kingdom. In addition, he has been invited to do performances in France, The Netherlands, Canada, The United Kingdom, and New York. http://qotile.net/

Kevin Bewersdorf is a conceptual media artist living in Austin. His was featured recently in Passing Time and the Changing Seasons of Time at Okay Mountain in Austin. He is also known for his work in the critically acclaimed film, LOL: The Movie, which he co-wrote and stars in. http://www.geartekcorporation.com/

Bubblyfish (Haeyoung Kim) relocated to the US from Korea in 1992. With a background in classical piano, she has been focusing on experimental electronic music. Currently, under the name Bubblyfish, she creates "lo-fi," 8 bit sound works and experimental compositions. Based in NYC, Haeyoung has worked as a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer. Haeyoung's work has been presented in various art venues, clubs, festivals, and galleries including Centre Pompidou, The American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, The New Museum, Roulette, and Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater.

VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 2pm - 6 pm, or by appointment.
We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues on Bayard St.
For more info please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 258 3792

Marisa Olson + Christine Gedeon @ And/Or

2008-03-07T00:15:00.007-05:00

and/or gallery
4221 Bryan St. Ste B, Dallas, TX 75204, tel: 214.824.2442

March 8th - April 12th
opening reception March 8th, 6pm-9pm with both artists in attendance
music by Animal Forces @ 8:30pm
be there or be square

Marisa Olson, animated gif

Marisa Olson's work combines performance, video, sound, drawing, and installation to address intersections of pop culture and the cultural history of technology, as they effect the voice, power, and persona. Her work has been presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the 52nd International Biennale di Venezia, the Hayward Gallery-London and at several international festivals.

The Two Koreas, Christine Gedeon

Christine Gedeon uses blue prints to create aerial compositions of political figures and celebrities. This abstract format brings a new sense of reality to publicized images of political and public figures. Christine has exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery in New York and The New Art Center of New York.

Don Joint at Francis Naumann

2008-02-29T15:35:00.004-05:00

Really crazy, obsessive embroidered abstractions, some of which took months of hand labor are on display at Francis Naumann gallery uptown. The show is closing tomorrow! Don Joint is working with compositions referencing early modernism, but what strikes me is the inevitable "bitmap quality" of the threadwork, which somehow dominates the decorative aspects.

Don Joint, The Mocking of Christ, mercerized cotton on linen, 2007

Another , much more minimalist example of embroidery work: Cody Trepte, Why Are Numbers So Comfortable? , cross stitch binary, 2004 (from "The Infinite Fill" at Foxy Productions)

(image: Tom Moody blog)

Japan: Tokyo ICC and trip to Kyoto

2008-02-18T22:38:00.006-05:00

Apologies about disappearing for a while: vertexlist was visiting Japan for 10 days!
Above a picture of Kagurazaka hill.

Sakurako and I had the pleasure to meet with the Tokyo ICC curatorial team (from left to right): Yukiko Shikata, Minoru Hatanaka and Hiroko Myokan.Thank you so much for finding time in your busy schedule to hang out with us!

In front Maholo Uchida (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) and yours truly.

The current ICC exhibitions include "silent dilalogue", which is a meditation on visualization and data mapping strategies of natural phenomena, for example the electromagnetic fields of plants and mushrooms.

tEnt (TANAKA Hiroya + CUHARA Macoto)
"Call ÅÃ Response" 2007

Software modeling the syrinx, a bony organ birds use to produce vocalizations, continuously generates various simulated bird calls. When a response is heard from a natural bird, the software initiates a self-teaching process, subtly changing and refining its calls. As this process is repeated and birds and computer influence each other, this installation attempts to create the opportunity for a new kind of communications that goes beyond the human word.

Below is a short and scruffy video clip of our 3 day tourist excursion to Kyoto:)

Future Film Festival, Bologna

2008-01-22T13:32:00.000-05:00

Just came back from the beautiful Bologna, where 8 BIT was screened in the 10th Future Film Festival. The event, mainly focusing on contemporary animation, was wonderfully organized by Giulietta Fara and Oscar Cosulich.

The festival brought some of the best work made in the field of 2 and 3D animation, both independent, like Otto Guerra (Brasil), Makoto Shinkai (Japanese), Juan Antin (Argentina), Pablo Angeles (Mexico), and big industry artists like Bruce Sterling & Matt Aitken (Weta Digital), Vicki Dobbs Beck (IL&M), Mark Holmes (Pixar) and Mike Thurmeier (Blue Sky).

The food in Bologna deserves to be talked about in the arts context: above the typical
Bolognese tortelini with pork, permigiano reggano and ricotta, served in broth. In the background a fantastic bottle of Pino Nero from Trento.

The closing party: Random and NrGiga playing gameboy music on a very tiny sound system;)

Talk by NO CARRIER in Philly

2008-01-15T18:35:00.000-05:00

Date: Sunday, January 20th
Time: ** 3PM SHARP **
Location: University of the Arts, 333 S. Broad Street, Anderson Hall, 4th Floor [ MAP]
Cost: $5 donation suggested
RSVP: Required for this meeting (email first & last name to makephilly@gmail)

The next meeting of MakePhilly will feature guest speaker Don Miller (also known as NO CARRIER) who creates fast paced, colorful visuals for live music events and interactive art installations by hacking 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) consoles with custom programmed cartridges.

Don will share his DIY approach to programming the PPU (Picture Processing Unit) of NES consoles. He will demonstrate that you that you don't need to know much math or have prior programming experience to explore the graphics of old NES games, hack and edit NES ROM images, and even create simple graphics programs.

Don is an educator, programmer, and live visualist living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He recently performed at Blip Festival 2007, an international gathering of forty musicians and visualists from around the world. In 2007 he designed and programmed the first NES album ever to be released on cartridges, for chiptune musicians Alex Mauer and Phlogiston. In 2008 his work will be displayed at Colgate University for their Creative Solutions for Sustainable Futures exhibition that explores environmental issues and sustainability across natural, built, and digital environments.

Don will be supported by Dino Lionetti (aka Cheap Dinosaurs) who is a synthesist living in Philadelphia with an affinity for portable sound gadgets. He will talk about the process of tracking, the hardware he uses, and the chiptune scene. Dino composes music using a Nintendo Gameboy and will join Don for a brief performance after the challenge.

For more information visit:

http://www.no-carrier.com/

http://www.myspace.com/cheapdinosaurs

Greetings from vertexList ;)

2007-12-21T17:44:00.000-05:00

Happy Holidays and Super-Duper 2008!

Wall Street Journal: Andrew Lavallee about blogs and art

2007-12-19T02:11:00.000-05:00

Today's Wall Street Journal contains an article by Andrew Lavallee featuring works by Guthrie Lonergan, Marcin Ramocki, Paul Slocum, Cory Arcangel, Marisa Olson and commentaries by Lauren Cornell and Paddy Johnson. Check it out on the front of the Marketplace print section (also running in our Europe and Asia editions) and online.

image: Guthrie Lonergan, "Internet Group Shot"

Hustle is Capital: vertexList in Miami

2007-12-09T16:08:00.001-05:00

vertexList booth/space in Fountain, Miami

vertexList booth/space in Fountain, Miami, 2

vertexList booth/space in Fountain, Miami, 3
We featured works by JODI, Paul Slocum, Ernesto Restrepo, Maria Adelaida Lopez, Joe McKay, Charles Beronio ("Hustle is Capital" banner), Cj Yeh, Brice Brown, Jillian Macdonald, Eteam and Aron Namenwirth.

Treewave performance during the reception party.

Lance Wakeling/Canary Magazine performance: bootleg press passes!

"..When you ask Jeannette Romeu, Galaxy Girl what style of painting do you do?
She simply always replies: "I paint Music"!...

By far the best thing seen in Miami, rock on Jeannette!

"B I T M A P: as good as new" online

2007-12-02T20:36:00.001-05:00

We just finished and uploaded a quick online list of work in the show.
Here is an html version and a pdf. (33Mb)

Also, check out the review on poptronics.fr (french)

Announcing: vertexList in Fountain

2007-11-27T15:27:00.001-05:00

vertexList has the pleasure to announce our participation in Fountain Miami.

We will be bringing new media works by JODI, Paul Slocum, Ernesto Restrepo, CJ Yeh, Brice Brown, Joe McKay and many more. Don't miss the live Treewave performance on friday, Dec 07th, during the opening party (10 pm) and the ongoing press-pass project by Lance Wakeling.

Fountain is the independent art fair pioneered by cutting-edge galleries in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fountain Miami 2007 features 14 galleries from Brooklyn, San Francisco and Miami and takes place December 06–09 in a 10,000 sq.ft. warehouse in Wynwood.
Location

2841 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami FL 33127, on the corner of 29th Street in the Wynwood district.

“Fountain Miami” is a guerrilla-style art fair - under the radar, but highly influential. “Fountain” was launched in March 2006 in New York, in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries largely overlooked by corporate-sponsored art fairs. In defiant contrast with both Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the slew of other International art fairs, “Fountain” has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its independent slant. This independent aspect gives Fountain its edge: young galleries showcasing fresh work without official booth spaces or selection committee juries.

Fountain Miami is currently featuring the galleries: Ad Hoc Art, Bipolart, Buenas Artes, Capla Kesting Fine Art, Front Room Gallery, Steven Gagnon, Gitana Rosa, Glowlab, Grace Exhibition Space, Like The Spice, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Miguel Paredes, VertexList and Yum Yum Factory. Special guest appearances to be announced.

Come and experience the unfiltered, uncouth and enterprising excitement of Fountain. See advanced art as it was meant to be seen – without blinders, without “taste merchants” – straight from the source.

Media Contacts: David Kesting 917.650.3760 or John Leo 917.292.8865.

B I T M A P opening

2007-11-25T15:49:00.001-05:00

"B I T M A P: as good as new" opened last night with 31 artists from 12 countries, well over 40 playback devices and amazing house-chiptune performance by xik. vertexList is still recovering from this unprecedented 4 day long installation:)

Thanks to the awesome art, NY Times, free wine hunters and Thanksgiving we had somewhere around 400 visitors.

xik doing his set : 2 modified NES, laptop and a mixer.

Performance audience... yes, it was rather packed! I can't wait to see the Blip crowd!

Glomag, Bit Shifter and xik.

We are working on a little online catalogue of the show, stay tuned!

Do the Dumpster!

2007-11-15T12:28:00.001-05:00

eteam bought some land in Second Life
and opened a dumpster.

It's clean, doesn't smell and open 24/7

!!! go dumping here !!!!!!!

Read a discussion about the proposal on Electric Archaeology
project commissioned by Rhizome

Rhizome Needs You

2007-11-08T15:53:00.000-05:00

Support Rhizome!

"This week, Rhizome begins our 2007 Community Campaign. We need to raise $30,000 by midnight, December 31st. We're calling upon the artists, critics, curators, scholars, scientists, and general digital culture fans in our network to achieve this goal. Now is the time to become a member (it's only $25!), renew your membership, or make a generous donation. Rhizome serves an emerging field and we rely, to no small extent, on our community for support. Your contribution will seed the development of our web-based programs, such as commissions, discussion, and digital art preservation, all of which aim to increase the visibility and vibrancy of this growing field. Helping us will help make new media art history. Please support us today!"

http://www.rhizome.org/support/

Flooding With Love For The Kid

2007-11-06T01:21:00.000-05:00

Ladies and Gentelmen: Zachary Oberzan remakes Rambo

TELECULTURE at Pace Digital Gallery

2007-11-05T14:27:00.001-05:00

Pace Digital Gallery is pleased to present:

TELECULTURE
November 13th - December 14th, 2007
Curated by Lee Wells

Works by Chris Borkowski, Bethany Fancher, Gerald Förster, Taras Hrabowsky, Jennifer Jacobs, Eric Payson, Second Front, Mark Tribe, and [dNASAb]

Presentations by the artists - Tuesday November 13, 3-5pm; Opening Reception - Tuesday November 13, 5-7pm

Map + info + Directions
http://pace.edu/digitalgallery

TELECULTURE is a survey that brings together a diverse group of new media artists, whose work - ranging from photography to online virtual reality - embodies, a cross section of thought that investigates perceptions of identity in the early 21st century. Information and images, now heavily filtered through advanced technology, the internet, and mass media, have also granted new empirical freedoms to the artist to re-contextualize the spectacle of contemporary life. This allows them to address this spectacle on their terms through these new tools and rapid means of communication.

The artworks all possess a strongly imbued socio-political agenda that oscillates between reality and simulation (hyperreality), creating a hybrid narrative that attempts to translate an understanding of the present in order to make sense of an uncertain future.

Pace Digital Gallery offers a unique and challenging public environment, where as, through the sheer verticality of the space, the selected artworks combine to visually communicate a sense of claustrophobic post-millennial anxiety mixed with an undefinable euphoria, liberation, and freedom.

Announcing Blip Festival and "B I T M A P: as good as new"

2007-11-04T16:06:00.000-05:00

VertexList space and Blip Festival have the pleasure to present “B I T M A P: as good as new” a group exhibition celebrating the history of the digital image, the aesthetics of early computing and early video-game consoles. Expect pixels, old monitors and 8 bit sounds!

"B I T M A P: as good as new" is proud to feature: Cory Arcangel, Chris Ashley, Mike Beradino, Mauro Ceolin, Petra Cortright, Paul Davis, DELAWARE, Notendo (Jeff Donaldson), Eteam, Dragan Espenschied, Christine Gedeon, Kimberley Hart, Daniel Iglesia, JODI, Olia Lialina, LoVid, Kristin Lucas, David Mauro, Jillian Mcdonald, Tom Moody, Aron Namenwirth, Mark Napier, Nullsleep, Marisa Olson, Will Papenheimer, Prize Budget for Boys, Jim Punk, Akiko Sakaizumi, Paul Slocum, Eddo Stern and CJ Yeh.

A reception will take place at vertexList on Saturday, November 24th 2007 from 7pm - 10pm.

The exhibition will be on display until Sunday, February 3rd, 2008.

Live 8 BIT music performance by x|k @ the opening reception, 8.30pm.

VertexList gallery hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday 1pm -6 pm, or by appointment.We are located between Graham and Manhattan Avenues onBayard St. For more info please visit our website www.vertexlist.net or call 646 258 3792

About Blip:

The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this November into December, focusing on the 8-bit scene - musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools. The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 40 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Argentina, and across the United States.

Manhattan art space The Tank and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event taking place in New York City November 29 - December 2, 2007. Focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology and featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world, the Blip Festival showcases artists adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops, and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event taking place at the epicenter of the creative world.

The festival will host evening concerts on all 4 nights. Each night's concert will cost $10 and include 8 musical acts and a variety of live visualists. Tickets will be available online starting in early November and will also be available at the door. Festival passes will also be available for sale in early November.

In addition to concerts there will also be daytime workshops and screenings on Saturday and Sunday. A complete schedule of those events is forthcoming.

Please get excited now.

image: Petra Cortright

movingimage: animated GIFs by Ernesto Restrepo

2007-11-01T22:46:00.000-04:00

"Nervioso": one of animated GIFs by Miami artist Ernesto Restrepo.
A highly unorthodox use of this, recently re-discovered, older "new medium".

digital: space: object

2007-10-31T11:45:00.000-04:00

A sampling of media art works that explore where transient digital images fit into our current social and physical spaces. Curated by AwareProjX, a visual arts collective specializing in the creation of new media art projects. Artists include Lee Arnold, Ted Artz, Perry Bard, Daniel Kariko, and Carlos Rosas.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
November 2 - January 12

HALLOWE'EN PARTY at Moti Hasson

2007-10-30T17:36:00.000-04:00

JILLIAN MCDONALD PERFORMANCE AND HALLOWE'EN PARTY

Wednesday October 31, Hallowe'en, 2007, 7pm
Moti Hasson Gallery
535 West 25th Street
New York, NY
212.268.4444

A Hallowe'en party and performance by New York-based artist Jillian Mcdonald (http://jillianmcdonald.net) whose work is currently being
showcased in Waking the Dead (October 11 - November 10, 2007) at Moti Hasson Gallery.
Costumes, especially scary ones, welcome! Or come prepared to be transformed...

Click here to see works and press release
http://www.motihasson.com/exhibitions/mcdonald/workslist.html

vertexlistblog

Woodstock Digital Media Festival, June 18th

"Made in Internet" showcase @ ARTBOOM Festival

Artist Talk: Lillian Schwartz

Douglas Henderson

Douglas Henderson

"system:system": 21 Monitor Street

Player 1!

The Vitreous: Of Eyes and Optics

Monstrosities in San Francisco

ARTBOOM 09'

Brooklyn DIY @ El Parqueadero, Bogota

"2 X 3 X 10" @ vertexList, opening Saturday 05.23

Undead in the Night, Jillian Mcdonald

"Kiosk" @ STRP, Eindhoven

Blanka Amezkua @ vertexList: opening Friday, April 17

Turbulence@PaceDigitalGallery

(re)terrain @ vertexList opening Friday, March 6th

"Brooklyn DIY" : images from the premiere

Joe McKay speaks at Pace University

"the future is not what is used to be" @ Postmasters

Feb 25th: "Brooklyn DIY", World Premiere @ MoMa

Two Scary Shows: The Bronx and Saskatoon

Rubbernecking Democracy: Pepsi endorses president-elect

Made in U.S.A. -Party On (part 2)

Made in U.S.A. -Party On

1981 Atari Ring by Sakurako Shimizu

Sakurako Shimizu: 1981 ATARI Ring, 2008

Bit Shifter @ Blip

Notes from ZKM

Review: Indirect Articles

MADE in USA: new works by Aron Namenwirth

Photographs by Mimi Kim @ Queens Museum

Brice Brown: American Boy @ Francis Naumann

David Clark and Michelle Gay lecture and reception on Thursday November 13th

Noah Loesberg & Kelli Miller opening Saturday, Oct 25th

Oct 16: Brooke Singer and Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga at Pace Digital Gallery

Micro-review: The Gravity of Source Material

Zombies in Condoland

Jillian Mcdonald Hot and Sexy

Apocrypha @ OKOK

Apocrypha: New Works by Sean Higgins

Micro-review: Justin Kemp at Club Internet

New Blood Opening

Mark Napier and Kelly Richardson at Pace Digital Gallery, Sept 18

"NEW BLOOD" opening Saturday, Sept.13th

Austin show: some images

RESET/PLAY in Austin

RESET/PLAYSeptember 6 – November 2, 2008

Talking Art with RESET/PLAY guest curators Marcin Ramocki and Paul Slocum

Review of SIGGRAPH Art & Design Galleries

Ephraim Russell: vertexList Summer Resident 08'

BITMAP @ Drexel, images

"BITMAP: as good as new" & "8 BIT" in Philly, Thursday June 26th

Solid Gold

Obsolescence/Invention conference @ NSCAD

opening + LoVid performance

"blankly, perfect summer": online catalogue

A/V at Blue Seats

“blankly, perfect summer” @ vertexList

Mike Beradino @ The Kitchen

8 BIT in Australia

"Your Documents Please" @ Itami Museum, Japan

Flint Weisser: magnetic fields @ Pratt gallery

Pace Digital Gallery hosts Programmable Media 2: Networked Music

Eddo Stern: QQ More @ Light Industry

FAAN adoption of Aron Namenwirth's painting

FAAN adoption

IT'S ALIVE

Off the Grid

Holy Fire in Brussels

spiritsurfers.net launch + Bubblyfish performance

Black Cloud

Rhizome 2008 Comissions!

American Dreams at Pace Digital Gallery, New York

"Spirit Surfers" at vertexList

Marisa Olson + Christine Gedeon @ And/Or

Don Joint at Francis Naumann

Japan: Tokyo ICC and trip to Kyoto

Future Film Festival, Bologna

RESET/PLAY
September 6 – November 2, 2008