jeppe hein is excellent. In the Line of Fire is a nice profile article @ freize.com. kopenhagen.dk has an interview. or go to nicolai wallner for many images but no text.

• Let Me Show You the World (2000), a tiny hole in a wall which emits a soft breeze (to flutters your eyelashes) when you peer inside
  
• Continuity Inbetween (2002), an unbroken jet stream of water leaps between two walls
  
• 360 Presence (2002), a large steel sphere sits in the gallery space until a visitor enters the room. at which point it starts rolling around uncontrollably, bashing into walls, visitors, etc.
  
• Space in Action / Action in Space (2002), a fountain consisting of vertical walls of water. sections of the fountain shut off when you approach, allowing you to enter the fountain's space and stand surrounded by water inside
  
• Bear the Consequenses (2003), a flame bursts out of a wall when someone enters the gallery. the flame's size and intensity vary as visitor's appoach closer
  
• Changing Space (2003), over twenty-five minutes, a gallery wall slowly moves five metres, from the middle of the room toward the end wall, until the room is only a half metre wide.

looking forward to soft rains, by the mccoys. "installation of model movie sets for live robotic cinema" at postmasters, May 8 - June 5

also must catch sol lewitt at the risd museum before may 2.

if i was still in san francisco, the 48 hour film project would be a fun way to no sleep a weekend.

maybe can make it to the Saving the Image: Art After Film Book Launch at the New Museum on thursday (april 22, 2004, 6 - 8pm)

also- http://www.freeafterrebate.info/

the temporal values - from minimal to video exhibit at zkm looks interesting. artists include peter campus, sol lewitt, nam june paik, bill viola, peter weibel, and robert morris, untitled (mirrored cubes), 1965

monica bonvicini's don't miss a sec, 2004 at the tate modern, a public panopticon restroom. the stall walls look like mirrors from the outside, and windows fron the inside.

henrik plenge jakobsen, laughing gas chamber, 1996

and two cell phone public art pieces:

usman haque, sky ear, on may 4 (lunar eclipse) a glowing "cloud" of one thousand mobile phones and helium balloons will be released into the air. people can dial into the cloud and listen to the "sounds of the sky", while their calls affect the electromagnetic environment inside and change the balloons' brightness, colour and intensity
peter freeman, spectra-txt, a 30-foot stainless steel beacon changes color by having a text message command (such as blue, starvibe, xxx, pearl, boro, and chromapop) sent to it

today, off to buffalo for the networks, art, & collaboration conference with rachel and tom to present vis-à-vis.

from their site-
In a high-energy context this conference will bring together artists, designers, musicians, activists, art historians and engineers in formats such as workshops, open mic, parties, performances, interviews, and brain storming sessions — all aiming at ongoing collaborations, genuine dialogue, and the exchange of knowledge. The aim of the conference is to get a deeper understanding of the dynamics of collaboration, models of critical web-based art, and the role media technologies play in the making of social networks. Laugh, learn, argue, dance, discuss, eat, celebrate dissent, make new friends, and meet future collaborators.

also-
munchkins are short-legged cats. they can jump, but not as high as normal cats. but they can scurry under things faster. you love it.

Munchkin: FBRL Breed Page
Immer Essen/Gentilbelle Munchkin
Munchkin Breed Club Photo Gallery

one of my favorite artists, rafael lozano-hemmer, is showing vectorial elevation (again) in dublin, ireland. twenty-two searchlights constantly cycle through positional settings submitted from individuals around the world. go to the vectorial elevation web site to submit your own design, or just watch the changing installation using one of four webcams. it's up april 22 - may 3, 2004.

also- frequency and volume looks interesting, but my favorite is still body movies. here's an old interview. maybe they will show somewhere nearby soon.

- idle time's holding pattern screen saver, cycles though images from an airplane window (osx/pc, via wired mag's the cult of the mac blog
- sadly, refresh: the art of the screen saver is no longer online. however, paul pfieffer's EXCELLENT john 3:16 screen saver is still available through the race in digital space conference web site. (os9/pc)
- lindkvist's pong screen saver (osx)

also-
the best icons ever, pixelgirlpresents.com

American Museum of the Moving Image
- Interactions / Art and Technology (May 21 - July 18, 2004), an exhibition of interactive digital media installations drawn from work at/with the Ars Electronica Futurelab ... including Golan Levin/Zachary Lieberman's RE:MARK (very exciting!)
- Tim Burton Drawings (!!!), conceptual drawings and sketches from 12 movies, including Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish.

Eyebeam
- Prix Selection (May 21 - July 18, 2004), eight award winning works in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electronica, including Videoplace, Legible City, Landscape One, and n-Cha(n)t. also- there will be screenings of Ars Electronica animation prize winners.

Museum of Television and Radio
- American Pop (February 6 - August 1, 2004), an ongoing survey of american popular music as experienced through the medium of television. (the exhibit that just ended featured the beatles)

in Providence:
Kid-Simple, a radio play in the flesh is playing at Perishable Theatre, April 29 - May 29, 2004.

Ben Rubin is speaking at RISD tomorrow. I like Story Pipeline, the Brasserie Video Beam Installation, the Moscone Center Facade, and Listening Post.

event info here.

The Wireless Weblog has a profile on Joshua Kinberg, artist behind the excellent BlackPeopleLoveUs.com and Bikes Against Bush. (via Gizmodo)

Kinberg's tactical media bike is in the same family as the Institute for Applied Autonomy's GraffitiWriter and StreetWriter. This time around chalk (not paint) is used to leave messages in the vehicle's wake. If the plans for these projects go open souce, perhaps there will be entire fleets of tactical media solenoid machines built. (dreamy.)

also- reminds me of Hektor. if only in medium.

Reason Magazine's June issue is a print realization of parlor tricks more often found online. The cover of every magazine (circulation: 40,000) features the name of the subscriber and a satellite photo of her neighborhood with her home circled in red. Inside each issue, the editor’s note incorporates the recipient’s community demographic data, along with a street map of her neighborhood, and targeted advertisements (of course).

NPR Report, "Database Nation" and archived New York Times article, "Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover"

Images from Leah Beeferman's Drawn Circuits installation. And don't forget to check out Small Cities.

Genius Jones is an upscale toy store. They sell a Murakami Flower Ball.

Also available at retromodern.com, artbrat.com, and urbanpeel.com ($400!) who also sells the more affordable ($23) adorable Hug Salt and Pepper Shakers. hipster stores abound. These store seem to by hybrids of the MOMA and Giant Robot stores.

Another old linky from an unrealized project.

I spent a semester trying to flesh out a 3D adaptation of Flatland in Brown's immersive virtual reality Cave. One of the more delightful web pages we looked at was T. Banchoff and D. Cervone's Surfaces Beyond the Third Dimension. Lots of excellent 4D in 3D/2D illustrations, animations, and interactive applets. The torus looping in on itself is... excellent.

Other projects in the Cave: Cave Painting and Screen.

Went to the Met today. One of the current exhibits is "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates, Central Park, New York" (up through July 25). Beautiful mock ups by Christo and Jeanne-Claude of the public art installation planned for sixteen days in February 2005. The project was initiated in 1979 but wasn't given final approval until 2003. The Gates will consist of 7,500 saffron-colored gates placed at approx. twelve-foot intervals throughout twenty-three miles of pedestrian walkways in Central Park. The structures will vary between six and eighteen feet in width and will support seven foot high fabric panels. February was chosen to maximize the visibilty of the gates (as the trees will be naked).

You can apply for a temporary job installing The Gates, here. They're looking for installation, monitor, and removal crews. You must commit to working at least eight consecutive days between February 7 and March 15. You must also be able to do "demanding, outdoor, physical labor in winter and be able to lift, walk and carry thirty-seven pounds on uneven terrain."
Employee selection will be made in November. Workers will be paid $5.40/hour and receive one hot meal. Crew members must provide their own lodging, transportation and sufficient winter clothing to be prepared for possible frigid weather conditions. Crazy.

Also- their other upcoming project, Over The River, looks amazing.

write up from me later, for now here's text from the CAE Defense Fund website. Washington Post article here. TV segments availble for watching here.

June 2, 2004
ARTISTS SUBPOENAED IN USA PATRIOT ACT CASE
Feds STILL unable to distinguish art from bioterrorism
Grand jury to convene June 15

Three artists have been served subpoenas to appear before a federal grand jury that will consider bioterrorism charges against a university professor whose art involves the use of simple biology equipment.

The subpoenas are the latest installment in a bizarre investigation in which members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force have mistaken an art project for a biological weapons laboratory (see background below). While most observers have assumed that the Task Force would realize the absurd error of its initial investigation of Steve Kurtz, the subpoenas indicate that the feds have instead chosen to press their "case" against the baffled professor.

...

Early morning of May 11, Steve Kurtz awoke to find his wife, Hope, dead of a cardiac arrest. Kurtz called 911. The police arrived and, after stumbling across test tubes and petri dishes Kurtz was using in a current artwork, called in the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Soon agents from the Task Force and FBI detained Kurtz, cordoned off the entire block around his house, and later impounded Kurtz's computers, manuscripts, books, equipment, and even his wife's body for further analysis. The Buffalo Health Department condemned the house as a health risk.

Only after the Commissioner of Public Health for New York State had tested samples from the home and announced there was no public safety threat was Kurtz able to return home and recover his wife's body. Yet the FBI would not release the impounded materials, which included artwork for an upcoming exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

While most observers assumed the Task Force would realize that its initial investigation of Steve Kurtz was a terrible mistake, the subpoenas indicate that the feds have instead chosen to press their "case" against Kurtz and possibly others.

To donate to the CAE Defense Fund, and for up-to-date information on the case, please visit http://www.caedefensefund.org/

For more information on the Critical Art Ensemble, please visit http://www.critical-art.net/

saw some lovely (closing) shows in Chelsea yesterday.

Vik Muniz, Pictures of Magazines at Brent Sikkema. Hole-punched bits from magazines are reassembled as classic paintings and then photographed. Nice play of texture and volume, the large-scale reproductions brings out the moire in the magazine prints.

Do-Ho Suh, Paratrooper-I at Lehmann Maupin. Stunning. A paratrooper pulls in thousands of threads (close but not touching) extending from signatures stitched into a parachute.

Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks (thru June 27). beautiful larga scale photographs. Arena III is lovely, as are the images of cattle farms. I only wish these prints were of the dimension I saw at the Tate Modern.

Additional shows to catch soon:

• Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Soft Rains at Postmasters (thru June 12)
• Spencer Tunick, Public Works 2001-2004 at I-20 (thru June 19)
• Anish Kapoor at Barbara Gladstone Gallery (thru June 25)
• Michal Rovner, In stone at Pace Wildenstein (thru June 30)

• Site and Performance in the Digital Age, Public Talks at The Kitchen. 7pm. $12/each.
  • Wednesday, June 9 - Christo and Jeanne-Claude will discuss two works-in-progress: The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City, and Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River, State of Colorado See more about The Gates at this old post.
  • Tuesday, June 22 - Vito Acconci, Performing Architecture
• Thursday, June 24 - Ed Ruscha will speak at the Whitney in conjunction with the exhibitions Cotton Puffs, Q-tips®, Smoke and Mirros: the Drawings of Ed Ruscha and Ed Ruscha and Photography, 7pm, $8 or $6 for students

To visit:

• Interactions / Art and Technology at the American Museum of the Moving Image (thru July 18)
• Prix Selection at Eyebeam (thru July 18)
• American Pop at the Museum of Television and Radio (thru August 1)
• Treble at the SculptureCenter (thru August 1)

Off-site:
Kara Walker, Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: in Two Acts at the Fabric Workshop (thru August 1, Philadelphia, PA)

Missed:
Got to NYC a little too late. arg. P.S.1 - Leo Villareal: Supercluster, Jeppe Hein: Flying Cube, and Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective.

Beth will be in town today. And a couple things:

• The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum re-opens with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at noon on Saturday, June 12 as part of the Summer in Long Island City Opening Weekend.
• The 2nd Annual USA Air Guitar Championships will also occur on Saturday, June 12. $12 at the door or $10 if you buy a ticket ahead of time (you love it). Their web site has video of last year's Hello Kitty chestplate wearing world champion. (via Flavorpill)
• The latest issue of The Iowa Review Web includes Noah Wardrip-Fruin as a featured artist. Watch for photo and video documetation of Screen, as well as witty interview banter.

  There's also a review of Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency, by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala, which examines Text Rain by Camille Utterback.

I modified my entries to give all the SF events their own home. I'll be in California on Friday for my brother's high school graduation. Hopefully I'll catch some of these:

• Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant fame is publishing a new magazine, Swindle Quarterly. The kickoff party/art show will be at Club Six on Friday, June 11. $5 or free if you get there early and camp out.
• Pop_Remix at SF Camerawork features works by Cory Arcangel/BEIGE, Matthew Biederman, Anthony Discenza, RSG, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, and Paul Pfeiffer. (thru June 12)
• McSweeney's related:
  • Issue 13 is brilliant. It's edited by Chris Ware and features R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, Los Bros Hernandez, Adrian Tomine, Julie Doucet, and on and on. The issue also includes essays from Michael Chabon, Ira Glass, John Updike, Chip Kidd, and others. It's hardcover, clothbound, with a signature unbelievable fold-out Chris Ware dust jacket. The Release Celebration is on Sunday, June 13, at Mama Buzz Cafe in Oakland, CA. 5:00pm. Adrian Tomine and other contributors will be present and available for signing, smiling, and/or chitchat.
  
  
  • Our Insular Puerile World: Original Artwork from McSweeney's Issue No. 13 at Jack Hanley Gallery features works by Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Richard McGuire, Adrian Tomine, and others. (thru July 31)
  
  
  • Dave Eggers wrote a play! Sacrament! at Intersection for the Arts , Thursdays - Sundays, 8pm. $9-$15. (thru June 28)
  
  
  
  
• 2004 AVIT North America International VJ Conference and Visuals Festival will be holding events throughout San Francisco, June 10 - 12.
  Thursday, June 10, AVIT Theater, a perfomance by The Light Surgeons at the Academy of Art Auditorium, preceded by Scott Pagano (!!!) and Christopher Willits. 7:30pm. $10. (wish I could have gotten to SF a day earlier for that one, wharg)
  Friday, June 11, lightrhythm:R2, Lightrhythm is a new VJ label. They're having a release party for their 2nd DVD (of visuals prepackaged for projection in the clubs) at Cellspace. 8pm, $15
  Saturday, June 12. Workshops, including a MAX/MSP + Jitter workshop on building your own AV Instruments.
• Power Tool Drag Races, June 12 and 13 at the Ace International Speedway. Like Robot Wars, but different. QBOX also runs classes on topics like flame effects (Q and A on regulation of liquefied petroleum gas, propane properties, pipe and hose fittings, safe distance, correct types and uses of fire extinguishers, high volume techniques, etc.) SF Weekly article. (via Boing Boing)
  

Signal Orange is an effort to visually represent the number of American casualties in Iraq. One orange t-shirt will be distributed for each soldier - their names appear on the back, and reason of death printed on the front. A media savvy move for sure, as well as smart use of online networking. Will be interesting to see the results outside the Republican National Convention this fall.

"The goal of Signal Orange is to unveil the faces that the Bush Administration wants hidden--and to stop pretending that its actions in Iraq are inconsequential...Signal Orange doesn’t say that these soldiers or their families condemn or support the war, and it doesn’t speak for them. Whether they opposed or supported the war, they were fighting for our right to decide democratically whether a war is just or not. They’ve been buried twice--once in the ground, and once in the media."

(via Boing Boing)

EIGHT ARTISTS SUBPOENAED IN USA PATRIOT ACT CASE
The committee to organize CAE Defense is calling for a peaceful demonstration of support outside the Grand Jury hearings on the case of Steve Kurtz (CAE), beginning on June 15th.

WHEN: 9 AM, June 15, 2004
WHERE: Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York, near the courthouse

On May 30, members of the performance art collective Critical Art Ensemble were subpoenaed by the FBI. The FBI is planning to indict Steve Kurtz, a member of CAE before a grand jury on June 15, on unknown charges. CAE is under investigation for their use of scientific equipment to produce art projects that question the relationship between commerce, politics and biotechnology. Critical Art Ensemble have been producing performances and theory that merge political realities with technology and theater since 1987. Thus far eight subpoenas have been issued to: Adele Henderson, Chair of the Art Department at UB; Andrew Johnson, Professor of Art at UB; Paul Vanouse, Professor of Art at UB; Beatriz da Costa, Professor of Art at UCI; Steven Barnes, FSU; Dorian Burr, Beverly Schlee and Claire Pentecost.

Learn more at the CAE Defense Fund web site.

Have been settling into New York, but trips back to visit the family and brother's graduation have thrown the schedule a bit off kilter. Went to the Postmasters reception for A Perfect Day for Bananafish on Saturday. My favorite piece from the show was a series of prints from The McCoys' Soft Rains. Jacqueline is visiting from California. yay. We unsuccesfully tried to get rush tickets to Avenue Q.

Four really cool things I'm sad to miss this coming weekend:

• Privately Owned Public Spaces. Brendan and Patrick FitzGerald will perform walking tours in which they discuss New York City zoning laws intended to provide public space within privately owned developments and how/why the building owners often ignore them entirely. Saturday, June 26. Meet at Starbucks, 325 W. 49th St between 8th & 9th Ave. 2pm. (but! Additional tours will run on July 10 and 24 as part of Exit Art's public.exe.)


• Ted Leo at the Seaport Music Festival He is so great, and he puts on a good live show. His mouth opens very wide. There are test run mp3s available online if you want to make sure you like him first. (free!).


• Two Wednesday night readings: Robert Coover at Housingworks and comic (or graphic novel) all stars Adrian Tomine and Chester Brown at Barnes and Noble, Union Square.


• MoCCA Art Festival 2004 is still looking for volunteers for their award festival. Get free goods and maybe meet Neil Gaiman and other artists who you love.

My new obsession is finding books on the New York Public Library Online Catalog and reserving them. Have already read the (excellent) Blankets by Craig Thompson.

I really like Evah Fan's artwork. Reminds me a bit of kozyndan. (I guess it makes sense that they're both Giant Robot featured.

And two delightful (and expensive-ish) galleries/online shops based in Oregon: Motel Gallery, Just Be Design.

P.S.
The P.S.1 summer exhibitions are opening this Sunday, June 27. 12-6 pm. Look out for Hard Light, which includes Doug Aiken's video installation Interiors, and works by Peter Fischli/Weiss, Bruce Nauman, Chris Marker, and Ed Ruscha. Curious Crystal of Unusual Purity references the (trendy topic of) the cabinet of curiosities. 100 works by 35 artists. And an urban beach by n ARCHITECTS!

a couple new shows via Repellentzine

Vinyl Klash: An exhibition of work influenced by toys and toy culture thru July 18 at the Riviera. (Williamsburg, Brooklyn) The exhibition will consist of many hand painted toys, installations based on the process of toy design, silk screen posters and a rare set of Gold Plated & engraved Dunnies.

Riddle of the Sphinx
DEARRAINDROP @ Deitch Projects (18 Wooster Street) thru August 7, 2004.

Paola Pivi’s Untitled (Donkey), 2003, will come down on July 15. The 33' x 40' mural of a donkey standing in a rowboat was a welcome addition to the side of Brown's Science Library. I will miss it so.

Threadless has been around for a while. Some classy shirts for $15 - $18. Sign up to be a member, and you can submit your own designs for review, as well as vote on which designs get to go to print. hot.

Gary Taxali does some amazing illustration.

(via hot hot sites, Cool Hunting and SocialPest)

Vladimir is a twenty-six year old artist who sells handmade View Master ("Vladmaster") disks. Two favorites are the Franz Kafka Parable Set and the Italo Calvino Invisible Cities Set. Some of the imagery reminds me of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy's Soft Rains. (via Bookninja)

Greyworld has a new piece, rising eight stories high in the center of the London Stock Exchange. The Source consists of 162 cables, each with nine spheres that move freely up and down its length. The spheres fluctuate with the stock exchange, functioning as pixels rising and falling -- creating abstract shapes or legible messages. Reminds me a bit of the Swarovski chandelier.

Watch Video

(via Elastico.net)

Saturday night, I have a mission from Kelly, gonna help w/ this Creative Time project.

Popular military simulation games move out of game space and onto the streets of New York when Anne-Marie Schleiner and her team project the violent and realistic imagery of war onto building facades. Operation Urban Terrain (OUT) is a one-night live-action intervention of online military games played out in public spaces by art activists using high tech gear, strategy, and humor. The work will be presented in New York on August 28, on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

Schleiner and her cohort, clad in futuristic military garb designed by the artist, will be on the street carrying a projector and a laptop. They will be connected through a mobile wireless bicycle to an online team of five game players located in various global locations. The team intervenes on servers in a popular online military simulation game with performance actions—simulated grenade suicides, propaganda, playful and absurd dance performances. The revised game will be projected live onto city buildings, and they can be viewed at the sites or through web cams on the OUT website.

Chaise got written up in Rhizome Net Art News! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

< blurb >
Chaise Me If You Can
A group of students at Brown University has released the first issue of the biannual, free Chaise Magazine. Chaise, a compilation of audio clips, still photo slide shows, videos and interactive media, is a DVD. Because the curating of Chaise ends at selection, viewers have the freedom to chart their own course through the artworks. Reading a DVD is nothing like reading a magazine, though, and sometimes the effort of re-cycling back to the main menu to browse the next project is a confusing, albeit liberating, enterprise. By demanding full reader engagement in this way, Chaise both proscribes an art experience (no flipping through ads while watching tv) and demands respect. It's really more of a yearbook than a magazine, a resource for anyone interest in finding new artists to explore further. And with nearly fifty works in the first issue, it will keep you busy doing just that. The next installment is set for September/October 2004. Submission guidelines are available online. - Christine Smallwood
< / blurb >

Have been flooded by (mostly European) email. Chaise 2 is on its way. I can't wait. The submissions have been amazing so far. Maybe this extra publicity will help us find some last-minute delights.

Saturday night I was out and about with Creative Time helping with Anne-Marie Schleiner's Operation Urban Terrain performance art/tactical event. Anne-Marie and Elka were in cyberpunk style wear, black and skintight, strapped into support systems for their laptop/speakers and generator/projector. We hopped on a subway over to 5th Ave. Not too many strange looks. I guess the weekend before the RNC people weren't surprised.

After resurfacing, we walked a couple blocks and set up. Yury Gitman's magic bike provided a wireless connection. A crowd started gathering while we waited for other team members to join the first act.

One brief interaction:
"What are they playing?"
"It's a computer game called 'America's Army' that was released by the U.S. military."
"Get out of here."
"No, really."
"No."
"Yes."
"Why would they do that?"
"As a recruitment tool."
"Oh man, they got a taxi in there? That's not cool. I'm a cabbie. Those dickheads."
"Ok."

After having a close encounter with a late night garbage train, we made it up to 125th St. The crowd was definitely more active, taking pictures with the artists, shouting at the screen. As the combatants in the game created graffiti hearts via bullet holes on the game walls, the spectators yelled, "What are you doing? Shoot him! Shoot him!" At one point, Anne-Marie and Elka suddenly started heading down the street. We picked up our gear and followed them, not sure what was happening. They started projecting the game onto passing cars, up onto the side of apartment buildings. Just before the end of the performance, a group of kids passed through. Two of the boys jumped in front of the screen and alternated shaking as if getting riddled by bullets and standing boldly, "c'mon shoot me!" super macho. They threw themselves against the storefront's closed gate, shaking the metal and adding to the war noise.

Last location of the night was the most scenic. Right under the Manhattan Bridge. Lovely. Kelly told us about her experience playing America's Army while prepping for the event. After attempting to pass through the several levels of training necessary before you're allowed to join the online play, she gave up. Apparently, the game defaults to the same audio/text cues whenever you make an error "That might be your way, but that's not the army way!" with no indication as to what, exactly, is the proper action.

Ack. back after a 2+ week hiatus. work has been overwhelming, even though it seems nothing has been completed. here's a quick update on things i'd like to check out. (fresh air every once in a while could be good)

Also- I have been obliterated by porn/poker/pharmaceutical spam on my comments pages. So that option will be eliminated. sad. just email me if you want to say hi.

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Chromophilia: An Exploration of a Few Corners of the Visible Spectrum
Saturday, October 23, 2-4 pm
at P.S.1

On Saturday, 23 October 2004 Cabinet presents "Chromophilia," an event based in part on Cabinet's ongoing Colors column. A mix of readings, audio-visual presentations, and chromatically interesting food experiences will be capped off with the first-ever mass adminitration of the Luscher Color Test.

Participants include Jonathan Ames (novelist and story-teller), Andrea Codrington (independent cultural critic), Tim Griffin (editor-in-chief of Artfirum), Frances Richard (a member of Cabinet's editorial team), and Albert Mobilio (poet and fiction editor at Bookforum).

Admission to the event is free, although an entrace fee may be charged to enter PS1. According to the PS1 website, "Admission is a $5.00 suggested donation $2.00 for students and seniors members free. Museum admission is free from noon - 2pm."

note: yes, leahpod is helping out with this one, and it will be amazing.

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Michael Najjar - netropolis
September 17 - October 30, 2004
at Bitforms

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Workspace Projects
at the Chelsea Art Museum
October 23 - November 06

Opening Presentation: Saturday October 23, 3-5pm
Jeff Carey will perform with "Vector" a 5.1 spatialized environment using FFT Analysis of field recordings made in the natural and urban environments in Singapore and Malaysia. Cory Arcangel will discuss new work and collaborations including "Pizza Party", TACcompression, Super Slow Tetris, and Hall and Oates.

Artist Presentation: Saturday, November 6th, 3-5pm
Keiko Uenishi "Che Shire" – Sound Movement Composition Tool, pre-beta v.0.3 (work-in-progress)is a composition/demonstration/performance for multi-speakers." Abigail Child will show THE FUTURE IS BEHIND YOU a film that creates a fictional story composed from a found family archive from 1930s Europe.

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A Small Look at Giganticism
September 16 - November 06, 2004
at gigantic artspace

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Adaptive Behavior
September 18 - November 13, 2004
at the New Museum

Realization of a hypothetical idea. What happens if you rotoscope a walk cycle, use the outlines to create stencils/posters, place them around town, and then photograph the images for a new time-lapse? Watch and enjoy. Shown as part of a presentation about space, location, and art by Timo Arnall at Design Engaged 2004. (via plasticbag.org)

The music is entertaining too. The horizontal-scroll layout of frame-by-frame reminds me of Zachary Lieberman's video text experiment.

Wok Media Collective has some sexy products/projects. Favorites include beaker of water as light fixture, Flood, and fan controlled by mini-fan, Blow. (via we-make-money-not-art.com)

They also worked with Swarovski to document their techy SMS chandelier, Lolita by Wolfgang Kaeppner. (as seen in this old post)

Haven't tested this personally. CarbonFour.com has a tutorial on laserjet printer transfers. If this works, it's a nice alternative to the inkjet t-shirt transfers available in stores - those require either pain in the butt cutting out of all your details, or a semi-shiny film left in your transparent areas. Wintergreen oil is used to transfer ink from laserjet prints to paper, wood, and cloth. Glass, metal, and plastic don't work. He also has nice notes like "I have been told that wintergreen oil is a neurotoxin so use it in a well ventilated area." (via ELASTICLIMIT)

One of my favorite artists, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is speaking in New York this week! The talk is titled "Antimonuments: Performative Self-Repair for Public Spaces". There you go. Here's the blurb:

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, an internationally renowned Mexican-Canadian artist, creates interactive public art works that explore the intersection between new technologies, public space and performance art. Using robotics, tracking systems, online interfaces, high-power projectors and other media, Lozano-Hemmer's work transforms space into a vehicle to study the distance between people and urban representation.

Lozano-Hemmer will discuss the most recent additions to his "Relational Architecture" series, a group of large scale interactive public works commissioned for London, Tokyo, Toronto, and Cologne, as well as newer works for exhibition spaces. These include FREQUENCY AND VOLUME, 800 square metres of projected shadows which allow participants to scan the radio spectrum of the city with their bodies; and STANDARDS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS, an interactive installation that consists of fifty fastened belts that are suspended at waist height from the ceiling. Controlled by a computerized tracking system, the belts rotate automatically to follow the public, turning their buckles slowly to face passers-by.

Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Multipurpose Room at Pace University, 3 Spruce Street
Contact: More information about this event and registration is available here.
Admission: $5; free for Pace students.

Both Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts and the Multi Purpose Room can be found by entering on Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street, just east of City Hall Park.

Good show at Feigen Contemporary. Lars Arrhenius is a cross between Chris Ware and Julian Opie. (Note: Opie has fourteen sculptures up at City Hall Park through October 2005, yay Public Art Fund) Wall size diagrams outline possible outcomes of an afternoon walk or a dreary business career. The use of successive panels to tell a story highlight the repetition that occurs on a given week or an urban block. The best is The Street, and obsessivly detailed animation of vector city dwellers going through their 24-hour day on infinite loop. Also- the website has a small quicktime taste, but it's nowhere near as good as seeing it in the gallery.

October 28 - December 23, 2004
535 W. 20th Street.

Very exciting. Janet Cardiff and Pierre Huyghe will be speaking soon. 6:30pm at The New School, 66 West 12th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues). $5 general admission, $3 members of the Public Art Fund and seniors, FREE to all students with valid ID. Reservations in advance recommended. More information here.

Janet Cardiff - November 30
Pierre Huyghe - December 7

Blurbs from site:
Janet Cardiff is perhaps best known for her signature audio walks, which she has made in London, Florence, San Francisco, St. Louis, and elsewhere. Her gallery installations--often made with George Bures Miller, Cardiff's husband and artistic collaborator--use the narrative and technical language of film noir to create lush, suspenseful sound and video works.

Pierre Huyghe has gained international prominence for creating a diverse body of work that explores the structures of popular culture in everyday life. Huyghe utilizes film, video, sound, animation, sculpture, and architecture to investigate the borders between fiction and reality and memory and history. His projects employ a diverse range of references including nineteenth-century utopian social projects, Hollywood films, contemporary fiction, and romantic landscape painting.

"At the Parsons Table"
Frank Gehry in conversation with Paul Goldberger

66 W. 12th St. Tishman Auditorium
Mon, Nov 29
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Open to All
University Price: $15.00   Public Price: $15.00

Dean Paul Goldberger leads a lively dialogue with legendary architect Frank Gehry.

FREE tickets are availabe to Parsons community (students, alumni, faculty, and staff, with ID, one per person) beginning November 1 at the NSU Box Office.

General admission price is $15.
ADVANCE TICKETING IS STRONGLY ADVISED.
Box Office is open M-Th 1p-8p; Fri 1p-7p.
Tel 212.229.5488

Doors open at 6pm, lecture begins at 6:30pm.

SFist has pretty good coverage of the Chris Cobb's installation, There Is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World, at Adobe Books in San Francisco's Mission District. All of the books have been rearranged by color. Strangely, peterme.com posted a story on the exact same thing on the same day. Except his was about a personal bookshelf rearranged by a bored girlfriend. Same effect, smaller scale. Still strangely usable.

Tried doing this with our own DVD collection and a friend's. All I can say is, a lot of DVDs have black packaging. Over half of them.

Another stunning color oriented project: Carpark (1994) by Nina Katchadourian, Steven Matheson, and Mark Tribe.

It's been a while since I took a day off and went to the galleries. What was I thinking? Arg.... must remember to stop working, unchain self from computer, and go out once in a while. Unless otherwise noted, gallery hours are tuesday - saturday, 10am - 6pm

Ben Rubin and Tatsuo Miyajima - Sign Language
November 5 - December 18, 2004
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 601 W. 26th St., Suite 1240, b/w 11th and 12th Ave.
tuesday - saturday, 11am - 6pm

Paul Pfeiffer - Pirate Jenny
November 6 - December 18, 2004
Gagosian Gallery, 555 W. 24th St.
The Project Gallery, 37 W. 57th St., 3rd Floor

Jennifer Bolande
November 6 - December 22, 2004
Alexander and Bonin, 132 Tenth Ave., b/w 18th and 19th

Peter Campus - time’s friction: Recent Video Works
October 28 - December 22, 2004
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 535 W. 22nd St.

Benjamin Edwards, Automatic City
November 4 - December 30, 2004
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 730 5th Ave. at 57th St.

Music/Video
October 20 - December 31, 2004
Bronx Museum of the Arts

wednesday: 12:00pm - 9:00pm, thursday - sunday: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
$5 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens, free wednesdays

Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium
November 18, 2004 - March 6, 2005
Small: The Object in Film, Video, and Slide Installation
November 18, 2004 - February 6, 2005
Whitney Museum of American Art

wednesday - thursday: 11am - 6pm, friday: 1pm - 9pm (6pm - 9pm pay what you wish), saturday - sunday: 11am - 6 pm
$12 for adults, $9.50 for students and senior citizens

William Kentridge
November 12, 2004 - April 10, 2005
Metropolitan Museum of Art

sunday, tuesdays - thursday: 9:30am - 5:30pm, friday - saturday: 9:30am - 9:00pm
$12.00 suggested for adults, $7.00 suggested for students and senior citizens