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

Parsons Graduate Open Studio
Thu, Dec 2
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Parsons Graduate programs: Architecture, Design & Technology, Fine Arts, History of Decorative Arts and Design, Lighting, and Photography open their doors for prospective students to learn more about their offerings.
Open to All, Free

Locations:
Architecture - 25 E 13 St, 2nd Fl.
Design & Technology - 55 W 13 St, 9th Fl.
Fine Arts - 25 E 13 St, 5th Fl.
History of Decorative Arts and Design - 2 E 91 St
Lighting - 25 E 13 St, 3rd Fl.
Photography - 66 5 Ave, 3rd Fl.

Mixed Messages 2004
Fri., Dec. 10
7:00 p.m.

The New School Department of Media Studies and Film presents the 8th Annual Media Studies Graduate Showcase. An evening of outstanding graduate student works selected by a panel of distinguished jurors, Mixed Messages celebrates the Media Studies Programs focus on theory, design and practice across media. Hosted by Laurie Anderson, performance artist and musician.
Free admission, no reservations required. For more information call (212) 229-8903.

Columbia MFA OPEN STUDIO
Sunday, Dec 19, 2004
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The Visual Arts Division MFA students open their studios to the Columbia and New York community. Students present and discuss their work in an informal setting to the public.

3-4:30p Studebaker Building 615 W. 131st Street, west of Broadway, 3rd floor
4-5:30p Prentis Hall 632 W. 125th Street. west of Broadway, 3rd floor
5-6:30p Watson Hall 612 W. 115th Street, west of Broadway, floors 2,3 and 5

ITP Winter Show 2004
Sunday, December 19 from 2 - 6pm
Monday, December 20 from 5 - 9pm

Location: ITP, 721 Broadway, 4th Floor

A two day explosion of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at ITP.

The posts have become increasingly NYC-focused as of late. Going to try to curb that urge, or at least balance it. This one is part of the Open Source Culture lecture series at Columbia. Best part - there's a streaming video archive of all the artist talks for this series and the previous one. Finally. We have the technology!

"How To Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit"
A Lecture by Jon Ippolito

Thursday, December 2
6:00 PM
702 Hamilton Hall
Columbia University
116th and Broadway
New York City

The NYTimes has a slideshow of Hiroshi Sugimoto's Mathematical Forms series - portraits of stereometric models. (More fascinating mathematical visualizations at Banchoff and Cervone's Surfaces Beyond the Third Dimension web site - though these 4D CG visuals are nowhere near as stately).

Requires registration or use bugmenot.com. (via elastico.net)

More on Sugimoto: his other works include long-exposure photographs of wax models, seascapes, and (my favorite) empty movie theaters and drive-ins. Eyestorm has a good interview with him, as well as a book of Sugimoto's 'Theater' series for sale (which, if you're lucky, you can get for $1,250+ on ebay). Here are notes from the page:

This book is the first-ever collection of Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'Theater' photographs. To create each image, Sugimoto would take a long-exposure photograph of a cinema screen for the entire duration of a movie, resulting in a blank white screen. 'Different movies give different brightnesses,' he said. 'If it's an optimistic story, I usually end up with a bright screen; if it's a sad story, it's a dark screen. Occult movie? Very dark.' The project was partly the result of wanting to make a simple form visible: 'The simplest forms have authority, like a blank white light. And how do you photograph that? You need a framework to make it visible. But this is not simply white light; it is the result of too much information.'

Peter Gibson aka Roadsworth creates clever street tweaks all over Montreal, Canada. He was recently arrested and charged with eighty-five counts of criminal mischief, computer and equipment confiscated from his home, the whole deal. View some of his work at Wooster Collective here, here, here, and here.

Free Roadsworth info here, as well as excellent photostream.

(via sensoryimpact.com)

Nicholas di Genova and Sean McCarthy at Fredericks Freiser.
February 12 - April 2, 2005

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt's excellent animation film festival is back! Wahoo! The Animation Show is touring. Screenings start in New York on March 11th at Cinema Village (2nd and 12th).

This year's lineup includes Hertzfeldt's new baby The Meaning of Life, the super short and satisfying Fireworks by PES, and oldie but goodie When the Day Breaks.

Check if the show will be in a theater near you or join the mailing list here.

Butterfly Sculpture poster by design duo, Agathe Jacquillat & Tomi Vollauschek.
feels a bit like Fireworks and Kaboom by PES (featured in the Animation Show below)

(via Sensory Impact)

While subethaediting with Jonathan, we found a random link on rhizome.org:

Eyes of Laura surveillance web cam and street culture blog
"Hello, I am Laura, a security guard at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Through work, I have access to a lot of security cameras. I hacked a way to put one of these online on my Website so you can see it and control it. I love surveillance and keep a web journal or blog of what I see and put up video and images of things that happen."

sounds creepy. go to the link and... WAIT.
IS THAT JANET CARDIFF'S VOICE??

a quick nerdy look at the source code uncovers her name in the keyword metatags, and a google search reveals Cardiff's first(?) web foray, which will unfold over the next eight months.

AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shockheaded Peter is playing in New York!!!! SO EXCITING! The play (musical!) consists of dark/hilarious vignettes from The Struwwelpeter (along the lines of the The Gashlycrumb Tinies). Favorites include Pauline who plays with matches, the huntsman (hunted by the hare marionette style), fidgety Philip, Augustus who refuses soup and wastes away to nothing, and Conrad who won't stop sucking his thumb (Shockheaded Peter cuts his thumbs off).

From the site:
"In the spirit of Tim Burton and Edward Gorey comes this hilariously gruesome and wildly acclaimed musical staging of a classic 19th Century picture book. Deliciously morbid, occasionally chilling, and entirely unique, Shockheaded Peter illuminates a series of cautionary tales about a horrible cast of disobedient children with a whimsical combination of grand guignol, puppetry, and Victorian melodrama."

Camille won the transmediale.05 award!!!!

Looks like I just missed the Cold Front show by Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz at PPOW.

On Lisa Rein's Radar: A Pair Of Funnies On "The Gates" - Courtesy Of The Daily Show

Favorite moment: Stephen Colbert on an installation artist wrapping a sandwich "until... he had visually achieved... 'not sandwich'"

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NextBus

Maybe it's the programmer in me, but the Pace Wildenstein Logical Conclusions show is getting me off my butt and over to Chelsea. Saturday is the closing date for the show - fifty plus works of rule-based art (using "objective systems to explore the complex and chaotic realms of the subjective" haha.)

Very exciting - Michal Rovner: Data Zone from the 2003 Venice Biennale (which I've only seen in pictures) will be there. Sol LeWitt, Jenny Holzer, Paul Pfeiffer and Tom Friedman too.

While out west, will probably catch the Diana Cooper: Swarm at Postmasters, Cao Fei: COSPlayers at Lombard-Freid, Nicholas Di Genova and Sean McCarthy at Fredericks Freiser, Aziz + Cucher and other artists-in-residence in Remapped Realities at Eyebeam, Marjetica Potrc: Drawing Cities at Max Protetch, and Casey Reas at bitforms. Wahoo!

Further north (save for later): Yeondoo Jung's Wonderland at Tina Kim

Over a year in the making, Chaise Two will be released on May 6, 2005. Chaise is a DVD magazine that features films, music, books, interactive artwork, performances, and everything in between. You can get a copy free by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope.

The website has had a complete overhaul, new goodies include a hands on section with tutorials, a mini interactive gallery, downloadable selections from the print & click sitting and the Chaise Two trailer.

Can't wait for the Release Party - music and visuals at 8pm. Entry is $5 and includes a complimentary copy of Chaise Magazine Issue Two. at Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.

Free Mondays! Two free NYC goodies on June 27, 2005 (or, perhaps more accurately, free for those who can afford to show up an hour or two early and wait in line for seats).

• Stella Pre-Premiere at Anthology Film Archives, 7pm. A special pre-premiere screening of a full episode of Stella followed by a screening of Wet Hot American Summer. Post Show Q&A with Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, and David Wain. And free beer provided by Grolsch - could you ask for more? Tickets are free and will be available at the Anthology Film Archives box office starting 6 p.m. Monday night... my guess is a line will start forming around 3pm.
• The Public Art Fund is presenting 9 Drawings for Projection, an outdoor performance and screening of William Kentridge's films with live music (presented chronologically and in 35mm!). Begins at 9pm at the Central Park Bandshell (mid-park just south of the 72nd Street Transverse).

  
  

  William Kentridge Automatic Writing (2003)
  

I love José Damasceno's installations. Along the lines of Tim Hawkinson and Tom Friedman, Brazil-based Damasceno uses hammers, chess pieces, erasers, pencils, and other familiar objects to create hybrids of sculpture and wall drawings.

El Siguiente Presagio/The Next Omen (Experiment on the Visibility of a Dynamic Substance) (1997) at the Tate Modern
The silhouette of a man floats behind a plate glass window. The empty suit is suspended by several yards of rope, strung from wall to wall and spewing out of the arms onto the floor. I love the visual cones created by each leg and the neck collar.

installation and close-up views of Trilha Sonora II/Soundtrack II (2002) at the 25th São Paulo Biennial, a wallscape created from many hammers

Observation Plan (2004) on MCA Chicago's second-floor lobby wall
Approximately 30,000 no. 2 pencils depict several figures looking at bare rectangles (being a nerd, I first assumed they were screens and not paintings/drawings, ha!).

Durante o Caminho Vertical (2001) and Organograma (2005) at the 51st Venice Biennale
28 floor-to-ceiling columns made from phone-book pages and the words 'ieri', 'oggi', and 'domani' (yesterday, today, tomorrow) branch across a wall.

Professor Obsessive and His Two Compulsions, Janet Zweig
What a great combination of sculpture and animation! Zweig uses a train station sign mechanism to animate flipbook style loops. A larger version is in the works for the Indianapolis Airport. Two signs will be installed in the baggage claim area and display ten different loops of people and their baggage. I love the potential for animating different combinations of flap sequences to create tiny stories. Make sure to watch the video - the best part is the sound.

janetzweig.com

Tiny Showcase produces limited edition tiny artwork prints by a new artist every week. The artwork is always lovely, and ridiculously affordable at $20. A percentage of the money from each print sold is donated to a charity chosen by the artist, as well as the artist herself and Tiny Showcase to help cover shipping/etc. costs. The print runs usually sell out within a couple days, so sign up for their mailing list or check back every Friday/Saturday.

Marshmallow Heaven" by Allison Cole

Oh wow. Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are going to have one of their installations at Sundance! Our Second Date is featured in the 'Frontier Live' session. From the Sundance announcements: "The McCoy's latest installation is a miniature movie set gearred for live robotic cinema that puts the production, post-production, and exhibition of a film all in one room." (via the IFC Blog)

They also have a show coming up at Postmasters, March 4 - April 9. Hooray!

One last bit of good news. They have started documenting all of their projects on Flickr! Check out these fantastic mccoyspace photos.

Two shows from last summer I enjoyed --

Nicola López at Caren Golden. López creates wonderful inks/collage supercities that spread across the walls and down from the ceilings.

Andre von Morisse at McKenzie Fine Art. Von Morisse paints fantastic alternate futures in grisaille oil and then photographs them to create large prints. By blowing up 8''x8'' originals into 42"x41" prints, the image looks like out of focus real documentation. Or, as the curator put it, "The resulting soft-focus, selenium-toned silver gelatin prints recontextualize the painted images into the often unquestioned realm of photographic truth." Ha.

Benjamin Edwards has been blogged here before, but I didn't know bout his personal website at the time. There's lots of great documentation of his mammoth architectural/mapping painting/icon hybrids. It's also nice to see an artist have documentation of works in a series, as well as the development of art series through multiple years.

And! He's also looking for an artist assistant! If only I were in the DC area.

Photographing miniatures and models seems to be the all the rage. Here's some selects to start off the year of the diorama.

minimiam - Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle photograph miniatures among food stuffs. Their sets pair each macro shot with a reveal. Series include Sports and War. Their website is a bit difficult to work through in a Flash-navigation sort of way (also, it's in French, but the Flash is more of an issue), but some nice big pictures/documentation make it all worthwhile.

Les Intrus, from the Guerre series

Le Predateur from the Primeurs series

Lori Nix has a specific interest in the disaster movies of the 1970s and her memories of growing up in Kansas. My favorite is the still below.

Plane, from the Accidentally Kansas series

Walter Martin & Paloma Muñoz create snowglobes with eery scenes. They're also the artists who created A Gathering, the public art installation in the Canal Street A/C/E subway stop (it's the one with the bronze birds sitting about the station).

Cold Front, 2004

TRAVELER 51 AT NIGHT, 2003 and TRAVELER 53 AT NIGHT, 2003

and there's more!

Audrey Heller has prints for sale ($75 and up) of more food/play. My old favorites The McCoys are making more miniatures-meet-cinema installations (and have a new show opening in March, as well as an appearance at Sundance). Vladimir is still making and selling handmade View Master ("Vladmaster") disks.

Toast in the Sky, Revolucion 2006, and Whale 2006, Trish Grantham

"Trish Grantham carefully layers antique papers to prepare a background for paintings that draw on the anime culture. In addition to wide-eyed human and animal characters, birds and sad pieces of toast people Grantham's multi-media works. A combination of cute and dark, Grantham's paintings mix up vintage looks with comic book fantasy in a range of soft aquas and straw browns." via Art MoCo

Trish Grantham at Museum Works Galleries
January 13 to February 26, 2006
511 West 25th Street, Suite 406
New York City, NY

A quick trip through ArtCal yields some neighborhood shows I'd like to hit up before closing time.

Structuring Perception at NURTUREart
475 Keap Street, Nov. 4, 2005 - Jan. 15, 2006

A group exhibition in which the artists translate their perception of the built environment into objects that have a physical impact on the viewer.

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga at Momenta Art
72 Berry Street, Dec. 9, 2005 - Jan. 23, 2006

Drawing from public text submissions to an online repository of personal perspectives on Nicaragua, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga constructs a revisionist history portraying the ebb and flow of Latin American Marxist revolution. At a time when the U.S. government considers possible flaws in its current interventionist strategies, and as South American socialist leaders challenge U.S. policy, the installation FALLOUT: What's Left collapses the past with the present in an attempt to rattle the U.S.'s media amnesia. The installation will feature propaganda posters commissioned for the installation from four designers: Isabel Chang, Enrique Sacasa, Ed Adams, and David Ulrich; a new video game by the artist "Always Go Left;" a mini FM public radio station, and free Skype sessions during the holiday season for migrants separated from family.

Cheryl Molnar, The Life and Death of a City at McCaig-Welles
129 Roebling Street, Suite B, Jan. 6 - Jan. 26, 2006

In her recent paintings and works on paper, Cheryl Molnar captures through the use of found materials the rapidly changing Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfront and surrounding neighborhood. Her found materials include paper -- related mimeographed blueprints, engineering plans, and diagrams as well as documents from her own personal history --and cardboard collected from solitary walks that explore Brooklyn's few remaining industrial neighborhoods. Collaging and often staining these materials with oil paint, she documents her vision of Brooklyn's past, present and future urban landscape.

Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan at Pierogi 2000
177 North 9th Street, Dec. 31, 2005 - Jan. 31, 2006

Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan are Dewanatron -- a collaborative team who make hand-crafted, semi-automatic, electronic musical instruments. This exhibition will feature 12 wall-mounted, analog, solid-state instruments that produce occasional electronic utterances at ever-shifting intervals of time. Also included in the show are parlor and concert instruments such as the Swarmatron and the Dual Primate Console. Visitors will be able to play the Coin-Op Melody Gin, an arcade instrument in which 25 cents buys the customer a four-minute electronic music-making-odyssey with knobs and toggle switches.

Too Art for TV! at Stay Gold
451 Grand Street, Jan. 13 - Feb. 13, 2006

Artists in the industry must be the best draftsmen and painters that art schools produce, yet their careers leave little time for individual creativity. Too Art for TV! pools together the toys, prints, drawings, paintings, and comics of a talented workforce breaking free. Featuring the artists that bring to life beloved cartoons such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Fox Network), Code Name: Kids Next Door (Cartoon Network), Stanley (Disney TV), Venture Brothers (Adult Swim), Daria (MTV Animation), Blue's Clues (Nick JR), and more.

Superlowrez at Vertexlist
138 Bayard Street, between Graham and Manhattan, Dec. 17, 2005 - Mar. 14, 2006

Superlowrez is an experiment in re-visiting a historically significant moment when pixel and bitmap were in their infancy.

Wahoo! Scott Snibbe is speaking at the jihui salon this month.

Scott Snibbe presents recent works that explore interaction between cinematic projections and viewers’ bodies along with his most recent work, Blow Up, which amplifies human breath as a large field of wind. He discusses the philosophical divide between language and visceral perception that motivates his creation of interactive media art. Working with technologies at the forefront of contemporary research including computer vision and synthetic touch, Snibbe explores how a minimal intrusion of technology can provide insight into the nature of observer's minds and their sense of self. Works shown will range from large-scale body-centric physical installations to interactive sculpture and screen- and web-based interactive graphics.

Friday, February 24, 2006 @ 6:00 pm
Body, Space and Cinema

jihui - Digital Salon
Chelsea Art Museum, 3rd fl.
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011

I found Andrea Offerman's website through Tiny Showcase. Pink Elephants, the super intricate piece she did for their website, is available as a slightly larger (and slightly more expensive) 7" x 9" signed digital print! $30 w/ free s/h.

Also available are limited edition etchings. The Magellen series is particularly fantastic. If only I had $1,500 for artwork.

Whew, now that the video is done (check back soon for a posting) I've got a bit of time to run over to Chelsea for a few shows. Very excited for these...

Nicola López, OverGrowth at Caren Golden Fine Art
539 West 23rd Street
September 7 - October 14, 2006

I really loved López's Vertigo show last year. Reminds me a bit of Julie Mehretu and Leah Beeferman. Looking forward to more installation work dripping down from the ceiling.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Bitforms
529 West 20th Street, 2nd Floor
September 15 - October 21, 2006

Also am excited for Standards and Double Standards. I really like the sounds of the motors whirrring as the belts turn to face you. I'd give a kidney to see Body Movies or Under Scan in person.

Jim Campbell, 4300 watts at Hosfelt Gallery
531 West 36th Street
September 16 - October 28, 2006

New work from Jim Campbell! I like the look of Untitled (Home Movie 1), with the pixel grid in front of the image, and the image created from the reflected bounced light rather than a screen directed at you...

Leah sent this awesome YouTube demonstration of a Ruben's Tube. Take some perforated pipe and add propane, speakers, and a lighter. When there's no signal, the gas jets are fairly uniform in height, but put a signal through those speakers and you get your own flaming oscilliscope!

While surfing around, I found a couple other neato physics demonstration links. Oscillation and Wave Demonstrations from Idaho State University (plus more on topics like thermodynamics, magnetism, and optics). Also- hoot tubes and singing rods from The Science House.

The Ruben's Tube madness also reminded me of Douglas Henderson's FANTASTIC piece which was at BAPLab this summer. Henderson pumps an original sound composition through speakers sitting face-up and filled with water. Cool Hunting/Missing Pieces documented it in their video podcast's BAPLab Episode. Definetely worth taking the jump to see those low frequency waves in motion. (Jamie Burkart's Time is Long is also great!)

Douglas Henderson, Untitled 2004
A sound sculpture that doesn't really make any noise. A line of four 12” woofers painted swimming-pool turquoise point upward and are filled with water. A 79 minute composition of low frequency sine tones drives them via high-powered audio amplifiers. Patterns generated by the combinations of sound frequencies develop on the surface of the water, making static and moving shapes from fine stars to the coarse chop of a pool, to small storms hurling drops into the air. Most of the sound is inaudible -- it is music made to be seen, not heard.

Picked up a great artbook at Cinders Gallery today.

A Great Big Stillness
by Justin B.Williams and Luke Ramsey
Islands Fold Book Two ISBN-0-9781394-1-0
Full color offset, 20 pages plus cover. 5.25 x 7in

A Great Big Stillness is the second collaborative project by Luke and Justin. The gouache and watercolor paintings for this book were created during Justin's Islands Fold residency. Available for $7 from Islands Fold.

Also check out --
Justin B.Williams at Motel Gallery
Luke Ramsey website
Luke Ramsey Interview

Robert Wechsler makes playful sculptures that remind me of Tim Hawkinson and Tom Friedman. I hope he shows in New York soon... Beast (toy) and Harness are wonderful, but my favorite is Everything is coming up roses.

Below is a picture of my recently received Beast toy, a delightful chicken skin color.

Haven't made it out to the galleries in a bit. Went on an ArtCal binge. I'm excited to check out some of these...

Anthony McCall - Between You and I (2006) and Long Film for Four Projectors (1974)

I've never seen McCall’s work in person, but freaked out the first time I saw documentation of the lovely formalist film-meets-sculpture Line Describing a Cone and Long Film for Four Projectors. I was also interested to see his recent work lists materials as "computer file, digital projector" rather than "16mm film". The gallery has some images here.

Anthony McCall at Sean Kelly Gallery
February 2 - March 17, 2007
528 West 29th Street
Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 6pm and Saturday, 10am - 6pm

Michael Schall - Big (2005)

Michael Schall's graphite works blow me away every time. Can't wait to see the new work!

Michael Schall at Pierogi 2000
February 9 - March 12, 2007
177 N. 9th St. (Brooklyn)
Opening: Friday, February 9, 7pm - 9pm

Brian Knep - Drift (2004)

I had the chance to Drift and some of Brian's other work at Siggraph a couple years ago. I love the closed-circuit system that is algorithmic/procedural and organic/random. Watch a twenty-second preview here.

Brian Knep at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
February 10 - March 10, 2007
31 Mercer Street
Opening: Saturday, February 10, 6pm - 8pm

Also--

International Flipbook Festival at Secret Project Robot (through Feb. 11)
Andrew Krieger at 511 Gallery (through Feb. 17)
Kevin Cooley at Massimo Audiello (through Feb. 17)
Mark Esper at Dam, Stuhltrager (through Feb. 18)
Networked Nature at Foxy Productions (through Feb. 18)
Move#15 "These Bagels Are Gnarly" at Cinders Gallery (through Feb. 18)
New Prints 2007/Winter at International Print Center NY (through Feb. 24)

Michael Velliquette at DCKT Contemporary (Opens Feb. 8, 6pm-8pm)
Iter-iter-ation at Nurture Art (Opens Feb. 8, 6pm-9pm)
Megan Pflug at V&A (Opens Feb. 9, 6pm-8pm)
The Building Show at Exit Art (Opens Feb. 17, 7pm-10pm)

Michael Velliquente - The Intuitive Jungle (2006)

Thought I'd get one with some color in there. Ha ha. Reminds me of Jen Stark.