Construction sites

Here are some photos from Roberta Fallon's Flickr page of an affair inside a building that is being remodeled to become the Please Touch Museum.







This is relevant to my interests!

Graduation

At the Frank Gary Auditorium.



Liz and me afterwards.

Jeff Koons and Jerry Saltz spoke.

Eduardo Kac and Will Wright

"The Eighth Day," by Eduardo Kac, 2001


Creature Creator for Spore, by Will Wright, 2008

Homaro Cantu and Felix Gonzalez- Torres

Homaru Cantu with his inkjet printed sushi



Untitled, (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), by Felix Gonzalez- Torres, 1991

Cute Cat Theory

"Do Robotic Cats Dream of Electric Fish?" by France Cadet, 2007

IX, by H3X3N

Deadtech.net, H3x3n.net



Tonight Dain and I are going to see Jon Cates' show at Dead Tech. Maybe Dan Roe will come along too.

Gold Farmers

Gold Farmers is a documentary about gold farmers, by Ge Jin. It is part of the HOMO LUDENS LUDENS exhibition at LABoral, in Gijon.

Here is an interview with Ge Jin @ wemakemoneynotart.com.

"LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents HOMO LUDENS LUDENS, an international exhibition and conference examining play as a principal element of today’ s world, and highlighting its necessity for our contemporary societies."

Sarah Oppenheimer's Folding Catalog

@ the Berlin based DUVE Gallery, Next Fair Chicago, 2008
photo by Pablo Gaviria,
artist's website.

Sara Oppenheimer displays catalogs of different ways which she has observed people folding their newspapers. When the information meets, one side of the paper to the next, new articles are formulated. It is a brief meeting of information, and each new article is secret. If the fold is undone, the new text is destroyed. There is no way to read the remix. All we can tell of the text is the way it was created.


link.

Ant Bear

"Ant Bear," by Santiago Ortiz

Feed Me

"Feed Me", a part of the series "autoerotic," by Dane Watkins

call for curators in residence

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial

Ara araraura

left

Mobile Painting, "Ara araraura," by Magdalena Fernandez, 2008
a short video clip

Poster for the Internet and Google Street View Painting

"Poster for the Internet," Grumbacher watercolor, graphite and ball-point pen on Arches, 23 by 31cm, 2007



"The Void," a glitch in Google Maps, Street View, Grumbacher watercolor and graphite, on Canson, 15 by 20 in, 2007
inspired by the web paintings of Valery Grancher

Jens Haaning and Miltos Manetas

Unfinished homepage address on Certificate. On the certificate the following text is written:
"Certificate
http://www........................com
Jens Haaning
To see the internet only as a extension of the possibility of communication is an extreme oversimplification, seen from an Existential point of view the internet gives the possibility to be alone with other people, 1999"

Found at: real normal



Take away posters by Miltos Manetas, from his site http://www.outsideoftheinternetthereisnoglory.com/, 2007- 2008

Image from Blow de la Barra

i.Mirror, by China Tracey, 2007

Re:abracadabra

Stills of the animated videotex (minitel) poem "Reabracadabra" (1985), Eduardo Kac
Video here.

SIMS

"The Sims are not and should never be avatars, as they were in the online game. The Sims were born to be surrogate slaves to our dreams and fantasies," says Gonzalo over at Ludology.org.

"What if I could create my own little world and all the people in it and watch them go through their business and jump in and change things when I want," asks Rod Humble in the linked NYT review.

Manetas in SL

I found, on Miltos Manetas' site, a slurl link to his place in Second Life called "Desert". He has a new text too, which is always fun and out there. I guess I missed all of the events though..







"Desert", 2008


"Sad Tree", 1995

After quick Google of "desert existentialism":


"Desert of the Real", still from "The Matrix", 1999

Painters

Checkered Mountain, 2006, by Mala Iqbal.



Title unknown, 2007? by Anders Oinonen.

MFA Party

Here are some photos from the SAIC MFA party that I took this last Friday.
Doing now: Artropolis review for Whitehot Mag. BRB.


Entry way, complete with a red carpet and some famous reporter that I forgot her name.


Dain Oh and Jon Cates set up for a real-time performance.


Screen landscape and balloons.


A vanity faire of sorts.


The School of Rock is a band made up of little kids. They played here.

WM

click

Section des Miroirs

Blogger image uploader seems to back online now.

Here are the photos I took from Section des Miroirs, by Karen Archey.

bX-r4l10y

I was going to make a post with some pictures from the Section des Miroirs exhibition, but blogger is giving me errors.
Maybe later..

for now, I updated my del.icio.us a bit

Decoration in Computer Labs

Rematerialization of the Art Object

I don't mean to be too much of a romanticist, but..
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE INCLINED PLANE ????



EDIT

also, there seems to be some people missing from the list... this just seems like a roll-call for the 1990s, or people that we-make-money-not-art, net-time and rhizome support..

EDIT AGAIN

I guess if it is about collectors then the work must be older...

Ojos de Perro Azul

Post on 4chan's /b/ Forum After Garcia Marquez, 2008

Copypasta Music Videos

Mathmaticious


White and Nerdy


No Limit


Daft Punk Girls

Section des Miroirs Open House

There will be an open house for Karen Archey's wonderful exhibition, titled "Section des Miroirs".
I'm not sure if I'll make it, but I am going to try.

Friday, April 4, 2008
3:30pm - 6:30pm
G2 Gallery, 847 West Jackson, Chicago, IL

State of Affairs in Chicago

I'm about to leave my house for the BFA exhibition. I wasn't able to go this year to the opening because of family things and emergency travels. The show closes tomorrow.
I'll post pictures later tonight or sometime this weekend when I'm not as busy. For now, here is a preview..


Sean Aguirre Buckley, 2008, title unknown.
I'm not sure if his site is up.. We will probably be working on it this weekend.

Blog Roundup

These are some blogs that I usually look forward to new posts

• vvork, the one and only
  
• a review
  
• valentina tanni
  
• something visual
  
• just sayin is all has alot of music
  
• improvising systems, oriented towards techno art
  
• boxx blog, blog about boxes
  
• the ludologist, by jesper juul