Landscapes by Elna Frederick

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Fwd: The Convent

curated by Celia Rowlson-Hall >>presented by Eye Level Gallery
featuring installations, video, photography, paintings and performances by >>>>

Camille and Stewart
Allison Cave
Jen Dunlap
Leah Durner
David Fishel
Katie Klencheski
Ian lynch
S. Billie Mandle
Sarah Beth Percival
Jonathan Melville Pratt
C J Rosenthal
Celia Rowlson-Hall
Marc Vinciguerra
Emily Wroe


FOR FURTHER INFO>>>>>
Gabriela Alva Cal y Mayor
eyelevelbqe@gmail.com
917.660.4650

http://eyelevelgallery.com/2009/08/18/the-convent/
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Eye games

from Portraits Drawings, by Angelo Plessas
2009

see also: Animaleggra.com from 2007, originally titled Mereexposureeffect.com.

Thinking about these again this morning

Telephone Picture EM 2, by László Moholy-Nagy
1922.

"In 1922 I ordered by telephone from a sign factory five paintings in porcelain enamel. I had the factory's color chart before me and I sketched my paintings on graph paper. At the other end of the telephone the factory supervisor had the same kind of paper, divided into squares. He took down the dictated shapes in the correct position. (It was like playing chess by correspondence.) One of the pictures was delivered in three different sizes, so that I could study the subtle differences in the color relations caused by the enlargement and reduction."

Fwd: ScreenGrab.1

Screen Grab.1
August 14th, 8PM
Nightingale Cinema
1084 North Milwaukee
Chicago IL, 60622

Screen Grab.1
Artists Included ::
Petra Cortright
Dennis Knopf
Oliver Laric
Guthrie Lonergan
Travess Smalley
Rick Silva

Organized by ::
Nicholas O'Brien

Screen Grab, a new series curated by jonCates and Nicholas O'Brien for Nightingale Cinema, aims to bring New Media Art to experimental cinema audiences in order to create dialog. Although the language doesn't differ greatly between these camps, there still remains a dislocation. Screen Grab hopes that this process will create more overlap in the continuing discourse of moving image arts.

Some works in this program need little help with this process. Oliver Laric's Versions, for instance, is as much a nod towards Chris Marker as it to 4chan (a message board that serves as a meme breeding ground). Travess Smalley's Liquify can certainly be connected to durational films without much hesitation, not to mention its direct like with psychedelic cinema of the 60s and 70s; Photoshop is the new overhead projector. Petra Cortright's Dragon_Ball_P also fuses the psychedelic with technological. In utilizing the campy preset effects of webcam software, Cortright creates a lo-fi dance that seems like a Skype ritual ceremony. Dennis Knopf's Office Party borrows from flicker films and the superimposition that occurs through the use of this cinema device. However, Knopf's work shows what was once sensational (i.e. Paul Sherit's T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G), might have become bland (corporate office portraits). Guthrie Lenrgan's 3 Notes, on the other hand, references the emerging hybridity that is found in digital environments. The youtube collage of sound in this piece exemplifies the subtle juxtapositions that can occur through online communities. Likewise, Rick Silva (releasing previous projects under the pseudonym Abe Linkoln) uses glitch aesthetics in AntlersWifi to contemplate the abundance of blog culture. He uses these spaces as a medium for calculated data dumping, noise compacting, and saturation zones where he crafts a new cinema dialog of image corruption and sonic dissonance.

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Screen Grab.1 as well as being the inaugural show for the series, will also raise funds for an upcoming collaborative project called Expressive Media Express that will occur during Chicago Artists Month in October. This initiative is designed to encourage creative use of digital tools and simultaneously showcase Chicago's energetic New Media community to youth in the city. By creating a weekend-long interactive slate of programs – including workshops, a screening, and a historical timeline installation of Digital Media Arts in Chicago and abroad – organizers Jon Cates, Christy LeMaster, and Nicholas O'Brien hope to provide software and hardware skills that put the basic tools of digital media in the hands of kids at an early stage and reposition the conversation away from technophobic fear and into playful discovery.

Human-Plant Hybrid

Eduardo Kac
Natural History of the Enigma,
transgenic flower with artist's own DNA expressed in the red veins
2003/2008

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Fwd: YOUNG CURATORS, NEW IDEAS II

Jason Lazarus, Self portrait as an artist making something contemporary 2004, archival inkjet print, 17 x 23 inches- Curator Karen Archey

"August 6 - August 28, 2009

Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8pm

Organized by: amani olu

P.P.O.W Gallery
511 W. 25th Street, 301
212.647.1044

Curators: Karen Archey // Cecilia Jurado // Megha Ralapati // Jose Ruiz // Nico Wheadon // Cleopatra's (Bridget Donahue, Bridget Finn, Kate McNamara & Erin Somerville) // Women in Photography (Amy Elkins & Cara Phillips)

amani olu projects in conjunction with P.P.O.W Gallery is pleased to present Young Curators, New Ideas II, a curator focused group exhibition that examines new voices in contemporary art through the perspective of seven New York based curators. These varied micro-exhibitions experiment with curatorial practice and an exploration of ideas as physical form.

Full press release: http://amaniolu.com/

Select images: http://www.ppowgallery.com/exhibition.php?id=35"

Haze

I really like this project by Emily and Evan Mast, for the EXHIBITION. It is sort of like a project I was planning, but totally different. I'm glad they used smoke machines.

via and more photos

g = ~9.8m/s^2

I found this comment through a strange network of links. A very strange network. Probably only strange to me. Whatever.
What matters is this amazing comment about Jack Stranges work posted on Rhizome.

The comment was made by Frank Hecker. According to his Rhizome profile he is "Director of Grants and Programs with the Mozilla Foundation". Cool

Here is his blog post about how amazing this work of art is!

I am very impressed and kind of sad that after living with Pablo the physics geek that I didn't notice this before.

I want to write more about this right now but I have to think about it more. Amazing!

Fwd: 8/15 - Wassaic Project Summer Festival - GROUP SHOW curated by Emily Schroeder

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Normal Projects is pleased to announce its participation in The Wassaic Project Summer Festival 2009. The Wassaic Project is a culmination of art and music with a local community atmosphere at a mill with a grain elevator in upstate NY. The New York Times recently described the Wassaic Project as perhaps the first of its kind in the United States. Read more about it at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/arts/design/29wassaic.html?_r=1&ref=design.


Please join us on August 15th from 6-8p for the opening reception for Incantations in Migration of Summer's Wonderlust and Landscape, curated by Emily Schroeder, at Maxon Mills (Ground Floor) during the Wassaic Project Summer Festival. The show culminates as series of reactions that may or not be related to the landscape present or semblances of. With direct quotation from poet, John Ashbery (b. 1927), "Just because the river looks like it's flowing backwards/ Doesn't mean that motion doesn't mean something," written in 1987 was originally utilized as translation to transition the curator relocated from New York to Chicago, and also aptly describes the motion toward creating a community event in a contemporary art setting in a relic of industrial past. This group show features installation on the ground floor of the Maxon Mills as well as through the Wassaic Project grounds. Video will be presented in conjunction with a series of small paintings and work on paper.


Artists participating include:
Greg Stimac
Conrad Ventur
Hisham Akira Bharoocha
Sarah Morgan
Martine Syms
Terry Swafford
JD Walsh
Garth Freeman
Joe DeNardo
Nick Lesley
Lydia Moyer
Dawn Blackman
Janusz Welin and James Campbell
Ben Wolf
Denise Kupferschmidt




FESTIVAL WEEKEND : AUGUST 13-16
camping available, accessible by Metro North Harlem Line
photo courtesy The Wassaic Project
For more information please visit the Wassaic Project website wassaicproject.com/wp or normalprojects.info"

More about interface

A cool cursor game from an essay I'm reading right now.
It seems pretty good so far. One of the illustrations is a work by Jan Robert Leegte. They have section on Renaissance painting. And this cool thing:



I hope the ending is good :-)

It does float

I have always thought that living in a house boat would be super amazing. I would probably want something that is more sustainable but I like the way this one looks.
Found while looking up wierd rocks for new secret blog I started with Dain.

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Gibson World pt. 2

I realized that alot of the things that I have been thinking are like William Gibson have been coming from Cory Doctrow and Co's posts at Boing Boing. Such as: Warning Signs for the 21st Century, Nokia and Siemens spying for the Iranian government, Sephora make up designed for HD and more later maybe.

Gibson World pt. 1

Untitled (Mona Lisa), by Charles Broskoski

I have been reading some William Gibson latly (reading Mona Lisa Overdrive at the moment) so this image on Brian Droitcour's blog caught my attention. Everything is starting to look alot like his stories. The Ghana data market is one of those things. I didn't keep track of the other ones I found.

I have no idea

As it has been happening alot while looking around Korean websites for things... I have no idea who these are by or when they were made, but I think they are paintings..

I like the one on the left.

Chaos Cloud Computing?

"diagram for 2009.07.16 discussion wit Paul Hertz [and jonCates] in advance of upcoming collaborative curatorial/organizational project"

sounds cool!

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Delicious is still blocked pt. 3

• Symetryofchaos.com, by Angelo Plessas
  
• Korean Market Update from Virtual World News
  
• Save for Web show about animated gifs
  
• a computer and a cheesy framed print of a landscape, via eiliseiliseilis
  
• Magic vs. Mystery in the Art Worlds, to read
  

I am still waiting on my new computer to be shipped from the states and the PC bang closest to my house blocks delicious..

Duncan Malashock

Ancestralworship.com



Centralchillingstation.com


By Duncan Malashock

Plant Texture

By Tobias Madison



By Gareth Roberts

This cant be good for the plants though....

A.aaaarg.org (Delicious is still blocked)

A.aaaarg.org

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Onmylevel.com

Onmylevel.com, by Rafael Rozendaal
2009

Graduated from a Computers Club post.

also check here to see things more things happening!

Photos by HuiJeong Ahn

Dain hiding behind Stripper2.swf by Mai Ueda.

HuiJeong Ahn

Yet-Also

Here is a great article about Michael Jackson on Click Opera from 2005 that was reposted.

"When we look at Michael Jackson, I believe we're looking at the future of our species. Michael is a creature from a future in which we've all become more feminine, more consumerist, more postmodern, more artificial, more self-constructed and self-mediating, more playful, caring and talented than we are today. But it's hard to use those adjectives, because they're Either-Or adjectives and he's from the world of Yet-Also, a world I believe we will all come to live in if we're lucky, a world where there is no more authenticity-by-default-through-brute-necessity and no more "human nature". A world of pure synthesis, pure self-creation."

"He's black yet also white. He's adult yet also a child. He's male yet also female. He's gay yet also straight. He has children, yet he's also never fucked their mothers. He's wearing a mask, yet he's also showing his real self. He's walking yet also sliding. He's guilty yet also innocent. He's American yet also global. He's sexual yet also sexless. He's immensely rich yet also bankrupt. He's Judy Garland yet also Andy Warhol. He's real yet also synthetic. He's crazy yet also sane, human yet also robot, from the present yet also from the future. He declares his songs heavensent, and yet he also constructs them himself. He's the luckiest man in the world yet the unluckiest. His work is play. He's bad, yet also good. He's blessed yet also cursed. He's alive, but only in theory."

Also, Momus is now writing for ART IT. A bilingual magazine on contemporary Asian art which I had recently picked up a few copies at the Art Sonje Center's bookstore. Its online for free now so I'm not going to be spending the pricey 20,000W to get it any more. It's Great!

Our Cave

Desktop set to found cave clipart
PC bang, Seoul, Korea
2009

Floating Landscapes pt. 3

Floating Landscapes pt. 2

by Agustin Serai

Floating Landscapes pt. 1

Today seems to be a day for these. I have seen so many so far..



by Noah Becker

Computers Club

The posts by Rafael at Computers Club are some of the better surf club posts in a short minute.

I would normally just del.icio.us this but the pc bang that's near my house blocks it for some reason or another and I need to remember that it is there to look at later :-)

In the begining....

The first Ethernet cable at Xerox Parc

more

Arnhem Mode Biennale 2009

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Community Games

Could be cool.

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Breathing Door

"Breathing Door," 3D Animation, by Minjeong Kim
2006

Look Both Ways

"Look Both Ways," by Martin Wilson

The Jogging

ANGST, sculpture
2009

The Jogging is a tumblr by Brad Troemel that shows some of his interesting art expriments.
his other sites: Scott Projects & On The Make

Homeless in the Sims 3

"This is an experiment in playing a homeless family in The Sims 3. I created two Sims, moved them in to a place made to look like an abandoned park, removed all of their remaining money, and then attempted to help them survive without taking any job promotions or easy cash routes. It’s based on the old ‘poverty challenge’ idea from The Sims 2, but it turned out to be a lot more interesting with The Sims 3’s living neighborhood features.

I have attempted to tell my experiences with the minimum of embellishment. Everything I describe in here is something that happened in the game. What’s more, a surprising amount of the interesting things in this story were generated by just letting go and watching the Sims’ free will and personality traits take over."

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The Desert

Desertointernet.com, by Rafael Rozendaal and Miltos Manetas for the Internet Pavillion.
2009

I thought the title would be about this. Such a nice way to display it too!

Rozendaal Instalation found on Vvork

"realy realy big," by Rafael Rozendaal
2009

with Aestheticecho.com and Theendofreason.com

very cool!

Christopher Kane

from "Resort 2010," by Christopher Kane
2009

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havn't been to the site in a while...

"Unkown," Title plaque, the unknown, by Jack Falanga
2007

|+|=|

"1+1=1," ink on paper, by Hugh Pocock

Bernhard Garnicnig

"landscape," by Bernhard Garnicnig
2009

Screensaver 2 (curtains)

by Arend deGruyter-Helfer
2009

reading alot these days

Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott
1884

buy it here

Educational-sticker.com

Educational-sticker.com by Nikola Tosic
for Padiglione Internet
2009