Geocities Works R.I.P.

Here are some things I made back in high school that are hosted on Geocities. Later today they will be gone.



p037, 2002



Fab Existence, 2003



prt_sc, 2002-2004, a collection of screen grabs

Agmented Richard Serra

"Richard Serra feat. SBB
The National Railway Workers installed a handrail on Serra’s Sculpture in Duedingen, Switzerland."

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Paintings by Carmelle Safdie

at Heist Gallery

GPS Landscapes

# 283, IN THE COUNTRY (TOM TOM GPS), 2007



# 280 NOWHERE (TOM TOM GPS), 2007

by Miltos Manetas
link

I want to see more :D

A Cultural Reader at MCA, curated by Golden Age

A CULTURAL READER curated by Golden Age
A series of 7 minute micro-lectures by Chicago's most creative minds.

Featuring:
Christopher Roeleveld, Paige K. Johnston, Hunter Husar, Nicholas O'Brien, Greg Stimac, Lisa Smith and Caroline Linder.

Marco Kane Braunschweiler and Martine Syms will emcee.

In conjunction with the event Golden Age will be publishing A CULTURAL READER containing images and footnotes from the presentations, as well as content that didn't make it into those 7 minutes. Pick up your copy at the lecture or at Golden Age.

Tuesday, October 20th 6-8pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago, Illinois 60611
FREE

Little Face

Little Face, by Alexander Calder
1945

Everyone Get In Here!

The Grand Credits, by Antoine Schmitt
2009

Dongjoo Seo

badminton



weight-lifting

from the series Empty Space

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New paintings by Marco Mojica

Pablo sent me these pics from his trip to Columbia!







In the background, Pablo tells me, is a printed photoshop that Marco starts his paintings with.

Also Marco has a show coming up in Korea. I will post more about this soonish!

#1 Under Interior, an exhibition by Part-Time Suite

Part-Time Suite is Byoungjae Lee, Jaeyoung Park & Meeyeon Lee.

Piracymanifesto.com

"Piracy Manifesto, Latest version (English, Italian, Sept 09)
The manifesto can be found here: http://piracymanifesto.com
It will be read and discussed in Berlin on Saturday Oct 3 (17-18.30
pm , Raum K 24/21) during the "Make Capitalism History" Kongress (
2.-4. Oktober, more info http://make-capitalism-history.de)
Help to translate the Manifesto in German and other languages is
appreciate. Send email at Piracy@PiracyManifesto.com"

Miltos Manetas via nettime

Choi Hyemi

최혜미_방콕스타일 페이퍼 엔지니어링_디지털 프린트_각 90×60cm_2009

Choi Hyemi at Factory

Parallel Worlds

A speech that William Safire wrote for Nixon in the case of the astronauts being stranded on the moon.

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Fwd: Something New second edition

Somethingnew.info, Chicago, 11/11/2009.
Something New is a contemporary art show organized by Sarah Wies and Nikola Tosic.

"things to consider:

1 ) something new is for everybody. it is not only for people who have made art before, but it is also for people who will make art the first time.

2 ) most probably you will have to make something new for something new… meaning that due to particular nature of the event it is hard to send us a piece you already produced.

3 ) i advise that you do not overthink your art piece, do it quick and easy. sarah is there to help, me too, we will find more people to help out although that should not be necessary. just make something simple and fun, no need to go into extremes.

4 ) mostly art people are totally annoyed by lack of gallery / museum / any form of institution which owns a building. there are no buildings or institutions… this does not mean that if you can not involve one, please do if this is part of your art piece, it is only that we do not provide one. it is up to you. our service ability is deliberately low and mostly based friendship and philosophy.

5 ) the show is intended to stimulate individual independence, therefore do not depend on us. you have a location and time limitations, everything else is up to you.

at least these are my notes about the event, i am sure there will be many other interpretations, the event itself is an experiment for me and i am very interested in which direction it will develop in next couple of decades.

spread the word around…

ask your friends to do art, people who never did art, they sometimes do amazing stuff.

thanks for the support."

Rock, Scissors, Paper

Duncan Malashock on Computersclub.org

Duncan Malashock on Computersclub.org

Fwd: Jerstin Crosby / Martine Syms (one night only)

Date: Friday, September 25, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Normal Projects
Street: 1905 w 21st place
City/Town: Chicago, IL

Outdoor Arcade in the Congo

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Illustrations for children by Fred Volke

I like these :-)
They are from books titled: Many Roads and Signs are Everywhere.

"Installed" digital works in my apartment

Tonight I decided to try and "instal" some art in my apartment (without permission). The two pieces are screensaver 2 (curtains), by Arend deGruyter-Helfer and Centralchillingstation.com, by Duncan Malashock.




Arend's work on the blinds.



Centralchillingstation.com is where my desk used to be when I first moved in.

The photo's are not so good, so check out the works in person to get a better idea of what they are.

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/
www.eyelevelgallery.com

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

link

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.

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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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