Congrats Dain!

Dain is going to SNU!

My House is a Videogame on Rhizome front page

link
Posted by John Michael Boling

here is the video on you tube.

:-)

The Web of Cokaygne; Candle and Bell

The Web of Cokaygne; Candle and Bell is a show that Dain is making at The Nightingale in Chicago next week on the 7th.

It is a three part show that examines the placement of animated gifs within the history of the moving image. The first section is an open DIY digital art exhibition initiated by Jon Satrom. Second is a screening of Oliver Laric. The last section is a selection of gifs by artists including: Tom Moody, Olia Lialina, Paul Slocum, Petra Cortright, Jon Satrom & Guthrie Lonergan.

Curated by Dain Oh

Some pictures from the BoxxShow

Poem flags by Wendy Spacek and Dain Oh's box with the sitting area.



Chris Collin's Cube with Ilia Ovechkin's One Pixel Self-Portrait

more images later

New Works by Arend deGruyter-Helfer

Untitled Window 2, 2008.

Also: Untitled Window & Object Array.

Fwd: B.A.D

maps, B.A.D. blog

There are some other events going on in Bridgeport at the same time of the opening at Normal Projects. At Normal Projects, we are showing Hisham Bharoocha and Conrad Ventur in the main space and Angel Otero on the Fridge.
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Also the BoxxShow will be happening Saturday.

Stop by :-)

Towns

Why, Arizona


Hope, Arkansas


Utopia, Florida

Fwd: Meet Waradise

www.Meetwaradise.com

MW: a temporary venue for things to happen.
17 Orchard Street @ Canal
New York, NY

I am not sure what the show is, but it involves Karen Archey, the same person who brought you Section de Miroirs, so I assume that it will be worth showing up to.

Fwd: Eddo Stern talk @ Columbia Chicago

Eddo Stern speaks tonite @ Columbia in their Ferguson
>Auditorium in 600 . Michigan Ave. Building @ 5:00:00 PM. see you there

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Boxes Boxes Boxes

BoxxShow is an exhibition that Dain and I are curating for the Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space. It is based on her blog about boxes.
It will be one night only, part of their show-a-month project.
Featuring: Dain Oh, Chris Collins, Wendy Spacek & Ilia Ovechkin.
Additional decoration provided by Hadley Vogel, Dain Oh and Nate Hitchcock

Caturday, November 22nd
7:00PM - 11:00PM
1254 N. Noble, First Floor
Happy Collaborationists' Exhibition Space

Carson Fisk-Vittori

via: Carson's flickr stream

Carson is part of real normal blog based here in Chicago.

Fwd: normal projects : opening nov 21 6-9p

Leftover Princess, 9 x 11.5 in. [ovoid], oil on canvas, 2008. Angel Otero.

The second exhibition at Normal Projects and Fridge is coming up this Friday.
Hisham Akira Bharoocha and Conrad Ventur will be showing in the main space, and Angel Otero will be showing on the Fridge.

Normal Projects exhibits work on paper and video by emerging and established contemporary artists. This exhibition will be on view from November 7th - December 20th, 2008. There will be a reception from 6-9p on November 21st in association with Bridgeport Art District. For more information, please email Emily Schroeder at normalprojects@gmail.com or ring 917 312-8889.

Read the press release here.

Chicago on election day

Color bars seen from the studio lounge on the 17th floor, across from the museum.


A few floors down where Dain works.

Installation by Dain Oh

5. Untitled, Installation
Spray paint, paper, paper cups, yarn, acrylic paint
2007

Fwd: Boxen seeks donated space

BOXEN
we are BOXEN and we are seeking a donated space to develop our collaborative project.
can you help?
do you know a landlord or building owner who might be interested in hosting us?
do you have free space that you are not using?
we know this may sound strange but you might know someone or have sum space available and anything you can think of or might suggest could help so please email us if you have any suggestions

WHATIS BOXEN?
BOXEN is an open organization committed to the production and discussion of experimental work at the intersections of digital/electonic art, hacker/activist culture, live performance and electronic music.

WHOIS BOXEN?
BOXEN is a collective of artists/hackers/activists/educators who have self-organized to develop a new work, education and performance space.
collectively we have a wide range of experience in organizing spaces and events and teaching workshops and classes... we are on faculty, teaching or have taught @ The School of the Art Institute, Columbia College, Marwen, Street Level Youth Media, Experimental Sound Studio, etc... and have organized or been involved in the immediate organization of spaces, events and platforms such as dai5ychain, r4WB1t5, BUSKER, HARDCoded, Chicago Hackmeetings, [FRAY], Version Festivals (02, 03 and 04), etc... we have also participated as artists and organizers of events @ spaces throughout Chicago such as DEADTECH, dorkbot, Messhall, ENEMY, Polvo, Heaven, Links Hall, Chicago Art Department, etc...

IF YOU HAVE IDEAS FOR DONATED SPACE PLEASE EMAIL US

THNX!!!

OP

Theneweasy.com

Theneweasy.com is an exhibition that takes place inside Lively, a 3d chat program by Google.

"Hosted by Agentur, curated by Lars Eijssen and shown at Bloodless Gallery in Google Lively.
the New Easy is a mostly unpolitical trend, with an optimistic, pragmatical approach towards creation of today's art. But the most celebrated mark is the apparent ease of both the brilliance of the subjacent idea, and the reputedly simple and fast production method. A New Easy work looks like it was invented in 1 and created in 3 seconds, proving the artist's geniality of which he knows how to escape a hopelessly depressed world. It is the kind of art that makes the blog-kids cheer."


Me standing next to Ilia Ovechkin's, Red Disco Ball, 2007


Sitting in the Readymade, by Harm van den Dorpel, 2008


and my favorite room, the guestbook room with patterned wall and floor.

i:)u

i:)u is a site dedicated to funny Internet things. It is run by Nikola Tosic.

The first post on his site is the image above. Originally by Daniel Bozhkov titled,"Darth Vader Tries to Clean the Black Sea With Brita Filter," 2000. Altered by 4Chan later.

Haruki Murakami on Video Games

"Writing a story for me is just like playing a video game. I start with a word or idea, then I stick out my hand to catch what's coming next. I'm a player, and at the same time, I'm a programmer. It's kind of like playing chess by yourself. When you're the white player, you don't think about the black player. It's possible, but it's hard. It's kind of schizophrenic."

via dain

Weekend Plans

Friday: Carl Baratta's show, Light Up and Be Wonderful!, at Western Exhibitions.

Caturday: Netcast Radical Computer Music Course at i^3 Hypermedia. Curated by Sarah Weis.

11 west Illinois ~ 4th floor ~ chicago, illinois 60654

Also: Happy Collaborationists Magazine Exhibition Space: Joshua Clarfelt & Andrew Burkholder. One night only.
Happy Collaborationists Magazine is founded by Hadley Vogel in 2008.

Saturday, October 18
7:00PM - 11:00PM
1254 N. Noble, First Floor
Happy Collaborationists' Exhibition Space

SOON: pics and vid from What We Know

rules of the computer lab

Edit: You can buy the poster here! Also, check out some of his other posters too.



Rulesofthecomputerlab.com is a website/ poster that I commissioned(ing (I still need to pay him :-P)) Nikola Tosic to make for the What We Know show that will be going up next Friday.
It's a really great site, so I hope everyone comes and sees it in person (and maybe buy a copy too :-))