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Sugar! Kids are older, no more trick or treating for a while. Have a safe and happy Halloween. Just got through some drawings. Maybe I’ll unveil a few here in the coming days leading up to the gallery show, yea? This one above is a drawing study for a card I was hoping to have done for last summer. Creepy enough for the day’s festivities, no?
Be well.

Original post by Ronnie and software by Elliott Back

Here’s a (kind of) Halloween-themed comic for you all: “Touchfood,” a new comic by Jen Wang.

Original post by Kean and software by Elliott Back

Nucleus will be hosting a new gallery show called “3 Flowers and 3 Trees,” featuring the work of ‘3 Flowers’ Yoko Tanji, Icco Sasai and Wakako Katayama, and the returning group of the ‘3 Trees,’ Tadahiro Uesugi, Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa. All six artists will be in attendance at the gallery opening on Saturday, November 4th.
It’s going to be a huge event, which includes new work by the artists, prints, t-shirts, signed & limited edition posters for pre-orders made at Nucleus for their new book, Three Trees Make a Forest (here’s an Amazon link to the book for those that won’t be able to make the show in person). Basically all I am saying is: do not miss this show!
Enrico and Ronnie have plenty more information about this show on each of their respective blogs, here and here. Details about the show itself is also on the [...]

Original post by Kean and software by Elliott Back

The IonKids system from the firm Bluespan allows parents to give their young children some autonomy in the context of their environment?.to a certain point. The child wears an aesthetically pleasing Wristag that has the capability of communicating with a PDA-like Base Unit that would be near a caregiver. If the child wanders too far away, the wireless communication kicks in and the Wristag sends an alert to the screen portion of the Base Unit and the parent can effectively locate the child?s position. It seems like this product is quite an upgrade to silver bells on the shoes. Kits start from $199, you can order from here by Isla Verde

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

 
Charlotte’s Web – Trailer 3The classic story of loyalty, trust, and sacrifice comes to life in this live-action adaptation. Fern (Dakota Fanning) is one of only two living beings who sees that Wilbur is a special animal as she raises him, the runt of the litter, into a terrific and radiant pig. As Wilbur moves into a new barn, he begins a friendship with the most unlikely of creatures.Directed by: Gary WinickStarring: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

As the weather outside becomes a bit more nippy, this moment of seasonal change proves ripe for collaboration over the wires (i.e. from a nice indoor space). This was, in part, the inspiration for a new online, networked performance by UK artists Patrick Simons and Kate Southworth (of Glorious Ninth) and their collaborators Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett (of Furtherfield). Documentation of their piece, which employed peer-to-peer instant messaging software and audio/visual exchange, via webcam, will launch exactly nine minutes and forty-one seconds before midnight (at 23:51:19 GMT, as determined by the length of the piece), on 31st October 2006. The performance consisted of a braiding together of spontaneous and premeditated actions, such as reading from texts, listening, and improvised speech. The result was a product informed by the risk of dissolution, a competition between voices, and an unrehearsed collective construction of tempo and rhythm. The artists invite online viewers [...]

Original post by Christiane Paul and software by Elliott Back

At the southern end of Grenada, lies the beautiful Lance-aux-Epines peninsular, an incredible stretch of water which now houses the luxurious new development – Prickly Bay.Graced with Marine houses, lawn houses and apartments, Prickly Bay is the ultimate in Caribbean Ocean side living. Each residency is equipped with the ultimate in modern conveniences and lush interiors. With uninterrupted views of the peninsular, the view from the inside gives the illusion that you are living on a boat. That illusion is further enhanced by the unique architecture which replicates the sleek form of a yacht. Built on a unique stretch of water, this Caribbean indulgence is world class water side living.Equally as beautiful is the Mount Hartman Estate found on the same peninsular. The private retreat is built on a cliff face and offers spectacular uninterrupted views. Upon arrival, guests are brought by boat to the under cavern jetty, built [...]

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

Christiane Paul:
Date -> Sat, Nov 04
Translations: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops
Selected work Digital+Media students @ Rhode Island School of Design

http://digitalmedia.risd.edu

Curated by Christiane Paul
Emergence @ Duo Theater
62 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-598-4320

http://www.duotheater.org

November 4 – 25, 2006
Opening hours: Thurs. – Sat. 1PM – 6PM
Opening Reception: Nov. 4, 6-8PM
Translations — a selection of works by Digital+Media students at the Rhode Island School of Design — brings together three groups of projects that reference a process of “translation,” be it in the sense of processes mediated by machines, systems of transcription, or communication between cultures.
In Gideon Webster’s Time Machine, a cast graphite object with 6 legs that is attached to the arm of an axle can be moved in a circular path around a slab of white concrete by means of a handle. Each ’step’ taken by the six-legged wheel creates a drawing by slowly scraping away the concrete and at [...]

Original post by Christiane Paul and software by Elliott Back

Christiane Paul:
Date -> Sat, Nov 04
Translations: Misguided Machines and Cultural Loops
Selected work Digital+Media students @ Rhode Island School of Design

http://digitalmedia.risd.edu

Curated by Christiane Paul
Emergence @ Duo Theater
62 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-598-4320

http://www.duotheater.org

November 4 – 25, 2006
Opening hours: Thurs. – Sat. 1PM – 6PM
Opening Reception: Nov. 4, 6-8PM
Translations — a selection of works by Digital+Media students at the Rhode Island School of Design — brings together three groups of projects that reference a process of “translation,” be it in the sense of processes mediated by machines, systems of transcription, or communication between cultures.
In Gideon Webster’s Time Machine, a cast graphite object with 6 legs that is attached to the arm of an axle can be moved in a circular path around a slab of white concrete by means of a handle. Each ’step’ taken by the six-legged wheel creates a drawing by slowly scraping away the concrete and at [...]

Original post by Christiane Paul and software by Elliott Back

As you know, the Cool Hunter is always on the move, hunting the latest and bringing you the best. Next month we will be changing the face of the Cool Hunter with the launch of our new logo, designed by Sydney based design firm, WAR. Some months back, WAR became subscribers to the Cool Hunter, we were so impressed with their own logo, we asked them to collaborate with us in designing the new look Cool Hunter logo.Starting with the new logo, we are excited to deliver further changes to the site, which we trust you will enjoy. by Billy T

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

Carrie Bodle:
Date -> Wed, Nov 08
Come join us for the November Upgrade! Seattle meeting featuring 911 artist in residence Anetta Mona Chisa on Wednesday November 8 at 7pm at 911 Media Arts Center.
7pm Wednesday November 8, 2006
911 Media Arts Center • 402 9th Ave N • Seattle, WA
Winebar at 911 MAC after event

http://www.911media.org/upgrade

Anetta Mona Chisa was born in Romania. She studied sculpture and conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia (1994-2000) and since 2002 she works as assistant teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, New Media department.
Currently a visiting artist at the 911 New Media Arts Center, she will talk about some of her former projects (video, performances, installations) Most of her works are contextual, based on personal stories and very often she plays with the concept of access to different forms of power: professional, political, ideological, and geographical. Her artistic practices vary [...]

Original post by Carrie Bodle and software by Elliott Back

 
Christmas At Maxwell’s – TrailerAn inspirational but light romantic Christmas drama, a story about the human struggle, the power of love, forgiveness, trust and uplifting the human spirit. It is the story of a fortysomething man confronting the overwhelming effect his past actions seem to be taking on his life and his family.Directed by: William C. LauferStarring: Andrew May, Jack Hourigan, Helen Welch

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

 
Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj – TrailerThe sequel to the successful 2002 release, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder. Taj (Kal Penn), Van Wilder’s assistant in the first film, heads out on his own and heads to England’s prestigious Camden University to further his studies. Along the way, he adopts a group of misfits and shows the uptight student body how to get Wilder!Directed by: Mort NathanStarring: Kal Penn, Lauren Cohan, Daniel Percival

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

 
Death Of A President – TrailerConceived as a fictional TV documentary broadcast in 2008, reflecting on another monstrously despicable and cataclysmic event: the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19th, 2007. The “documentary” combines archival footage and carefully
composed interviews, presented in a respectful and dignified manner.Directed by: Gabriel RangeStarring: Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Robert Mangiardi, Jay Patterson

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

 
Shut Up And Sing – Trailer 1r”Shut Up And Sing” travels with the Dixie Chicks, from the peak of their popularity as the national-anthem-singing darlings of country music and top-selling female recording artists of all time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003.Directed by: Barbara Kopple, Cecilia PeckStarring: Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Simon Renshaw, Emily Robison

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

According to artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, ‘once a year, at the stroke of midnight, the ancestors of Rich User Experiences raise from the grave.’ Apparently, this occurs sometime around Halloween, considering the holiday weekend over which IGAC (Girona Art Contemporani) decided to launch the duo’s newest web-based work, ‘Midnight.’ Despite the artists’ heavy reference to now-retro web graphics, users traverse their their piece’s video game-like space using the newly ubiquitous Google Maps navigation cross. Along the way, viewers will stumble upon very tiny animated gifs, many of which are simple dots or geometric shapes. These barely representational shapes float within the sky of an eternal midnight, evoking the sense of ‘lost’ space junk resigned to a lonely orbit. Lialina and Espenschied describe the life of the aforementioned navigation cross in the same way, citing its presence ‘in a huge number of mash-ups to provide a localization interface for [...]

Original post by Stephanie Dinkins and software by Elliott Back

This will be a poster available at the show. Signed by all three blokes from last year. Neat, eh? Image above links to larger file.
Gallery date approaches. Still working on some offerings for that day at Nucleus. I will be driving down there on Friday evening ferrying artwork so we can hang it the morning after. Then on Saturday, November 4 at 7pm the gallery will open to all viewers till 11pm. Complimentary refreshments will be served throughout the show. Goody.
Oh, let’s not forget that in attendance are the Three Flowers (as we’ve come to call them, following our wistful logic stemming from the 3 Trees exhibit)Wakako Katayama, Icco Sasai and Yoko Tanji. Tremendous illustrators and, as Ben Zhu (proprietor and dreammaker supreme of Nucleus) tells me, they are providing a prodigious amount of prints for all to marvel at. I’m getting [...]

Original post by Ronnie and software by Elliott Back

As you know the Cool Hunter is always on the move, hunting the latest and bringing you the best. Next month we will be changing the face of the Cool Hunter with the launch of our new Logo designed by Sydney based design firm, WAR. Some months back, WAR became subscribers to The Cool Hunter, we were so impressed with their own logo, we asked them to collaborate with us in designing the New Look Cool Hunter logo.Starting with the new logo, we are excited to deliver further changes to the site, which we trust you will enjoy. by Billy T

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

Entrepreneurs looking to invest some cash into a great project don’t need to look much further than graduates from design schools across the world. Industrial Design graduating student, Tom Allnutt, from Melbourne’s Swinburne University, has created this automated magazine stand which replaces the age old news stand and seller by encasing a selection of magazines within the secure stand for purchase.Simply swipe your credit card through, make your selection and before you board your train, plane or automobile, you will be reading about Brittney’s next pregnancy. Cool and convenient. by Billy T

Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back

Stephanie Dinkins:
Date -> Fri, Oct 27
HISTORIAN OF CONTEMPORARY/MODERN ART, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT
STONY BROOK. Open rank. For more information: http://www.art.sunysb.edu/#
We seek an innovative scholar with emphasis on post-War art and a strong
grounding in theory, criticism, and/or visual culture, PhD and a record of
scholarship and teaching at levels appropriate to rank are expected. Start
date August 2007. Application deadline: December 1, 2006.
The State University of New York at Stony Brook is an Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applications from women, people
of color, individuals with disabilities, and Veterans are especially
welcome.
Please send letter of application, CV, selected publications, and names of
three references (with mail and email addresses, plus phone numbers) to:
Contemporary/Modern art Search Committee, Department of Art, State
University of New York at Stony Brook, Staller Center, Stony Brook, NY
11794-5400.

Original post by Stephanie Dinkins and software by Elliott Back

Thomas Edwards:
Date -> Wed, Nov 01
Dorkbot DC Meeting: Come be with people that do strange things with electricity
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 7 PM – 9 PM (EDT)
Provisions Library
Suite 200
1611 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20009
(above Ann Taylor Loft)
Limited parking on street. Paid parking garage at 20th Street and Florida Avenue.
Metro: Dupont Circle, Q Street North Exit, turn right at the top of the escalator, and cross Connecticut Avenue and Q Street.
This Meeting: An overview of Pure Data / LED Throwie workshop / Other mini-presentations

http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc

Original post by Thomas Edwards and software by Elliott Back

Martin Smith:
Date -> Thu, Oct 26
Greetings – I recently [yesterday] received a request for intervention into a young [under the age of consent] man’s life who has skirted perilously close to the abyss create by Crystal Meth addiction. One of the issues, of course, is that in Canada, where we profess ourselves to be ‘Kinder and Gentler’, an upfront, in your face intervention is not legally possible. I have a very successful program called the ‘Walkabout’, so successful in fact that there are even folks who are not addicted applying to get on the trail. I am working to develop a new media based approach to intervention, the idea being that, as it has been proven with the trail program, if you can shunt the focus away from the inevitable spiral downwards, you can then work to restore that same focus away, towards a better situation. Any suggestions [...]

Original post by Martin Smith and software by Elliott Back

Franziska Schroeder:
Date -> Sat, Apr 21
The upcoming edition of Two Thousand + SEVEN will once again run in parallel to the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (www.sonorities.org.uk), hosted by the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen’s University Belfast (www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland that presents cutting-edge new music and features some of the most thought-provoking and controversial musicians.
Call for papers/presentations:
The call for papers is now open.
Please go to: www.sonorities.org.uk/symposium
for details.
The focus will be on cultural and practical issues that arise in virtual performance environments.

Keynote Speakers:
George Lewis (Columbia University) and
Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London)
  
George Lewis previously taught at UC San Diego,Mills College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Simon Fraser University’s Contemporary Arts Summer Institute. He has served as music curator for the Kitchen in New York, and has collaborated in the “Interarts Inquiry” and “Integrative Studies Roundtable” at the Center for [...]

Original post by Franziska Schroeder and software by Elliott Back

The corridors were full of attendees lining up for the talks. There was a dealer floor where all manner of how-to books on screenwriting could be sampled. And writing software, let’s not forget. Didn’t get to take as many photos as I wanted. Bumped into many L.A. friends, it was like a reunion.
Da Story. The Pixar day of panels were well attended and we had a blast doing the talks. My

Original post by Ronnie and software by Elliott Back

Date -> Fri, Oct 27
Mediated Horror via Mexico City: Experimental Video
Mauricio Limon , Mexico City constructs
Light Resonance Shrines

Opens Friday, October 27, 8 pm and the Jazz Radiationist in Gallery 2
Saturday, October 28, Sound.Text .Video Performance, 8 pm
Oct 27 – 30, 8 pm – 1 am
Location: Gallery 1 Supreme Trading. 213 North 8th St. Williamsburg
Complete info: www.kleinblueproductions.com
Celebrating the power of the commonplace to evoke belief in mysterious forces, Mauricio Limon builds an ambiguous shrine for the market sellers of Mexico City. He uses typical market stall materials, household objects and light effects to penetrate into the spirit worlds that bind the living to the dead. The shadowy form of ordinary objects integrates the unseen existing alongside everyday survival.
Sunday Oct 29, 8 pm
Hysterical Horror. Experimental Video from Mexico City by Artemio, Joaquin Sequra and Mauricio Limon,
Location: KBP at Union Docs, [...]

Original post by Julie Rasmussen and software by Elliott Back