Date -> Thu, Jul 19
Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper from Oakland-based artist Alika Cooper.
Original post by Predrag Pajdic and software by Elliott Back
Predrag Pajdic:
Date -> Sat, Jun 30
RECOGNISE
Friday 22 June – Friday 7 September 2007
RECOGNISE is a large-scale contemporary art exhibition now open in a spectacular setting of an old warehouse in London’s Finsbury Park. It will run until September 7, 2007.
The exhibition gathers a breath-taking range of works by over 40 international artists, many shown for the first time in London, which revolve around the subject of the Middle East. Parallel to the exhibition there will be screenings, talks, panel discussions, performances, and interventions. In the same breath it is the launch of a new contemporary art space in London.
The exhibition curated by Predrag Pajdic includes works by Mohamed Abdulla, Ziad Antar & Rasha Salti, Doa Aly, Oreet Ashery, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Tim Blake, Lisa K Blatt, Ali Cherri, Hassan Choubassi, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Tarek Al Ghoussein, Sagi Groner, Khaled Hafez, Roza El-Hassan, Susan Hefuna, Hilda Hiary, The Infinity Project, Emily Jacir, [...]
Original post by Predrag Pajdic and software by Elliott Back
Jeff Smith has just unveiled his next project: Rasl. He will have a six-page preview of the comic at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Exciting!
Some book and comic stores also have The Art of Bone already in stock, and it’s a marvelous looking book. Well worth checking out.
Original post by Kean and software by Elliott Back
ana otero:
Date -> Tue, Jul 31
// Call for entries
// Artistic Competition of the KVB Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG
Design of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Süd Stadtbahn Köln)
// Submission Deadline 31 July 2007
For further information please consult the section Kunst/Art at:
http://www.nord-sued-stadtbahn.de
Contact: art@neumann-luz.de
—
The KVB Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe AG (the public tranport company of the city of Cologne) have initiated an international art competition for the artistic design of eight stations – seven below and one above ground – of the new North-South Light Railway Cologne (Nord-Süd Stadtbahn Köln). -In two resolutions of the Cologne City Council on 14 November 2002 and 4 April 2006 the KVB, as awarding authority of this major underground railway project, were commissioned to organise the competition, which was launched on 18 May 2007 with the international call for submissions. National and international artists are to be involved in this multi-stage international art competition. [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
The Bourne Ultimatum – Trailer 2Matt Damon returns as the trained assassin Jason Bourne for the latest showdown in The Bourne Ultimatum. In the follow-up to 2002’s The Bourne Identity and 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy—the smash hits that have earned over $500 million at the global box office—acclaimed director Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Supremacy) joins returning cast members Julia Stiles and Joan Allen and new additions David Strathairn, Paddy Considine and Edgar Ramirez.Directed by: Paul GreengrassStarring: Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine
Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back
Sunshine – Extended TrailerFifty years from now, the sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope: a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel.Directed by: Danny BoyleStarring: Rose Byrne, Cliff Curtis, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Cillian Murphy
Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back
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Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back
Despite the fact that the internet is often described as anarchic and abysmal, many of the contemporary artists responding to it in their work have recently espoused a discourse of self-help and positivism. In Lou Laurita’s current show at New York’s Guild & Greyshkul gallery, ‘There’s a Party Going On,’ the artist draws from excerpts of online profiles, affirmations, and pop songs. Using ‘traditional’ media to engage digital culture, Laurita’s large scale gouache paintings employs the visual and verbal dialect of that region known as the internet. His montage of found jpegs and snipped texts, in which the image’s shape is defined by the letters in the selected phrases, is dialectical in effect. Something greater than the sum of these parts emerges as we take in an image that causes us to think about the code by which the paintings were constructed and its relationship to the construction of identities [...]
Original post by Linda Griggs and software by Elliott Back
Date -> Tue, Jul 24
Dislocate 07
ART, TECHNOLOGY, LOCALITY
Exhibition, Symposium and Workshop series
24th July – 5th August
Tokyo and Yokohama
Ginza Art Laboratory (Wednesday – Sunday 3-8pm)
Koiwa Project Space (Tuesday – Sunday 2-7pm)
ZAIM 28th & 29th July 11am-4pm Symposium and Workshops
Opening Event Koiwa Project Space 24th July 7pm
Performance Event ZAIM 29th July 6pm
All Events are Free
The city is no longer built of concrete, a static posture no longer endures.
Our surroundings have become a malleable space which can be warped, spliced and expanded at will. We no longer stand in one place alone, a mass convergence of coordinates is taking place beneath our feet.
As we traverse these points of perpetual motion we are enclosed by structures of elsewhere, met with the sliding walls of other places which lead us through a never ending maze.
Shrouded in alternative layers of space, we escape to another confinement through the mesh of new media.
As our presence is [...]
Original post by Linda Griggs and software by Elliott Back
Staying at a hospital or visiting a dentist (design/KU64—The-worlds-coolest-dental-clinic/) are mostly unpleasant
events, even if you were there just to get a little nip-and-tuck or
have your teeth whitened. The universal ugliness and dullness of those
bland walls and uninspiring furnishings is surely not going to make you
feel better. Plastic surgeons, spas (lifestyle/SPA-STRUCKED-Yi-Spa—Berlin-/) and hair salons (design/Pimps–Pinups-Hairsalon—London/) fare a bit better,
but even most of them are just paying lip service to design or luxury
with no real imagination, nothing that makes a lasting impression.
Except a few. We?ve seen some that have undergone real makeovers and we
want more! Let us know where the coolest places of beautification are ?
from hospitals, plastic surgeons, dentists to hair salons, spas,
manicurists… By Tuija Seipel. Send
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Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back
Glastonbury?s over, and you still can?t get the mud and misery out of
your clothing. Yes, it did seem like a wonderful idea to take
some fine clobber to the festival. But who was to know that a
millennium?s worth of rain would fall in a matter of seconds and wash
your clothes away.
Thankfully, EIO clothing (http://www.eioclothing.com)
have just released their new summer range, to help former fashionistas
reclaim their pre-Glastonbury status. Excess Is OK are an
east-London fashion brand that?s been clothing the pop-elite since
2003. Designing one-off t-shirts for the likes of the Klaxons and
Pete Doherty, their combination of tongue-in-cheek designs and bold
prints have been gracing album covers and tour merchandise for nigh on
four years.
And they?ve even started designing women?s underwear. Slapping their
day-glo designs on to ladies pants makes a welcome addition to any
rained out festivities. By Matt Hussey
Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back
Linda Griggs:
Date -> Tue, Jul 17
I’m looking for 3 minute videos for E32’s July show.
E32 is an art projection and artists talk series that’s held the 3rd Tuesday of every month at Lotus Lounge,35 Clinton St @ Stanton.
Email your link to:
linda@lindagriggs.com
More info:
e32.hitart.com
So……
Tired of watching little, tiny YouTube videos by yourself? Come to Lotus bar E32 and see them on the big screen with no advertising and real life camaraderie.
Sometimes it’s just nice to hear the applause.
Original post by Linda Griggs and software by Elliott Back
Date -> Mon, Jul 02
The Sweet Hereafter: Recent Video and Sculpture by Gosia Koscielak
Curated by Raul Zamudio
THE LAB
NY, NY July 2-12
The Sweet Hereafter is a one-person exhibition by the Polish multimedia artist Gosia Koscielak. While the title is a reference to the novel by Russell Banks as well as a euphemism for death, The Sweet Hereafter is neither morbid nor does it ascribe to mortality as empirical finality. Rather, it’s more akin to contemporary memento mori and underscores the imperative human need to construct meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. It uses a ubiquitous, sugar-coated colloquialism for death as narrative foil in order to rethink the knowledge of impending mortality as opening up the possibility for human redemption within the context of our collective existential dilemma.
Gosia Koscielak articulates these concerns as well as others via her digital-based new media sculpture that is a mixture of visual, olfactory, and audio elements. [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
Above image is cropped but it links to a larger view. See? It takes a while for me not to be all shy about showing bigger images but I come around.
PENCILS DOWN! Well, you have to stop, push away from the drawing board and say, “That’s it! Anything I can do to this from here on will have to be conjecture.”
As always I am liking the work more and more the longer I stay away from it. Dice Tsutsumi and Daniel Lopez Muñoz saw it first as I was scanning it for my files (it goes away, see. I’ll not see it for a long while). They were very nice and made me feel real good about the work. Artists, we’re forever chastising ourselves for not being better and better every time out of the gate. Or is that just [...]
Original post by Ronnie and software by Elliott Back
ana otero:
Date -> Fri, Jul 27
// CALL FOR PROJECTS
// TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AWARD
// Electronic Arts and Video Festival Transitio_mx 02
// Deadline: July 27th, 2007
http://transitiomx.net
granted by the US-Mexico Foundation for Culture, Inc.
Fomento Educacional, A.C. and
Fundación BBVA Bancomer
TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
The configuration of transnational communities corresponds to the continuous and increasing flow of people, goods, technology and information. In the context of this exchange, social networks are conformed linking daily and permanently the origin communities with the destination ones, creating social pluri-local and inter-cultural spaces.
In the specific case of the Mexico-United States relation, the migratory phenomenon constitutes a central inexhaustible subject in the territorial displacements debate. The Transnational Communities Award sets out to explore artistic, cultural and social articulation projects that take place in virtual space, the arena in which the global and the local converge.
GUIDELINES
The award will recognize transnational communities that link Mexico and the United States and [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
Go check out Hope Larson’s Kiss Book that was making the rounds at this year’s MoCCA art festival! With each page drawn by a different artist, it sort of meanders away from being a ‘true’ Kiss Book as it goes along, but it sure is fun nonetheless.
(also, go check out the sweet skate deck Hope painted to benefit the Halifax Skatepark Coalition.)
Original post by Kean and software by Elliott Back
I am not going to lie. I am SO looking forward to this book. From Becky Cloonan’s blog:
At San Diego Comic Con 2007 we will be unveiling our new masterpiece titled, simply, 5. This comic was forged by Brazilian giants Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba and Rafael “Sweet Jesus” Grampa, the Grecian ink acwarrior Vasilis Lolos, and me, comin’ straight outta Brooklyn (god it’s so good to be back)!
It’s a [modestly] sized book, each of us has seven pages of comics with Grampa on title pages, but it’s brimming with our love for comics.
If you need one excuse to go to the San Diego Comic Con this year, this could be it.
Original post by Kean and software by Elliott Back
The finished pencil page. Color will be added.
Backstage. Deadlines are great motivators. I had the one weekend to finish and that was it. Things will get busier, what with the Italy and Paris trip just around the corner. And I’m wary that the idea I had might just turn into mud as I try to realize it. The window of two days got whittled into one day, then into an afternoon. Actually a handful of hours.
Marker study on a pad of Muji newsprint from Japan
Start already! I had a thumbnail I worked up weeks ago, even before Enrico had the Sketchtravel book. I like it, it should work. Next was to do a rough on tracing paper to work out the composition.
That rough done, it seemed that it could hold together. The meter is running. [...]
Original post by Ronnie and software by Elliott Back
The bronzed and fabulous hold court at the Italian Riviera, lounging su una brandina ? or on a chaise-lounge.
Italian native Marco Morosini became inspired on such a chair,
realizing the versatility of the woven fabric upholding his posteriori
? or butt.
The rest, as they say, is storia. Morosini utilized the tough,
weather-proof material to do what creative Italians do best: design
handbags. The line, dubbed Brandina (http://www.brandinatheoriginal.it/) was launched in the summer of 2005.
Brandina boasts eight separate models with resort-appropriate names:
Travel Lodge, Hotel, Holiday Bag, Bed Breakfast, Grand Hotel,
Penthouse, Lobby and Motel. The Brandina satchels are decked out in
twelve different pattern and hue combos consistent with sun-lounges of
the Romagna Coast.
The Bed Breakfast sets itself apart with its narrow, cylindrical
shape and drawstring closure all of which come in four pin-striped
styles and retails for 74 euros. Due to its shape, the B B seems
particularly ideal for the ol? [...]
Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back
Joanna Torok:
Date -> Wed, Jun 27
Hello!
I recently wrote about a unique film experience, Four Eyed Monsters, which is being offered for free viewing on YouTube.
The promotion has been extended for 50 more days due to the popularity and success of the campaign. The FEM story is such a great example of how new technology can be combined with contemporary art to produce a greater product- and further more, produce a larger audience and product reach.
If you have time, please follow the link and watch a complimentary low resolution version of the film: http://foureyedmonsters.com/watch/
View the podcasts if you have the time, they truly add to the film experience.
Also, if you really enjoy the film, buy a high resolution copy of it through the “Buy DVDs/Downloads” link, as the money from sales directly helps the filmmakers get out of their debt! It is all for a good cause— supporting indie art! enjoy!
Original post by Joanna Torok and software by Elliott Back
‘The spectacle in general, as the concrete inversion of life, is the autonomous movement of the nonliving.’ As an artistic statement, this quote from the French intellectual Guy Debord heads the Australian, New York-based artist Cliff Evans’s webpage. Gathering images from online sources using Google image searches and bringing them together through technological processes that call to mind photomontage techniques, Evans has been making poetic, visually powerful animations that examine the politics of the media in Western societies. Evans’s latest project, ‘Bare Life: Booth Girls and Stormtroopers-Accumulation,’ is a five-channel video presented both as an altar piece that recalls medieval, religious painting and the product displays of electronic goods. As the title suggests, he created a narrative about both the real and virtual realms and the power of the male gaze by assembling different pictures of booth girls and stromtroopers. This piece takes on his most well-known work, ‘The Road [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
Date -> Mon, Jul 23
Digital Research Unit presents
@MEDIA Centre Huddersfield, UK
BIORAMA
Friday July 13th
Bioarama is a one-day event that illustrates new directions in art, science and technology by bringing together artists who explore notions of life, science and digital realities. By presenting these artists in the context of the DRU Artist in Residence project Biorama will explore a rich territory in which multiple threads of investigation come together to manifest unique interpretations and unfamiliar possibilities.
Biorama serves to contextualise, examine and expand upon the research carried out by Andy Gracie (hostprods) http://www.hostprods.net/blog/ during his residency which weaves together the microbiology of the Pennines around Marsden Moor, traditional and digital networking systems, satellite communications, perceptions of landscape and the history and possible future of interstellar communication.
Biorama will take place in two stages with the Biorama hike in the morning and the Biorama sessions in the afternoon.
Biorama Hike
_leaving from the Media Centre, Huddersfield [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
ana otero:
Date -> Fri, Jul 13
//$5000 MONA Horse Bazaar Prize
//Deadline: July 13th, 2007
*MONA (http://www.mona.net.au ) and Horse Bazaar
(http://www.horsebazaar.com.au) are offering the world’s richest prize for the production of panoramic content.
The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize for panoramic content is an open digital art
prize for the production of screen-based content that best uses Horse
Bazaar’s unique panoramic projection system. The screens are
custom-built for the environment and extend for nearly 20 metres around
the bar. Casting aside the traditional 4:3 screen format, visual artists
are asked to produce digital content at an 8:1 ratio.
The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize aims to cultivate the appreciation and
production of panoramic virtual décor.
This is an acquisitional competition; winning pieces will become a part
of the MONA art collection.
*Entries close on July 13th*. Submissions will be shown at Horse Bazaar
in the lead up to the gala and award night that will take place on
Saturday 21st July. Entry is unrestricted and artists are invited [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
ana otero:
Date -> Thu, Jul 05
Deadline Extension Call for Papers: 5 July 2007
[CC] “curating media/net/art–papers”
http://cont3xt.net/div/curating_call
1 June – 31 August 2007
——————————————–
For the project [CC] “circualting contexts–curating media/net/art” from June 1st – October 31st, 2007 which takes place in Vienna and in the online medium, the public is invited to enter papers concerned with contemporary curatorial practices in- and outside the virtual space. The papers should be limited to max. 15.000 characters and must be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). [CC] “curating media/net/art–papers” is open to all thematic fields but may be related to the topics below, too. Selected papers will be printed in the forthcoming catalogue.
1 visualizing work.flows and (filtering-)processes
2 virtual/real representations in real/virtual spaces
3 facing participation / the lack of collaboration
4 web 2.0–curatorial facilities or technical barriers
5 involvement of (art-)institutions / rise of significance
Extended Abstracts deadline: 5 July 2007
Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2007
Deadline for [...]
Original post by ana otero and software by Elliott Back
Consider it an antidote to the mass-produced ?designer? fashions of
Target and Wal-Mart. CoLab, an eyewear accessory collaboration, hand
selects talented ?street artists? from all over the world to become
CoLab professors. These wisemen of design infuse their artistic
aesthetic into the humble sunglass frame, creating a tantalizingly
unique summer accessory.
CoLab is a brand-new venture out of Australia (http://colab.com.au/)with the aim of creating matchless art disguised as fashion. For the
Spring/Summer 2007 season, CoLab invited Perks and Mini (PAM) of
Australia, EBoy of Germany, Geoff McFetridge of the US, Rockin?
Jellybean of Japan, and Neasden Control Center of the UK into their
?Colaboratory? to create inspired eyewear. Each pair will be sold as a
limited edition, with no more than 1000 pairs of each design sold. Come
next season, CoLab will select an entirely different slew of artists.
Each artist has contributed anywhere from three to five designs,
culminating in a CoLab portfolio of 20 sunglass designs. Despite the
commerciality of fashioning art [...]
Original post by paul and software by Elliott Back