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Jan 31, 2012
Flint MI x 10 - Zone 5b (-15 to -10 Fahrenheit)
posted at 03:14 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 25, 2012
Winter Studio
posted at 13:29 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 16, 2012
Milwaukee All Stars Report 2.
posted at 20:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On December 10, 2010 we gave you the
first report on The Milwaukee All Star Project.
One year, one month and about one week later, here is our second report.
More soon… permanent link to this post
More soon… permanent link to this post
Jan 14, 2012
Flint Owl Letter
posted at 17:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 06, 2012
On Dada and The Public Library of Flint
posted at 13:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 04, 2012
Very Short .Mov of Dia’s 150 Warhol Shadow Paintings 1979
posted at 01:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 03, 2012
Marcel Duchamp - Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) 1925
posted at 02:12 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The copper ring around the dome’s circumference is engraved with words chosen for the way their sounds echo one another. “RROSE SÉLAVY ET MOI ESQUIVONS LES ECCHYMOSES DES ESQUIMAUX AUX MOTS EXQUIS,” or “Rrose Sélavy and I dodge the eskimos’ bruises with exquisite words.” permanent link to this post
Jan 01, 2012
Flint MI x10
posted at 13:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
A new year long #MTAA project for Flint, MI in 2012 begins today.
Flint MI x10
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Dec 28, 2011
ready for 2012
posted at 21:53 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dec 11, 2011
december in the studio
posted at 20:24 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dec 03, 2011
ghosts x2
posted at 19:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 20, 2011
slots/atms
posted at 21:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 17, 2011
Use Node.js with BBEdit text filters feature
posted at 05:12 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid/geek
I was poking around the jQuery git repo the other day and noticed that they’ve started using Node for all their build scripts (I’m assuming, or maybe remembering faultily, that they were using Ant or Ruby for the build stuff previously). Makes sense: jQuery — make it 100% JavaScript, even down to the build scripts.
Then a little bulb went off in my head. “Oh yeah,” I thought to myself, “with Node one can now use JavaScript to write shell scripts.” (Duh!? I know.)
Later that day I found myself needing to de/unencode URIs to be used as URI components. “Simple,” I thought, “I’ll just use JavaScript’s decodeURIComponent and encodeURIComponent methods via Node and a BBEdit text filter.” But. Um. Turned out it wasn’t that simple (or maybe I’m just dumb).
Anyway, after a bit of head-scratching and digging around Node’s and BBEdit’s documentation, I got it working. The two scripts linked below are very simple, single-serving tools. You can run JavaScript’s encodeURIComponent with one and decodeURIComponent with the other. That’s it. One can imagine that it will now be very easy to port many useful JavaScript programs to be used as BBEdit text filters. JSLint or JSONLint come to mind.
To use the scripts you need to:
http://mteww.com/misc/en-decodeURIComponent.zip permanent link to this post
Then a little bulb went off in my head. “Oh yeah,” I thought to myself, “with Node one can now use JavaScript to write shell scripts.” (Duh!? I know.)
Later that day I found myself needing to de/unencode URIs to be used as URI components. “Simple,” I thought, “I’ll just use JavaScript’s decodeURIComponent and encodeURIComponent methods via Node and a BBEdit text filter.” But. Um. Turned out it wasn’t that simple (or maybe I’m just dumb).
Anyway, after a bit of head-scratching and digging around Node’s and BBEdit’s documentation, I got it working. The two scripts linked below are very simple, single-serving tools. You can run JavaScript’s encodeURIComponent with one and decodeURIComponent with the other. That’s it. One can imagine that it will now be very easy to port many useful JavaScript programs to be used as BBEdit text filters. JSLint or JSONLint come to mind.
To use the scripts you need to:
- have Node installed (there are instructions here (scroll down for OS X)),
- update the shebang line at the top of the script to point to your Node installation (if you’re not sure, type ‘which node’ at the command prompt in OS X’s terminal application),
- put the files in BBEdit’s text filters folder (prior to BBEdit 10 ‘text filters’ were called ‘unix filters’)
http://mteww.com/misc/en-decodeURIComponent.zip permanent link to this post
Nov 10, 2011
From The Archives - Midnight In The Deli, 2005
posted at 01:55 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 05, 2011
From The Archives - Autotrace #3 2009
posted at 15:12 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In 2009 at Light Industry we presented $’##” followed by Autotrace #3 (Pollock’s Number 1A; performative)
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Oct 29, 2011
From The Archives - Frank (Again) 2008
posted at 18:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 23, 2011
From The Archives - Story Time Again - (Summer Animals) 2010
posted at 03:13 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Story Time Again - (Summer Animals)
An unauthorized live reading of A. A. Milne’s “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928) Chapter 7 - “In Which Tigger Is Unbounced” and an unauthorized live dramatic reading of the screenplay for “Stillness in The Water” AKA “JAWS” (1975) by Carl Gottlieb and Peter Benchley from the novel by Peter Benchley. The readings took place during the Summer Arts Fest at The Wassiac Project in 2010
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Oct 16, 2011
From The Archives -
posted at 14:02 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On January 26-28, 2001, MTAA, along with the artist Ricardo Dominguez, G.H. Hovagimyan, Yael Kanarek Tina LaPorta, Diane Ludin, Kevin & Jennifer McCoy, Cary Peppermint and curator Jennifer Crowe took over WeLiveInPublic.com The site was Josh and Tanya’s loft in Soho that was wired to the Internet with chat, sound and 32 cameras. The group named this action
The Warhol Hijack. During our stay, MTAA 1.) always wore Elvis sunglasses 2.) slept in a tent pitched in the living room 3.) wrote the words Warhol Hijack in blue tape across the living room floor 4.) recored brief interviews and 5.) presented a online lecture about conceptual art.
The following is the last section of T.Whid’s lecture formatted for chat from the control room and the first section of M.River rebuttal from the bathroom. The transcript for T.Whid’s lecture is here.
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The following is the last section of T.Whid’s lecture formatted for chat from the control room and the first section of M.River rebuttal from the bathroom. The transcript for T.Whid’s lecture is here.
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Oct 15, 2011
friday post 10-14-11
posted at 01:55 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I recently posted some documentation of MTAA’s
first attempt at a scene by scene remake Plan 9
back in 2008. We filmed the first four scenes that night, got board and moved onto something else. Altough it was dull, I also thought it was a good idea. I thought over the next few years we could shoot a few scenes every so often. Eventually we would have the complete work. I figured we’re in no rush as no one would be interested in remaking that film. I was wrong.
Apparently someone else started filming a remake in 2009 and it is slated to be released in 2012.
Granted it’s not the pointless line by line homage ala Gus Van Sant’s Psycho 1998 with a lo-fi veneer and Warhol Chelsea Hotel rift that I dreamed of…but it does looks like he’s going to beat me to being first. Dagnabbit. (Shakes fist at Hollywood)
Anyways, if you’re looking to kill some time in the next few months, please feel free to shoot any scene (or 2) from the script. Load it up on Ye ole Youtube and send me a note. permanent link to this post
Apparently someone else started filming a remake in 2009 and it is slated to be released in 2012.
Granted it’s not the pointless line by line homage ala Gus Van Sant’s Psycho 1998 with a lo-fi veneer and Warhol Chelsea Hotel rift that I dreamed of…but it does looks like he’s going to beat me to being first. Dagnabbit. (Shakes fist at Hollywood)
Anyways, if you’re looking to kill some time in the next few months, please feel free to shoot any scene (or 2) from the script. Load it up on Ye ole Youtube and send me a note. permanent link to this post
Oct 10, 2011
From The Archives - The Surrogates, 2008
posted at 14:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
It began with a basic idea. Stage a performance in which the artwork is watching people standing in line to view the artwork. We decided to present this idea during one of our monthly OTO presentations at our studio. To expand the idea, we planned on presenting the installation as the work of another artist. We selected Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.ORG.) as our surrogates and contacted them with an outline of our plan. They graciously agreed. In exchange for the use of Mattes identity, we gave them half ownership of the work.
Once we had our Surrogates, we sent out a press release and posted on the OTO website an announcement for the show.
surrogate - substitute, proxy, replacement; deputy, representative, stand-in, standby, stopgap, relief, pinch-hitter, understudy.
Eva and Franco Mattes continue their investigations into power, authorship and identity with “The Surrogates” a new performance based video project. Combining elements of theater, video, surveillance, and social interaction, “The Surrogates” transforms OTO into an experimental social space questioning the distinction between the viewer and the viewed.
On Friday April 11, 2008 the two-hour piece began at 7 p.m. with an open bar and velvet rope welcoming attendees in the hallway. Inside the OTO space proper, two rows of two lawn chairs (numbered 1-4) faced a low stage featuring a 4′x6′ projection screen (center) and a small television monitor (stage right). Attendees entered the darkened room four at a time. Their assigned seats faced a slightly delayed projection of themselves. The monitor revealed hallway waiting activity in real time.
The attendees in the room (now participants) were given little explanation of the piece, though they were invited do as they pleased within the space and to leave at their leisure. Re-entry was not permitted however, and those exiting the piece were immediately replaced by those next behind the velvet rope.
The day after the exhibition, MTAA posted online that while the Mattes (0100101110101101.ORG.) are credited as the authors of “The Surrogates”, MTAA designed, built and executed this work in its entirety.
The following roughly 15 minute video is documentation of the first four participates in the 2 hour Surrogates performance.
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