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MTAA-RR:
Dec 31, 2010
random friday post 12-31-10
posted at 18:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The last MTAA-RR RFP of 2010
Ready for New Year’s Eve 2011
Indulgences 2010
Last new MTAA project for 2010
Nothing says the future is now like CRT monitors
and MONORAILS!
and The Universe of Energy (previously sponsored by Exxon Mobil)
Happy New Year from MTAA. See you in the future. permanent link to this post
Ready for New Year’s Eve 2011
Indulgences 2010
Last new MTAA project for 2010
Nothing says the future is now like CRT monitors
and MONORAILS!
and The Universe of Energy (previously sponsored by Exxon Mobil)
Happy New Year from MTAA. See you in the future. permanent link to this post
links for 2010-12-30
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Dec 30, 2010
links for 2010-12-29
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Dec 22, 2010
links for 2010-12-21
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Let's make some ads!
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This guy has the best JS blog out there IMHO.
Dec 19, 2010
links for 2010-12-18
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A delicious bookmark to my delicious backup…Â
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Kyle Chayka for Hyperallergic picks MTAA's Freeing Lunch as one of the 5 most intriguing projects for Jen Dalton and William Powhida's #rank at SEVEN art fair in Miami Dec, 2010.
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MTAA is mentioned in this wrap-up of Jen Dalton and William Powhida's #Rank at SEVEN art fair, Miami Dec, 2010. Ed Winkleman's favorite performance!
Dec 17, 2010
radom friday post 12-17-10
posted at 14:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Snow along the lake in Milwaukee
Concept image for June / October 2011 MTAA exhibition at the Aldrich Museum.
T.Whid unsanctioned performance with Duane Hanson’s Janitor at the Milwaukee Art Museum permanent link to this post
Dec 16, 2010
links for 2010-12-15
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MTAA's new logo! And no. It doesn't remind you of a cock and balls.
Dec 12, 2010
links for 2010-12-11
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Dec 10, 2010
Milwaukee All Stars report 1.
posted at 22:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
At the entrance to a lecture hall at the University Wisconsin Milwaukee, we stationed a table, a ream of plain, 8 1/2 x 11 printer paper, some markers and two student volunteers. As people entered the hall, each person was asked to draw a star on a sheet of paper.
We were asked to present our work but we decided that we’d incorporate a small performance as well. So, at the end of our presentation, which focused on some of our recent vote-driven projects, we transitioned from a lecture into an artwork we called Milwaukee All Stars.
We explained that we would make a new work using the stars drawn by the audience. The ‘how’ of how this piece would be created was left to vote by the audience.
After reading the 10 ideas on how the drawings could be worked with, we opened the floor up to an pro/ con debate on the options. At the end of the town hall style debate, we placed the options up for vote by show of hands.
The Milwaukee All Stars output method selected by vote is #10 - pulp all stars, make 1 sheet of paper from the pulp, draw 1 star on it.
Sometime in 2011, MTAA will present the next phase of this project. permanent link to this post
random friday post 12-10-10
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Flying back with T.Whid from our talk in Milwaukee. More details on the talk / performance soon. permanent link to this post
Dec 07, 2010
links for 2010-12-06
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Dec 06, 2010
links for 2010-12-05
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MTAA in Milwaukee
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Like Nathaniel says, we’ll be in Milwaukee this week telling everyone what awesome artists we are. And doing some other stuff too.
Here’s the info:
MTAA: a PowerPoint lecture + some other stuff
Wednesday, 12/08/2010, 7:00pm – 8:00PM
Arts Center Lecture Hall, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Part of the Artists Now! Lecture Series
Free and open to the public
So… if you’re in Milwaukee (and why wouldn’t you be?) stop by! Also, I heard that Chicago is nearby. What better excuse could you ever have for coming to Milwaukee? C’mon by!
pssst. Don’t tell anybody — but we actually did the slideshow in Keynote instead of PowerPoint. permanent link to this post
Dec 04, 2010
Freeing Lunch #RANK Day 4
posted at 14:46 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Today is the 4th and last pizza sent to Miami as part of Freeing Lunch #RANK. To review the prices at this point -
Box and print #1 $59.66 (+tip)
Box and print #2 $40.28 (+tip)
and the box and print for the black olives, mushrooms, banana peppers and spinach pizza from yesterday is going for $37.20 (+tip)
More info on pizza #4 later today.
Update - a txt from Dalton notes that Pizza #4 broke the Freeing Lunch #Rank record by disappearing in 20 seconds. Price of Box and print #4 is $35.06 (+ tip) or all 4 Boxes for $172.20 + whatever Dalton tipped.
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Dec 03, 2010
Freeing Lunch #Rank Day 3
posted at 14:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Today is day #3 and it looks like Domino’s Pizza is now MTAA’s Freeing Lunch #Rank official “New Brillo.”
To recap the current prices, Freeing Lunch #Rank box and print #1 is still availiable for $59.66 (+tip). Yesterdays Freeing Lunch #Rank box and print #2 was $20.14 for the pizza + tip + $20.14 for the gallery. That comes to $40.28 + tip. So, you can save $19.35 if you get box #2. Then again, the first one might be the one you want. Anyways, if you are not in Miami and want one of the four works (or all of them), you can always drop me an email (mriver@mteww.com) and we can work something out.
For today, I’m calling in Pizza #3 around 11:45am. I’ll update this post later with more details.
Update - I have no idea if pizza #3 made it to #Rank today but I did get a call at my work desk in New York from the driver. He just kept saying “PIZZA. PIZZA. PIZZA…PIZZA…Pizzzzzaa.” permanent link to this post
Dec 02, 2010
Freeing Lunch #Rank Day 2
posted at 16:32 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As seen in the above Man Bartlett twitter pic, it looks like Freeing Lunch #Rank Day 1 did make it up on the wall at Seven. At least, I hope that is our empty pizza box or I might have to start worrying that things have going down hill at #Rank.
Today for Freeing Lunch #Rank we’ll see if Pizza Fiore picks up the phone. If not, I might have to go with Papa John’s.
Update - as both Pizza Fiore and Papa John’s will not do a remote credit card, I went with a large veggie thin crust from Domino’s who is seem to be MTAA’s Brillo.
Update 2 - Hey look. Pizza #2 in action via SEVENmiami twitter pics.
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Dec 01, 2010
Freeing Lunch #RANK Day 1
posted at 13:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Today is the start of Freeing Lunch for #RANK at Seven in Miami.. For day one, we will attempt to send a pizza from Pizza Fiore to Dalton and Powhida sometime between noon and 1pm.
Update: Pizza Fiore did not pick up the phone. I went with the back up plan of 1 large vegetarian plus a bonus non art pizza (I was just feeling generous to Miami I guess) from this Domino’s
Sorry to the small businesses of Florida but you have to pick up the phone to sell stuff. I’ll try another local joint again for day 2.
Anyways, as of 4:43 I have not heard if the pizzas actually showed up at #Rank but my card was charged by Domino’s. I have some naive hope it all worked. If the pizza did get to the Seven art fair, Freeing Lunch #Rank Box #1 (wall mounted Domino’s box and MTAA signed print) is now priced at $29.83 + tip (if #Rank did tip) + $29.83 for Winkleman Gallery. Yup, that’s a total of $59.66 (+tip) for a signed original MTAA artwork. Think about it. permanent link to this post
Nov 30, 2010
links for 2010-11-29
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Nov 26, 2010
random black friday post 11-26-10
posted at 15:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
signed Freeing Lunch #RANK texts ready to travel to Florida
Today, the United States wakes up from our tryptophan induced slumber and head out to the malls for holiday shopping in what the retail world calls Black Friday. Next week, the art world heads to the Miami Art Fairs to buy, sell, browse, work, network, blog, drink and, in general, hang out.
This year, MTAA will attempt to send four new artworks to Miami as part of Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida #RANK project with Winkleman Gallery at Seven.
Together the artworks are titled Freeing Lunch #RANK. You can find details on the project on the Freeing Lunch #RANK website. The site, along with the MTAA-RR blog, will be updated with documentation as the project unfolds.
So, if you are out shopping today, relax and try to be kind. If you find yourself in Miami next week, stop by #RANK and check out Freeing Lunch. Tag any photos, video or thoughts on the work with #RANK and #MTAA and will add it to the documentation. permanent link to this post
links for 2010-11-25
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Nov 23, 2010
Hyperallergic on #RANK
posted at 15:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Preview from Kyle Chayka of Hyperallergic on #RANK. Like the jpeg they made for
Freeing Lunch
. I think we’ll use it.
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Nov 22, 2010
Consider The Panda
posted at 14:17 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
If tasked with a Noah’s Ark 2.0 scenario and we come up short on cargo space, let us pack extra earthworms, frogs and bees. Let’s leave the pandas behind.
The current population of roughly 3,000 giant pandas, or panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) spend their slow days snacking on 20 to 30 pounds of bamboo followed by nights of notoriously lousy breeding. Like the unicorns, fabled rejects in the first great world flushing, pandas might be better suited as poster children than Darwinian positive members of our planet. They are perfect fuzzy icons for the World Wildlife crowd. And, perhaps, a perfect icon for the rarefied ecology know as contemporary art.
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The current population of roughly 3,000 giant pandas, or panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) spend their slow days snacking on 20 to 30 pounds of bamboo followed by nights of notoriously lousy breeding. Like the unicorns, fabled rejects in the first great world flushing, pandas might be better suited as poster children than Darwinian positive members of our planet. They are perfect fuzzy icons for the World Wildlife crowd. And, perhaps, a perfect icon for the rarefied ecology know as contemporary art.
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Nov 20, 2010
links for 2010-11-19
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Nicely designed 'book' by the Google Chrome team.
Nov 19, 2010
radom friday poot 11-19-10
posted at 22:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
some pics from last night’s AFC
Art of Sound record launch
bands
paddy
and merch
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bands
paddy
and merch
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Nov 17, 2010
MTAA short lists the RPAA
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MTAA at Light Industry
and now…MTAA short lists the RPAA 2010
Alternative Space of the Year
Light Industry, Brooklyn, New York
Alternative Project of the Year
INDEPENDENT, New York
Artist of the Year
Marina Abramovic
Blogger or Critic of the Year
Paddy Johnson (sorry Jerry but she’s the only one who mentioned MTAA this year)
Curator of the Year
Chrissie Iles
Exhibition outside the United States
“Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form,” Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
Group Show of the Year, Gallery
“Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960–1970,” David Zwirner, New York
Group Show of the Year, Museum
“In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Artist of the Year
Liz Magic Laser
The Rob Pruitt Award
MTAA (sure, why not?)
Solo Show of the Year, Gallery
“Gelitin: Blind Sculpture,” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Solo Show of the Year, Museum
“Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Nov 15, 2010
links for 2010-11-14
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Nov 12, 2010
random friday post 11-12-10
posted at 14:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jon Rafman - Francis Bacon Apartment, 2010
William Powhida - Study for Relational Wall, 2009
Hans Haacke - News, 1969/2008 at the New musuem
update:
Tim Lincecum Rookie Card, Signed by Tim Lincecum and Lee Walton.
Also -
#TheSocialGraph opens tonight at Outpost
BYOB NYC tonight at Spencer Brownstone Gallery
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Nov 10, 2010
links for 2010-11-09
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Nov 09, 2010
links for 2010-11-08
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… CoffeeScript just discovered. Unsure why but @gruber says 37 Signals is using it for a new mobile framework.
Nov 08, 2010
links for 2010-11-07
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Nov 05, 2010
random friday post 10-05-10
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No Customs Installation - in this view: MTAA (Completely Random Aesthetic Object #1 (Abu Dhabi version) on the wall), Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson, Thom Lail (window), Vito Acconci (sound player on table), Jennifer Dalton and Susan Hamburger (shelf), and Jonathan Schipper (briefcase of money on table).
AFC’s Sound Of Art which includes a sound clip from Mike Koller and MTAA’s World’s First, Possibly Only and Probably Last iPhone Drum Circle (aka IPDC) will have a record launch party November 18th at Santos Party House. permanent link to this post
Nov 04, 2010
links for 2010-11-03
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MTAA's new logo.
Nov 02, 2010
links for 2010-11-01
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Oct 29, 2010
random friday post 10-29-10
posted at 13:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
No Customs opens Nov 4 in Abu Dhabi
John Baldessari - A Painting That Is Its Own Documentation’ (1966-68)
Beuys on a Bike
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Oct 26, 2010
No Customs
posted at 01:38 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
We’re in a show in Abu Dhabi. It’s in the McCoys’ apartment.
Check it out… from the press release:
Check it out… from the press release:
No Customspermanent link to this post
November 4-27, 2010
opening reception: Thursday Nov 4, 7-9 pm
curated by Jennifer and Kevin McCoy
an exhibition of transmissible ideas with:
Vito Acconci
Jason Robert Bell / Marni Kotak
Torsten Z. Burns
Jennifer Dalton / Susan Hamburger
Anthony Discenza
Melissa Dubbin / Aaron Davidson
Bill Durgin
Tara Fracalossi
David Grubbs
Sara Hubbs
Thomas Lail
Michael Mandiberg
MTAA
Marisa Olson
Jonathan Schipper
Mark Tribe
Karen Yasinsky
A common art-making strategy when one enters into new territory is to listen, to ask, and to wait. As newcomers to Abu Dhabi, we considered this strategy, but then rejected it. Instead of waiting to receive information, we begin our sojourn in the Emirates by making an offer. In curating this show, No Customs, held in our remarkably gallery like living space, we offer the work of artists connected to us from our home community of New York City. When they asked what life is like here, we answered we didn’t yet know. We told them to send what they could send via email, via instructions, via concept. We told them to send it fast. So then, what we have is a show called No Customs. This title is a double entendre. Practically, since no objects have been mailed, we were not slowed by the expense of shipping and the delays of customs. Metaphorically, the show is not about tradition or interpretation, but rather about mapping and transcription. How does form map onto landscape? How does it transform landscape? How do you demarcate space for contemplation, for understanding, for revolution? What happens to the body when its image occupies this demarcated space?
Landscape
First, the approach to a problem. This is what we hear when listening to Vito Acconci’s audio piece, Research Station, Antarctica, For Your Ears Only (2004-2010). How does an artist (here architect) turn a landscape into a series of constraints to be addressed, to create a form? In the photographs of Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson, the long time collaborators use smoke bombs to test the landscape. They create form with weather, wind, light, and clouds. In a site specific project by Thomas Lail, a series of Buckminister Fuller domes are superimposed over the city view of Abu Dhabi, creating another take on the domes of the city and adding to the enormous architectural speculation already here. In another project, a memory sequence of images by Tara Fracalossi offers a counterpoint to the desert with images of most verdant spring and bleakest winter. These images purport to be memory, but their repetition on the wall creates matrices of classifications that map new space. In the end they are more like letters in an alphabet than like stories of particular landscapes.
Demarcated space
In answering a call to show work in Abu Dhabi, many artists considered the question of mapping, both graphically and metaphorically. In the work of Michael Mandiberg, the artist asked us to find an Arabic map of the USA in which we recreate the laser cuttings of print media that he is known for. In this work the message and the map collide. The artist duo MTAA and the sculptor Sara Hubbs sent ideas for works that, though they are generated very differently, come up with surprisingly congruent projects. MTAA asked us to find “the most colorful place” in Abu Dhabi. Then they provided software that translated this image into an abstract digital image (referred to as “the aesthetic object”). We could then display this any way we saw fit. In Sara Hubb’s project, an abstract form also results from a behind the scenes process. She photographed decaying areas of New York City and asked us to reproduce the patterns they create in plaster, building up a surface to form decoration from blight.
The projects of Jonathan Schipper and the collaborative team of Jennifer Dalton and Susan Hamburger ask us the audience to participate in the creation of the artwork by zeroing in on our patterns of behavior. In the ambitious project by Schipper, entitled A Million Dollar Walk, attendees of the opening reception will be given the opportunity to carry a briefcase full of money on a prescribed path through the building. Dalton and Hamburger ask participants questions about their behavior in Abu Dhabi, creating a changing sculptural bar graph that measures their assumptions about life in the capitol against actual practice.
Four artists in the exhibition deal with space by creating voids some for the viewer to inhabit speculatively others by creating spaces for lost objects. In her video mixtape project, Marisa Olson casts herself as an outsourced worker and creates a mash-up of Arab covers of American karaoke classics. The singers of course, are us by implication. In The New Revolution (2010), Mark Tribe creates an installation that invites spectators to consider their own ideas about revolution. David Grubbs, a noted musician, sent us instructions to render a beautiful wall drawing whose omissions create open spaces for meaning to drift. In an animation by Karen Yasinsky, You’d Better Be Careful, omitted objects and spaces set interpretation even farther adrift.
Bodies
Several of the artists in the show responded with work implying performative space. In the video Double Face Fantasy by Jason Robert Bell and Marni Kotak this space is a virtual one in that a portrait transforms through a technical gesture. Anthony Discenza’s video, The Future has Already Been Written creates a tour de force collage of science fiction, and we follow the body of Charlton Heston through alternate visions of the future. In the work of Torsten Burns, Resurrectables (Yellow-Mobilers), the artist asked us to curate a selection of performance stills from a huge array of images of costumes, props, and locations. We selected images of vehicles, conveying transmission, speed, and the framing of the body as it moves through space. Finally, the work of photographer Bill Durgin presents work that brings it all together. The body becomes a landscape of skin, finally an abstracted “aesthetic object”.
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No Customs is located at Sama Tower, Suite 3708, Abu Dhabi. Sama Tower is at the corner of Airport Rd and Electra Rd., near the NMC (New Medical Center). The exhibition will be open Saturdays from 1-5 through Nov. 27 and by appointment. Please contact Jennifer or Kevin McCoy with questions and image requests: info@mccoyspace.com
Oct 24, 2010
links for 2010-10-23
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Oct 21, 2010
links for 2010-10-20
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Some New Documentation
Last weekend we presented the first work in a new series titled “Some New Documentation” as part of 10.10.10 x10. The work is set of Faux 70’s era MTAA performance documented with digital black and white photos. The photos are focus not only the performance but the people watching the performance. The first work in the series consisted of tossing wet hotel towels at blank walls. The other planned works in the series so far are slowing stacking Ritz crackers in a corner and standing in-front of osscillating fan with arms outstretched and head back.
Oct 15, 2010
random friday post 10-15-10
posted at 13:24 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
GZ Groundzero open mic at MTAA / EMPAC / Filiment ARTBarn. Photo by Brian Chitester permanent link to this post
Oct 14, 2010
Burning Books with RSG
posted at 13:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As part of 10.10.10 x10 last weekend, we held 10 minute reading and burning of the works of Alexander Galloway (RSG). The work honors what everyone agrees is Alex’s best art idea ever - Public Book Burnings.
Next Wensday, Alex and Jason Smith torch “Introduction to Civil War” by Tiqqun.
A Book Burning — To honor the recent publication of the book “Introduction to Civil War” by Tiqqun.
with your hosts Alexander Galloway and Jason Smith
October 20th @ 8:00pm
at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, 232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn http://www.issueprojectroom.org
Free admission
“Society no longer exists, at least in the sense of a differentiated whole. There is only a tangle of norms and mechanisms through which THEY hold together the scattered tatters of the global bio-political fabric, through which THEY prevent its violent disintegration. Empire is the administrator of this desolation, the supreme manager of a process of this listless implosion.” —Tiqqun permanent link to this post
Oct 12, 2010
10.10.10 x10 photos
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“Three Sheets to The Wind” and “Hack” section of performance.
Photos of 10.10.10 x10 are now up at Flickr
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Oct 11, 2010
links for 2010-10-10
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… an updated version for an updated time. Note that the original at http://tinjail.com/you/index.html is a re-creation. The real original was somehow destroyed (or the original hit counter stopped working).
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Included in "un(process)ed" curated by Blue Box Gallery (http://www.blueboxgallery.com/exhibitions/unprocessed/)
Oct 10, 2010
Autotrace #2 (Nocturne; performative)
posted at 02:52 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Artists MTAA’s Autotrace series is a group of prints, installations and performances where the artists take a digital reproduction (JPEG) of a well-known painting and then use Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace feature to automatically transform the digital bitmap image into a digital vector image.
Different strategies are then used to present a new, original artwork from the autotraced image.
Performative Autotrace
The performative variety of the Autotrace takes the form of a live, public demonstration of the technique. The mechanics of the autotrace are performed on the artists’ computer and projected before an audience. Usually the performance concludes after a single vector shape is randomly chosen from the autotraced bitmap and presented as a new work of art.
MTAA conducted their first1 performative autotrace during a lecture conducted for the Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use and Copyright in the Digital Age symposium at UC Berkeley on November 7th, 2008. A reproduction of Joan Miro’s Nocturne was used.
Autotrace #2 (Nocturne; performative) is freely available to download. Follow the link below to acquire the artwork.
Download the shape in SVG2 format.
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This JPEG reproduction of Joan Miro’s Nocturne was used as the base for Autotrace #2 (Nocturne; performative).
1. Though this was the first performative Autotrace, it is the second in the series. The first in the series is Autotrace #1 (Full Fathom Five).
2. Scalable Vector Graphics; an open and standard XML-based vector graphics format. permanent link to this post
AutoTrace #1 (Full Fathom Five)
2005, digital image
not yet exhibited
MTAA has released their digital image “AutoTrace #1 (Full Fathom Five)” under a Creative Commons license. Please read the license, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, before using the image.
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Oct 08, 2010
links for 2010-10-07
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Oct 07, 2010
10.10.10 x10
posted at 23:17 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On 10.10.10 M.River of MTAA will perform 10 10 minute artworks for the 10th anniversary of the Beall Center for Art + Technology at Claire Trevor School of the Arts 712 Arts Plaza, UC Irvine, Irvine, Ca 92697-2775. The 10 works, commissioned by the Beall Center will begin at Winifred Smith Hall at 5pm and move at a slow crawl to a finish on the steps of the Beall Center.
Here is the list of the 10 works.
Number 1. A Completely Random Aesthetic Object (CRAO) — A single digital image created automatically from random audience input.
Number 2. Fly Drawings — An attempt to fly audience-made drawings
Number 3. Burning Books (with RSG) — A public reading and burning of the published works of our friend Alexander Galloway.
Number 4. Hack — The term “hack” traces back to an insult about furniture that looks like it was made with an axe. We will do this.
Number 5. Some New Documentation — a Faux 70’s era MTAA performance documented with black and white photos of the crowd looking on politely. Performance consists of tossing wet beach blankets at blank walls with overwrought intensity.
Number 6. Live Dramatic Reading (Disconnection of HAL 9000’s Higher Functions) — A live reading from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey”
Number 7. Default Location “University of California Irvine” — A virtual visit to the exact default location on Google Maps when ‘University of California Irvine’ is entered
Number 8. iPhone Drum Circle 2 — The west coast premier of the infamous IPDC. We will “Jam” using iPhones with drum aps connected to an ampifier.
Number 9. Snack Time — MTAA loves a good cheese tray and would like to enjoy one with you.
Number 10. Three Sheets to The Wind — MTAA concocts a new cocktail and raises a toast to the Beall Center’s anniversary. permanent link to this post
Oct 06, 2010
YDKWYTA #MTAA live feed
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Along with the All Raise This Barn (East), we presented two 10-minute performances of a new work - You Do Not Know What You Are Talking #MTAA. The work was commissioned By EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY as part of the Filament Festival.
YDKWYTA#MTAA
Below are 2 captures from the live feed during the performances. Note: the first capture includes about 11 minutes of us waiting around backstage.
Watch live video from twhid on Justin.tv
Watch live video from twhid on Justin.tv
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YDKWYTA#MTAA
Below are 2 captures from the live feed during the performances. Note: the first capture includes about 11 minutes of us waiting around backstage.
Watch live video from twhid on Justin.tv
Watch live video from twhid on Justin.tv
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Oct 05, 2010
More photos of ARTB (East)
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Oct 04, 2010
All Raise This Barn (East) build out.
posted at 14:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
With Thursday, our first day at the site, being scrubbed due to a heavy downpour, we built All Raise This Barn (East) with a core crew of four in the rain for 9 hours on Friday. We used hand saws and nails for the build with some screw guns used for the joist hangers on the roof. Tim and I added finish details on Saturday and Sunday before our afternoon You Don’t Konw What Your Talking About #MTAA performances. After the YDKWYTA performance, we went back to work on the barn in the late afternoons until the sun went down.
Crew building in rain on Friday.
All Raise This Barn stays on the RPI campus for the month to be used by various groups and clubs. More info on ARTB events as well more documentation of the building to come.
Thanks to all the folks who stopped by to say “hey”, toss paint and hammered nails.
Big thanks to Johannes Goebel and Kathleen Forde of EMPAC and RPI administration and students for their support of the project. permanent link to this post
Sep 28, 2010
links for 2010-09-27
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We, like you, have often wished while listening to a lecture, panel, speech or newscast to stand up and tell the speaker, "You do not know what you are talking about!" The artists sit behind a desk with two laptops and two microphones before them. Behind them a projection screen displays the text "#mtaa" and a timer. They announce the title of the performance, "You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About," and explain that for the duration of the performance, they will read any, only and all text sent to Twitter with the hash tag "#mtaa." The audience is invited to start twittering. MTAA need your tweets! We'll be doing the two, 10-minute performances of You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About at approximately 2:45PM Eastern Time on Saturday October 2nd and 3:45PM Eastern Time on Sunday October 3rd. Please tweet with the hash tag #mtaa and your tweets will be included in the performance.
Sep 25, 2010
links for 2010-09-24
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from the site… 'All Raise This Barn, West, a project by MTAA, proposes how to build a community when a quintessential community-building event—barn raising—no longer occurs. Here, the artists polled people online to decide how the barn would be built, asking what color it should be and even "Should this barn be a barn?".'
YDKWYTA #MTAA
Commissioned as part of Live Shorts for the EMPAC’s Filament Festival, MTAA present 2 performances of a new live work Oct 2 and Oct 3, 2010
“You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About #MTAA”
a live lecture/performance controlled by the audience and the Internet
Like you, we have often wished while listening to a lecture, speech or newscast to stand up and tell the speaker, “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
MTAA sit behind a desk with two laptops and two microphones before them. Behind them a projection screen displays the text “#mtaa” and a timer.
They announce the title of the performance: “You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About (#mtaa).” They explain that for the duration of the performance, they will read any, only and all text sent to Twitter with the hash tag “#mtaa.” They invite the audience to start twittering.
*We NEED your tweets!*
The 2 performances of *You Don’t Know What You’re Talking About #MTAA* are at approximately 2:45PM Eastern Time on Sat. October 2nd and 3:45PM Eastern Time on Sunday October 3rd. Each performance is roughly 15 minutes. Please tweet away with the hash tag #mtaa and you’re tweets will be included in the performance.
We’ll stream it live at http://justin.tv/twhid.
Some suggested topics of interest for YDKWYTA #MTAA
Art
The Internet
World Peace
World History
The Truth
Net Art
Performance Art
Spelling
Painting
Car Repair
Science
Metal
What The Kids Are Into These Days
Man Bartlett
Hippies
Barns
Bikes
Beer
Today’s Football Game
Dogs
Canada
and, of course, YDKWYTA in general…
Sep 24, 2010
radom friday post 09-24-10
posted at 16:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
All Raise This Barn(East) next Friday at EMPAC
artbarn.mtaa.net
+ new MTAA performance work on Sat 0ct 2 at 2pm and Sunday Oct 3 pm in EMPAC’s Studio 2 as part of the Filament Festival 2010. More info soon.
Also 01SJ on Dwell online
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links for 2010-09-23
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be evil. be very evil.
Sep 23, 2010
links for 2010-09-22
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Sep 17, 2010
radom friday post 09-17-10
posted at 17:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Also…
O1SJ is open
MTAA showed a new work in a fast food joint
The iPhone Drum Circle will be on wax someday
Chernobyl is creepy
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Sep 15, 2010
links for 2010-09-14
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Sep 13, 2010
All Raise This Barn (West) Photos
posted at 13:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Sep 10, 2010
ARTBarn: first day in San Jose
posted at 14:06 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
We arrived in San Jose around 11:30 AM PT and went straight to South Hall. The rest of the afternoon was spent arranging the barn-making materials into the ‘artful’ arrangement you see above (more photos).
We’ll be raising the barn tomorrow!
If you’re in San Jose (or thereabouts) you can come by South Hall any time from 11AM - 7PM. Register on-line if you can so we know how many folks to expect.
ALSO — we’ll be participating in an artist talk this evening in South Hall from 5:30 - 7:00PM! permanent link to this post
Sep 08, 2010
links for 2010-09-07
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Sep 03, 2010
random friday post 09-03-10
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Sep 01, 2010
All Raise This Barn Begins Today
posted at 12:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
All Raise This Barn (ARTBarn)
A group designed and assembled public building/sculpture
http://artbarn.mtaa.net/
Artists MTAA are conducting an old-fashioned barn-raising using high-tech techniques. The general public group-decides design, architectural, structural and aesthetic choices using a commercially-available barn-making kit as the starting point. The duo then conducts this 21st century barn-raising with volunteers — perhaps including you — on September 11, 2010 in San Jose’s South Hall and October 1, 2010 on the Renselear Polytechnic Institute’s campus. Will it be structure? A deconstructed sculpture? Some combination thereof? That’s for the you to choose
As of right now the online voting and design kicks off at
http://artbarn.mtaa.net/
Continuous voting, live performance, group drawing, and documentation runs until October 1, 2010
All Raise This Barn (West)On September 11, 2010 from 11am to 7pm in San Jose, CA, the first real world wood, saw, nail and sweat barn building begins. We’ll be prototyping and beta-testing the barn-raising performance as part of the 2010 01SJ Biennial’s Out of the Garage, Into the World program in San Jose’s South Hall. Learn more and register to participate on-line.
All Rise This Barn (East)
Then, on October 1, 2010 from 9am to 6pm in Troy, NY we build the final full scale barn. Join us on the campus of Renselear Polytechnic Institute for the barn-raising performance! The barn-building is part of the RPI’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center’s Filament Festival in Troy, NY.
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links for 2010-08-31
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Aug 31, 2010
links for 2010-08-30
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Aug 29, 2010
links for 2010-08-28
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… somewhat obnoxiously hijacked by an annoying person named Bird.
Aug 28, 2010
links for 2010-08-27
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MTAA approved!
Aug 27, 2010
random friday post 08-27-10
posted at 12:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2010-08-26
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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A multifunction utility for Mac OS X which allows you to verify the Startup Disk and the structure of its System files, to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight and many Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.
Aug 21, 2010
random friday post 08-20-10 (day late edition 08-21-10)
posted at 19:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Sorry for the late RFP, but I was upstate getting vote kiosks for All Raise This Barn (East) ready.
In other news…
McCoys move to Abu Dhabi and start a blog
Powhida explains that cable art talent contest.
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Aug 17, 2010
links for 2010-08-16
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Aug 16, 2010
links for 2010-08-15
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Aug 15, 2010
Summary Report on Story Time Again (Summer Animals)
posted at 20:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Story Time Again (Summer Animals)
Goal - Read with visitors at Wassiac Projects two texts (The House at Pooh Corner” (1928) Chapter 7 - In Which Tigger Is Unbounced and Quint’s U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue from the screen play “Stillness in The Water” AKA “JAWS”). Reading takes place outside exhibition space on blankets. Reading is hopefully interactive.
Result - No one came. I read the texts to empty blankets anyways.
My friend Charlie was the doorman at a nightclub in Columbus Ohio back in the 90’s. He always looked forward to nights when unknown local bands would play as only a handful of the band’s friends would show up. He could then spend a slow night reading at the door. One older local band was much loved and often booked by the owner. This band was loved by the owner but not so much by the college aged denizens of the club. Charlie also loved this band but for a different reason. He nicknamed them The Negative Guest Lists.
Live performance with an audience has some perils. If you fuck up, or if the audience is not into what’s going on, you know it immediately. Perhaps this is the reason visual artists tend to work with the safety and distance of video and editing. In a live moment, failure is seen and noted. Of the many things that can go wrong with live events, one of the hardest performance fails occurs when the curtain goes up and the theater is full of crickets. It’s a Michigan J. Frog moment and even a “free beer” sign outside the hall will not save you. At this point, you begin to question not only the quality of your work but your grasp of reality.
On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog or, in my case, a frog. This is, of course, unless you tweet about your #negativeguestlist. Which in my over-share online world I immediately did. Luckily I have some good tweet folks around. A kind reply came back from bhoggard “@mriver It’s still art whether anyone is there to listen.” and amusing update followed from museumnerd “If a sculpture falls out your 19th floor window and no one’s there to hear it. Is it still art? ( @bhoggard @mriver )” permanent link to this post
Goal - Read with visitors at Wassiac Projects two texts (The House at Pooh Corner” (1928) Chapter 7 - In Which Tigger Is Unbounced and Quint’s U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue from the screen play “Stillness in The Water” AKA “JAWS”). Reading takes place outside exhibition space on blankets. Reading is hopefully interactive.
Result - No one came. I read the texts to empty blankets anyways.
My friend Charlie was the doorman at a nightclub in Columbus Ohio back in the 90’s. He always looked forward to nights when unknown local bands would play as only a handful of the band’s friends would show up. He could then spend a slow night reading at the door. One older local band was much loved and often booked by the owner. This band was loved by the owner but not so much by the college aged denizens of the club. Charlie also loved this band but for a different reason. He nicknamed them The Negative Guest Lists.
Live performance with an audience has some perils. If you fuck up, or if the audience is not into what’s going on, you know it immediately. Perhaps this is the reason visual artists tend to work with the safety and distance of video and editing. In a live moment, failure is seen and noted. Of the many things that can go wrong with live events, one of the hardest performance fails occurs when the curtain goes up and the theater is full of crickets. It’s a Michigan J. Frog moment and even a “free beer” sign outside the hall will not save you. At this point, you begin to question not only the quality of your work but your grasp of reality.
On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog or, in my case, a frog. This is, of course, unless you tweet about your #negativeguestlist. Which in my over-share online world I immediately did. Luckily I have some good tweet folks around. A kind reply came back from bhoggard “@mriver It’s still art whether anyone is there to listen.” and amusing update followed from museumnerd “If a sculpture falls out your 19th floor window and no one’s there to hear it. Is it still art? ( @bhoggard @mriver )” permanent link to this post
links for 2010-08-14
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Aug 13, 2010
Reminder - Storytime
posted at 13:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Stop by and say “Hi”. If you want a ride up for the afternoon, shoot me an email. I plan to be back in NYC by 6pm.
http://www.tinjail.com/storytime/ permanent link to this post
random friday post 08-13-10
posted at 13:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2010-08-12
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… haven't really looked at this yet, but their copy describing it is pretty funny.
Aug 11, 2010
links for 2010-08-10
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… somewhat precious in it's approach (very precious) but some good hacks, tips & guidelines
Aug 06, 2010
random friday post 08-06-10 (part 2)
posted at 13:09 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In honor of shark week, here is Quint’s U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue from “Stillness in The Water” AKA “JAWS.” I’m reading this text on a blanket in Wassiac, NY a week from Saturday at 1pm as part of Story Time Again (Summer Animals). Stop by. We’ll have snacks.
update - just to remind, today 08-06-10 is the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima which destroyed Approximately 69% of the city’s buildings and killed, by the end of the year, from injury and radiation 90,000-140,000 people.
QUINT
Yeah. The U.S.S. Indianapolis. June 29th, 1945, three and a half minutes past midnight, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine slammed into our side. Two or three. We was still under sealed orders after deliverin’ the bomb…the Hiroshima bomb…we was goin’ back across the Pacific from Tinian to Leyte. Damn near eleven hundred men went over the side. The life boats was lashed down so tight to make the bomb run we couldn’t cut a single one adrift. Not one. And there was no rafts. None. That vessel sank in twelve minutes. Yes, that’s all she took. We didn’t see the first shark till we’d been in the water about an hour. A thirteen-footer near enough. A blue. You measure that by judgin’ the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know… of course the Captain knew…I guess some officers knew… was the bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signals was sent. What the men didn’t know was that they wouldn’t even list us as overdue for a week. Well, I didn’t know that — I wasn’t an officer — just as well perhaps. So some of us were dead already — in the water — just hangin’ limp in our lifejackets. And several already bleedin’. And the three hundred or so laying on the bottom of the ocean. As the light went, the sharks came crusin’. We formed tight groups — somewhat like squares in an old battle — You know what I mean — so that when one come close, the man nearest would yell and shout and pound the water and sometimes it worked and the fish turned away, but other times that shark would seem to look right at a man — right into his eyes — and in spite of all shoutin’ and poundin’ you’d hear that terrible high screamin’ and the ocean would go red, then churn up as they ripped him. Then we’d reform our little squares. By the first dawn the sharks had taken more than a hundred. Hard for me to count but more than a hundred. I don’t know how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I do know they averaged six men an hour. All kinds — blues, makos, tigers. All kinds.
(Pause)
In the middle of the second day, some of us started to go crazy from the thirst. One fella cried out he saw a river, another claimed he saw a waterfall, some started to drink the ocean and choked on it, and some left our little groups — our little squares — and swam off alone lookin’ for islands and the sharks always took them right away. It was mainly the young fellas that did that — the older ones stayed where they was. That second day — my life jacket rubbed me raw and that was more blood in the water. Oh my. On Thursday morning I bumped up against a friend of mine — Herbie Robinson from Cleveland — a bosun’s mate — it seemed he was asleep but when I reached over to waken him, he bobbed in the water and I saw his body upend because he’d been bitten in half beneath the waist. Well Chief, so it went on — bombers high overhead but nobody noticin’ us. Yes — suicides, sharks, and all this goin’ crazy and dyin’ of thirst. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura swung around and came in low. Yes. He did that. Yes, that pilot saw us. And early evenin’, a big fat PBY come down out of the sky and began the pickup. That was when I was most frightened of all — while I was waitin’ for my turn. Just two and a half hours short of five days and five nights when they got to me and took me up. Eleven hundred of us went into that ocean — three hundred and sixteen got out. Yeah. Nineteen hundred and forty five. June the 29th.
(pause)
Anyway, we delivered the bomb. permanent link to this post
update - just to remind, today 08-06-10 is the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima which destroyed Approximately 69% of the city’s buildings and killed, by the end of the year, from injury and radiation 90,000-140,000 people.
QUINT
Yeah. The U.S.S. Indianapolis. June 29th, 1945, three and a half minutes past midnight, two torpedoes from a Japanese submarine slammed into our side. Two or three. We was still under sealed orders after deliverin’ the bomb…the Hiroshima bomb…we was goin’ back across the Pacific from Tinian to Leyte. Damn near eleven hundred men went over the side. The life boats was lashed down so tight to make the bomb run we couldn’t cut a single one adrift. Not one. And there was no rafts. None. That vessel sank in twelve minutes. Yes, that’s all she took. We didn’t see the first shark till we’d been in the water about an hour. A thirteen-footer near enough. A blue. You measure that by judgin’ the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know… of course the Captain knew…I guess some officers knew… was the bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signals was sent. What the men didn’t know was that they wouldn’t even list us as overdue for a week. Well, I didn’t know that — I wasn’t an officer — just as well perhaps. So some of us were dead already — in the water — just hangin’ limp in our lifejackets. And several already bleedin’. And the three hundred or so laying on the bottom of the ocean. As the light went, the sharks came crusin’. We formed tight groups — somewhat like squares in an old battle — You know what I mean — so that when one come close, the man nearest would yell and shout and pound the water and sometimes it worked and the fish turned away, but other times that shark would seem to look right at a man — right into his eyes — and in spite of all shoutin’ and poundin’ you’d hear that terrible high screamin’ and the ocean would go red, then churn up as they ripped him. Then we’d reform our little squares. By the first dawn the sharks had taken more than a hundred. Hard for me to count but more than a hundred. I don’t know how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I do know they averaged six men an hour. All kinds — blues, makos, tigers. All kinds.
(Pause)
In the middle of the second day, some of us started to go crazy from the thirst. One fella cried out he saw a river, another claimed he saw a waterfall, some started to drink the ocean and choked on it, and some left our little groups — our little squares — and swam off alone lookin’ for islands and the sharks always took them right away. It was mainly the young fellas that did that — the older ones stayed where they was. That second day — my life jacket rubbed me raw and that was more blood in the water. Oh my. On Thursday morning I bumped up against a friend of mine — Herbie Robinson from Cleveland — a bosun’s mate — it seemed he was asleep but when I reached over to waken him, he bobbed in the water and I saw his body upend because he’d been bitten in half beneath the waist. Well Chief, so it went on — bombers high overhead but nobody noticin’ us. Yes — suicides, sharks, and all this goin’ crazy and dyin’ of thirst. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura swung around and came in low. Yes. He did that. Yes, that pilot saw us. And early evenin’, a big fat PBY come down out of the sky and began the pickup. That was when I was most frightened of all — while I was waitin’ for my turn. Just two and a half hours short of five days and five nights when they got to me and took me up. Eleven hundred of us went into that ocean — three hundred and sixteen got out. Yeah. Nineteen hundred and forty five. June the 29th.
(pause)
Anyway, we delivered the bomb. permanent link to this post
random friday post 08-06-10
posted at 12:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 04, 2010
links for 2010-08-03
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Aug 02, 2010
links for 2010-08-01
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Aug 01, 2010
links for 2010-07-31
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Jul 30, 2010
Story Time Again - (Summer Animals) 08.14.10 Wassaic, New York
posted at 15:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Story Time Again - (Summer Animals)
An unauthorised live dramatic group reading of A. A. Milne’s “The House at Pooh Corner” (1928) Chapter 7 - “In Which Tigger Is Unbounced” followed by an unauthorised 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.
On Saturday August 14, 2010 at 12 noon, a verbatim reading of “The House at Pooh Corner” Chapter 7 - “In Which Tigger Is Unbounced” will take place on a large picnic blanket in or near the grounds of Maxon Mill in Wassaic, New York as part of The Wassaic Project Summer Festival 2001. Snacks will be served and the reading will be filmed.
The next reading will take place on the blanket at 1pm. This will be a verbatim reading “Stillness in The Water” AKA “JAWS” centering on Quint’s U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue. Snacks will be served and the reading will be filmed.
http://www.tinjail.com/storytime/
http://www.wassaicproject.org/
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random friday post 07-30-10 (part 2)
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random friday post 07-30-10
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links for 2010-07-29
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Cory Arcangel's blog wherein he interviews artists about the creative process. 1st and only post is from June however…
Jul 28, 2010
links for 2010-07-27
posted at 02:03 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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It seems that John Gruber does more than pontificate on all things Apple :-)
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One of the most basic tests developers perform in JavaScript is whether or not a particular property exists on an object. Since feature detection is the preferred method of code forking, developers are encouraged to test for the existence of properties before using them.
Jul 27, 2010
links for 2010-07-26
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Jul 26, 2010
links for 2010-07-25
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Jul 25, 2010
links for 2010-07-24
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Jul 24, 2010
links for 2010-07-23
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Perhaps I lack imagination but I don't see how this would be useful…
Jul 21, 2010
links for 2010-07-20
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Jul 20, 2010
links for 2010-07-19
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… a small amount of playing around with this has left me very impressed.
Jul 16, 2010
random friday post 07-16-10
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cherry pie
posted at 13:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
An email came in late June from Elaine Tin Nyo. - “Yes, it’s that time of the year again. I’ll start making sour cherry pies this coming week–about one pie a day–until the sour cherries stop coming to the greenmarket.
Let me know if you would like to meet me for a slice. You can come to my place or I can meet you somewhere else. It’s perfectly acceptable to invite your friends too. I’d love to see you this July.”
Yesterday, what may be the last pie of the project came to work for the afternoon crew break. The pie, I think she said it was number 14, was still warm. It was delicious.
More on Elaine Tin Nyo’s projects at Nothing Happened Today
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Jul 15, 2010
links for 2010-07-14
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Jul 12, 2010
new work at Tinjail
posted at 13:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Greenpoint - video loop 2008 - 2010
15 minutes of sunrise looking East from the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the end of summer 2008 played at x15 speed and upside down above 15 minutes of sunset looking West from the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the beginning of summer 2008 played at x15 speed. permanent link to this post
15 minutes of sunrise looking East from the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the end of summer 2008 played at x15 speed and upside down above 15 minutes of sunset looking West from the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at the beginning of summer 2008 played at x15 speed. permanent link to this post
Jul 09, 2010
random friday post 07-09-10
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update: and some random links…
VVORK’s »MULTIPLEX«
Revealing Jon Rafman at BOMBLOG
BSNY’s BRA tour at Google HQ
Versions, 2010, Oliver Laric
some opening pics from Postmasters Defrosted
What are net art dorks wetting themselves over today?
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links for 2010-07-08
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Jul 02, 2010
random friday post 07-02-10
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Jul 01, 2010
links for 2010-06-30
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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…[Flash] will continue to play a critical role in video distribution
Jun 25, 2010
random friday post 06-25-10
posted at 12:23 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 23, 2010
links for 2010-06-23
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links for 2010-06-22
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Jun 18, 2010
random friday post 06-18-10 (part 2)
posted at 12:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
random friday post 06-18-10
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links for 2010-06-17
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Jun 15, 2010
links for 2010-06-14
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"Join ecoarttech at Smackmellon in NYC from June 20th through the 26th as we live and work in Mary Mattingly's Flock House, which will be exhibited as part of "Condensation of the Social." Each day from noon to 2pm ecoarttech will organize urban hikes (originating at Flock House), exploring convergent ecologies in the DUMBO area in support of our work Indeterminate Hikes. In addition we will conduct several evening events involving performance and conversations engaging ecologies of the social, psychic, digital and environmental. All events are open to the public."
Jun 12, 2010
links for 2010-06-11
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MTAA's "(LOVE + HATE) x 100" is part of this "showcase of short video forms created by web artists" collected by Marcin Ramocki.
Jun 11, 2010
random friday post 06-11-10 (part 3)
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random friday post 06-11-10 (part 2)
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ARTBOOM Festival 2010 and Marcin Ramocki have the pleasure to introduce Made in Internet, an online showcase featuring 23 international web based
artists.
Made in Internet
June 11-28, 2010, Krakow, Poland Featuring works by: 0100101110101101.ORG, Tamas Banovich, Michael Bell Smith, Petra Cortright, Paul B. Davis, Ursula Endlicher, Eteam, Joel Holmberg, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, MTAA, Luke Murphy, Marisa Olson, Paul Slocum, Jessie Stead, Harm Van Den Dorpel and Cj Yeh. Organized by Marcin Ramocki.
Also: Ramocki’s Assumed Mobility
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Made in Internet
June 11-28, 2010, Krakow, Poland Featuring works by: 0100101110101101.ORG, Tamas Banovich, Michael Bell Smith, Petra Cortright, Paul B. Davis, Ursula Endlicher, Eteam, Joel Holmberg, JODI, Guthrie Lonergan, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Tom Moody, MTAA, Luke Murphy, Marisa Olson, Paul Slocum, Jessie Stead, Harm Van Den Dorpel and Cj Yeh. Organized by Marcin Ramocki.
Also: Ramocki’s Assumed Mobility
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random friday post 06-11-10
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Jun 10, 2010
links for 2010-06-09
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… a small review of "Website Unseen #01: Random Access Mortality" by Curt Cloninger for Rhizome. The piece is from 02, but the review appeared in 03 for some reason.
Jun 09, 2010
links for 2010-06-08
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Jun 05, 2010
links for 2010-06-04
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… worky work
Jun 04, 2010
random friday 06-04-10
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Jun 03, 2010
links for 2010-06-02
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… Flash Player written in JavaScript! Crazy!
Jun 01, 2010
back from upstate
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May 28, 2010
random friday 5-28-10 (part 2)
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LeRoy Stevens: his very own financial meltdown (telegraph.co.uk)
From The Birds Mouth permanent link to this post
random friday 5-28-10
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7am visit to the wb2010 with some very sleepy guards. Did not see Man Bartlett on his #24hOpen unless he was one of the two people I woke up with a camera flash in one of the video rooms. Oops.
Update - Some background from the LAT (via T.Whid) permanent link to this post
May 27, 2010
links for 2010-05-26
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May 21, 2010
random friday 5-21-10 (part 2)
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random friday 5-21-10
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links for 2010-05-20
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M.River did this. But I approved it!
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This could come in handy for all sorts of fun stuff.
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May 20, 2010
links for 2010-05-19
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from the site… "The Google Font Directory provides high-quality web fonts that you can include in your pages using the Google Font API."
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Google opens VP8, pairs it with Vorbis, wraps it in Matroska (http://www.matroska.org/) calls it WebM. Support from Mozilla, Adobe… no mention of Apple or Microsoft.
May 18, 2010
links for 2010-05-17
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May 15, 2010
links for 2010-05-14
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May 14, 2010
random friday post 5-13-10
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May 11, 2010
links for 2010-05-10
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jQuery client-side table sorting, pagination, etc
May 07, 2010
radom friday 5-7-10 (part 2)
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Vernacular Alien World Drawing Championship, Maryland - group drawing performance on paper, 2009
VA Transfer 1:1 - silver paint marker with sliver paint on canvas (diptych), 2010 permanent link to this post
AutoTrace #2 (Miro’s Nocturne; performative) How To Part 3
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In Part 2
we transferred the image to the canvass. It’s now time to paint.
We then used a “magic” eraser to soften the back grid.
Here it is post “magic.”
Next up, finishing details. permanent link to this post
We then used a “magic” eraser to soften the back grid.
Here it is post “magic.”
Next up, finishing details. permanent link to this post
random friday post 5-7-10
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Frank (Again)- performance drawing, 2007
Frank (Again) Transfer 1:1 - painting, 2010
Frank (Again) Chat Transcript 2007
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links for 2010-05-06
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Google learns ya on how not to get pwned.
May 02, 2010
links for 2010-05-01
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Awesome collection!
May 01, 2010
links for 2010-04-30
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from the article: "The future of the web is HTML5. Microsoft is deeply engaged in the HTML5 process with the W3C. HTML5 will be very important in advancing rich, interactive web applications and site design. The HTML5 specification describes video support without specifying a particular video format. We think H.264 is an excellent format. In its HTML5 support, IE9 will support playback of H.264 video only." I thought that MS had already announced this, but I guess the earlier announcement was that they'd support H.264. This new announcement they'll ONLY support H.264 in the video tag.
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Handy
Apr 30, 2010
rocket boom’s kym finds out..
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random friday post 4-30-10
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Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand? The story of good and evil? H-A-T-E! It was with this left hand that old brother Cain struck the blow that laid his brother low. L-O-V-E! You see these fingers, dear hearts? These fingers has veins that run straight to the soul of man. The right hand, friends, the hand of love. Now watch, and I’ll show you the story of life. Those fingers, dear hearts, is always a-warring and a-tugging, one agin t’other. Now watch ‘em! Old brother left hand, left hand he’s a fighting, and it looks like love’s a goner. But wait a minute! Hot dog, love’s a winning! Yessirree! It’s love that’s won, and old left hand hate is down for the count!
Night of the Hunter, 1955
Do the Right Thing 1989
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links for 2010-04-29
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During the summer of 2009, I enlisted MTAA in an email-based interview regarding the practical consequences and conceptual implications associated with producing their participatory poll and performance ["Automatic for the People: ( )"] for SFMOMA. — by David Duncan
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… the Jobs hisself on Flash, iPhone, iPad, etc
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MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram and Commons Art Diagram included in this show.
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Install view of MTAA's Simple Net Art Diagram and Commons Art Diagram in Übersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode. (Group exhibition, Vienna/Austria) More here: http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=2933
Apr 29, 2010
AFTP: ( ) interview on Rhizome
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Apr 28, 2010
links for 2010-04-27
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BBEdit finally fixes the syntax-highlighting of JS embedded in (X)HTML documents!!!!!!!1!! "Syntax coloring for embedded JavaScript and CSS (in HTML documents, between <script>..</script> and <style>..</style> tags, respectively) will now end at the appropriate closing tag, rather than at the first occurrence of </ after the opening tag. This behavior is correct for XHTML and XML, but not for HTML 4.x and earlier; but it is more closely aligned with browser behaviors and user expectations." (Yes. I'm a dork.)
Apr 27, 2010
links for 2010-04-26
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Apr 23, 2010
Random Friday post from T.Whid 4-23-10
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Here’s some High on Fire for ya! FROST HAMMER!!!!!!!!
High on Fire: Frost Hammer at Pitchfork permanent link to this post
High on Fire: Frost Hammer at Pitchfork permanent link to this post
links for 2010-04-22
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The simplest one I've found.
Apr 22, 2010
links for 2010-04-21
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… someone — probably an artist-prankster, the locals suspect — strung a nylon line across a small, fenced lot under the bridge, on a median along Queens Plaza South in Long Island City, and then hung more than a dozen articles of fresh, white clothing from it.
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Demo of HTML5's canvas and video API
Apr 21, 2010
links for 2010-04-20
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This library has been overkill for what I do, but who knows…?
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Could come in handy…
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Kinda dorky but could come in handy
Apr 20, 2010
links for 2010-04-19
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Apr 19, 2010
AutoTrace #2 (Miro’s Nocturne; performative) How To Part 2
posted at 13:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Welcome back to Autotrace #2 How To.
When we left off in Part 1, the canvass was stretched and ready for image transfer.
For the image transfer, the first thing you will need to do is print out an image of Autotrace #2 and place a grid over it. Here is the one we used.
Next, you will need to grid the canvass. We used a 6” grid drawn in with pencil.
You are now ready to transfer the image. Using the grid for reference points, we started by free handing the lines. Then, using 1/4 inch plywood cut into a 2 inch by 4 foot strip, we bowed the wood (on edge) over the lines and retraced. This gave the archs a crisper line.
It will take some time to transfer the image. Using your drawing as a guide, you should feel free to erase lines and retrace them until they seem correct.
Next up, painting. permanent link to this post
When we left off in Part 1, the canvass was stretched and ready for image transfer.
For the image transfer, the first thing you will need to do is print out an image of Autotrace #2 and place a grid over it. Here is the one we used.
Next, you will need to grid the canvass. We used a 6” grid drawn in with pencil.
You are now ready to transfer the image. Using the grid for reference points, we started by free handing the lines. Then, using 1/4 inch plywood cut into a 2 inch by 4 foot strip, we bowed the wood (on edge) over the lines and retraced. This gave the archs a crisper line.
It will take some time to transfer the image. Using your drawing as a guide, you should feel free to erase lines and retrace them until they seem correct.
Next up, painting. permanent link to this post
Apr 18, 2010
links for 2010-04-17
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New bike shop (24th btw 6 & 7)
Apr 17, 2010
links for 2010-04-16
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Apr 16, 2010
random friday post 4-16-10
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links for 2010-04-15
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What a bunch of morons.
Apr 10, 2010
untitled iphone photos
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For all you fans of the tintype photo blog and m.river’s flickr site who have wondered how you can get your hands on a print, you’re in luck. Next week, 2 prints go up for purchase for 2 local art group benefits
A COMMUNIST GALA “ a benefit for artists by artists”
SATURDAY APRIL 17, 12 - 7pm
at CUCHIFRITOS Gallery/Project Space
Essex Street market - 120 Essex Street, New York, NY 10002
http://aai-nyc.org
I Heart Art WORK/Wassaic Spring Fundraiser
SATURDAY, APRIL 17th, 2010 1pm - 5pm
at WORK - 65 Union Street, Brooklyn NY 11231
http://wassaicproject.com/wp/springfund.html
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Apr 09, 2010
random friday post 4-9-10
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links for 2010-04-08
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… very self-referential I know…
Apr 08, 2010
links for 2010-04-07
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Apr 06, 2010
links for 2010-04-05
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I've finally discovered why BBEdit is such a pain my ass when it comes to syntax coloring JavaScript within HTML documents.
Apr 04, 2010
AutoTrace #2 (Miro’s Nocturne; performative) How To Part 1
posted at 13:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As you might recall, back in 2008 MTAA conducted their first Performative Autotrace during a lecture conducted for the Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use and Copyright in the Digital Age symposium at UC Berkeley. For the lecture we autotraced a reproduction of Joan Miro’s Nocturne and placed the resulting vector graphic online for download in SVG2 format. We then encouraged people to output their own version of the work but so far, we have not heard of anyone attempting it.
So, now that we have Autotrace #4 under our belts, we thought it might be a good time to go back and output the Berkeley work. We will be posting our progress and instructions so that you can follow along at home.
First thing you will need to do is download the work from the link above and print it out. Next go to your local paint store and match the color.
or just copy the Ben Moore formula we picked out.
After that you will need to stretch a canvass. We went with “as-big-as-we-can-make-it-and-still-fit-it-out-the-studio-door-without-unstretching” (108” x 72”) size. You can go with any size canvass you want or just pick out a wall you like.
Once we got the canvass together, we sealed it with matte medium
That’s it for this week. Next up - image transfer. permanent link to this post
random friday post 04-02-10
Apr 02, 2010
links for 2010-04-01
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I wish I was an abstract superclass… :-)
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PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript. This seems the best as it supports OS's other than the iphone
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A list of tools/frameworks to help develop iphone apps without using obj-c.
Apr 01, 2010
BERSETZUNG IST EINE FORM. | TRANSLATION IS A MODE.
posted at 16:17 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
UEBERSETZUNG IST EINE FORM. | TRANSLATION IS A MODE.
Location/duration:
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna/Austria, kunstraum.net
08 April 2010, 7 pm (Opening), 09 April - 29 May 2010
Featuring works by:
Eva Beierheimer / Miriam Laussegger, Aylor Brown / Arend deGryuter-Helfer, Gerhard Dirmoser, Aleksandra Domanovic, Jochen Hoeller, Michael Kargl - aka carlos katastrofsky, Annja Krautgasser, Michail Michailov, MTAA (M. River & T. Whid Art Associates), Joerg Piringer, Arnold Reinthaler, Veronika Schubert, Johanna Tinzl / Stefan Flunger
“Just as a tangent touches a circle lightly and at but one point, with this touch rather than with the point setting the law according to which it is to continue on its straight path to infinity, a translation touches the original lightly and only at the infinitely small point of the sense, thereupon pursuing its own course according to the laws of fidelity in the freedom of linguistic flux.” (Walter Benjamin)
Manner, quality, version, condition, design, look, shape, arrangement, fashion, style, way, cut, type, structure and form… a quick search of any dictionary and online translation programme gives numerous results for the English term mode. The path of translation, however, is a long one when a text is to be transferred into another language and ascribed new purposes in order ultimately to learn that each new reception entails a change in meaning in the sense of interpretation n translation, a mode?
Based on philological-linguistic translation theories, the exhibition “Uebersetzung ist eine Form. | Translation is a mode.” shows 13 contemporary positions of language-based conceptual art relating to the broad subject area of translation. The focus of consideration is, on the one hand, on translation processes inherent in the work, which are scrutinised regarding their mutual relationship at the level of the content, the medium and the form. On the other hand it illuminates context-related interpretation processes, which influence the individual works of art from a curatorial as well as from the recipientis perspective and locate them as an indispensable practice in the world of mutual dependences and networking. As a result, linguistically critical elements come into view that are related to socio-economic, socio-political and not least (art-) institutional contexts and transferred to the phenomenon of translation.
curated by CONT3XT.NET
For the exhibition, CONT3XT.NET selected 2 MTAA works.
Simple Net Art Diagram (ca. 1997) | Commons Art Diagram (2007)
Installation, web page on server | paper poster, black and white
As an agreement to the nature of the exhibition, we gave the curators the sole responsibility of translating these two digital works into the physical exhibition. From this quick first jpeg of the instalation, it looks they made great choices with the output. The following is their text about the works.
Two computers, linked by a cable with a flashing red spark sign on it captioned The art happens here. As early as 1997, with Simple Net Art Diagram (ca. 1997), the artist duo MTAA (M. River & T. Whid Art Associates) were visualising the fundamental processual approach of internet-based art. Their diagram, however, is not just an attempt to relate to the technological and media conditions of net art, but also to the questions that are immanent in art, which had already been posed by predecessors in the 1960s/70s. If in Simple Net Art Diagram it was just two computers illustrating the network, in Commons Art Diagram (2007), produced ten years later, it is a strictly market-regulated commercialisation system in which the internet-based art ihappensi today. Again, The art happens here is the accompanying text to the spark, but this time it is surrounded by symbols for music, data, moving images, texts and logos of alternative copyright licences. permanent link to this post
links for 2010-03-31
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Mar 31, 2010
t.whid birthday
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links for 2010-03-30
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Mar 30, 2010
links for 2010-03-29
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Mar 29, 2010
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Mar 28, 2010
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YES! Completely agree. Why I've always considered myself a geek and not a nerd. Most of my friends are geeks of course.
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…in IE9, which also supports the video tag and h.264. Things are looking good for the web :)
Mar 27, 2010
#class thesis response
posted at 19:32 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
William Powhida posted to the hashtagclass blog a call for reflections on the project. He specifically asked participants to respond to the original thesis statement:
My short reply follows.
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Speaking as someone who has created art on the web (& Internet), in comic books, via email and other populist formulations I’d say that this statement is only true for art that is created in such a way as to make it scarce. If it’s not scarce, it’s no longer a luxury. Simple economics.
An artist chooses to make their work scarce. Current media creation and dissemination technologies make it stupidly simple to make one’s work unscarce. If one chooses.
Speaking as someone trained as a painter, I can understand a painter’s objection to this idea. Their expression requires scarcity. A painting, sculpture or drawing can only be in one place at any one time obviously. But artists working in these types of media shouldn’t do so ignorantly — especially if they’re worried about the class implications of the distribution of their work. There are other means of expression.
It’s not required to play in the art world system to make work or find an audience.
Making a living? That’s another story… permanent link to this post
Art is a luxury commodity for the wealthy that limits the possibility of ownership, understanding, and access based on class, education and geography.
My short reply follows.
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Speaking as someone who has created art on the web (& Internet), in comic books, via email and other populist formulations I’d say that this statement is only true for art that is created in such a way as to make it scarce. If it’s not scarce, it’s no longer a luxury. Simple economics.
An artist chooses to make their work scarce. Current media creation and dissemination technologies make it stupidly simple to make one’s work unscarce. If one chooses.
Speaking as someone trained as a painter, I can understand a painter’s objection to this idea. Their expression requires scarcity. A painting, sculpture or drawing can only be in one place at any one time obviously. But artists working in these types of media shouldn’t do so ignorantly — especially if they’re worried about the class implications of the distribution of their work. There are other means of expression.
It’s not required to play in the art world system to make work or find an audience.
Making a living? That’s another story… permanent link to this post
links for 2010-03-26
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m.river gots da best art foto blog
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Jimmy Wales at the New Museum Apr 8. I have fond memories of sharing wi-fi with Mr. Wales in a sweaty little gallery in Dubrovnik in '06 during the iCommons Summit. It was before the general conference showed up. Just a few people (mostly artists) hanging around. Good times :)
Mar 26, 2010
random friday post 03-26-10
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Abramovic photo tinjail.tumblr
Brand New Paint Job (Jon Rafman) - Gerhard Richter Delorean
Happy 10 to Newsgrist
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Mar 25, 2010
links for 2010-03-24
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MTAA's autotrace #class at Winkleman Gallery
Mar 23, 2010
links for 2010-03-22
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MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection.
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"they can’t say Firefox only supports free and open video formats while still supporting Flash" — Gruber's very good point is very simple: Firefox users are still goning to get H.264, but delivered via Flash instead of a native video tag. So Mozilla, what is the point?
Mar 20, 2010
Autotrace #4 (Fishman’s Moving and Being; performative) report
posted at 14:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Autotrace is series of works in which we use software to trace jpegs of paintings. The resulting vector graphics are used to create new artworks. Thursday night at Winkleman Gallery, we presented the 4th piece in the series as a part of #class.
In the heart of the Autotrace #4 performance, we asked the audience to pick one painter. They selected Louise Fishman. Then, from a Google Image search, one jpeg of her work to Autotrace. They selected the painting Moving and Being.
Using customized software to automate Adobe Illustrator, we have distilled the tracing process down to a simple drag-and-drop action. In this one action, the jpeg of Fishman’s “Moving and Being” was dropped onto the Autotrace software. The script launched, the software centered the image, traced each brush stroke and shape in the painting creating vector graphics for each, matched a color to each vector graphic, picked one random shape from the painting, deleted the other shapes and finally scaled-up the selected vector graphic to the size of the projection screen.
To output this new work we picked a stick of chalk that was close in color to it and I traced the outline of the shape onto the chalkboard-painted gallery wall.
Once the image was one the wall, T.Whid deleted all traces of the work from his computer’s hard drive. The artwork, now erased from the gallery wall, exists only in written and photographic documentation.
Thanks to
#class,
Winkleman Gallery,
Jennifer Dalton,
and William Powhida
so, remember kids…
Update - Here is some video posted by Kai Vierstra
(Note: T.Whid copy-edited this a tad after publication.) permanent link to this post
In the heart of the Autotrace #4 performance, we asked the audience to pick one painter. They selected Louise Fishman. Then, from a Google Image search, one jpeg of her work to Autotrace. They selected the painting Moving and Being.
Using customized software to automate Adobe Illustrator, we have distilled the tracing process down to a simple drag-and-drop action. In this one action, the jpeg of Fishman’s “Moving and Being” was dropped onto the Autotrace software. The script launched, the software centered the image, traced each brush stroke and shape in the painting creating vector graphics for each, matched a color to each vector graphic, picked one random shape from the painting, deleted the other shapes and finally scaled-up the selected vector graphic to the size of the projection screen.
To output this new work we picked a stick of chalk that was close in color to it and I traced the outline of the shape onto the chalkboard-painted gallery wall.
Once the image was one the wall, T.Whid deleted all traces of the work from his computer’s hard drive. The artwork, now erased from the gallery wall, exists only in written and photographic documentation.
Thanks to
#class,
Winkleman Gallery,
Jennifer Dalton,
and William Powhida
so, remember kids…
Update - Here is some video posted by Kai Vierstra
(Note: T.Whid copy-edited this a tad after publication.) permanent link to this post
random friday 03-19-10 (late edition)
posted at 13:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
a day late but by popular demand (and by that i mean at least tim seems to have noticed it was missing ) here is your random friday mtaa-rr post
although the random friday post are for the most part random, this one points to the reason the random friday post is late.
coming up next week, the random friday post goes on the road to troy, ny permanent link to this post
Guess they are random…
posted at 12:39 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
I guess M.River’s ‘random Friday’ posts really are random as he missed yesterday :-(
M.River’s random Friday… permanent link to this post
M.River’s random Friday… permanent link to this post
links for 2010-03-19
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test layouts in different browsers (via Barry Hoggard)
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We'll be doing this in September.
Mar 19, 2010
Autotrace #4 (Fishman’s Moving and Being; performative)
posted at 12:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
photos from last night’s Autotrace #4 at #class
more details later today… permanent link to this post
links for 2010-03-18
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Mozilla needs to wise up.
Mar 18, 2010
autotrace #4 tonight
posted at 13:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
mccoys at #class
reminder - mtaa’s autotrace #4 tonight (6:30) at #class
winkleman gallery 621 west 27th street, new york, ny 10001 permanent link to this post
links for 2010-03-17
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… according to this article MS promises mp4 and h.264 video support in IE9. We'll see.
Mar 17, 2010
links for 2010-03-16
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Mar 14, 2010
links for 2010-03-13
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"Welcome to AutoTrace - a program for converting bitmap to vector graphics. The aim of the AutoTrace project is the development of a freely available application with a functionality similar to CorelTrace or Adobe Streamline. I hope that it will become better than all commercially available programs. In some aspects it is already better. AutoTrace is free software. AutoTrace is distributed under the term of GNU GPL." [ *** Adobe Streamline*** That is ole skool hahahaha]
Mar 13, 2010
Reminder: Autotrace #4 at #class THIS WEEK!
posted at 17:54 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Autotrace #4
MTAA will conduct a live demonstration of our art-making technique called “Autotrace.”
The performative variety of the Autotrace takes the form of a live, public demonstration of the technique. The mechanics of the autotrace are performed on the artists’ computer and projected before an audience. Usually the performance concludes after a single vector shape is randomly chosen from the autotraced bitmap and presented as a new aesthetic object i.e. work of art.
More on MTAA’s Autotrace series: Autotrace #2 (Nocturne; performative) and AutoTrace #1 (Full Fathom Five).
The performance will be followed by a Q&A.
When? Thu, March 18, 6:30pm - 7:30pm | add to google calendar
Where? Winkleman Gallery as part of #class (organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida)
621 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001
More can be discovered by searching Twitter for #class. permanent link to this post
links for 2010-03-12
posted at 02:03 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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The NYPOST is a horrible, right-wing rag but this is pretty funny. Every cyclist in NYC noticed that this feature needs lots of work.
Mar 12, 2010
random friday post 03-12-10
posted at 15:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 11, 2010
links for 2010-03-10
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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Biking directions added to Google Maps!!!!!!!1!
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"By at least one amusing new metric, Michelangelo’s unofficial 500-year run at the top of the Italian art charts has ended. Caravaggio, who somehow found time to paint when he wasn’t brawling, scandalizing pooh-bahs, chasing women (and men), murdering a tennis opponent with a dagger to the groin, fleeing police assassins or getting his face mutilated by one of his many enemies, has bumped him from his perch."
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Some pretty good icons…
Mar 10, 2010
cory’s new painting
posted at 16:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2010-03-09
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Mar 09, 2010
links for 2010-03-08
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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… happy to announce that we’re releasing an OS X application that does one thing: plays back a playlist of videos randomly until you make it stop. It's not the most user-friendly piece of software, but it gets the job done.
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… Electronic Disturbance Theater/b.a.n.g. lab […], have opted instead to create a poetic gesture and safety device, equipped to identify water caches on the U.S. side of the border.
Random Video App
posted at 01:05 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
I’m happy to announce that we’re releasing an OS X application that does one thing: plays back a playlist of videos randomly until you make it stop.
We call it Random Video App.
If you want to play back a bunch of videos randomly from a Macintosh computer, this will do it for you. It uses the QuickTime framework so any video that QuickTime can play will be played by this app. We’ve used it to play SD and HD video in real-world gallery situations.
Most of the code was originally written by Alex Galloway for MTAA’s “One Year Performance Video (gallery version).” It was then updated for “Karaoke Deathmatch 100.” It’s been updated and used for other pieces over the years.
For this public release, I’ve updated and streamlined the software a bit and done other little adjustments to make it suitable for distribution.
Again, it does one thing: plays back a playlist of videos completely randomly. It’s been well-tested in the real world where it’s run video installations for hours and hours with no crashes, freezes, panics or other nasty things occurring.
Download Random Video App
It’s important that you read the readme.txt distributed with the software or you won’t know how to use it. If you find it useful and you use it, let us know. It would make us happy to know it was useful to you.
more notes
- This version of the software has only been tested on OS X 10.5. If you try it on other versions of the OS and it works. Awesome! Drop us an email and let us know.
- It won’t work on Power PC-based computers. But it may if you re-compile it, which brings me to the next note…
- If you want the source let me know. It’s open source, but I’m just too lazy to clean it all up for distribution unless someone actually wants it.
Mar 07, 2010
links for 2010-03-06
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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from Rhizome, "Ryder Ripps, of Internet Archaeology, along with Tim Baker (Delicious) and Scott Van Damme (MIT Exhibit), recently launched a beta version of dump.fm, a chat room where participants communicate solely through images. The site combines the creative back and forth of surf clubs, tumblr’s loose and rapid-fire network of image transmission, and the real time spontaneity of an old school chat room."
Mar 06, 2010
links for 2010-03-05
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Mar 05, 2010
random friday post 03-05-10
posted at 13:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2010-03-04
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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"For the past fifty years, the Museum of Modern Art has been separating artists from their politics and in so doing sanitizing the history of Modern Art. 'Communist Tour of MoMA' connects the history of Modern Art to history of the 20th century Communist movement."
Mar 04, 2010
links for 2010-03-03
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Mar 02, 2010
links for 2010-03-01
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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We're new media artists. :-)
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Upgrade! NY presents the Collaborative Futures book launch and talk. Collaborative Futures, book about free collaboration written collaboratively over five days during the 2010 Transmediale Festival, locked six writers and one programmer in a Berlin hotel room to collaboratively write a book about the future of free collaboration; the authors started with only the title, and ended the week with a book.
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Rob Myers reviews the exhibition Digital Pioneers, at the V & A Museum. An overview of the first decades of the computer's history in art and design. including some of the earliest computer-generated works in the V&A's collections, many of which have never been exhibited in the UK before.
Feb 28, 2010
links for 2010-02-27
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Feb 26, 2010
random friday post 02-26-10
posted at 13:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2010-02-25
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Feb 25, 2010
links for 2010-02-24
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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"Whid is a simple application that keeps track of time." No I am NOT! WTF? LOL! Er. I don't like it, not one bit.
Feb 24, 2010
did not make it to colgate
posted at 18:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
links for 2010-02-23
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Feb 23, 2010
links for 2010-02-22
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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"Dear Google, With your purchase of On2, you now own both the world's largest video site (YouTube) and all the patents behind a new high performance video codec — VP8. Just think what you can achieve by releasing the VP8 codec under an irrevocable royalty-free license and pushing it out to users on YouTube? You can end the web's dependence on patent-encumbered video formats and proprietary software (Flash)."
Feb 22, 2010
Autotrace #4 at #class March 18
posted at 19:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA’s Autotrace #4 at #class
Organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida
http://hashtagclass.blogspot.com/
http://www.winkleman.com/
When - Thu, March 18, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Description - Artists MTAA will demonstrate “Autotrace,” a completely automatic, software-generated appropriation and shape creation system.
Winkleman Gallery
621 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 permanent link to this post
links for 2010-02-21
posted at 02:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Feb 20, 2010
links for 2010-02-20
posted at 21:02 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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Not sure why he doesn't just get a blog; probably could make a good amount of cheddar off the adverts.
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Michael-Bell Smith's mesmerizing Faceted Sphere on An Escalator (via http://Rhizome.org)
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More rumors on Jobs dissing Flash…
Feb 19, 2010
links for 2010-02-19
posted at 21:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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gotta see this show — "What’s Left: Art Made by a Public showcases four significant artworks made since the 1960s that are activated by public engagement. Situated between conceptualism, performance, intervention and public art, the exhibition raises questions concerning documentation and archive, event and object."
random friday post 02-19-10
Feb 18, 2010
links for 2010-02-18
posted at 21:02 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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Handy
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Organized by the Art, Culture & Tech Meetup
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the true new yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding. - john updike (no linkage to prove it's Updike, but sounds about right)
1071
posted at 20:02 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
1071
this is a test. this is a test of the mtaa-rr blog system. if this was an actual blog post, information about stuff would be down here. this is only a test.
permanent link to this postFeb 17, 2010
links for 2010-02-17
posted at 21:02 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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Art in America covers #class (hash tag class) in which MTAA is participating.
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Post Media Manifesto … apropos that the Post Media Manifesto author neglected to add the <title> tag to their page? Viewing source, I see there is an attempt to link to a style sheet using a 'file:///' url. The Post Media author perhaps should study the basics of new media before going post? The author also has a hotmail account.
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… essay by Ed Halter
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CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based initiative founded in January 2006. It is run by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl (aka carlos katastrofsky), Birgit Rinagl, and Franz Thalmair as a collaborative tool for the presentation, discussion, and critical investigation of tendencies in contemporary (media) art.
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thx Adobe!
Feb 16, 2010
links for 2010-02-16
posted at 21:03 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
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the Hoggard Wagner Art Collection launches (in beta)
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this video has been removed
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… it's just stuff to use :-)
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The final blow will be the day that YouTube switches off Flash and starts streaming only to HTML5 browsers. On that day all browsers will be HTML5 compatible or they will perish in the flames of user outrage. [twhid: not sure that day will ever happen…]
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Adobe dude says they're not blocking HTML5…
Feb 15, 2010
links for 2010-02-15
posted at 12:03 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Feb 12, 2010
random friday post 02-12-10
posted at 13:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Heart shaped template for group drawing project at Colgate February 24.
and
Untitled 100 Steps via Twitter
March 17, 2009 to February 6, 2010
twitter.com/mriver
also
magdasawon “I propose a parlor game: categorize art stars as: “clown”, “candy” or “other” - see where we end up with.” MTAA would like to be thought of as “part-other-candy-part-other-clown and a bit other-other” Hope that clears that up. Thanks. permanent link to this post
Feb 09, 2010
7 years! blog-o-versary
posted at 13:08 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Pathetically, not much has changed around here since last year. STILL haven’t moved this thing over to Wordpress. Maybe this year…
Luckily M.River’s keeping it running.
The required link to the first post.
More importantly, it’s Alligators in the Sewers Day! permanent link to this post
Luckily M.River’s keeping it running.
The required link to the first post.
More importantly, it’s Alligators in the Sewers Day! permanent link to this post
Lee Walton WAPPENING #4 NY/SF right now
posted at 00:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
At this moment, a man is locked to a bench in Union Square Park, SF.
To unlock him, find the woman in the red scarf at Atlas Cafe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is the only person that knows the combination to the lock. She will give it to you.
more info via facebook
Sigh. I just put a pizza in the oven.
Update 7:58pm EST. Fine then. I’m going to get my thermals on and bike over to the cafe. Back in about an hour.
Update 8:55pm EST 07-33-15
Update 9:20pm EST Looks like he is free. permanent link to this post
To unlock him, find the woman in the red scarf at Atlas Cafe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is the only person that knows the combination to the lock. She will give it to you.
more info via facebook
Sigh. I just put a pizza in the oven.
Update 7:58pm EST. Fine then. I’m going to get my thermals on and bike over to the cafe. Back in about an hour.
Update 8:55pm EST 07-33-15
Update 9:20pm EST Looks like he is free. permanent link to this post
Feb 05, 2010
race news
posted at 16:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Best of luck to my brother Greg and his team for this weekends ARCA race in Daytona. In general, I don’t know much about stock car racing and I’m not sure how much my brother knows much about contemporary art but we both agree that car 38 looks bad ass this year. permanent link to this post
random friday post 02-05-10
posted at 13:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
what a misunderstanding
NYT - At London Sale, a Giacometti Sets a Record
permanent link to this post
Feb 02, 2010
barn rnd
posted at 15:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 30, 2010
fanboy builds PS3 game based on Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2
posted at 23:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 29, 2010
random friday post 01-29-10
posted at 13:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
field-notes.tumblr.com
tinjail.tumblr.com
tigerloveschimp.tumblr.com
urmean2computer.tumblr.com
and
If not you not me. Annie Abrahams at HTTP Gallery, London. 12 February - 20 March 2010
and (an update)
Black Bania. Elaine Tin Nyo’s sauna/ snack tipi on frozen Medicine Lake near Minneapolis MN as part of Art Shanty Projects. She posted on FB this morning that is -4. Dang.
permanent link to this post
Jan 22, 2010
random friday post 01-22-10
posted at 12:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Bruce Nauman - The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths (Window or Wall Sign), 1967 permanent link to this post
Jan 18, 2010
alternating pink and “gold” x 2
posted at 14:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dan Flavin - alternating pink and “gold”, 1967 shot from mriver’s phone on 01-15-10 and twhid’s phone on 01-16-10 permanent link to this post
Jan 15, 2010
random friday post 01-15-10
posted at 13:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
AutoTrace #3 (Number 1A, performative) at Light Industry, NY, 2009 - unique vector file autotraced from Jackson Pollack’s Number 1A. The file was created before of a live audience at Light Industry, Brooklyn. A sample output method of the file was demonstrated as a two minute blue tape drawing on the wall. The file was then transferred onto a flash drive. All copies of the file were deleted from laptop. Flash drive with sole file was given away to audience member permanent link to this post
Jan 08, 2010
random friday post 01-08-10
posted at 22:05 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
