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Biting my nails over video codecs again

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If you’re in Grand Rapids, swing by UICA.

‘Luminous art’ exhibit illuminates galleries at Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/01/luminous_art_exhibit_illuminat.html

GRAND RAPIDS — The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts hopes to eclipse winter’s darkness with a new exhibit, “Beacons: An Exhibition of Luminous Art.”

UICA last year launched a national campaign inviting artists to light up the various rooms and galleries inside the facility at 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE.

The show, which runs through Feb. 13, features 33 local and national artists who use film and video projections, light installations, sound installations, images, objects and more to visually and physically ignite the UICA.

IF YOU GO

‘Beacons: An Exhibition of Luminous Art’

When: Friday through Feb. 13; opening reception 6-9 p.m. Friday

Where: Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, 41 Sheldon Blvd. SE

Hours: Noon-10 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon-7 p.m. Sunday

Admission: Free

More info: 454-7000, uica.org

Artists include: Michelle Acuff, Dave Beck, Benjamin Bellas, Collin Bradford, Tiffany Carbonneau, Kia Carscallen, Hunter Cole, Annica Cuppetelli, Yi Joanna Dai, Mary Rachel Fanning, Adam Farcus, Tannaz Farsi, Laura Foster, Mahlon Huston, Louise Kames, Marina Kelly, Geoffrey Krawczyk, Richard Krueger, Robin Mandel, Evan Mann, Cristobal Mendoza, Daniel Olsen, Brian Peters, Nicole Pietrantoni, Randy Polumbo, Meghan Reynard, Alex Schlegel, Michael Sirianni, Ben Skinner, Scott Stibich, Annie Strader, Briana Trudell, Renee van der Stelt, and Jessica Westbrook.

Provocative Objects exhibition

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Via http://kino-eye.com/

November 9, 2010

You are cordially invited to attend provocative.objects: the extradition, a cybersurreal exhibition + event on Friday, November 12th at MassArt in the Patricia Doran Gallery. The event is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. and end around 10 p.m., after which we’ll gather at a local watering hole.

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provocative.objects: the extradition is co-curated by lou suSi and yours truly, working with the Bureau of cyberSurreal Investigation. Together we have selected for you a collection of works by a diverse array of artists, designers, and performers. Come experience an immersive sound installation, interactive sculptures, live performances, a video loop, and music, along with an assortment of tasty snacks and beverages. this one-evening exhibition/event will close with live music by local rockers stereo soul future, featuring christopher field.

Exhibiting artists include: Phillippe Lejeune, Ellen Godena, Alberto Negredo, Alison Kotin, Chris Basmajian, Christopher Field, Colin Owens, Courtney Brown, Courtney Lockemer, cyber sir eel kolectiv, Daniel Buckley, Daniel DeLuca, Dwayne Butcher, Elizabeth Mead, Ellen Lake, Joseph ‘Puppy’ Wight, Joshua Dolby, David Tames, Laugh Foundation, Laura Amador, Lauren McCarthy, Leigh Wells, Lewis Gesner, lou suS, Mary Rachel Fanning, Mauri Lehnoten, , Scott Murray, Stacy Scibelli, and X Y.

The event is presented under the aegis of the Dynamic Media Institute (DMI) at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. DMI offers a creative environment wherein graduate students from many disciplines explore the evolution of interactive art and communication design through new media. Through events like provocative.objects: the extradition, students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the program explore interactive storytelling, documentary, dynamic media design, video games, performance art, musical composition, and more.

I hope you will be able to join us for this special evening, for more information, point your browser to provocativeobjects.com (the site is evolving and will become the exhibition catalog by the end of November).

The latest appearance of murky catfish and noncommittal swimmers

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http://shadowandlightfestival.blogspot.com/

Sunday, January 17, 2010


Storyline Transports: Shadow and Light Festival is a public art performance initiative within the Chicago metropolitan area. Using converted automobiles (two pick-up trucks and a van) as physical and symbolic vehicles, this mobile festival delivers a novel art experience to Chicago’s diverse communities.

Festival Dates and Locations

Public Locations:
August 20th – Experimental Station (Hyde Park) 5-8pm
www.experimentalstation.org/

Community Locations (archi-treasures Sites):

August 10th – Barbara Jean Wright Courts 5-9pm
August 14th – Westhaven Park 4-9pm
August 24th – Germano Millgate Apartments 5-9pm

Through a collaboration with archi-treasures, a non-profit, arts-based community development organization, the festival reaches neighborhoods which are under-served by traditional arts programing. The festival aims to create an engaging and interactive experience for these communities through shadow puppet theater and paper arts. A hands-on puppet making workshop, a paper lantern making workshop, a video screening, and a collaborative lantern installation allow attendees to share in creative story telling. Converted trucks are used to transport the festival throughout the city. The workshops are directed toward all age groups.

Exhibition opening at Apex Art NYC tonight

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I’m happy to announce another rendezvous with the Bad at Sports folks.  I was asked to make a visual contribution as a former guest of the show.

Informal information here.

Formal information here.

If you can be there in person I guarantee it will be nothing like anything you’ve ever experienced.  You can track the hilarious antics of the Bad at Sports crew today and tonight by following the hashtag #basapex on Twitter. 

Don’t Piss On Me And Tell Me It’s Raining
Organized by Bad at Sports
April 7 – May 22, 2010
Opening reception: April 7, 6-8 pm
291 church.treet
new york, ny 10013

For the last five years Bad at Sports, a collective based in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, has attempted to document their art world from the inside. The artists in the collective have logged close
to 300 hours of audio interviews and (what might best be described as) reportage, and produced thousands of blog posts and tweets for their site, badatsports.com. For their exhibition at apexart, they have assembled a curio cabinet/archive of projects from members of the Bad at Sports galaxy and will give visitors the opportunity to have their questions about the art world answered by the Bad at Sports team. [Read more…] about Exhibition opening at Apex Art NYC tonight

article on IWAB from the Korea Times

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Article published in the Korea Times07-30-2009 16:28

Spotlight on Women Artists at Incheon Biennale

The billboard is part of New York-based artist Lee Chang-jin’s “Comfort Women Wanted” mixed media installation at Incheon Art Platform, as part of the Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale. / Courtesy of the artist

By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter

Incheon is already known for its international airport, its seaport, Chinatown and the Pentaport rock festival, but the port city also wants to become a contemporary art and cultural hub of Korea.

For the entire month of August, Incheon is the site for a unique contemporary art biennale that shines the spotlight on women artists. Nearly 300 artists from 40 countries are participating in the second Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (IWAB), which opens Saturday.

It is only timely and relevant to have a contemporary art biennale focusing on women artists. The international art world has always been criticized for being sexist and male-dominated, and Korea is no exception.

Yang Eun-hee, commissioner of the Main Exhibition at the biennale, said there is a big disparity between the number of male and female artists shown in art institutions and museums in Korea.

“In the Korean art world, the museums’ major collections have less than 20 percent, or even 10 percent, of artworks by female artists,” Yang told The Korea Times. “I also did some research at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Gwacheon. For their new acquisitions in 2007, only 11 percent were women artists. It’s very low.”

Even major contemporary art biennales around the world are traditionally seen as male-dominated events. This is one of the reasons that spurred the creation of the Incheon Women Artists Biennale. ……CONTINUE READING

The “Duchess” travels to the U.K.

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I will be showing a version of My Last Duchess in the Subversive Correspondence exhibition.

A touring exhibition at Broadwalk Arts, Bristol,  then at The Willesden Gallery, London includes national and international artists and writers exploring the notion of connectivity, correspondence and dialogue entailing a subversive perspective to the theme.

Exhibition Details

Subversive Correspondence #1 Broadwalk Arts, Bristol, BS4 2QU.
Monday 20th July – Thursday 23rd July 2009

Subversive Correspondence #2
The Gallery at Willesden Green, 95 High Road, Willesden, London, NW10 2SF.
Wednesday 19th August- Wednesday 2nd September 2009
Private View 19th August 6-9pm

Curator: Diana Ali [Read more…] about The “Duchess” travels to the U.K.