dan hole pond at the squirrel

my friends from the 9J mugu guymen shot this bit of scamming

video

nice job all, i think it went pretty great! thanks for your hard work, looking forward to tuesday's class/pot luck!

here's a bit of video i got friday night:




the footage of budd and emily's installation and chisolms piece, got messed up, if anyone has some video of that that, and other stuff, please pass along! thanks

documentation.....

hey everyone i was wondering who has documentation of the performances. any kind of video or sound of the performances would be great. i was aware last night of lots of people taking pictures and recording video and i wondered if anyone knows of these peoplle.

PSST! Pass it On

awesome videos~


http://psstpassiton.com/index.html

Waiting for Godot in New Orleans

check out paul chan's latest project waiting for godot in new orleans.

bytheway, this sort of more 'relational aethetics' community / small group action is what we'll be exploring more in next semesters interdisciplinary class. you can think of it more as ia3, than ia1 :)

happy txgiving all!

Survey

Would you rather ride Lamar Dodd or a Killer Whale?

small scale fun!

For those of you talking about doing a sock puppet show, check out some of new orleans electronic act quintron & miss pussycat do their live puppet show in the middle of their music sets



an interview with the fabulous duo



and don't forget the classic that started it all for filmmaker todd haynes

superstar the karen carpenter story (a dramatization made with barbies)


can't find the other parts on the youtubes, but we have a copy of the whole thing in the lab if you want to watch, ask louis, eddie, or me for the 'illegal art' dvd.

laptop orchestras from around the world

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2007/11/laptop-orchestras-from-around-world.html

fun with relational aesthetics and christine hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_Aesthetics

http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/10/30/review-of-relational-aesthetics-by-nicolas-bourriaud/

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009619.php

http://www.newyorkartworld.com/reviews/christinehill.html

i need 3 more record players!

i need three more record players for my piece that im doing at nuci's. (i can still use your's Rob?) i'd like to test it out on thursday, so if you have one i can use, let me know and we can make arrangements to get it to class and to nuci's on dec. 7. thanks!

Princeton Laptop Orchestra

short little piece on npr about a laptop sextet at princeton

sup maing

walid raad in hotlanta tomorrow

ART PAPERS LIVE!
The Premier Contemporary Art Lecture Series Presents

WALID RAAD


Screening:
Tuesday, November 6th, 8 pm
Emory University, White Hall Room 206

Artist's Talk:
Wednesday, November 7th, 7 pm
Emory University, White Hall Room 208

301 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322
For parking and directions, visit http://www.map.emory.edu

This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Co-Sponsored by the Marian K. Heilbrun Music and Media Library, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University

left: stills from Miraculous Beginnings, 1975-1991, Super 8mm, 52 second loop (courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery)

Walid Raad is an internationally prominent artist whose mixed-media installations, videos, photographs, performances, and literary essays explore the experiences and representations of war and the contemporary history of Lebanon. He is well-known for The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project that enlists a fictional universe to explore some of the social, cultural, political, and psychological effects of the Lebanese wars of 1975 to 1991.

Born in Lebanon, Raad moved from Beirut to Boston as a teenager, and now lives in New York. His formative years were those of the Lebanese wars, which he describes as events that have "conditioned who I am, how I feel, think, and move in the world." His work has been presented in numerous museums and other institutions in North America, Europe, and the Middle East including the Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, in 2007, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, and The Kitchen, New York, in 2006, Venice Biennale in 2003, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, in 2002. Raad is an Associate Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, and a member of the Arab Image Foundation, Beirut/New York, http://www.fai.org.lb.

steve kurtz monday

anyone interested in hanging out with steve kurtz on monday here's the itinerary:

11-ish - Lunch with Oliveri's class (@ The Globe)
2-5 - Grad hang out (I've extened the invitation to Rick's Digme class and
hopefully the Art Hist. grads/docs) @ Cedar St Studios
5 - til Pizza and Beer (@ Transmet) all invited!

(forwarded from joshua b.)

Written Response

What I need next Tuesday from you:
1 page typed response that let's me know how you think the piece went, what worked, what didn't what could have been done different, etc
And also detailing what you did in the conceptualization and process for this work.

pretty cool

World Series? gimme mario dood!

Allen Ginsberg Bombs on Stage

Art 21 Season Four

premiered on pbs last night

tune in on sunday nights this fall to catch the rest of em

More Kurtz

more info on the steve kurtz lecture and also a screening later that night at cine.
You should go!

Negativland

Has anybody heard this yet? Negativland is releasing a career-spanning dvd! No more watching crappy bootleg VHS versions! Unfortunately is going to be delayed a month...check their website for more information...

todd haynes talking about finding self whether that self is real or imagined. so good.

Sajo Kojima

"Sako Kojima sculpts cute animals walking on grenades, a lamb licking its own anus, paints lonely, lost and sad animals of the forest and spends days inside a cage pretending to be a hamster that scratches the wall and bites bits of wood." via

Look --> new poll!

Steve Kurtz in Athens

Artist Steve Kurtz will be in town for an artist talk on Nov 6 at 5:30.
Here's an npr story about the movie Lynn Hershman just made about Steve's run in with the law the last few years. I got to hear him talk in Colorado last year and he's an interesting speaker with a crazy story. You should go!

Richard Prince at Guggenheim Museum

another big show featuring one of the artists from our readings,

"This critical overview of Richard Prince's career is the most comprehensive examination of the celebrated American artist's work to date. The exhibition highlights Prince's contributions to the development of contemporary art, bringing together key examples of his photographs, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper in an installation that integrates the various series comprising his oeuvre.

Prince's work has been among the most innovative art produced in the United States during the past 30 years. His deceptively simple act in 1977 of rephotographing advertising images and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new, critical approach to art-making—one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object. Prince's technique involves appropriation; he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially American sensibility: the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off-color jokes, gag cartoons, and pulp fiction. While previous examinations of his art have emphasized its central role as a catalyst for postmodernist criticism, the Guggenheim exhibition and its accompanying catalogue also focus on the work's iconography and how it registers prevalent themes in our social landscape, including a fascination with rebellion, an obsession with fame, and a preoccupation with the tawdry and the illicit."

site

hey jocelyn & diana...

saw this courtesy of sotheby's....thought of you all. its a photograph i belive called "models in windows" by ormond gigli. i wish i could find a better image online.
-meghan

reInstall

2 exhibitions featuring artists from our 'textbook' recently opened in the u.s.

first is in nyc from german artist and musician carsten nicolai a.k.a alva noto details and video

and second, and at a much bigger scale is the touring show of icelands olafur eliasson
a wired magazine article about the artist and the exhibitions
and a new york times article about the shows.

both are quick and interesting reads..

speaking of our textbook, since we will be more in studio mode for the rest of the semester let's keep reading the text each on our own, and finding extra tidbits and video and things about the artists in the book and post those here on the blog (like i have just done above). we'll try to fit in a couple more discussion sessions, but let's get the creative work done first!

Art School / Thinking

what chris fahey "learned in art school (is it design thinking?)"

• How to champion and defend my ideas.


• How to distinguish between personal and professional critique.


• How to respectfully and constructively critique my peers. How to attack the ideas of my colleagues and still have drinks with them that same night (and maybe even sleep with them — hey, it is art school)


• How to test drive a hundred different ideas through sketching, cobbling, and envisioning them, before finally settling on which one to go ahead and build.


• How to tell when I am done a project that could just as easily be improved endlessly.


• How to tell when an idea that is precious to me is actually holding me back. And then to feel good about throwing it away.


• How to have the confidence to present my ideas in public without fearing that they will be stolen. And how to take it in stride when they inevitably are.


• How to distinguish between taste, technical skill, and empirical efficiency.


• How to detect bullshit, and to avoid generating it myself (note that not all art school grads learn this).


• How to go the extra mile to make something high-quality.


• How to recognize talent in my peers.


• How to collaborate with my colleagues effectively to reach a common goal.


• How to be deeply competitive without being a dick.


• How to make something new just for the sake of being new.


• How to build off of, and give credit to, the ideas of my predecessors both contemporary and in history.


• How to save ideas that I’m not ready for and keep them for future use (usually in sketchbooks).


• How to start all over again from the beginning.


• How to teach all of the above.

Mall Rats

"Is it performance art or simply squatting? Eight artists have been secretly living in a 750-square-foot studio apartment they fashioned within the Providence Place mall parking garage. Michael J. Townsend, the leader of the Tape Art collective, was recently arrested for trespassing on private property by a mall security guard. Townsend said that the pad — built from over two tons of construction materials lugged to the space by Tape Art members and, though lacking running water or heat, fully furnished — was both a refuge and a means of addressing the relation between community and commerce."

artist site & project description

providence journal news story on the project

kountry crafts

hey all you dudes,

you might get a kick out of j. penry's blog kountrycrafts.blogspot.com

Neu!

hey, the blog has a new look, and we have 'polls' now too! over on the right there ->

Automatic for the People

On October 5, 2007 Kristin Lucas succeeded in legally changing her name from Kristin Sue Lucas to Kristin Sue Lucas. In Alameda County Court, the presiding judge who granted the request said:
"So you have changed your name to exactly what it was before in the spirit of refreshing yourself as though you were a web page." link


Vice TV talks to artist Richard Prince


Werner Herzog eats his shoe

Living in the Microcosms

installation/performance by emmenline de mooij

Mainstream-Downstream

Jocelyn's fashion show on the streets reminded me of this outdoor 'runway' project by fashion designer carol christian poell

EEOOY::How-to-make contemporary installation art::Ep.1 Part1

ronald's crisis

this is a good prank/outside art projecty thing someone posted to the netart delicious. im reposting it over here b/c it seems pertinent to our current assignment.

of course as far as graffiti or street art or whatever you call it if you haven't yet obviously check out banksy, gHOSTBOY and the wooster collective and streetsy.com

yeah...thats all for now? i dunno. the last few are more about the product than the performance (although not in all cases) but i thought worth mentioning after watching style wars..

Readings / Discussions for Thursday the 4th

Okay, so for this next Thursday, let's have a little discussion about some of the readings we've been looking at thus far, assigned early on were the John Baldessari, Chris Burden and Bruce Conner pages of the text, then a couple weeks later the Werner Herzog bit, lets also look at Gary Hill and Pipilotti Rist, we should have plenty to talk about and maybe even need another session to get through all the texts.

24 hours to paint ourselves madddddddddd!

sunday october 7th from 12:01am to 12:01 am monday october 8th katie howell and robert peterson going to engage in a painting. that's right we will be painting continuously for 24 hours. we want all our friends to come and be with us. most importantly we want all of our friends to come and document via still photo and video/film the experience for as long as they can be with us. documentation of this event is crucial.


details:

where:grad painting studios on cedar street in athens ga.
when: 12:01am sunday october 7th to 12:01 am monday october 8th.
who: you me and everyone we know

again documentation is crucial. please come and be a part of this transcendance.

kate and i love you so much.

Laurie Anderson

Nice interview/podcast with Laurie Anderson

Questionairre

1. What do you think about the act of compartmentalization?
2. What do you think about The Jesus and Mary Chain?

read a book

bill daniel

Airport security looses their shit and goes totally bonkers over MIT student's blinking hoodie

Here's what not to do for your project. Star Simpson, MIT student and free spirited inventor, wore her battery powered, blinking, LED hoodie to pick a friend up from the airport and was met with machine guns. Well, at least they didn't shoot her. I honestly wouldn't feel safe stepping into an airport, I know I have at least a couple pairs of pants that could be considered explosive devices. But seriously, the state of paranoia our nation is in right now is very disturbing.

Things the British do in Public

Here are two skits from the show Monty Python's Flying Circus that have them going about in public doing strange things.

submit a slide to marisa's performance

http://nastynets.com/?p=949

Werner.

on the henry rollins show


werner herzog shot during an interview, "it was not a significant bullet" !

mini doc on christian marclay

some stuff i was thinking about

I wanted to throw out some filmmakers and titles that I am looking at right now. If you are not familiar with them I would strongly encourage you all to give them a glance. Some of this stuff is attractive topically some stylistically some I don't know why but I like it.

Sam Green- The Weather Underground
Jim Finn and Arthur Jones-Monster Loteria and others AJs animation work for need new body is pretty great even if the band i not.
Greg Brunkalla-www.brunx.com-check out his work for the Saul Williams video for Reparations. Most brill.
Jem Cohen-little flags
Bill Daniel-Bum Adept, Who is Bozo Texino, Texas Punk Pioneers
OWOTO county-owoto.com

i want to encourage all y'all to post up what you are looking at and what is tops on your lists.

love at all times.

hey everyone

Tomorrow and Saturday at the Chateau Noir in Stone Mountain GA. is freedumb fest. If you are into total free sound experimentation and no-fi anarchy noise and sweetness and sweating come on out. soundsfromthepocket.com

Also I started posting video to youtube. check it: http://www.youtube.com/noexit318

Hope you are all great.

Readings

Thanks Jocelyn for setting this up!

You should all be getting / have gotten your copy of Broken Screen. We'll jump around a bit as we go through the book, so let's start with the John Baldessari, Chris Burden and Bruce Conner pages first. We'll shoot to have an in class discussion and look at some work by these guys next week.

shameless self-promotion

hey. my band is playing tuesday night at the caledonia but i'm not sure who we're playing with. i know we're headlining so it'll be a late night, but hopefully some of you kids can make it out. it'll be out of this world.

some stuff to keep in mind

yo,

first up thanks to jocelyn for getting this together. second some near future events that i know about are:

sept 7-8 freedumb fest in stone mountain, ga. at the chateau noir, check out sftp.com
october 6 The Field opening up for !!! at the 40 watt. !!! is whatever but The Field is unmissable.

that's all i got right at the moment

how did we get here?

PowerPoint dimensions/ratios

fyi-- the dimensions of a power point slide are 723x543 pixels. So if you're trying to create something in photoshop or illustrator, use this as a guide!