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Dec 31, 2009
mtaa 09 sum up
posted at 15:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As we end 2009, here are some photos of MTAA works and artist we presented in our studio under the name OTO. See you all in 2010. Best for the New Year - M.River and T.Whid of MTAA
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Dec 24, 2009
Happy Holidays 2009
posted at 16:34 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
This awesome video is from 2004 and was created by the wonderful and talented Bill Hallinan. It stars T.Whid as the guy on the tree.
Happy Holidays everybody! permanent link to this post
Dec 22, 2009
Urgent message from the TSA!
posted at 15:28 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Dec 18, 2009
random friday post 12-18-09
posted at 14:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
suicidemachine.org
posted at 00:24 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
The email reads:
This guy is committing web2.0 suicide as we watch (love the hat):
Looks fun!
Of course, Cory Arcangel committed “Friendster Suicide” years ago. (Proving that artists are indeed the smartest people on the planet.)
Check it out at: http://suicidemachine.org… permanent link to this post
Tired of your Social Network?
Liberate yourself and your ‘friends’ with a web2.0 suicide! The Web2.0 Suicide Machine lets you effectively delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your web2.0 alterego. The machine is developed in the moddr_lab at WORM (Rotterdam), and serves as a metaphor for the http://suicidemachine.org website which moddr_ hosts; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide-scripts are maintained…
Our services currently run with Facebook.com, Myspace.com and LinkedIn.com; simply enter your username and password for the required service, and our machine will systematically login to your account, change your profile picture, and then one by one delete all of your friends.
This guy is committing web2.0 suicide as we watch (love the hat):
Looks fun!
Of course, Cory Arcangel committed “Friendster Suicide” years ago. (Proving that artists are indeed the smartest people on the planet.)
Check it out at: http://suicidemachine.org… permanent link to this post
Dec 11, 2009
random friday post 12-11-09
posted at 13:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dec 08, 2009
Purple Reign still going…
posted at 18:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Some pics from Miami now up on Flickr.
Digi A Go Go and The Purple Reign are still going on this week…”Closing reception is December 12th (7-11pm) THIS SATURDAY!!! Come & see us @ 2724 NW 2 Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 - Reg hours are 1ish -4ish day!” permanent link to this post
Dec 07, 2009
MTAA - 30 Secounds On Stage.
posted at 16:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
INTERNET
posted at 14:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
FYI - We found the INTERNET. It is in Troy, NY and seems to be doing fine. permanent link to this post
Dec 04, 2009
tonight in miami
posted at 13:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Digi a Go Go kicks off tonight at 2724 NW 2 Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 7-11pm
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Meanwhile, I’ll be in my studio back in Brooklyn at that time painting a wall. Pour one out for me. permanent link to this post
Dec 02, 2009
horn - pink tons
posted at 14:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dec 01, 2009
Day With(out) Art: The Banner Project 2000
posted at 13:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 29, 2009
The Purple Reign in Miami Dec 3 to 12
posted at 15:08 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
OTO is pleased to present Brinson Renda, Preston Poe and Michael Sarff’s The Purple Reign - live and prerecorded dramatic readings of the 1984 classic Purple Rain
Prerecorded readings at The Purple Reign’s YouTube channel -
http://www.youtube.com/digigogo
Installation for live readings Dec 3rd to 12th at Digi a Go Go - 2724 NW 2 Avenue, Miami, FL 33127 - corner of NW 2nd Ave & 28th St. Opening Friday Dec 4, 2009 from 7-11pm
With some new MTAA projects being worked on in the N6th studio, this will be the last OTO event for the near future. OTO archive of past events may be found at here permanent link to this post
Nov 26, 2009
Artistic Licenses
posted at 14:34 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Nov 25, 2009
pre-turkey day post
posted at 18:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
tinjail.tumblr – a few month old tumblr blog in which I take and post random photos using one of my two digital cameras (the good one and the crappy one on my iphone with the scratched lens) of art with little or no curatorial intention on my part other than I saw the work, I’m into the work, and I like the photo I shot of the work.
enjoy and cook/eat well permanent link to this post
enjoy and cook/eat well permanent link to this post
Nov 23, 2009
Brody Condon: Case
posted at 15:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 22, 2009
gh at oto
posted at 15:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 21, 2009
SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3 - tonight
posted at 13:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
reminder - SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3, a new three-channel projection by G.H. Hovagimyan at OTO tonight 7 to 10pm
more information permanent link to this post
Nov 20, 2009
random friday post 11.20.09
posted at 15:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 17, 2009
The Purple Reign
posted at 00:51 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As a serial and/or compulsive collaborist, I’m sometimes asked to do difficult, if not downright awkward, acts in the name of art. The following is a prime example and I hope you will join me in the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat of group performance art.
I’m working, with Brinson Renda and Preston Poe, on an online and real world performance project - The Purple Reign.
http://tinjail.com/purple/
The script for the performance is basic. Read the lyrics of the 1984 classic Purple Rain.
You can do it right now and load it as a response video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/digigogo
…or come down to the madness that is Miami in December (3rd – 12th ) and do it live at the DIY video art fair Gigi a Go Go
In either case, we need your help. Desperately. No, I mean it. HELP.
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
I only wanted to see you bathing in the purple rain
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend, hey
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It’s such a shame our friendship had to end
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
I only wanted to see you underneath the purple rain
Honey, I know, I know, I know times are changin’
It’s time we all reach out for something new, that means you too
You say you want a leader, but you can’t seem to make up your mind
And I think you better close it and let me guide you to the purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
If you know what I’m singin’ about up here, come on raise your hand
Purple rain, purple rain
I only want to see you, only want to see you in the purple rain
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I’m working, with Brinson Renda and Preston Poe, on an online and real world performance project - The Purple Reign.
http://tinjail.com/purple/
The script for the performance is basic. Read the lyrics of the 1984 classic Purple Rain.
You can do it right now and load it as a response video on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/digigogo
…or come down to the madness that is Miami in December (3rd – 12th ) and do it live at the DIY video art fair Gigi a Go Go
In either case, we need your help. Desperately. No, I mean it. HELP.
I never meant to cause you any sorrow
I never meant to cause you any pain
I only wanted one time to see you laughing
I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
I only wanted to see you bathing in the purple rain
I never wanted to be your weekend lover
I only wanted to be some kind of friend, hey
Baby, I could never steal you from another
It’s such a shame our friendship had to end
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
I only wanted to see you underneath the purple rain
Honey, I know, I know, I know times are changin’
It’s time we all reach out for something new, that means you too
You say you want a leader, but you can’t seem to make up your mind
And I think you better close it and let me guide you to the purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
If you know what I’m singin’ about up here, come on raise your hand
Purple rain, purple rain
I only want to see you, only want to see you in the purple rain
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Nov 13, 2009
Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza
posted at 17:00 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Generally, I hate Second Life art, but I love the 01s, so here ya go…
Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORGpermanent link to this post
Pseudo-Futurist Video Game Improvisation Extravaganza
Live in Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/35/25/22/
Monday Nov. 16, 5-6pm (EST time); 2-3pm (Second Life time)
Synthetic Performances are online live gaming sessions inside the virtual world of Second Life, performed by Eva and Franco Mattes through their avatars, which were constructed from their bodies and faces. The series arose out of the artists’ polemical stance toward performance art. This lead the Mattes on the one hand to breach the classic rules of performance, and on the other to present these works - the efficacy of which was based on the radical way they explored the issues of the body, violence, sexuality, identity and public space - in a context where these issues acquire completely different, paradoxical meanings.
Anyone can participate from all over the world by clicking the link above. If you don’t have a Second Life account you can sign up for free.
Presented by PERFORMA09 - www.performa-arts.org
Produced with the support of Eyebeam
random friday post 11-13-09
posted at 13:46 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“To be looked at (from the other side of the glass) with one eye, close to, for almost an hour,” Marcel Duchamp 1918
recapping the week so far - work, studio, sleep, work, sleep, studio, talk with gh, studio, sleep, work, beer (x2), studio, sleep + 29 bike miles + one roasted chicken. permanent link to this post
Nov 11, 2009
G.H. Hovagimyan’s SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3 at OTO Nov 21
posted at 14:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On Saturday November 21, from 7 to 10pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present SUBWAY • 1 • 2 • 3, a new three-channel projection by G.H. Hovagimyan.
The subway is a defining urban experience across cultures. Underground and in the subconscious, every rider experiences a disjunctive experience when entering one place and emerging in a different one. In day to day experience, time spent on a subway ride can resemble lost footage between cuts in a movie. But when a movie includes scenes shot in a subway, the subway passage becomes a shared, collective experience. Familiarity with subway scenes from movies have become part of the contemporary vernacular, creating “Oh I remember that film!” reactions. Movie scenes shot in subways also trigger deeper feelings as the viewer defines and redefines personal and shared experiences. In the work I have created using subway scenes from movies, narrative conventions of standard film techniques have been removed to further the exploration of submerged emotions.
more at oto… permanent link to this post
Nov 09, 2009
Quantum Bicycle
posted at 14:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Runkeeper, a GPS iPhone ap, discovers that my bike has the strange ability to be in 10 places at once.
Also, my top speed in now 662 mph. permanent link to this post
Nov 06, 2009
random friday post 11.06.09
posted at 19:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 04, 2009
Creative Commons and the Arts Meet Up
posted at 13:55 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Creative Commons and the Arts Meet Up
Nov 18 at 7pm
The Open Planning Project (TOPP) HQ 148 Lafayette St
New York, NY 10013
212.796.4220
This month’s meetup will feature a panel on the topic of Creative Commons licensing and open culture as it applies to cultural institutions and the arts. We’ll take a look at some of the ways museums are opening up their content, and explore the limitations and rights restrictions they’re still having to contend with. We’ll also take a look at how artists are using CC licensing and working with CC materials.
7pm - Doors
7:15pm - Brief presentation from artists M.River & T.Whid of MTAA
7:30-8:30pm - Panel discussion, Q&A
8:30-10pm - Informal networking
Panel speakers include:
Fred Benenson of Creative Commons, Shelley Bernstein of the Brooklyn Museum, Steven Masur of Masur Law and Tim Whidden (T.Whid) from MTAA and more…
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Nov 03, 2009
no sun
posted at 14:35 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Killing time at MOMA last night before Brody Condon’s No Sun, I started to follow women across the permanent galleries. She seemed to be conducting her own audio guide to the collection. It was a semi public performance or she was having a breakdown. Not an over-the-top-kick-me-out-of-the-museum-breakdown but more of a here’s-the-facts public service announcement. Highlights? A Clyfford Still abstraction: “You see it’s just a bunch of dead cats. DEAD CATS.” Pollack’s drips “This is what painting are. You see this …smelly urine?” I followed at a safe distance, amazed at her dedication, imagination and strange theater craft.
Speaking of public service announcements at MOMA, I would like to suggest that when they play the museum is closing in 15 minutes announcements in the 6 or so languages at the end of the day; they conclude this long message with a brief whale or bird song. permanent link to this post
Nov 02, 2009
halloween week - all souls’ day (day of the dead)
posted at 12:58 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 01, 2009
halloween week - sunday (new york city marathon/ all saints day)
posted at 12:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 31, 2009
halloween
posted at 16:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 30, 2009
halloween week - friday
posted at 11:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 29, 2009
halloween week - thursday
posted at 13:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 28, 2009
halloween week - wednesday
posted at 11:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 27, 2009
halloween week - tuesday
posted at 12:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 26, 2009
halloween week - monday
posted at 17:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 15, 2009
Two new art blogs
posted at 21:58 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
The art market downturn hasn’t harmed one area of the art world — art blogs!
Two new ones made it into my feed reader recently.
The first is Idiom. Published by art lovers, art bloggers and art collectors (just all around awesome art dudes) Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, the site promises “a local, engaged counterpoint to the prevailing discourse of contemporary art.” And so far, so good with longer form, thoughtful articles.
The second is Hyperallergic. It’s edited by the well-known art blogger Hrag Vartanian and published by someone I haven’t heard of named Veken Gueyikian (who looks to be a marketing dude). This one promises “a forum for serious and radical thinking about visual art.” Sounds good!
Looking forward to what these two new sites will have in store and wishing them well. permanent link to this post
Two new ones made it into my feed reader recently.
The first is Idiom. Published by art lovers, art bloggers and art collectors (just all around awesome art dudes) Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, the site promises “a local, engaged counterpoint to the prevailing discourse of contemporary art.” And so far, so good with longer form, thoughtful articles.
The second is Hyperallergic. It’s edited by the well-known art blogger Hrag Vartanian and published by someone I haven’t heard of named Veken Gueyikian (who looks to be a marketing dude). This one promises “a forum for serious and radical thinking about visual art.” Sounds good!
Looking forward to what these two new sites will have in store and wishing them well. permanent link to this post
Oct 11, 2009
You Tunes at OTO
posted at 16:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
some photos from You Tunes at OTO last night on Flickr
Participants answer questions on a form, such as favorite superhero or cake. The You Tunes band (Preston Poe, Kyle Hester, David and Tara Gladden, Monica Hurtado and Clinton Wilkins) with about 1 min prep, played your song and burned it on CD. They asked Tim and I to kick it off by attempting to each do a song. Here are the awkward-but-fun results.
M.River Song by T.Whid
T.Whid’s Song By M.River permanent link to this post
Oct 10, 2009
inaction painting at work
posted at 14:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
just to prove that it could be done – claw hammer 90 degrees to desk using only 2 sided tape for 48 hours permanent link to this post
Oct 05, 2009
OTO Sat Oct 10 - “YouTunes”: a performance sound project
posted at 22:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On October 10, 2009 from 7pm to 10pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present “YouTunes”: a performance sound project with Preston Poe and Kyle Hester.
YouTunes is a personalized song customization and distribution system. Poe and Hester invite you to participate by filling out a simple primarily multiple-choice form. Based on your answers, the artists will craft a custom-made song just for you.
“We’ll write, play, sing, record and burn a CD just for you on the spot- all for 99 centavos”
In an effort to compete with iTunes, the artists will be charging 99 cents per song. You bring a dollar bill and they will give you back your very own song burnt on CD and penny for your thoughts change. Choose your themes, rhythm, key phrases, and musical style, and they will match it to a carefully considered, spontaneous, personally crafted melody - with lyrics to boot!
Poe and Hester’s cache of musical YouTunes styles and instruments includes (but is not limited to) Theremin, electric “micro” pipe organ, washtub, fingerpickin’ guitar, ukulele, various percussion instruments, and many other surprises.
Free beer and wine will be on hand as well as a variety of international culinary tastes that will appeal to one and all.
Over The Opening (OTO) - Once a month, from 7PM to 10PM, the artist collective MTAA convert their N6th St. Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art.
OTO direction and map permanent link to this post
Oct 03, 2009
some mtaa art likes for 10.03.09
posted at 21:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
NY Art Book Fair at PS1
A Voyage of Growth and Discovery - Mike Kelly and Mike Smith at the Sculpture Center
Jack Early at Southfirst
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All About Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms
posted at 16:30 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
This looks pretty cool, via press release no less (I (almost) never post PRs).
More on Rooftop Farms at the web site http://rooftopfarms.org/. permanent link to this post
PIE IN THE SKY: All About Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms
w/ Annie Novak
FREE LECTURE
MONDAY, Oct. 5, 7:30pm
PETE’S CANDY STORE
(709 Lorimer St., Brooklyn)
New York City is a Farmer’s Paradise! Just ask Annie Novak, one of the masterminds behind Greenpoint’s Rooftop Farms, a 6,000 square foot organic farm picture-esquely plopped on top of a warehouse overlooking midtown Manhattan. Her operation — founded in partnership with Ben Flanner, a neophyte to farming, and Goode Green, a green-roofing specialist — currently produces produce for a host of Brooklyn gourmandizers, including Anella and Marlow and Sons. They even run a farm stand featuring fresh picked produce every Sunday! Come hear how this urban Agronomist tells us the unlikely story of how she did it — and learn how you can too!
More on Rooftop Farms at the web site http://rooftopfarms.org/. permanent link to this post
Sep 27, 2009
Vernacular Alien World Drawing Championship, Maryland
posted at 15:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On September 25, 2009, people gathered in The Electronic Gallery at Salisbury University. In the gallery, two large sheets of paper had been tapped on the floor. Each sheet was divided into 4 horizontal sections.
As we sat on the floor, I explained that we were about to stage the world’s first Vernacular Alien World Drawing Championship.
I began by talking about the choice of aliens. Although most people would not say they have seen an alien, we all know what they look like. We may even have drawn one before. As an example, I image-searched Google for “aliens.”
I also explained that although we know what aliens look like, we don’t have examples of “vernacular aliens.” We then looked at a Google for “vernacular aliens.” At the time, it resulted only with images announcing the Vernacular Alien World Drawing Championship and other MTAA works.
I explained that they would be working together on two vernacular alien images using a modified exquisite corpse drawing method / game. We then looked at a few examples of exquisite corpses.
I promised them that they could make better “vernacular aliens” than some of the exquisite corpse examples. I told them that in the future, when people Googled “vernacular aliens,” their work would be seen.
The Vernacular Aliens Drawing Method
I divided the room into two teams (Team M.River and Team T.Whid) and selected 3 judges. I selected 2 team captions and had a coin toss to see which team would draw first. Team M.River won the toss and deferred to T.Whid. I explained that the team would need to self-organize into head, shoulders, knees and toes drawing groups and that they would have until the end of one song to complete their Vernacular Alien. I tossed 10 black Sharpies markers down on the paper and hit play on a YouTube video for David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust”.
Team M.River was up next with the same song playing.
After Team M.River finished, we then went to the bonus round. I read a list of ten things a Vernacular Alien might have or see in Salisbury, Maryland (UFO, phaser, death ray, robot dog sidekick, sammy the seagull, the moon, satellites, pizza, salty snacks, the duck decoy museum, and a walkie-talkie). Both teams had one song to fill in the background with these items. I divided the markers (5 per team) and hit play on the YouTube video for Klaatu’s “Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft.”
After that, we hung up the drawings.
The judging round began with an open pro and con town hall-style review. We then had a vote by show of hands. Team M.River took it with a decisive 3-0 win.
We all clapped and cheered and then ate pizza.
Every so often, someone would ask what would become of the drawings. I said they would get mailed back to NYC where they would sit in the bottom of a flat file waiting some further use. The images of the drawings and the performance on the other hand will go onto the net and become the objects that define Vernacular Aliens.
More Vernacular Aliens images:
M.River’s Vernacular Aliens Flickr set
Jennifer Poe’s Vernacular Aliens Flickr set
Big MTAA thanks to Preston, Jennifer, Mieke, Dick and the students of Salisbury University. permanent link to this post
Vernacular Alien World Drawing Championship
posted at 12:37 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Vernacular Alien World Drawing Championship, Maryland
M.River posted photos from our (using ‘our’ loosely as M.River conducted this one on his own) participatory performance coinciding with our show 2Live at The Electronic Gallery at Salisbury University, MD.
Check ‘em out…
Also, lots more at Jennifer Poe’s Flickr set as well. permanent link to this post
Sep 21, 2009
IPDC’s Documentation
posted at 00:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
IPDC Flicker Set
…more documentation soon.
Update
Here are 2 short quicktime clips
Teck Si-Fi Jam
Pet Sounds
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Sep 18, 2009
IPDC Reminder
posted at 17:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
View IPDC at McCarren Park , Brooklyn in a larger map
World’s First, Possibly Only and Probably Last iPhone Drum Circle (aka IPDC) is on for Sunday (2-3pm). Still need an app? Here’s a few cheap or free ones…
Bongo - Bongo
Drum - Kit - Lite
80’s Drummer
Pocket - Shaker
Kai showed me the Shaker App today. Comes with “Gong” and “Cow Bell.” Needless to say…Awesome. permanent link to this post
Sep 17, 2009
I find this hilarious
posted at 14:03 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
a J.Crew ad…
Should have pictured him with his fly open at least, wouldn’t you agree? permanent link to this post
Sep 13, 2009
IPDC
posted at 16:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
OTO and Conflux 09 are proud to present MTAA + Mike Koller’s World’s First, Possibly Only and Probably Last iPhone Drum Circle (aka IPDC)
Who: MTAA in collaboration with Mike Koller and anyone with an iPhone and a drum or bongo application.
What: a 1-hour iPhone drum circle in a park.
Where: McCarren Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Driggs and union near Green Dome Garden).
When: September 20, 2009 from 2 to 3pm
Why: it is an idea that needs to be attempted at least once.
more info at tinjail/ipdc
Rain location at OTO - 60 North 6th Street 2nd floor permanent link to this post
Sep 09, 2009
2live @ Salisbury University Electronic Gallery
posted at 01:57 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
2live installation shot: "Want v3" and "(LOVE + HATE) x 100"
We have a solo show up right now. It’s in Salisbury, MD so you won’t see it. But it looks awesome!
…only have this one install shot thus far, more to come soon we hope.
More info on the show at this post… permanent link to this post
Sep 01, 2009
MTAA September 09
posted at 17:41 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Camera/Chimera
Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ
Saturday, September 12 - October 3, 2009
Curated by Ethan Ham
opening reception September 12, 2009 7-10pm
Camera/Chimera is a series of photographs, each by a different artist. The artists are asked to replicate the previous artist’s photograph. The result is a visual game of “Telephone” in which the image slowly (and sometimes abruptly) mutates through the process of recreation.
Artists: Becca Albee, Holly Andres, Patterson Beckwith, Chase Browder, xtine burrough, Cassandra C. Jones, Adrianne Davis, Stephanie Dean, Dennis Delgado, Joel Fisher, Harrell Fletcher, Joy Garnett, Greta Ham, Tim Hutchings, Steve Lambert, Gus Meisner, Robin Michals, Hajoe Moderegger, MTAA, Shani Peters, Anne Schiffer, Christian Marc Schmidt, Tom Thayer, Mariana Tres, Angie Waller
Conflux City 2009
McCarren Park, Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, September 20, 2009 2-3pm
OTO, MTAA, Mike Koller and Conflux 09 present the World’s First, Possibly Only and Probably Last iPhone Drum Circle (aka IPDC)
2live
MTAA solo show at The Electronic Gallery at Salisbury University
September 08 to Oct 23, 2009
live performance Friday, September 25, 2009
Since 2005, the Brooklyn-based artist duo MTAA (Michael Sarff and Tim Whidden) have produced a series of dual video self-portraits. Salisbury University Electronic Galley will show these pieces together for the first time. Additionally, a new piece, produced at Salisbury University, will be shown. In these often humorous performances of conflict and communication, MTAA use their images as avatars for the vast chatter of our current media society. Along with the exhibition of the dual portraits, MTAA will return to the Electronic Galley on September 25, 2009 for a live performance/lecture having something to do with vernacular aliens. permanent link to this post
Aug 28, 2009
random friday post, part 2
posted at 16:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
random friday post
posted at 12:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 22, 2009
back from lake tear of the clouds
posted at 03:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 15, 2009
Lake Tear of the Clouds
posted at 12:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Camping in the Catskills and Adirondack High Peaks Region. Going over Mt Marcy (5,383 feet) from Lake Tear of the Clouds side. Back next weekend.
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Aug 12, 2009
Pretty creepy
posted at 17:14 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Yesterday I decided to look into buying a new domain. I have all my domains registered with Register.com so I logged in and checked out the prices on a domain. I decided that I didn’t want it and closed my browser window.
All pretty straigt-forward, except that a few minutes later I get a phone call. It’s Register.com! And they’re asking why I abandoned the purchase. Number 1: none of your damn business. Number 2: WTF?! OK, I was logged in, so they have my info… but still. To call me up because I abandoned a shopping cart. I thought it was pretty fucked up.
What do you think? Comment here. permanent link to this post
All pretty straigt-forward, except that a few minutes later I get a phone call. It’s Register.com! And they’re asking why I abandoned the purchase. Number 1: none of your damn business. Number 2: WTF?! OK, I was logged in, so they have my info… but still. To call me up because I abandoned a shopping cart. I thought it was pretty fucked up.
What do you think? Comment here. permanent link to this post
Aug 04, 2009
Black Acid Co-Op
posted at 13:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jul 27, 2009
Salisbury Maryland
posted at 12:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Back in town from a long weekend shoot/edit in Salisbury Maryland. We’ll be doing a show down there in September focusing on our dual talking head/ portrait projects including a new work in HD. More info soon. permanent link to this post
Jul 21, 2009
Want v2 (15min Dogpile June 27, 2009)
posted at 23:31 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Jul 17, 2009
OCSL
posted at 22:35 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL) - expected to be the first building in the United States to receive the Living Building designation in addition to receiving LEED Platinum certification opened yesterday. The center will treat more than 5 million gallons of wastewater annually via 4 constructed wetlands each about the size of a basketball court. Cool. permanent link to this post
Jul 11, 2009
graham at the whitney
posted at 22:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
top image - Public Space / Two Audiences, 1976
lower image - Performer/Audience/Mirror at P.S.1 Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, 1977 permanent link to this post
Jul 09, 2009
flavin at zwirner
posted at 12:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
flavin’s “monument 4 for those who have been killed in ambush (to P.K. who reminded me about death)” 1966. Part of 6 works, 6 rooms at zwirner. permanent link to this post
Jul 08, 2009
Untitled Art Project — couple thoughts
posted at 13:21 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
If you’re not familiar with it, Paddy’s been covering the new art world reality series starting production soon (if it hasn’t already started).
I’m of a divided mind. On one hand, the general public doesn’t just simply not appreciate contemporary art — it actively has contempt for it. If UAP can help this situation even a tiny bit, it’s all good.
On the other hand, if the artists who are picked for the show don’t actively attempt to hijack it for their own agenda, then I have no respect for any of them. The thing should really never make it to TV. Every artist in the show should be disrupting it for their own purposes. This disruption should be so severe that no mere reality show producer could create anything significant from it. Seriously, any artist that allows their media image to manipulated by some producer is by definition a very bad contemporary artist. permanent link to this post
I’m of a divided mind. On one hand, the general public doesn’t just simply not appreciate contemporary art — it actively has contempt for it. If UAP can help this situation even a tiny bit, it’s all good.
On the other hand, if the artists who are picked for the show don’t actively attempt to hijack it for their own agenda, then I have no respect for any of them. The thing should really never make it to TV. Every artist in the show should be disrupting it for their own purposes. This disruption should be so severe that no mere reality show producer could create anything significant from it. Seriously, any artist that allows their media image to manipulated by some producer is by definition a very bad contemporary artist. permanent link to this post
Jul 06, 2009
Kaaterskill Falls x 4
posted at 00:08 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jul 04, 2009
The DRINKERS DICTIONARY.
posted at 19:01 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Ben Franklin’s The DRINKERS DICTIONARY.
A
He is Addled,
He’s casting up his Accounts,
He’s Afflicted,
He’s in his Airs.
B
He’s Biggy,
Bewitch’d,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz’d,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss’d in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock’d,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He’s Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He’s kiss’d black Betty,
He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
He’s Bridgey.
C
He’s Cat,
Cagrin’d,
Capable,
Cramp’d,
Cherubimical,
Cherry Merry,
Wamble Crop’d,
Crack’d,
Concern’d,
Half Way to Concord,
Has taken a Chirriping-Glass,
Got Corns in his Head,
A Cup to much,
Coguy,
Copey,
He’s heat his Copper,
He’s Crocus,
Catch’d,
He cuts his Capers,
He’s been in the Cellar,
He’s in his Cups,
Non Compos,
Cock’d,
Curv’d,
Cut,
Chipper,
Chickery,
Loaded his Cart,
He’s been too free with the Creature,
Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap,
He’s Chap-fallen,
D
He’s Disguiz’d,
He’s got a Dish,
Kill’d his Dog,
Took his Drops,
It is a Dark Day with him,
He’s a Dead Man,
Has Dipp’d his Bill,
He’s Dagg’d,
He’s seen the Devil,
E
He’s Prince Eugene,
Enter’d,
Wet both Eyes,
Cock Ey’d,
Got the Pole Evil,
Got a brass Eye,
Made an Example,
He’s Eat a Toad & half for Breakfast.
In his Element,
F
He’s Fishey,
Fox’d,
Fuddled,
Sore Footed,
Frozen,
Well in for’t,
Owes no Man a Farthing,
Fears no Man,
Crump Footed,
Been to France,
Flush’d,
Froze his Mouth,
Fetter’d,
Been to a Funeral,
His Flag is out,
Fuzl’d,
Spoke with his Friend,
Been at an Indian Feast.
G
He’s Glad,
Groatable,
Gold-headed,
Glaiz’d,
Generous,
Booz’d the Gage,
As Dizzy as a Goose,
Been before George,
Got the Gout,
Had a Kick in the Guts,
Been with Sir John Goa,
Been at Geneva,
Globular,
Got the Glanders.
H
Half and Half,
Hardy,
Top Heavy,
Got by the Head,
Hiddey,
Got on his little Hat,
Hammerish,
Loose in the Hilts,
Knows not the way Home,
Got the Hornson,
Haunted with Evil Spirits,
Has Taken Hippocrates grand Elixir,
I
He’s Intoxicated.
J
Jolly,
Jagg’d,
Jambled,
Going to Jerusalem,
Jocular,
Been to Jerico,
Juicy.
K
He’s a King,
Clips the King’s English,
Seen the French King,
The King is his Cousin,
Got Kib’d Heels,
Knapt,
Het his Kettle.
L
He’s in Liquor,
Lordly,
He makes Indentures with his Leggs,
Well to Live,
Light,
Lappy,
Limber,
M
He sees two Moons,
Merry,
Middling,
Moon-Ey’d,
Muddled,
Seen a Flock of Moons,
Maudlin,
Mountous,
Muddy,
Rais’d his Monuments,
Mellow,
N
He’s eat the Cocoa Nut,
Nimptopsical,
Got the Night Mare,
O
He’s Oil’d,
Eat Opium,
Smelt of an Onion,
Oxycrocium,
Overset,
P
He drank till he gave up his Half-Penny,
Pidgeon Ey’d,
Pungey,
Priddy,
As good conditioned as a Puppy,
Has scalt his Head Pan,
Been among the Philistines,
In his Prosperity,
He’s been among the Philippians,
He’s contending with Pharaoh,
Wasted his Paunch,
He’s Polite,
Eat a Pudding Bagg,
Q
He’s Quarrelsome,
R
He’s Rocky,
Raddled,
Rich,
Religious,
Lost his Rudder,
Ragged,
Rais’d,
Been too free with Sir Richard,
Like a Rat in Trouble.
S
He’s Stitch’d,
Seafaring,
In the Sudds,
Strong,
Been in the Sun,
As Drunk as David’s Sow,
Swampt,
His Skin is full,
He’s Steady,
He’s Stiff,
He’s burnt his Shoulder,
He’s got his Top Gallant Sails out,
Seen the yellow Star,
As Stiff as a Ring-bolt,
Half Seas over,
His Shoe pinches him,
Staggerish,
It is Star-light with him,
He carries too much Sail,
Stew’d
Stubb’d,
Soak’d,
Soft,
Been too free with Sir John Strawberry,
He’s right before the Wind with all his Studding Sails out,
Has Sold his Senses.
T
He’s Top’d,
Tongue-ty’d,
Tann’d,
Tipium Grove,
Double Tongu’d,
Topsy Turvey,
Tipsey,
Has Swallow’d a Tavern Token,
He’s Thaw’d,
He’s in a Trance,
He’s Trammel’d,
V
He makes Virginia Fence,
Valiant,
Got the Indian Vapours,
W
The Malt is above the Water,
He’s Wise,
He’s Wet,
He’s been to the Salt Water,
He’s Water-soaken,
He’s very Weary,
Out of the Way. permanent link to this post
A
He is Addled,
He’s casting up his Accounts,
He’s Afflicted,
He’s in his Airs.
B
He’s Biggy,
Bewitch’d,
Block and Block,
Boozy,
Bowz’d,
Been at Barbadoes,
Piss’d in the Brook,
Drunk as a Wheel-Barrow,
Burdock’d,
Buskey,
Buzzey,
Has Stole a Manchet out of the Brewer’s Basket,
His Head is full of Bees,
Has been in the Bibbing Plot,
Has drank more than he has bled,
He’s Bungey,
As Drunk as a Beggar,
He sees the Bears,
He’s kiss’d black Betty,
He’s had a Thump over the Head with Sampson’s Jawbone,
He’s Bridgey.
C
He’s Cat,
Cagrin’d,
Capable,
Cramp’d,
Cherubimical,
Cherry Merry,
Wamble Crop’d,
Crack’d,
Concern’d,
Half Way to Concord,
Has taken a Chirriping-Glass,
Got Corns in his Head,
A Cup to much,
Coguy,
Copey,
He’s heat his Copper,
He’s Crocus,
Catch’d,
He cuts his Capers,
He’s been in the Cellar,
He’s in his Cups,
Non Compos,
Cock’d,
Curv’d,
Cut,
Chipper,
Chickery,
Loaded his Cart,
He’s been too free with the Creature,
Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap,
He’s Chap-fallen,
D
He’s Disguiz’d,
He’s got a Dish,
Kill’d his Dog,
Took his Drops,
It is a Dark Day with him,
He’s a Dead Man,
Has Dipp’d his Bill,
He’s Dagg’d,
He’s seen the Devil,
E
He’s Prince Eugene,
Enter’d,
Wet both Eyes,
Cock Ey’d,
Got the Pole Evil,
Got a brass Eye,
Made an Example,
He’s Eat a Toad & half for Breakfast.
In his Element,
F
He’s Fishey,
Fox’d,
Fuddled,
Sore Footed,
Frozen,
Well in for’t,
Owes no Man a Farthing,
Fears no Man,
Crump Footed,
Been to France,
Flush’d,
Froze his Mouth,
Fetter’d,
Been to a Funeral,
His Flag is out,
Fuzl’d,
Spoke with his Friend,
Been at an Indian Feast.
G
He’s Glad,
Groatable,
Gold-headed,
Glaiz’d,
Generous,
Booz’d the Gage,
As Dizzy as a Goose,
Been before George,
Got the Gout,
Had a Kick in the Guts,
Been with Sir John Goa,
Been at Geneva,
Globular,
Got the Glanders.
H
Half and Half,
Hardy,
Top Heavy,
Got by the Head,
Hiddey,
Got on his little Hat,
Hammerish,
Loose in the Hilts,
Knows not the way Home,
Got the Hornson,
Haunted with Evil Spirits,
Has Taken Hippocrates grand Elixir,
I
He’s Intoxicated.
J
Jolly,
Jagg’d,
Jambled,
Going to Jerusalem,
Jocular,
Been to Jerico,
Juicy.
K
He’s a King,
Clips the King’s English,
Seen the French King,
The King is his Cousin,
Got Kib’d Heels,
Knapt,
Het his Kettle.
L
He’s in Liquor,
Lordly,
He makes Indentures with his Leggs,
Well to Live,
Light,
Lappy,
Limber,
M
He sees two Moons,
Merry,
Middling,
Moon-Ey’d,
Muddled,
Seen a Flock of Moons,
Maudlin,
Mountous,
Muddy,
Rais’d his Monuments,
Mellow,
N
He’s eat the Cocoa Nut,
Nimptopsical,
Got the Night Mare,
O
He’s Oil’d,
Eat Opium,
Smelt of an Onion,
Oxycrocium,
Overset,
P
He drank till he gave up his Half-Penny,
Pidgeon Ey’d,
Pungey,
Priddy,
As good conditioned as a Puppy,
Has scalt his Head Pan,
Been among the Philistines,
In his Prosperity,
He’s been among the Philippians,
He’s contending with Pharaoh,
Wasted his Paunch,
He’s Polite,
Eat a Pudding Bagg,
Q
He’s Quarrelsome,
R
He’s Rocky,
Raddled,
Rich,
Religious,
Lost his Rudder,
Ragged,
Rais’d,
Been too free with Sir Richard,
Like a Rat in Trouble.
S
He’s Stitch’d,
Seafaring,
In the Sudds,
Strong,
Been in the Sun,
As Drunk as David’s Sow,
Swampt,
His Skin is full,
He’s Steady,
He’s Stiff,
He’s burnt his Shoulder,
He’s got his Top Gallant Sails out,
Seen the yellow Star,
As Stiff as a Ring-bolt,
Half Seas over,
His Shoe pinches him,
Staggerish,
It is Star-light with him,
He carries too much Sail,
Stew’d
Stubb’d,
Soak’d,
Soft,
Been too free with Sir John Strawberry,
He’s right before the Wind with all his Studding Sails out,
Has Sold his Senses.
T
He’s Top’d,
Tongue-ty’d,
Tann’d,
Tipium Grove,
Double Tongu’d,
Topsy Turvey,
Tipsey,
Has Swallow’d a Tavern Token,
He’s Thaw’d,
He’s in a Trance,
He’s Trammel’d,
V
He makes Virginia Fence,
Valiant,
Got the Indian Vapours,
W
The Malt is above the Water,
He’s Wise,
He’s Wet,
He’s been to the Salt Water,
He’s Water-soaken,
He’s very Weary,
Out of the Way. permanent link to this post
Jun 29, 2009
large dark wind chime (tritone westy)
posted at 21:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
klaus weber’s large dark wind chime (tritone westy) at creative time’s this world and nearer ones on governors island, ny permanent link to this post
Jun 25, 2009
secondary market and american muscle
posted at 13:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Hanne Mugaas’s “Secondary Market” at Dispatch’s space at No Soul For Sale
Jonathan Schipper’s “The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle” at Pierogi’s Boiler Space
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Jun 15, 2009
photos from The Feraliminal Lycanthroparty
posted at 12:41 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
some photos from Kai’s OTO, The Feraliminal Lycanthroparty, now up on OTO’s Flickr set
What is a Feraliminal Lycanthroparty?
Two sinewaves — one 3hz, the other 9hz played together via 2 amps. These two frequencies (one acting as carrier, the other as program) generate a lower third, .56hz. The amps run into 3 large magnets (“but kickers” - like the kind sometimes used in immersion theme park rides) place under a wood platform. The platform transmits the pulse from the magnets up to a wood bench. Around the bench, 3 sets of speakers play 6 palindrome loops of the words “yes” and “no”. Behind the bench a set of flashlights turn on and off, projecting onto a large stretched canvas in sequence. The room, ideally, is pitch black, sweltering hot, with a garbage can full of ice and beer. permanent link to this post
Jun 13, 2009
Data center as art and architecture
posted at 16:02 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
The Times pays attention to something that’s intrigued me for a while — the aesthetics of data centers (here too). Having visited such places in my duties to commerce, I noticed how a standard rack of servers has the same sort of monumental minimalism of a Judd, but with lots of blinking lights and white fan noise thrown in for good measure.
MTAA has envisioned a sculpture that would comprise a standard 19” rack holding multiple computers running a small website hosting service. This rack would be installed in a ‘heroic’ manner in the center of a gallery raised on computer flooring above the normal floor. I think we wanted to call it “Monument.”
What the NYT article is doing and what “Monument” is intended to do is reveal these hidden systems that we all rely on. In the case of “Monument” — we’d attempt to aestheticize the purely functional (the NYT photos do something similar). permanent link to this post
MTAA has envisioned a sculpture that would comprise a standard 19” rack holding multiple computers running a small website hosting service. This rack would be installed in a ‘heroic’ manner in the center of a gallery raised on computer flooring above the normal floor. I think we wanted to call it “Monument.”
What the NYT article is doing and what “Monument” is intended to do is reveal these hidden systems that we all rely on. In the case of “Monument” — we’d attempt to aestheticize the purely functional (the NYT photos do something similar). permanent link to this post
Jun 12, 2009
tv is dead.
posted at 17:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Back in 1999, I was sitting in a noisy club by myself watching the bar’s TV with the sound turned off. They had on what looked like some vintage 50’s propaganda cartoons that I had not seen before. As I watched, the scene cut from some cartoon war to an image of the globe. Coming out of the globe was a huge red banner that said something like “Save Free Television.” As the cartoon cut back to the war, I thought - ”wait… did that really say Save Free TV? Why would anyone need to save TV? It’s like saying save tall buildings. I should start a nonsensical digital campaign to save analog TV.”
And so came to pass MTAA’s first, and on this last day of TV, our most prophetic misunderstanding to date.
http://www.mteww.com/savefreetv/
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Jun 10, 2009
The Feraliminal Lycanthroparty
posted at 22:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On June 13th from 7 to 10pm, OTO is pleased to present a new sound environment by Kai Vierstra
The Feraliminal Lycanthroparty is a celebration of one of the most diabolically wacky inventions science has ever seen (or at least whispered about). It’s the feraliminal lycanthropizer and it’s a low frequency thanato-auric wave generator, and it’s at OTO for one night only. Expect some serious relaxation of muscles and mores with vibrations and party favors. It’s gonna be an awesome night. The feraliminal lycanthroparty is brought to you by the Brooklyn based artist, Kai Vierstra, who bases this and most all his other work on the continuation of what little he knows and can guess about his father’s wave research with MIT/Lincoln Laboratory’s group 38 “Air Defense Systems”.
For more information on the feraliminal lycanthropizer, please visit- http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/8/feraliminal/
and for more of Kai’s work - http://kaivierstra.com
more info on OTO at Over The Opening
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Jun 02, 2009
Wheel of The Devil playlist
posted at 01:25 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Below, most of the work that comprised The Wheel of The Devil at May’s OTO. Not screened in this order, links where we can…
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“Film in Which There Appear…” George Landow, 16mm film, 1965 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRd3727lwXs )
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“Report”, Bruce Conner, 1967 (this looks horrible: http://www.download-finished.com/archive/bruce-conner-report-1967avi.html )
- “The Jump”, Jack Goldstein, video, 1979 (crappy youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqwIXyqwZZg )
- “lackofvision.mov,” Brody Condon, digital video, 1996-2009
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“The Hamster Dance,” Deidre LaCarte, animated GIFs with audio loop, 1998 (http://www.webhamster.com/ )
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“787 Clip Arts”, Oliver Laric, video, 2006 (http://oliverlaric.com/787cliparts.htm )
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“nato1”, jimpunk, video, 2006 (http://dvblogh4ck.blogspot.com/2006/05/nato1.html )
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“Walk”, Michael Sarff, video, 2007 (http://tinjail.com/walk/ )
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“Subterranean House (Oonce Oonce)”, Michael Bell-Smith, video, 2007 (http://oonce-oonce.com/)
- “Kingdom”, Michael Sarff, video, 2007 (http://tinjail.com/kingdom/ )
- “Superman II point 0”, Chris Coy, Flash, animated GIFs, 2007 (http://www.seecoy.com/supermanIIpoint0.html )
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“Timeless”, Hayley A. Silverman, video, 2007 (http://www.hayleysilverman.com/index.php?n=Work.Timeless )
- “Our Political Work”, MTAA, 2-channel video with software, 2008 (http://www.mtaa.net/art/opw/ )
- “YES & NO”, MTAA, 2-channel video with software, 2008 (http://mtaa.net/yes_no/)
- “Rendered Spirits”, Rick Silva, video, 2008 (http://www.vimeo.com/1801184)
- “The Horror! The Horror! (.info)”, Jon Rafman, Flash, 2008 (http://thehorrorthehorror.info/)
- “MOUNTAINS”, Mathwrath, animated GIF and webpage, 2009 (http://www.mathwrath.com/ click ‘work’ then ‘MOUNTAINS’)
- “you-talking-to-me.com”, JODI, webpages, 2009 (http://you-talking-to-me.com)
- “People Who Look The Same In Every Photo,” no author, internet meme, 2009 (compiled by MTAA see: this & this)
May 30, 2009
photos from oto loop lecture
posted at 18:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
some photos from last nights OTO - The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture) now up on OTO’s Flickr set
Update
Ed began the night by screening Bruce Conner’s Report (1963-1967) and Marilyn Times Five (1968-1973) as people entered into the space. He then spoke a bit on the history of the film loop from the ‘Daedalum’ (aka ‘the wheel of the devil) or as it was later renamed ‘Zoetrope’ (aka ‘wheel of life’) to early porn loops. He then turned to the structural/ materialist approach to loops in which film is treated physically as a object (using tape to create a loop), editing looping sections into a film, and the act of reprinting sections of a film over and over to create a linear work that loops.
He then showed, as examples, two 16mm works - George Landow’s “Film in Which There Appear…” 1965 and Malcolm Le Grice’s Berlin Horse from 1970 (single screen) with a looping Brain Eno soundtrack (think music box) and ended with a section of Jack Goldstein loops including “The Jump” 1979 shown from DVD.
Next, Tim began to present the 17 digital works. He introduced each work with the artist name, the title of the work and the original format (and a note if it was translated from the original format for the screening). The rule was set up that each loop would run until a majority of the audience raised their hand to move to the next loop. Counter to what one might expect, each loop played for some time until people even began to consider looking at the next.
Once Tim ran through the 17 works, he returned to the top of the list and began again. Some people left, some people stayed and the length of duration people looked at the work stayed about the same or in the case of a few works became even longer.
Two thoughts from doing this project:
1. Work in translation is never the same. Goldstein’s loops on DVD from a digital projector are not the same as the film loops showing at the Met right now. I am thankful that translations occur as it allows more people to see the work and hopefully seek out source material.
2. Although we tend to think of loops both film and digital (and sound as well) as infinite, the act of perception always has a start and stop. permanent link to this post
May 21, 2009
The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture)
posted at 19:14 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
stills from “The Horror! The Horror! (.info)” by Jon Rafman
The Wheel of The Devil (aka the loop lecture)
curated by MTAA with Ed Halter
presented by T.Whid of MTAA
The infinite loop is the perfect form for expressing the reality of contemporary existence. From the endless boom-bust cycle of capitalism to the repeating right/left swings of American politics to the misbehaving computer code frustrating our days, we are the society of the loop. We’re doomed to repeat history ad infinitum (not to mention ad nauseum) with no progress nor resolve needed. These observations are nothing new; how could they be? We’ve always been Sisyphus.
while (history) { history = true; }
Come celebrate the horrific beauty of the infinite loop at “The Wheel of The Devil,” a one-night-only screening of historic and contemporary loops at Over The Opening. Each loop screened until the audience votes to move to the next.
Artists include (in no particular order):
JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more… JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith - jimpunk - and more… JODI - Rick Silva - Brody Condon - Jon Rafman - Deidre LaCarte - Michael Sarff - MTAA - Hayley A. Silverman - Mathwrath - Chris Coy - Michael Bell-Smith – jimpunk - and more…
* where:*
Over The Opening (OTO)
60 N. 6th St. 2nd Flr (btw Wythe & Kent)
Brooklyn, NY, 11211
* when:*
Friday May 29th, 2009 7-10PM (one night only)
Doors open at 7PM, the lecture starts looping at 8PM sharp!
free and open to the public
more info at Over The Opening (OTO)
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May 16, 2009
Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine
posted at 12:56 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
This software claims “Intelligent, Unbiased and Instant Assessment of Photos.” As far as I can tell, it’s based on prior ratings from individuals, e.g. humans rate photos, algorithm rates similar photos similarly.
We all know where that gets us.
Aquine
(via /.) permanent link to this post
We all know where that gets us.
Aquine
(via /.) permanent link to this post
May 14, 2009
Are we still blogging? Um… yes?
posted at 22:56 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Though we haven’t been posting much this May — don’t fear! We’ve been… ah, busy… yeah… busy.
T.Whid has been doing stuff that looks like this:
And M.River has been doing whatever it is that M.River does when he disappears for a while. I think that it may involve a lot of demolishing stuff and (I’m assuming) alcohol.
If you really miss MTAA you can follow our Twitter updates (M.River; T.Whid) and/or our delicious links (M.River; T.Whid). If you know us, you can find us on Facebook (I don’t accept requests from people I don’t personally know however).
We have some stuff coming up so watch this space!
m.river adds…
1. Done with demo for the next few months.
2. Here is a short loop about it.
3. I’ll facebook befriend almost anyone. Cuz I’m like that.
4. Don’t forget Flickr
5. Yes, new MTAA stuff soon. permanent link to this post
T.Whid has been doing stuff that looks like this:
And M.River has been doing whatever it is that M.River does when he disappears for a while. I think that it may involve a lot of demolishing stuff and (I’m assuming) alcohol.
If you really miss MTAA you can follow our Twitter updates (M.River; T.Whid) and/or our delicious links (M.River; T.Whid). If you know us, you can find us on Facebook (I don’t accept requests from people I don’t personally know however).
We have some stuff coming up so watch this space!
m.river adds…
1. Done with demo for the next few months.
2. Here is a short loop about it.
3. I’ll facebook befriend almost anyone. Cuz I’m like that.
4. Don’t forget Flickr
5. Yes, new MTAA stuff soon. permanent link to this post
May 02, 2009
The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire)
posted at 19:40 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire)
shot 2007. finished 2008. web version released 05/2009. permanent link to this post
Apr 24, 2009
Wikipedia Threatens Artists for Fair Use
posted at 15:03 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Can a noncommercial critical website use the trademark of the entity it critiques in its domain name? Surprisingly, it appears that the usually open-minded folks at Wikipedia think not.
Last February, a pair of artists, working with several collaborators, created a Wikipedia article and invited the general public to add to it, following Wikipedia’s standards of credibility and verifiability. The work was intended to comment on the nature of art and Wikipedia. But Wikipedia editors did not take kindly to the project, and it was shut down within fifteen hours for being insufficiently “encyclopaedic.”
Fast forward a couple of months. The artists, Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern, have created a noncommercial website that documents the project, called Wikipedia Art. The domain name for the project: wikipediaart.org.
Yep, they used the term “wikipedia” in their domain name. “Wikipedia” is a trademark owned by the Wikimedia Foundation. And now the Foundation has demanded that the artists give up the domain name peaceably or it will attempt to take it by (legal) force.
read the entire article on eff.org + Slashdot coverage + rhizome.org coverage [one, two] when the project was first released (Feb 2009)… permanent link to this post
Apr 23, 2009
photos from SOAP BOX OPERA WORKSHOP at OTO
posted at 22:29 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 17, 2009
UCT2010
posted at 15:16 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is my proposal to the Rhizome Commission 2010.
Untitled Computer Typeface 2010 (UCT2010)
Enjoy. permanent link to this post
Untitled Computer Typeface 2010 (UCT2010)
Enjoy. permanent link to this post
Apr 15, 2009
i’m the last splash
posted at 21:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA Splash page for Rhizome 2001 - 2002
Updated Version
Rhizome’s Splashback
AFC on Splash
i could go on but i think i’ll stop here permanent link to this post
Updated Version
Rhizome’s Splashback
AFC on Splash
i could go on but i think i’ll stop here permanent link to this post
Apr 14, 2009
Artists Meeting’s SOAP BOX OPERA WORKSHOP at OTO
posted at 14:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On April 18, 2009 from 7pm-10pm, OTO is pleased to presents SOAP BOX OPERA WORKSHOP by Artists Meeting
SOAP BOX OPERA WORKSHOP is a project developed by the collective Artists Meeting. Honing in on the dramaturgy of theory, the group has adapted excerpts from a variety of scholarly and art-theory-based texts from different eras and genres to a “Soap Opera” filmic format whereby plots are reduced to one liners, drama is played out in an exaggerated manner and scenes rely on emotional turmoil and ambiguity to capture the distracted viewer.
More info…
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Apr 12, 2009
STAEHLE @ Postmasters
posted at 15:56 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
The one and only Wolfgang Staehle opens a new show at Postmasters this Thursday April 16, 2009! From the release:
April 16 - May 16, 2009permanent link to this post
WOLFGANG STAEHLE
A Matter of Time
Postmasters is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Wolfgang Staehle.
A Matter of Time is comprised of four real time projections of time-lapse photographic sequences and a premier video work of a Yanomami Village in the Brazilian rain forest. The show will be on view from April 16 until May 16, 2009. An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, April 16, between 6 and 8 pm.
A Matter of Time draws upon mid-19th century painter Thomas Cole’s series The Course of Empire. Cole’s historically critical rumination views pastoralism as the ideal model for civilization, fearing that the ideal of Empire inevitably results in greed and decay. While A Matter of Time holds the mirror of this salient socio-political commentary up to our own time, it is one whose reflection is without indignation to the systems themselves. Perhaps, best encapsulated in the artist’s own 1989 work which avows, “Empires crumble, republics collapse, and idiots live on;” the posit follows that it is our own inordinate ability to destroy the sublimity of any civilization’s ideal that is put on the table.
However, Staehle’s work in no way relies upon homage to Cole’s series, a foray to pastoralism or political satire. Evident in his body of work, the form is always central; and previous works have underscored time-a one-to-one, linear time, a simulative “real time” or the contrivance of frozen time. In this exhibition, A Matter of Time broadly refers to the time lapse photographic sequences (approximately 15,000 photographs per day at 10 frames per minute) but presented here in real time-a rate so methodical that it denudes the image of its cinematographic aspect, while accentuating it pictorially. By allowing us to exact the machinations of nature, through figuratively arresting time, a perceptual shift is created that video does not pose, and thereby realigns our relationship with the real. Each contiguous moment pre-empts the prior, switching out the obsolete image for a perpetually updated “now.” Is it that the representation of an object’s stasis recalls the full force of its movement? Because ultimately, it is this indeterminate relation with time that drives our experience with these quietly unsettling works.
Apr 10, 2009
crunch time for bunnies
posted at 14:12 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
t.whid adds:
This image (sited on Boing Boing yesterday) seems apropos for the day…
(maybe that’s bunny in that paper…?) permanent link to this post
Apr 08, 2009
Mark Amerika in NYC tonight
posted at 15:05 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
OG net artist Mark Amerika’s Immobilité opens tonight at the Chelsea Art Museum. Amerika calls the work “[t]he world’s first feature-length mobile phone art film.”
More about the opening…
More about the film at the Immobilité website… permanent link to this post
More about the opening…
[…]solo exhibition of new work from artist Mark Amerika, opens Wednesday, April 8th, in The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum and remains on view through May 9, 2009. […]
Amerika describes Immobilité as “a feature-length foreign film shot entirely on a mobile phone in Cornwall, UK.” The work includes an original soundtrack by renowned sound artist Chad Mossholder and introduces Camille Lacadee and Magda Tyzlik-Carver as on-screen personas that drift in and out of the film’s otherworldly landscapes and ghostly narrative sequences.
More about the film at the Immobilité website… permanent link to this post
Apr 06, 2009
“The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’”
posted at 17:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Martin Kippenberger, “The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s ‘Amerika’” (1994) at MOMA
The young European immigrant Karl Rossmann tries to get a job of which he need not be ashamed…He asked for nothing better; he wanted to find some way of at least beginning a decent life, and perhaps this was his chance. Even if all the extravagant statements in the placard were a lie, even if the great Theatre of Oklahoma were an insignificant traveling circus, it wanted to engage people, and that was enough. Karl did not read the whole placard over again, but once more singled out the sentence: “Everyone is welcome.” permanent link to this post
Apr 04, 2009
Experimental Deviations in Psychogeography
posted at 14:46 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 29, 2009
40th bday cake
posted at 19:09 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Thanks M.River & Helen! I made sure to eat the lightening bolt (aka where the art happens).
Photo by Adam Hurwitz. permanent link to this post
Mar 24, 2009
Ada Lovelace Day - Olia 1996
posted at 16:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Ada Lovelace Day
In the late 90’s, I started to look for net art. I was looking for art not just displayed via net, but art that used the media and subject of the net in the core of the work. Olia Lialina’s 1996 work “My Boyfriend Came Back From the War” was one of the first works shown to me that made clear the possibility of the net as a location for, and of, art. I looked at again today, a decade + and a internet boom later. It still seems like a note for a future art. permanent link to this post
In the late 90’s, I started to look for net art. I was looking for art not just displayed via net, but art that used the media and subject of the net in the core of the work. Olia Lialina’s 1996 work “My Boyfriend Came Back From the War” was one of the first works shown to me that made clear the possibility of the net as a location for, and of, art. I looked at again today, a decade + and a internet boom later. It still seems like a note for a future art. permanent link to this post
Mar 23, 2009
Dolsot bibimbap
posted at 01:49 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
This person doesn’t seem to put any hot sauce on, which is a bit of a fail IMHO. permanent link to this post
Mar 21, 2009
Google’s design problem
posted at 13:40 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid/geek
Recently leaving Google, Doug Bowman writes:
To the geeks that think numbers can somehow bring one to aesthetics: ponder this.
Perhaps one blue will bring more clicks than another; perhaps not. Perhaps the test is flawed. How was the test defined? We need to test the testing methodology! And then test the testing methodology of testing methodology of the test… ak! It’s a rabbit hole. That’s Bowman’s point. permanent link to this post
Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that.
To the geeks that think numbers can somehow bring one to aesthetics: ponder this.
Perhaps one blue will bring more clicks than another; perhaps not. Perhaps the test is flawed. How was the test defined? We need to test the testing methodology! And then test the testing methodology of testing methodology of the test… ak! It’s a rabbit hole. That’s Bowman’s point. permanent link to this post
Mar 20, 2009
spring begins in nyc
posted at 21:43 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 17, 2009
from netmares/netdreams at capricious space - in real life
posted at 02:03 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 12, 2009
Allow directory browsing with .htaccess
posted at 13:24 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid/geek
Smithsonian blog covers Cory
posted at 01:13 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Nice write-up on Cory Arcangel at the Smithsonian’s Eyelevel blog. It’s interesting to see some perspective from someone who isn’t in the new media/net art/etc scene.
Check it out…
Don’t miss the videos of Cory’s presentation at the American Art Museum too. permanent link to this post
Check it out…
Don’t miss the videos of Cory’s presentation at the American Art Museum too. permanent link to this post
Mar 10, 2009
EcoArtTech’s Eclipse
posted at 00:50 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Our awesome friends Cary and Christine have released some networked art! Check it out…
“Eclipse” is a user driven, networked-art application that alters and corrupts United States national and state park images from Flickr.com based on the real-time Air Quality Index (particle pollution data) provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) at the site www.airnow.gov.permanent link to this post
“We visit national parks to get away from traffic and smog. But the latter can be hard to shake, even in remote, pristine-seeming places. “Eclipse”, an open-source program created by Cary Peppermint and Leila Christine Nadir of EcoArtTech, will make air pollution’s presence visually — and viscerally — explicit.” Anna Lena Phillips, American Scientist
“Eclipse” is a 2008 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. [snip]
Mar 08, 2009
photos from secret school 04: gold
posted at 13:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 04, 2009
Progress Tracing… (Fitting Paths)
posted at 12:41 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
from MTAA’s “Live Demonstration of Autotrace #3 (Number 1A; performative)” last night during Theater of Code at Light Industry.
photo by Flickr username splnlss | link permanent link to this post
Feb 28, 2009
MTAA in Theater of Code at Light Industry
posted at 17:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Theater of Code at Light Industry
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 7:30pm
Curated by Christiane Paul
Theater of Code will present three performance/interventions that explore how computer code, scripting language, and software applications relate to the movement of bodies and the staging and choreography of our lives. Curated by Christiane Paul
Adrianne Wortzel’s A Re-enactment of The Battle of the Pyramids
Ursula Endlicher’s Website Impersonations: The Ten Most Visited (Facebook)
and
MTAA returns to Light Industry with two new performances of code-based art. In the first work—titled $”##’—MTAA re-stages John Cage’s 4’33” within a framework of a new media lecture. The second project is a demonstration of Autotrace, a software-generated appropriation and shape creation system. As part of the Autotrace performance, MTAA will use one of the newly generated “Autotraced shapes” to create a ridiculously large, two-dimensional, site-specific work right in front of the audience’s eyes.
Tickets - $7, available at door.
more info and directions to Light Industry
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Feb 27, 2009
Secret School 04: Gold at Over The Opening (OTO) March 7
posted at 14:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On March 7, 2009 from 7-10PM, OTO
welcomes back Huong Ngo for Secret School 04: Gold
Secret School is pleased to collaborate with a team of economists led by Daniel J. Martin to create a functioning and participatory economy based on the gold standard. They will examine the global and political forces that drive the continued mining and hoarding of gold, and the ecological and humanitarian crises that result. Secret School and Martin will present a text that reframes, in a contemporary context, Adam Smith’s argument for the use of the gold as a medium of exchange.
Secret School explores the importance of the hidden and invisible in the social identity of a community through a series of time-based events and collaborations. Ranging from the political to the personal, epic to the quotidian, unknown to unknowable, how do secrets function in the transfer and preservation of power? At a time in which oversaturation of readily available information already exceeds our capacity for adequate synthesis, how can the poetics of secrets cut through the logic of facts? When does the form of a secret supersede its content, and under what circumstances must information remain a secret? Secret School spans an indefinite number of sessions and range of spaces and extends from the aesthetic practice of building systems of social exchange.
For more information, visit Secret School or email s3Cr37.5ch00l@gmail.com
Once a month, from 7PM to 10PM, the artist collective MTAA convert their N6th St. Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art.
Map to OTO permanent link to this post
Worst. Tweet. Ever.
posted at 00:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
First off, if you are not familiar with micro bloggin’, just skip this post. It’s kinda nerdy and it’s not that great of a post – so, you will not be missing anything.
Twhid, on the way to Brooklyn D.I.Y. at the MOMA last night, mentioned that he was twittering about going to the show (note Twhid twitters but I do not do any microblog stuff — unless you count my occasional updates on Facebook). He talked about the weird feeling he gets on seeing the constant flow of tweets from people who go out every night and have hip, action-packed lives. I reminded him tweets are a type of fiction and that people edit their lives. People tend to avoid the low parts like “sitting alone on the couch eating ice cream out of the carton” or “just vomited on my shoes” or “tending to bills at work” or, what we decided would be the worst tweet ever, “just finished masturbating — off to lunch now”
Yep. That’s about it. If you have a worst Worst.Tweet.Ever, send it on over to Twhid.
Update - Oh, hey. Guthrie Lonergan sent us some real world examples of the Worst.Tweet.Ever
http://twitter.com/TheMonarch/statuses/1070154402
http://twitter.com/DaRave/statuses/1126749351
Thanks Guthrie. Enjoy permanent link to this post
Twhid, on the way to Brooklyn D.I.Y. at the MOMA last night, mentioned that he was twittering about going to the show (note Twhid twitters but I do not do any microblog stuff — unless you count my occasional updates on Facebook). He talked about the weird feeling he gets on seeing the constant flow of tweets from people who go out every night and have hip, action-packed lives. I reminded him tweets are a type of fiction and that people edit their lives. People tend to avoid the low parts like “sitting alone on the couch eating ice cream out of the carton” or “just vomited on my shoes” or “tending to bills at work” or, what we decided would be the worst tweet ever, “just finished masturbating — off to lunch now”
Yep. That’s about it. If you have a worst Worst.Tweet.Ever, send it on over to Twhid.
Update - Oh, hey. Guthrie Lonergan sent us some real world examples of the Worst.Tweet.Ever
http://twitter.com/TheMonarch/statuses/1070154402
http://twitter.com/DaRave/statuses/1126749351
Thanks Guthrie. Enjoy permanent link to this post
Feb 25, 2009
DVD Stills (2 flickr slide shows)
posted at 16:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
One photo, shot without pause, from each of the DVDs I rented and watch alone in 2006 and 2007
Enjoy. permanent link to this post
Feb 24, 2009
Beautiful Breath: Veil Water
posted at 18:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Duchamp’s Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette
1921, New York
perfume bottle with collage label
inside oval violet cardboard box
assisted readymade
bottle: 15.2 cm tall
box: 16.3 x 11.2 cm
permanent link to this post
1921, New York
perfume bottle with collage label
inside oval violet cardboard box
assisted readymade
bottle: 15.2 cm tall
box: 16.3 x 11.2 cm
permanent link to this post
Feb 22, 2009
tintype reopens
posted at 02:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
fyi - tintype, m.river photo blog, is back from winter hiatus. comments open. rss. enjoy. permanent link to this post
Feb 21, 2009
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
posted at 18:18 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Cool show opening @ Postmasters next weekend!
With:
Kevin Bewersdorf
Charles Broskoski
Marc Horowitz
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Kristin Lucas
Michael Mandiberg
Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org)
Joe McKay
JooYoun Paek
Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum (with Spiritsurfers)
If you’re on Facebook, you can check out the event here; there’s lots more info. permanent link to this post
Saturday, February 28, 2009 at 6:00pm
Postmasters Gallery
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)
“the future is not what is used to be” brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings, photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction in a networked world, reflection in the times of speed, new communication tools and smart technologies affecting cultural and sociopolitical reality, sustainable strategies for contemporary life, connectivity and dis-connect, digital/analog divide, instantaneity and obsolescence, the web as the largest image depository ever, and new forms of appropriation, means of production, and modes of political engagement.
With:
Kevin Bewersdorf
Charles Broskoski
Marc Horowitz
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Kristin Lucas
Michael Mandiberg
Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org)
Joe McKay
JooYoun Paek
Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum (with Spiritsurfers)
If you’re on Facebook, you can check out the event here; there’s lots more info. permanent link to this post
Feb 11, 2009
Uni plays Nightswimming for AFTP
posted at 18:07 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
A short video shot by by Peter Samis.
This video features Uni and her Ukelele. Uni played R.E.M.’s “Nightswimming” as part of MTAA’s “Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)” at SFMOMA. permanent link to this post
ATFP: (WSPTNOWGN) — photos
posted at 14:10 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
SFMOMA posted a flickr set of “AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked).” Check out the photos…
There’s a few more here too. permanent link to this post
Feb 10, 2009
6 years? Holy shit.
posted at 01:27 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Yes, it’s the 6th anniversary of the MTAA Reference Resource. As promised, we didn’t forget it this year.
The required link to the first post.
We’ve been a tad remiss in our blogging and we’ll try to be better. We’ve been planning for years to move to a new platform and we hope to get that done this year at some point.
Thanks to everyone that visits here! permanent link to this post
The required link to the first post.
We’ve been a tad remiss in our blogging and we’ll try to be better. We’ve been planning for years to move to a new platform and we hope to get that done this year at some point.
Thanks to everyone that visits here! permanent link to this post
AFTP ( ) Robots at SFMOMA
t’was fun…more soon.
Feb 03, 2009
Happy 10th Domain-iversary to us
posted at 14:40 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Feb 02, 2009
Please join us this Saturday at SFMOMA for the final act of AFTP ( )
posted at 19:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked) will begin on Saturday Febuary 7, at SFMOMA outside the frieght elevator on the 3rd floor at 12 noon.
Prologue - a live audience at SFMOMA votes that the Automatic for the People: ( ) performance should happen in SFMOMA’s freight elevator
Poll 1 - the people decided that the performance should be titled: Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)
Poll 2 - it is decided that the duration of the performance should be “the exact same length as R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic for the People’ album”
Poll 3 - house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA are to be used as props during the performance
Poll 4 - we’ve been directed to refer to these themes during the performance: Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food
Poll 5 - we will game, build, dance and photograph (slowly) during the performance
Poll 6 - we’ll be dressed as robots
Poll 7 - the general public will be allowed to attend the performance
Poll 8 - and they’ve chosen to have wine & cheese for refreshment
Poll 9 - the nature of the space will be “all over the place”
Poll 10 - the performance will conclude in a dance party.
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Jan 27, 2009
more RnD on robots / humans
posted at 15:14 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jan 26, 2009
The humans are dead
posted at 01:52 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Jan 23, 2009
AFTP: ( ) update: BONUS POLL!
posted at 02:17 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Hey! It was so fun… why stop now? Check it out: it’s a BONUS POLL!!!!!
~AND~
If you’re in San Francisco, CA don’t miss the performance on Feb 7th @ high noon! It’s at SFMOMA on the 3rd floor.
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An update on MTAA’s Automatic for the People: ( ) project
Artists MTAA will conduct a performance on Feb 7 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. What they do during this performance and how they do it is up for a vote.
Go here to participate: http://mtaa.net/vote/
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This is the situation:
Prologue - a live audience at SFMOMA votes that the Automatic for the People: ( ) performance should happen in SFMOMA’s freight elevator
Poll 1 - the people decided that the performance should be titled: Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)
Poll 2 - it is decided that the duration of the performance should be “the exact same length as R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic for the People’ album”
Poll 3 - house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA are to be used as props during the performance
Poll 4 - we’ve been directed to refer to these themes during the performance: Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food
Poll 5 - we will game, build, dance and photograph (slowly) during the performance
Poll 6 - we’ll be dressed as robots
Poll 7 - the general public will be allowed to attend the performance
Poll 8 - and they’ve chosen to have wine & cheese for refreshment
Poll 9 - the nature of the space will be “all over the place”
Poll 10 - the performance will conclude in a dance party!
BONUS POLL!!!!! - Silent Mantra
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We suggest that you listen to the museum audio tour when visiting the Automatic for the People: ( ) website to vote.
To do this:
(You can also listen to the audio tour on your phone: 415-294-3609, 424#)
~PLUS~
You can listen to us babble on about the piece even more! Here: http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/audio/44
woohoo! permanent link to this post
~AND~
If you’re in San Francisco, CA don’t miss the performance on Feb 7th @ high noon! It’s at SFMOMA on the 3rd floor.
+++
An update on MTAA’s Automatic for the People: ( ) project
Artists MTAA will conduct a performance on Feb 7 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. What they do during this performance and how they do it is up for a vote.
Go here to participate: http://mtaa.net/vote/
+++
This is the situation:
Prologue - a live audience at SFMOMA votes that the Automatic for the People: ( ) performance should happen in SFMOMA’s freight elevator
Poll 1 - the people decided that the performance should be titled: Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)
Poll 2 - it is decided that the duration of the performance should be “the exact same length as R.E.M.’s ‘Automatic for the People’ album”
Poll 3 - house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA are to be used as props during the performance
Poll 4 - we’ve been directed to refer to these themes during the performance: Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food
Poll 5 - we will game, build, dance and photograph (slowly) during the performance
Poll 6 - we’ll be dressed as robots
Poll 7 - the general public will be allowed to attend the performance
Poll 8 - and they’ve chosen to have wine & cheese for refreshment
Poll 9 - the nature of the space will be “all over the place”
Poll 10 - the performance will conclude in a dance party!
BONUS POLL!!!!! - Silent Mantra
- Mind over matter, mouth in motion (Public Enemy, “Rightstarter”)
- No sleep ‘til Brooklyn (The Beastie Boys, “No Sleep till Brooklyn”)
- I’m completely operational and all my circuits are functioning normally. (Hal 9000, “2001: A Space Odyssey”)
- Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves? (Andy Warhol)
- I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products. (Marcel Duchamp)
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear (Mark Twain)
- All warfare is based on deception. (Sun Tzu, “The Art of War”)
- The art happens here. (MTAA, “The Simple Net Art Diagram”)
- May both of us work together with great vigor. (Shanti Mantras)
- Nothing’s free but guaranteed for a lifetime’s use. (R.E.M., “Star Me Kitten”)
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We suggest that you listen to the museum audio tour when visiting the Automatic for the People: ( ) website to vote.
To do this:
- go to mtaa.net/vote
- download the audio tour in MP3 format
- vote
(You can also listen to the audio tour on your phone: 415-294-3609, 424#)
~PLUS~
You can listen to us babble on about the piece even more! Here: http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/audio/44
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Jan 19, 2009
MLK day 2009
posted at 16:10 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
update
AND, it’s Edgar Allen Poe’s 200th birthday!
…slideshow from the NYT permanent link to this post
Jan 17, 2009
AFTP: ( ) FINAL POLL #10: CONCLUSION! (Jan 15-21)
posted at 16:26 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
the CONCLUSION!
Here is the script as voted by museum and online viewers so far…
“Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)” will be held in SFMOMA’s freight elevator at noon on 02/07/09 and last for the exact length as REM’s “Automatic for the People.”
We will use house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA as props. We will refer to Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food. We will game, build, dance and photograph during the performance (slowly). We will dress as robots. This performance will be seen by the general public who will enjoy a wine and cheese refreshment. The character of the space will be “all over the place.”
This week’s vote…
the CONCLUSION! permanent link to this post
Here is the script as voted by museum and online viewers so far…
“Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)” will be held in SFMOMA’s freight elevator at noon on 02/07/09 and last for the exact length as REM’s “Automatic for the People.”
We will use house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA as props. We will refer to Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food. We will game, build, dance and photograph during the performance (slowly). We will dress as robots. This performance will be seen by the general public who will enjoy a wine and cheese refreshment. The character of the space will be “all over the place.”
This week’s vote…
the CONCLUSION! permanent link to this post
SFMOMA Artcast January 2009
posted at 16:16 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
Check out the new podcast from SFMOMA…
The curator Rudolf Freiling talks about “The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now,” we talk about our piece “Automatic for the People: ( )” and visitors to the museum talk about their reactions to the exhibition and how they feel about interactive art in general.
You can download the file in vanilla MP3, M4A (for iTunes; audio with images) or stream it from the SFMOMA website.
You can also subscribe to their RSS podcast feed and get updated auto-magically when they post a new one permanent link to this post
The curator Rudolf Freiling talks about “The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now,” we talk about our piece “Automatic for the People: ( )” and visitors to the museum talk about their reactions to the exhibition and how they feel about interactive art in general.
You can download the file in vanilla MP3, M4A (for iTunes; audio with images) or stream it from the SFMOMA website.
You can also subscribe to their RSS podcast feed and get updated auto-magically when they post a new one permanent link to this post
Jan 12, 2009
AFTP: ( ) Update! Poll #9: SPACE (JAN 8-14)
posted at 03:18 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
M.River is supposed to post these updates but he was really busy this week and didn’t get a chance to do it. So, in case you forgot to vote this week, here’s your reminder!
Here is the script as voted by museum and online viewers so far…
“Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)” will be held in SFMOMA’s freight elevator on 02/07/09 at noon for the exact same length as R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” album. We will use house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA as props. We will refer to Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food. We will game, build, dance, slow and photograph during the performance. We will dress as robots. This performance will be seen by the general public who will enjoy a wine and cheese refreshment.
This week’s vote…
SPACE! permanent link to this post
Here is the script as voted by museum and online viewers so far…
“Automatic for the People: (We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)” will be held in SFMOMA’s freight elevator on 02/07/09 at noon for the exact same length as R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” album. We will use house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA as props. We will refer to Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles and take-out food. We will game, build, dance, slow and photograph during the performance. We will dress as robots. This performance will be seen by the general public who will enjoy a wine and cheese refreshment.
This week’s vote…
SPACE! permanent link to this post
Jan 07, 2009
Secret School with Hong-An Truong Jan 17 at OTO
posted at 22:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On January 17, 2009 from 7-10PM, Over The Opening (OTO) is pleased to present the first installment of Huong Ngo’s nomadic project Secret School featuring the work of Hong-An Truong.
The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement. They consider metaphysics a branch of fantastic literature. — Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”
Secret School explores the importance of the hidden and invisible in the social identity of a community through a series of time-based events and collaborations. Ranging from the political to the personal, epic to the quotidian, unknown to unknowable, how do secrets function in the transfer and preservation of power? At a time in which oversaturation of readily available information already exceeds our capacity for adequate synthesis, how can the poetics of secrets cut through the logic of facts? When does the form of a secret supersede its content, and under what circumstances must information remain a secret?
Secret School Session 01 is pleased to present Wheel In the Sky, a three-channel video installation by Hong-An Truong. Wheel In the Sky investigates the possibilities of media to bear witness to moments of trauma and moments of poetry when human memory fails. As the video unfolds, the artist questions her father about his interest in the band Journey, and his responses reveal a frustration and acute sensitivity to the loss of meaning in the translation from their native Vietnamese tongue into English and vice versa. The conversation also suggests what impact the years of colonization have had on his perception of Vietnam’s most treasured art form, the poem. Secret School will collaborate with Hong-An Truong to create a text that reveals, complicates, and further conceals what is lost in translation, creating a liminal space out of what is inexpressible.
Session 01 takes place at OTO, Brooklyn, NY on January 17, 2009 from 7-10PM. Secret School spans an indefinite number of sessions and range of spaces.
OTO - ONCE A MONTH, THE ARTIST COLLECTIVE MTAA CONVERT THEIR N6TH ST. BROOKLYN STUDIO INTO A VENUE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF TIME-BASED ART.
Directions to OTO
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Jan 02, 2009
Robot costumes attack!
posted at 22:21 GMT by T.Whid in /news/twhid
AFTP() Update - #8: REFRESHMENTS (JAN 1–7)
posted at 16:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is the script as voted by museum and online viewers so far…
“Automatic for the People (aka We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)” will be held in SFMOMA’s freight elevator on 02/07/09 at 1 PM for the exact same length as R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” album. We will use house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs and a PA as props. We will refer to Marcel Duchamp, chat rooms, ukuleles, and take-out food. We will game, build, dance, slow and photograph during the performance. We will dress as robots. This performance will be seen by the general public.
This week’s vote…
Refreshments
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