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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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 08, 2009
photos from secret school 04: gold
posted at 13:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
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.
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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
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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
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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 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 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
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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Dec 21, 2008
Photos from DEC OTO
posted at 20:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photos from 10 More Awkward Metaphors for Sex and Death (The OTO Holiday Show) now up at OTO’s Flickr Set
HAL from mriver on Vimeo.
Meridith and Kai’s video of the Live Dramatic Reading (Princess Leia’s Hologram Message)
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Dec 19, 2008
black play doh
posted at 14:02 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is the basic recipe for the “Black Play Doh” I’m making for OTO on Saturday. It’s a modified version of a recipe found on the net with some trial and error.
Ingredients
2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 cup salt
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Tablespoon cream of tartar (optional for improved elasticity)
1 bottle food coloring (Mc-Cormick, black )
Mix all of the ingredients together, and stir over low heat. When the dough pulls away from the sides, remove the pan from heat. Let the dough cool.
Place the dough into a large bowl and knead until it becomes smooth. Shape the dough into a ball. Make a divot in the center of the ball, and drop some food coloring in. Fold the dough over, working the food color through the body of the dough, trying to keep the raw dye away from your hands (gloves are best). Work the dye through, a bit at a time, until the entire bottle is empty.
When you’re done store it in an air-tight container.
So, try it at home. If you get a good batch , bring it to OTO and we’ll toss it on the pile. See you on Sat. permanent link to this post
Ingredients
2 cups flour
2 cups warm water
1 cup salt
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 Tablespoon cream of tartar (optional for improved elasticity)
1 bottle food coloring (Mc-Cormick, black )
Mix all of the ingredients together, and stir over low heat. When the dough pulls away from the sides, remove the pan from heat. Let the dough cool.
Place the dough into a large bowl and knead until it becomes smooth. Shape the dough into a ball. Make a divot in the center of the ball, and drop some food coloring in. Fold the dough over, working the food color through the body of the dough, trying to keep the raw dye away from your hands (gloves are best). Work the dye through, a bit at a time, until the entire bottle is empty.
When you’re done store it in an air-tight container.
So, try it at home. If you get a good batch , bring it to OTO and we’ll toss it on the pile. See you on Sat. permanent link to this post
Dec 18, 2008
Sad To See Ya Go. Give Me A Call Some Day
posted at 14:30 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Hope you will stop by the OTO show Saturday. If you are out and about in NYC that night, please check out 31 Grand closing one night show. Tim and I are sending over one of my paintings – “Sad To See Ya Go. Give Me A Call Some Day” (see above) to give our final respect.
Death Is Not The End
At 31GRAND
143 Ludlow St. NY, NY 10002
Saturday, December 20, 2008, 6-9 PM
Music by DJ Kid Magic
We’re sad to announce 31GRAND is closing after nine wonderful years. We’ve had a great run, and all the artists we have worked with have been such amazingly wonderful talented people. Please join us on this Saturday for the exhibition, Death is Not the End, to celebrate their talent and toast a sad farewell.
Artists include: Adam Stennett, Barnaby Whitfield, Carol “Riot” Kane, Elizabeth Huey, Fanny Bostrom, Randy Polumbo, Francesca Lo Russo, Helen Garber, Jade Dylan, Jason Clay Lewis, Jason Cole Majer, Jason Weatherspoon, Jeff Wyckoff, Jeph Gurecka, Joel Adas, Jon Elliott, Karen Heagle, Kristen Schiele, Kyle Simon, Lauren Gibbes, Magalie Guérin, Maureen Cavanaugh, Megan Leborious, Michael Anderson, Michael Cambre, Gina Magid, Michael Pope, MTAA, Nelson/Electric Chaircut, Orly Cogan, Paul Brainard, Rebecca Chamberlain, Sean McDevitt, Spencer Tunnick, Tim Wilson, Tom Sanford, Ursula Brookbank, and MORE permanent link to this post
AFTP update: Audience
posted at 13:56 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 for the exact same length as R.E.M.’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. During the performance we will be dressed as robots.
This week’s vote…
Audience
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Dec 09, 2008
curt at oto
posted at 23:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Curt Cloninger at OTO from mriver on Vimeo.
9:54 min. documentation from Curt Cloninger’s 6 hour performance at Over The Opening (OTO)
Pop Mantra #3 (Tonight)
Excerpt: “tonight / wait, now” from The Ramones song “I Just Wanna Have Something To Do”
Duration: 6 Hours
Media: Electric Guitar, Voice, Black Felt Blindfold, Black Converse All Stars, Time
Where: Over The Opening, Brooklyn, New York, US.
When: 6pm - 12 midnight, Saturday, November 15, 2008.
update -
tonight/wait, now
in real life
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Dec 06, 2008
DEC 20 OTO
posted at 15:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On December 20, 2008 from 7pm - 10pm, Over The Opening (OTO) is pleased to present new works by Michael Sarff -
10 More Awkward Metaphors for Sex and Death (The OTO Holiday Show)
1. Live Dramatic Reading (Princess Leia’s Hologram Message)
2. Live Dramatic Reading (Disconnection of HAL 9000’s Higher Functions)
3. Group Assemble (Home Brewed Black Play-Doh)
4. Group Assemble (Puzzle of Google Map of Puzzle Location)
5. Give Away (edition of Tyvek Jump Suits)
6. Give Away (5 Paintings of Market Collapse Charts and 5 Paintings of Birth Rates Charts)
7. Wheat Paste Posters of 6 Word Cliches (Youth Is Wasted On The Young x10 )
8. Wheat Paste Posters of 6 Word Cliches (Let The Punishment Fit The Crime x10 )
9. Screen (1 Hour Sunset 90 Degrees Counter Clockwise - Summer 08)
10. Screen (1 Hour Sunrise 90 Degrees Clockwise - Winter 08)
LEIA: Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.
HAL: Hey, Dave, what are you doing?
About 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.
Map and Directions to OTO
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Dec 04, 2008
AFTP Vote #5 is now up
posted at 18:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Automatic for the People (aka We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked) will be held in SFMOMA”s frieght elevator on 02/07/09 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 during the performance.
This week’s live vote… Actions
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Nov 29, 2008
Hey, M.River, what’s up with Tintype?
posted at 15:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nov 27, 2008
Vote #4 is now up
posted at 12:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The score so far…
Automatic for the People (aka We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked) will be held in SFMOMA”s frieght elevator on 02/07/09 for the exact same length as R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” album with house plants, 2x4s, lawn chairs, and a PA as the props
This week’s live vote… Cultural References
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Nov 20, 2008
Prop Vote is Up
posted at 16:58 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is score so far…
Automatic for the People
(aka We Solemnly Promise That No One Will Get Naked)
will be held in SFMOMA”s frieght elevator
for the exact same length as R.E.M.’s “Automatic for the People” album.
This week’s live vote… Props
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Nov 17, 2008
curt’s oto part 2
posted at 02:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photos from Curt’s performance double header (in real life)is now up on OTO’s Flickr set.
Curt is in a booth at the Black Rabbit Bar in Greenpoint Brooklyn for 12 hours (1pm to 1 am) It’s still going on. Stop in and say “Hey” permanent link to this post
Nov 16, 2008
photos from curt’s oto part 1
posted at 17:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photos from the first leg of Curt’s performance double header (playing a loop of “tonight / wait, now” from The Ramones song “I Just Wanna Have Something To Do” for 6 hours) is now up on OTO’s Flickr set.
For the second phase, Curt will be in a booth at the Black Rabbit Bar in Greenpoint Brooklyn for 12 hours (1pm to 1 am). Stop in and say “Hey.” I’ll send some pictures from the booth later in the afternoon. permanent link to this post
Nov 15, 2008
tonight / wait, now
posted at 14:05 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Artist: Curt Cloninger
Excerpt: “tonight / wait, now” from The Ramones song “I Just Wanna Have Something To Do”
Duration: 6 Hours
Media: Electric Guitar, Voice, Black Felt Blindfold, Black Converse All Stars, Time
Where: Over The Opening, Brooklyn, New York, US.
When: 6pm - 12 midnight, Saturday, November 15, 2008.
more info at OTO
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Nov 10, 2008
aftp() at sfmoma
posted at 18:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 31, 2008
boo 08
posted at 12:53 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
t.whid update
This has absolutely nothing to do with Halloween, but here’s a review of Our Political Work on ‘…might be good.’
m.river update
Also, here’s a review (in french) of Annie Abrahams The Big Kiss at OTO on ‘Fluctart’ permanent link to this post
Oct 29, 2008
pencil_2
posted at 12:29 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
m.river adds — I think t.whid posted a jpeg of a golf pencil last night to remind me to buy some at Staples this morning for our show. It was that or he really liked this pencil jpeg. Anyway, here is another pencil.
twhid adds
I really liked the pencil image (it’s invaded all parts of my FB account as well). Once posted, I realized it would be a good reminder for you too :-) permanent link to this post
Oct 28, 2008
Opening Performance Lecture & Museum Hall Meeting
posted at 14:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) from November 8, 2008 through February 8, 2009, The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now presents an overview of the rich and varied history of participatory art practice during the past six decades, exploring strategies and situations in which the public has taken a collaborative role in the art-making process.
Organized by SFMOMA Curator of Media Arts Rudolf Frieling.
http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/306
MTAA’s Opening Performance Lecture & Museum Hall Meeting
for the artwork Automatic For the People: ( )
Saturday Nov 8, 2008 @ 3PM
Artist in The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now:
Abramović/Ulay; Vito Acconci; Francis Alÿs; Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb (former members of Ant Farm); John Baldessari; Joseph Beuys; Blank & Jeron and Gerrit Gohlke; George Brecht; Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Mike Bennett; John Cage; c a l c and Johannes Gees; Janet Cardiff; Lygia Clark; Minerva Cuevas; Maria Eichhorn; VALIE EXPORT; Harrell Fletcher and Jon Rubin; Fluxus Collective; Jochen Gerz; Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz; Matthias Gommel; Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Dan Graham; Hans Haacke; Lynn Hershman Leeson; Nam June Paik; Allan Kaprow; Henning Lohner and Van Carlson; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Tom Marioni; MTAA (M.River and T.Whid Art Associates); Antoni Muntadas; Yoko Ono; Dan Phiffer and Mushon Zer-Aviv; Raqs Media Collective; Robert Rauschenberg; Warren Sack; Mieko Shiomi; Torolab; Wolf Vostell; Andy Warhol; Stephen Willats; and Erwin Wurm.
more details on MTAA’s Automatic For the People: ( ) soon… permanent link to this post
Oct 27, 2008
Annie Abrahams - the Big Kiss at OTO on Vimeo
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Oct 24, 2008
MTAA at UC Berkely - Nov 7
posted at 13:24 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The Name of This
at
Takeovers & Makeovers: Artistic Appropriation, Fair Use and Copyright in the Digital Age
Nov 7, 2008 UC Berkely 1:45 pm to 2:45 pm
“We’d love for you to speak about your work, especially in regards to how it intersects with appropriation, participatory culture, the commons, and intellectual property. I am thinking of works like On Kawara Update, Vito Acconci Update, Pirate Movie, the Commons and Net art diagrams, and so on.” — Kris Paulsen
http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/takeovers
twhid adds
Check out the link above for the full schedule and line-up of the conference. Other speakers include Marisa Olson, Michael Mandiberg, Rick Prelinger, Richard Rinehart and lots more!
We’re also going to be making another public appearance on Nov 8 @ SFMOMA — stay tuned for more info on that! permanent link to this post
Oct 11, 2008
The Big Kiss - Annie Abrahams at OTO
posted at 13:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photos from last nights OTO with Annie Abrahams now up at OTO’s Flickr Set permanent link to this post
Oct 01, 2008
Annie Abrahams - The Big Kiss at OTO Oct 10
posted at 22:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Image from the performance “One the puppet of the other” with NicolasFrespech, May 26th 2007, Centre Pompidou Paris.
On October 10, from 7pm to 10 pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present The Big Kiss, a performance installation by Annie Abrahams.
What’s contact in a machine mediated world? What’s the power of the image? How does it feel to kiss without touching? Does the act change because we see it? What does it mean to construct an image with your tongue? And is there still desire? Does the act provoke it? What’s contact in a machine mediated world?
You are invited to participate in the creation of a communal kiss at OTO
Annie Abrahams is a Dutch artist living in France. Abrahams work is featured on her site “Being Human / Etant Humain”: a big interlinked universe that concentrates on the possibilities and limitations of communication as well as at aabrahams.wordpress.com
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Sep 20, 2008
koller’s campfire time at oto
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Sep 13, 2008
Lee Walton: Official Book Signing Event
posted at 22:13 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Lee Walton: Official Book Signing Event - Strand Bookstore, NYC - Lee Walton signs books form the Strand’s outdoor $1 book bins. (that’s Lee in the green hat)
This is the book I got for Lee to sign (not one from the $1 bin)
I had him sign page 148 on a the image of Manzoni signing one of his “Living Sculpture”. I think Tim and I will sign it on the page with Gilbert and George and then put it up for auction on eBay. permanent link to this post
Campfire Time - Mike Koller at OTO - Sept.19
posted at 12:08 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On September 19, from 7pm to 10pm, Over The Opening is pleased to present Campfire Time, a new installation by Mike Koller. This marks his second exhibition at OTO.
“… either sitting around a campfire drinking beer and telling lies, or telling lies and drinking beer while sitting around a campfire. But I wasn’t there so I can only guess.” - from Bigfoot Has a Long, Lively Local History by Guy Barnes
OTO’s one night format provides an excellent forum to examine social situations and the various activities they surround. Koller’s 2007 instalation, “The Holiday Rejects” looked at the holiday season and the awkward obligations of our interactions during these familial events. In this spirit of experiment, “Campfire Time” examines the intimacy and spirituality of the campfire and our fascination with it. An installation featuring animated projections of the west at sunset, fake logs, terrain, a carefully edited mix of sounds, and of course the campfire itself, “Campfire Time” gives the opportunity for the viewer to develop their own ideas on the nature of our interactions around this timeless and supernatural centerpiece.
Drink beer, tell lies, sing songs, converse intimately, tell ghost stories, or quietly enjoy the recorded crackles and pops of a campfire as you sit beneath the projected sky. Stare pensively into the incandescent glow of the campfire, rest your head on a fake log, and bid a fond farewell to summer.
directions and info on OTO permanent link to this post
Sep 09, 2008
Dante’s Inferno RIP
posted at 14:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Astroland is now closed for the summer and forever. The 1970 dark ride Dante’s Inferno is up for sale ($225,000). Here is some video I shot on the ride a few years back. Tim and I took the video and looped it, slowed it, and ran it back and forth to make this 3 min film. For the most part, it’s just black with a person screaming. Go ahead and take one last ride.
USM from mriver on Vimeo. permanent link to this post
Sep 06, 2008
photos of ecoarttech at oto
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Sep 03, 2008
Conflux 08 (September 11 - 14)
posted at 17:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photo of Kate’s big win in MTAA’s Super Slow 5k durring Conflux 07
Conflux is an “art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space.” Last year, MTAA performed the Super Slow 5K as part of the festival. This year, I was asked to be part of the juror committee. Here are a few (of the many ) 08 projects that I’m looking forward to checking out.
Lee Walton: Official Book Signing Event - Strand Bookstore, NYC - Lee Walton signs books form the Strand’s outdoor $1 book bins.
Woody’s Ghost - Preston Poe performs the songs Woody wrote in the very locations where he wrote and sang them.
Open House - Finishing School opens the home of Matt Fisher and Todd Cooper.
C-Town Echolocation - Jeff Sisson and Bennett Williamson tour and map NYC’s C-Town supermarkets.
Speculation Station - The Eh-Team builds a faux subway entrance.
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Aug 25, 2008
EcoArtTech’s “Externalities: Wilderness and its Others” at OTO
posted at 16:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On September 5 from 7pm to 10pm, OTO kicks off our second season with EcoArtTech’s “Externalities: Wilderness and its Others”
EcoArtTech (Christine Nadir & Cary Peppermint) continue to rethink relations between humans, technics, technology, and the environment with “Externalities: Wilderness and its Others” a networked, video-based performance piece. The performance will examine the conditions of possibility for getting back to “nature”
Co-founded in 2005 by Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, EcoArtTech works with digital, networked, and sustainable technologies and contemporary environments to create art about the environmentality of modern life. Drawing on a wide range of literary, artistic, and theoretical fields, our aim is to imagine new, healthy, and sustainable relationships between animals, humans, and their environments and technologies.
ecoarttech.net
About OTO - Each month the artist collective MTAA convert their N6th St. Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art.
map and directions
Next up on Sept. 19 - OTO’s 2nd September show with Mike Koller permanent link to this post
Aug 22, 2008
1ypv — q and a
posted at 12:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Back in 2004, MTAA launched the 1 year peformance video (1ypv). A few months ago the finish sequence became buggy (AKA stopped working) due to ‘undiagnosed server configuration issues’ (yeah, yeah MTAA — excuses, excuses). Although this has been a drag (mostly for T.Whid, all I do is ask Zoolander-like questions, “You mean the files are IN the computer?”) it has given me a chance to chat with a recent 1ypv Hall of Famer named Blake. Up until now, I’ve more or less avoided contact with 1ypv viewers. The silence is for no other reason than the fact that automation is an important part of the work. The wall came down when Blake and a few other recent Hall of Famers contacted us about the bug. It seemed like a good time to ask some basic questions of someone who felt the need to watch T.Whid and I sit around for a year. Following is a brief Q and A with an actual 1ypv survivor. Warning: 1ypv spoilers ahead!
M.River - So, how was the work?
Blake - Honestly, I found it amusing on a few levels: me actually looking at it for lengths of time (more on that with the next answer), the fact of timing it so one sees certain “time appropriate” sequences, (dark at night, etc), and the overall idea of someone (you folks) actually putting the “success” of the execution on the viewer.
MR - What made you decide to attempt a year with it?
B - I thought it was a fun idea; that seems so “unartistic” a response, but hey, that’s the truth of it. I liked the idea of committing myself to something like this (even if passively) for a year just to see if I’d remember to do it.
MR - How did you do it? I mean did you just turn on an old laptop, stick it on a shelf and check back in a year? I think that’s how I’d try it.
B - At first I turned it on everyday at work and let it run for the 8 hour day, checking here and there. off and on (probably for the first half of my viewing) I’d forget a day or two and come back to it. Then, when I decided to quit my job I started running it 24 hours a day in the background, and I was excited when the screens would “buffer” for hours because then I could listen to music without the sounds of the piece. The last 20 or so days were run almost nonstop on my laptop, but I’d take breaks for fear of overheating (I obviously wasn’t concerned with the work computer…ha!). When I realized I could time it to Marilyn’s death date, I started getting strict about keeping stuff running. Also, for the latter half, I’d sometimes watch for 15 or so minutes at specific intervals just to see what loops came up (tossing the wallet and toilet paper rolls were probably my favorites, why I don’t know…)
MR - Is your understanding of the work different after a year than what you expected? I mean, was doing the project different than understanding the project?
B - Well, I liked the ideas behind Tehching Hsieh’s year art, and I knew that since I was only seeing recorded loops (and not even “watching” the whole thing for an entire year) I wasn’t expecting some revelation at the end. I have thought more about time / duration and what delineates art from life (I know, gettin’ arty again), but overall, I am down with the idea of having gotten my name on the wall, as it were. Oh yeah, as a side note, I was kinda hoping that the last minute would have been yet another pre-determined / triggered loop so that no matter what time it was it switched to a sequence where you both approached the camera (breaking the 4th wall / 4th computer screen) to say “congratulations” and then blackout, but at the same time it was almost better that the time just kept rolling as if to say “it’s been a year; so what? think about ~that~, pal!” permanent link to this post
Aug 20, 2008
GRL’s James Powderly held in China
posted at 12:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Foto di Achille Filipponi
James Powderly was detained by Chinese authorities in Beijing early Wednesday, according to a message received by Students for a Free Tibet around 5PM Beijing Standard Time, said an SFT spokesperson. The message, sent through the social networking site Twitter, read “held since 3AM”, said friend and SFT board member Nathan Dorjee. Powderly has not been heard from since-more than 24 hours later-and his whereabouts remain unknown, he said.
Photo - GRL in Rome (Enzimi 07)
Students For a Free Tibet (SFT)
Graffiti Research Lab (GRL)
Update According to BoingBoing it looks like Powderly and a few others are going to do 10 days in jail…
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Aug 06, 2008
Born to Run - Cory’s Glockenspiel Addendum at Light Industry
posted at 15:35 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photo via T.Whid’s new iPhone
Photo via my old 3.2 Mega Pixel Pentax
…Blog post about the show by Diane Hatz
…background on Cory’s Glockenspiel Addendum
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Aug 04, 2008
Plan 9 (scenes 1-3)
posted at 14:17 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scenes 1-3) at Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here.
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scene 1)
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scene 2)
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scene 3)
Staring
Ed Halter as CRISWELL
T.Whid as DANNY
Thomas Beard as JEFF
Cory Arcangel as OPERATOR
Hanne Mugaas as EDITH
Christopher Fahey as GRAVEDIGGER #1
T.Whid as GRAVEDIGGER #2
and Margaret (tinydiva) Jameson as VAMPIRA
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Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here.
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scene 1)
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scene 2)
An Attempt to Re-film Plan 9 from Outer Space (scene 3)
Staring
Ed Halter as CRISWELL
T.Whid as DANNY
Thomas Beard as JEFF
Cory Arcangel as OPERATOR
Hanne Mugaas as EDITH
Christopher Fahey as GRAVEDIGGER #1
T.Whid as GRAVEDIGGER #2
and Margaret (tinydiva) Jameson as VAMPIRA
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Aug 02, 2008
GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT
posted at 12:30 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT
67 artist-made animated GIFs
Curated by Laurel Ptak iheartphotograph.com
Part of the exhibition Young Curators, New Ideas
Bond Street Gallery
297 Bond Street, Brooklyn NY
Wednesday, August 13 – Saturday, September 6, 2008
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Curator’s Statement:
GIFs are a modest 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format introduced to the world by CompuServe in 1987. They have the distinction of being the very first color compression format widely used for images online (predating the JPEG by 7 years). One of the beauties of the GIF is that a single file can contain multiple images shown in a timed sequence, giving the effect of motion, known fondly as an animated GIF. In the ’90s these proliferated onscreen in the form of dancing babies and rotating globes, maladroitly articulating a kind of humanist optimism about the internet. Looking back at them now, animated GIFs seem at once gleefully lo-fi and ineffably poignant, almost desperate to communicate something beyond what the bounds of their humble technology could allow.
Curious how this lo-fi form might fare in a contemporary context, I commissioned 26 photographers, designers, and new media artists to embrace this more than 20-year-old technology. They were given only 3 days to work on their projects and were encouraged, though not required, to incorporate photographic materials. Some had never made an animated GIF before and some were notorious for it. The approaches, aesthetics, and meanings to be found in their GIFs really impressed me. Some use the form epically like a novelist or a film director; others are self-reflective about the limits of technology and representation; many challenge photography’s usual atemporal disposition; and then some just make me giggle.
Their full results are on view at Bond Street Gallery from August 13–September 6, 2008, shown on 44-inch flat screen in an infinite loop. Each GIF is sold in an unlimited edition for $20, accompanied by a personalized note from the artist.
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Featuring work by Victor Boullet, Tyler Coburn, Petra Cortright, C.Coy, Daniel Everett, Thobias Fäldt & Per Englund, Martin Fengel, Jason Fulford, Nicholas Grider, Pierre Hourquet, Konst & Teknik, Eke Kriek, Emily Larned, Matt MacFarland, Katja Mater, Kelci McIntosh, Ilia Ovechkin, Robert Overweg, M. River, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Asha Schechter, Trevor Shimizu, Jo-ey Tang, Anne De Vries, Karly Wildenhaus and Damon Zucconi.
I’ll be showing my vacation 08 gifs - vacationoitacav
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67 artist-made animated GIFs
Curated by Laurel Ptak iheartphotograph.com
Part of the exhibition Young Curators, New Ideas
Bond Street Gallery
297 Bond Street, Brooklyn NY
Wednesday, August 13 – Saturday, September 6, 2008
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Curator’s Statement:
GIFs are a modest 8-bit-per-pixel bitmap image format introduced to the world by CompuServe in 1987. They have the distinction of being the very first color compression format widely used for images online (predating the JPEG by 7 years). One of the beauties of the GIF is that a single file can contain multiple images shown in a timed sequence, giving the effect of motion, known fondly as an animated GIF. In the ’90s these proliferated onscreen in the form of dancing babies and rotating globes, maladroitly articulating a kind of humanist optimism about the internet. Looking back at them now, animated GIFs seem at once gleefully lo-fi and ineffably poignant, almost desperate to communicate something beyond what the bounds of their humble technology could allow.
Curious how this lo-fi form might fare in a contemporary context, I commissioned 26 photographers, designers, and new media artists to embrace this more than 20-year-old technology. They were given only 3 days to work on their projects and were encouraged, though not required, to incorporate photographic materials. Some had never made an animated GIF before and some were notorious for it. The approaches, aesthetics, and meanings to be found in their GIFs really impressed me. Some use the form epically like a novelist or a film director; others are self-reflective about the limits of technology and representation; many challenge photography’s usual atemporal disposition; and then some just make me giggle.
Their full results are on view at Bond Street Gallery from August 13–September 6, 2008, shown on 44-inch flat screen in an infinite loop. Each GIF is sold in an unlimited edition for $20, accompanied by a personalized note from the artist.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Featuring work by Victor Boullet, Tyler Coburn, Petra Cortright, C.Coy, Daniel Everett, Thobias Fäldt & Per Englund, Martin Fengel, Jason Fulford, Nicholas Grider, Pierre Hourquet, Konst & Teknik, Eke Kriek, Emily Larned, Matt MacFarland, Katja Mater, Kelci McIntosh, Ilia Ovechkin, Robert Overweg, M. River, Noel Rodo-Vankeulen, Asha Schechter, Trevor Shimizu, Jo-ey Tang, Anne De Vries, Karly Wildenhaus and Damon Zucconi.
I’ll be showing my vacation 08 gifs - vacationoitacav
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Jul 30, 2008
Jenny Holzer’s PROJECTIONS at MASS MOCA
posted at 12:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jul 28, 2008
Desert Bus
posted at 17:58 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As part of my 5 min presentation of Want at the CC art camp this year, I showed the 1ypv. I mentioned my amazement that 24 people have spent a year watching us hanging out in a cell. The next day I was talking with George Fifiel about durational performance / media art and he told about this strange lost game by Penn & Teller from 1995. Part of the game was a driving simulator called “Desert Bus”. In this game you have to drive a beat-up bus through the Nevada desert for eight hours in real-time to reach Las Vegas. Once you get to Vegas, you are told to turn around and drive home. In the game the bus veers to the right so you have to keep your hands on the joystick the entire 16 hour trip.
Love it.
More background on Desert Bus
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Jul 21, 2008
Photos from Playscape at OTO
posted at 13:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photos from Dana Strasser and Isabella Bruno’s OTO event “Playscape”, are now up on the OTO Flickr set. permanent link to this post
Jul 18, 2008
Rhizome Ghost - 24-Hour DOA
posted at 14:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
You enter a small candlelit library. A crowd of mourners mill about an open coffin in the center of the room. In the coffin rests a body wrapped in a white sheet. The sheet has two black spots painted on for eyes.
T.Whid approaches you dressed in black, two whiskeys in hand. As he offers you a drink, he begins…
T. Whid — Hell. Glad you could make it out tonight, didn’t think you’d make it. Here, have a drink, find a place to stand. M.River is going to start soon. Lauren, Patrick and Luis are already here. I think they’re over at the buffet table. Please, help yourself. Thanks again for coming out.
As you make your way through the crowd to the buffet table, M. River, dressed in a white suit with black armband, climbs onto a chair near the coffin. He raises his arms into the air and begins.
M. River — Dearly Beloved, a few months ago Luis Silva asked T.Whid and I to participate in an email-based exhibition hosted on Rhizome. We had recently been thinking about how Rhizome has, in the past, been used not only as a place to announce and talk about art, but also as a platform to create art. We were also thinking about some MTAA projects like vieweratstar67@yahoo.com, Endnode AKA Printer Tree and Karaoke DeathMatch 100 all of which incorporated open, group interactions.
We were thinking about a key on the floor, a group identity, and an empty room. We were also thinking about, as we often do when we think about the Internet, ghosts.
We worked with Rhizome to set-up an open account using the ghost@rhizome.org email address. We then submitted this text as our work for the FW: Re: Re: exhibition:
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a one-month email haunting of rhizome.org (aka ghost@rhizome.org) user name: ghost@rhizome.org (rhizomeghost@gmail.com)
password: boobooboo 11-07-2008 to 11-08-2008
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Less than 24 hours after the ghost was released, it was locked down. The ghost’s password was changed barring the public from interacting with the piece. The ghost’s controller next bombed Rhizome with spam, racist rants and sexist screeds for a few hours then stopped.
Two options presented themselves: 1) continue the project with a smaller group of people or 2) kill the project. Of the two choices, killing the project after 24 hours seemed like the only honest thing to do.
So, here we are one week later to bid farewell to ghost@rhizome.org.
Now, If you would all please raise you glasses with me. A toast! To the belief that utter and complete failure is still a viable option in art. The ghost is dead. Long live the ghost!
As you file out with the sobbing crowd, you notice T.Whid preparing to pound a stake into the ghost’s heart as M.River douses the sheet with gasoline while waving a dead chicken over it.
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P.S. You can find an archive and comment on all the ghost’s posts over at Rhizome on the BOO thread. permanent link to this post
Jul 17, 2008
m.river in the studio
posted at 22:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Hey all. M.River here of MTAA. I’ve been in the studio this summer working on some new paintings. Can’t wait to show them. Wish me luck. permanent link to this post
Jul 15, 2008
Playscape at OTO Friday July 18
posted at 19:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
"Play is the exultation of the possible." - Martin Buber
On July 18th, from 7 to 10pm, OTO is pleased to present a new installation by Dana Strasser and Isabella Bruno.
Strasser and Bruno create a playspace for the adult set using specifically selected, everyday objects in transformative ways. Immerse yourself in a sea of balloons, and let the play happen.
OTO goes on vacation in August and will return in the fall with a new works by Mike Koller, Mike Sarff, Cary Peppermint, Curt Cloninger, Annie Abrahams, and more.
For details and directions check Over The Opening. permanent link to this post
Jul 11, 2008
rhizome_ghost
posted at 20:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 22, 2008
xandxx
posted at 17:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
xandxx
10 netartworks I was interested in around 10 years ago and 10 from the last few years.
Note - This is not a “best of” list. It is just some works that I think about for time to time. I’ve added a MTAA work in the netart_x section only because it was done with Eryk Salvaggio and his webiste from that time (one38.org), like so many works from that time, is gone. Seeing as I’ve left off a good many netartworks that I like, I may (or may not) change the list from time to time. I think of xandxx as an netartwork. I hope to live long enough to add a netart_xxx section in 2018 on the longest day of the year. permanent link to this post
10 netartworks I was interested in around 10 years ago and 10 from the last few years.
Note - This is not a “best of” list. It is just some works that I think about for time to time. I’ve added a MTAA work in the netart_x section only because it was done with Eryk Salvaggio and his webiste from that time (one38.org), like so many works from that time, is gone. Seeing as I’ve left off a good many netartworks that I like, I may (or may not) change the list from time to time. I think of xandxx as an netartwork. I hope to live long enough to add a netart_xxx section in 2018 on the longest day of the year. permanent link to this post
Jun 14, 2008
LOSHADKA at OTO (Photos)
posted at 19:41 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 12, 2008
1 hit
posted at 02:23 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 10, 2008
LOSHADKA at OTO on Friday June 13
posted at 14:32 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
OTO is pleased to present on Friday June 13th from 7 to 10pm, an new installation by LOSHADKA (http://www.loshadka.org/)
ILIA OVECHKIN
PETRA CORTRIGHT
DAN WICKERHAM
WILL SIMPSON
TRAVESS SMALLEY
JAY PEYTON
BILLY RENNEKAMP
THOMAS GALLOWAY
HAYLEY SILVERMAN
SPEED LIL-LIZ_GUY69: HELLO pup
PIXL_lixxard: SUOP SUP SUP SUPSUPS
lil-liz_guy69 of sup: hé foutue attacks you with armed hand where you with for this praise with neon I heard it descends U To the bottom
PIXL_lixxard: spout out some wwtf go to the hell go to your tomb which I do not go anywhere with a witch
lil-liz_guy69: U are dry everywhere of the United States in your shorts of spoils eating a meat pie
PIXL_lixxard69: I hold a cat which I make of drugs and im energy with the swimming pool of stuffing of space
lil-liz_guy69: a good number of drugs and drinks and music and hot hot hot babies in an oil factory functioning for dollar$
PIXL_lixxard: each one there will be sexy AM completely foutu I right or amirite
lil-liz_guy69: honey bee which you know that I am ready with the ready git and obtain pumped
PIXL_lixxard: hehehebreaking all the rules on this ground
more at oto…
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Jun 07, 2008
when push comes to shove…
posted at 13:53 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
From the epilogue of Defunct in Ohio , a work I wrote for SMAC! in 2003:
Machines and systems come into this world. They thrive and then grow old. Technology gets updated, replaced or just fades off on its own. Sometimes, because we miss them, we dig up graves and let the dead walk the earth. We love seeing undead lurch around, bloody limbs and all. New media is growing old. We are already writing the eulogies. While some prepare for last rights, others will contact voodoo priests and sharpen their spades. Me? I’m ironing my plaid thrift store shirt, excited for the funeral. permanent link to this post
Machines and systems come into this world. They thrive and then grow old. Technology gets updated, replaced or just fades off on its own. Sometimes, because we miss them, we dig up graves and let the dead walk the earth. We love seeing undead lurch around, bloody limbs and all. New media is growing old. We are already writing the eulogies. While some prepare for last rights, others will contact voodoo priests and sharpen their spades. Me? I’m ironing my plaid thrift store shirt, excited for the funeral. permanent link to this post
May 10, 2008
Church of the Rough Guide at OTO
posted at 14:16 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photographs from the Church of the Rough Guide at OTO last night are now up at Flicker. Yes, some people ate the shrimp off the walls.
OTO’s Flickr set permanent link to this post
May 06, 2008
Conflux 08
posted at 15:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Conflux 07 - MTAA’s Super Slow 5k
Conflux is the annual art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space. The 2008 festival takes place September 11 - 14 throughout New York City. You can now submit a proposal to participate in the 08 festival here.
The deadline is May 31, 2008. permanent link to this post
Nick Lesley and Eben Lillie’s Church of the Rough Guide
posted at 12:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On May 9, from 7pm to 10pm, Over The Opening is please to present “Church of the Rough Guide”, a new installation by Nick Lesley and Eben Lillie. “Church of the Rough Guide” continues the themes and characters found in recent their performance “Rough Guide to the Grotesque”.
“Church of the Rough Guide” is devoted to the lessons of the “Rough Guide to the Grotesque” as written by the great travel writer, Boreas. “Rough Guide to the Grotesque” is a tall tale that depicts an idealistic hero whose principles live on in all of us today. On a quest for love and companionship he faced many dangers. He was deceived by a false idol of love and engaged in a battle of sexual appetites with his apparent soul mate, Sophia of the Forest. He died tragically shortly after finding happiness in joining the Caridea tribe; a juicy, fleshy commune. The story contains lessons of love, comradery, lust, and community which are valuable to us all.
The performance of “Rough Guide to the Grotesque” was made possible with the help of the cast, The Living Theatre, Materials for the Arts, and the House of Yes (RIP). The work premiered at The Living Theatre in April of 2008.
Rough Guide To The Grotesque
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Apr 27, 2008
i like america…
posted at 17:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
New artwork - “i like america and america likes me” is an open wiki history of America and Michael Sarff at http://americaandme.wetpaint.com/
I’m just trying to figure it all out. Yes, I can use your help. permanent link to this post
Apr 25, 2008
Sunday forecast (LOVE + HATE) x 100
posted at 19:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Sunday Forecast
High 53 degrees F
Chance of precipitation 30 percent
ARTWALKING: Eyewash’s 10 year Anniversary Show
Curated by Larry Walczak & Donna Kessinger.
30 artist in 30 storefornts on Bedford Ave, Brooklyn
April 27 through June 8, 2008
Opening Sunday April 27 (2 to 8 pm)
MTAA will be showing (LOVE + HATE) x 100 at Amarcord Vintage Fashion - 233 Bedford Ave between N4 and N5
MTAA will also be hanging out a Spike Hill (Bedford and N7) in a booth in the back around 6pm if you want to join us.
Tom Brumley @ Bedford Fruits & Vegetables
Peter Fox @ Earwax
Asha Ganpat @ Blackbird Parlour
Linda Ganjian @ Catbird
David Kramer @ Trojanowski Liquors
Peter Krieder @ Bedford Cheese Shop
Hiroshi Kumagi @ Bliss
Yuliya Lanina @ Mini Mart
Jeesoo Lee @ Kings Pharmacy
Lisa Levy @ The Health Food Store
Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese @ Reel Life
Rebecca Major @ Peters since 1969
Ben Marxen @ Northside Pharmacy
Sebastian Masuelli @ Spike Hill
Ondi McMaster @ Ella’s
Shari Mendelson @ Uva Wines
Vikki Michalios @ Angelicas Beauty Shop
Jonas Mekas @ Spoonbill
MTAA @ Amarcord
Diane Nerwen @ Ugly Luggage
Rune Olsen @ Victoria’s Coffee Shop
Catya Plate @ Eyeco Vision
Bob Seng & Lisa Hein @ NYC Pet
Amanda Thackray @ Bagelsmith
Ishmael Randall Weeks @ Oculus 20/20
Sante Scardillo @ Kasia’s
Tamika Kawata @ N7 Deli
Gandalf Gavan @ Brooklyn Industries
update - photo from the install, more pics soon…
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High 53 degrees F
Chance of precipitation 30 percent
ARTWALKING: Eyewash’s 10 year Anniversary Show
Curated by Larry Walczak & Donna Kessinger.
30 artist in 30 storefornts on Bedford Ave, Brooklyn
April 27 through June 8, 2008
Opening Sunday April 27 (2 to 8 pm)
MTAA will be showing (LOVE + HATE) x 100 at Amarcord Vintage Fashion - 233 Bedford Ave between N4 and N5
MTAA will also be hanging out a Spike Hill (Bedford and N7) in a booth in the back around 6pm if you want to join us.
Tom Brumley @ Bedford Fruits & Vegetables
Peter Fox @ Earwax
Asha Ganpat @ Blackbird Parlour
Linda Ganjian @ Catbird
David Kramer @ Trojanowski Liquors
Peter Krieder @ Bedford Cheese Shop
Hiroshi Kumagi @ Bliss
Yuliya Lanina @ Mini Mart
Jeesoo Lee @ Kings Pharmacy
Lisa Levy @ The Health Food Store
Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese @ Reel Life
Rebecca Major @ Peters since 1969
Ben Marxen @ Northside Pharmacy
Sebastian Masuelli @ Spike Hill
Ondi McMaster @ Ella’s
Shari Mendelson @ Uva Wines
Vikki Michalios @ Angelicas Beauty Shop
Jonas Mekas @ Spoonbill
MTAA @ Amarcord
Diane Nerwen @ Ugly Luggage
Rune Olsen @ Victoria’s Coffee Shop
Catya Plate @ Eyeco Vision
Bob Seng & Lisa Hein @ NYC Pet
Amanda Thackray @ Bagelsmith
Ishmael Randall Weeks @ Oculus 20/20
Sante Scardillo @ Kasia’s
Tamika Kawata @ N7 Deli
Gandalf Gavan @ Brooklyn Industries
update - photo from the install, more pics soon…
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Apr 18, 2008
m.river on warren ellis on aliza shvarts
posted at 13:30 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“If she’s doing what I think she’s doing, Aliza Shvarts might be the first “great” conceptual artist of the internet age.”
warrenellis.com
In the post below, I, M.River, revealed to the artblogshere my blessing and curse of Infallibility. I would like to now reveal my first post Infallible revelation truth.
At first you will think only of this truth as M.River once again just speaking the facts. Please go beyond this point. Please meditate on this truth until you reach the next level where the world becomes clear and your art reality sharp. Here is the truth.
JODI is the first great conceptual artist of the internet age not some student at Yale who punked Gawker.
Go now in peace and love. permanent link to this post
warrenellis.com
In the post below, I, M.River, revealed to the artblogshere my blessing and curse of Infallibility. I would like to now reveal my first post Infallible revelation truth.
At first you will think only of this truth as M.River once again just speaking the facts. Please go beyond this point. Please meditate on this truth until you reach the next level where the world becomes clear and your art reality sharp. Here is the truth.
JODI is the first great conceptual artist of the internet age not some student at Yale who punked Gawker.
Go now in peace and love. permanent link to this post
Apr 16, 2008
m.river speaks…
posted at 13:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Although I’m not sure what drove T.Whid to write this disclaimer, I thought I’d follow up with my own.
To whom it may concern,
Everything I, M.River, post on the MTAA-RR is true. Not only are the posts true and unbiased, but they should be thought of as truths that point to a greater reality that goes beyond right and wrong.
No… no, that’s nice, but you do not need to thank me, toss flowers at my feet or build small shrines in my honor. I’m here to give you the truth because you deserve it. Yes, I do all this for you.
Take care and try to be nice to each other today or you will feel my wrath.
+++
twhid update:
hahahahahahaha permanent link to this post
To whom it may concern,
Everything I, M.River, post on the MTAA-RR is true. Not only are the posts true and unbiased, but they should be thought of as truths that point to a greater reality that goes beyond right and wrong.
No… no, that’s nice, but you do not need to thank me, toss flowers at my feet or build small shrines in my honor. I’m here to give you the truth because you deserve it. Yes, I do all this for you.
Take care and try to be nice to each other today or you will feel my wrath.
+++
twhid update:
hahahahahahaha permanent link to this post
Apr 15, 2008
Self-Selected Super St*rs
posted at 13:43 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA’s Self-Selected Super St*rs
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 8pm
at Light Industry
On April 29 from 8PM to 10PM, in a Sunset Park factory, the artist collaboration MTAA shoot and simultaneously screen two films…starring you.
Are you great at off-the-cuff repartee? Look good taking a nap? Able to read bad sci-fi scripts out loud without laughing? Or are you just perfect at hanging out and being you?
MTAA needs you to star in our low budget and barely (if at all) scripted film. Think Chelsea Girls meets Plan 9 from Outer Space while watching Empire. If Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” at Deitch Projects is about the positive power of DIY, MTAA’s “Self-Selected Super St*rs” is about the malaise of knowing that all future “it” girls will never really be Edie. It’s about the ever present fear of running out of beer before the night ends.
Here’s how it works:
Two directors/camera operators will set up at Light Industry deep in the heart of Brooklyn. The space will have some cheap/random props and costumes. If you want some acting direction, we’ll have scripts and improv notes ready. If acting isn’t your thing, just come in and be your fabulous self. The shooting will be continuous and casual with both films projected live for your viewing pleasure. Join us for the entire shoot or just walk in for your close-up.
FREE
lightindustry.org
Events take place in Industry City
55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232 permanent link to this post
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 8pm
at Light Industry
On April 29 from 8PM to 10PM, in a Sunset Park factory, the artist collaboration MTAA shoot and simultaneously screen two films…starring you.
Are you great at off-the-cuff repartee? Look good taking a nap? Able to read bad sci-fi scripts out loud without laughing? Or are you just perfect at hanging out and being you?
MTAA needs you to star in our low budget and barely (if at all) scripted film. Think Chelsea Girls meets Plan 9 from Outer Space while watching Empire. If Michel Gondry’s “Be Kind Rewind” at Deitch Projects is about the positive power of DIY, MTAA’s “Self-Selected Super St*rs” is about the malaise of knowing that all future “it” girls will never really be Edie. It’s about the ever present fear of running out of beer before the night ends.
Here’s how it works:
Two directors/camera operators will set up at Light Industry deep in the heart of Brooklyn. The space will have some cheap/random props and costumes. If you want some acting direction, we’ll have scripts and improv notes ready. If acting isn’t your thing, just come in and be your fabulous self. The shooting will be continuous and casual with both films projected live for your viewing pleasure. Join us for the entire shoot or just walk in for your close-up.
FREE
lightindustry.org
Events take place in Industry City
55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11232 permanent link to this post
2 more photos
posted at 12:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 09, 2008
Back in NYC
posted at 15:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Back from the “secret” Cali recon. I’ll post more pics tonight.
Update - Pics now up at Tinjail and MTAA’s Flickr site permanent link to this post
Update - Pics now up at Tinjail and MTAA’s Flickr site permanent link to this post
Mar 30, 2008
going
posted at 13:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oh yeah…I just got a flickr “pro”. You can now enjoy all 493 nuggets of on line snaps and art…like this littel gem of pain -
Need more? Don’t forget ye ol’ Tintype
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Need more? Don’t forget ye ol’ Tintype
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The Surrogates - Eva and Franco Mattes at OTO on April 11
posted at 12:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On April 11, from 7pm to 10pm, Over The Opening is please to present a new video performance work by Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org)
surrogate - substitute, proxy, replacement; deputy, representative, stand-in, standby, stopgap, relief, pinch-hitter, understudy.
Eva and Franco Mattes continue their investigations into power, authorship and identity with “The Surrogates” a new performance based video project. Combining elements of theater, video, surveillance, and social interaction, “The Surrogates” transforms OTO into an experimental social space questioning the distinction between the viewer and the viewed.
Eva and Franco Mattes works have been shown internationally including: Collection Lambert, Avignon; Fondazione Pitti Discovery, Florence, Postmasters Gallery, New York; Lentos Museum of Modern Art, Linz; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; ICC, Tokyo; Manifesta4, Frankfurt.
They received the Jerome Commission from the Walker Art Center, and are among the youngest artists to ever participate to the Venice Biennale. In 2006 they received a fellowship from Colombia University, New York.
Mattes’ works are part of several private and public collections such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; MEIAC, Spain; MAK, Vienna.
More info at Over the Opening
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Mar 25, 2008
not fairs
posted at 13:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
With our email boxes full of press and the sound of art blog engine revving, the NYC art world heads into Fair Week. Here are two “Alt. Fairs” that I would like to note. Why? I just like the idea that they exist.
Disarmory
Dark Fair
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Mar 23, 2008
photo from last night’s Masolit with the Creationists show at OTO
posted at 15:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Happy Easter. Photos from last night’s Masolit / Creationist show at Over The Opening show are now up at OTO’s Flickr set and Tintype
We are also as happy as bunnies with gifts of chocolate eggs to announce that the April 11 OTO show will be a new performance based video installation by Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org). Word. More details soon. permanent link to this post
Mar 17, 2008
Masolit and the Creationists at OTO Saturday, March 22nd (7pm to 10pm)
posted at 20:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On Saturday, March 22nd from 7pm to 10 pm, OTO is pleased present the debut live performance of Masolit, a new music project featuring vocalist/producer Margaret Jameson (also known as tinydiva), mix master/producer Phil Painson, and guitarist/melodist extraordinaire Tom Jameson. Before forming Masolit, Phil and Margaret performed together at many New York City venues including Bowery Ballroom, Galapagos, Brownie’s, CBGB’s and Fez as members of the downtown ensemble Market. Influenced by a wide spectrum of musical styles embracing hip-hop, funk, old-ass blues, French Impressionism and electro, Masolit seeks to create an innovative original music culture for the masses.
Opening for Masolit will be the Creationists, consisting of Abe Maneri (keyboards) and Tom Jameson (guitar). They will present a set of eclectic preludes comprising both unpremeditated and intelligently designed phases.
Saturday, March 22nd (7pm to 10pm)
7pm The Creationists
8pm Masolit
To hear Masolit’s latest recording “NSA” go to www.myspace.com/masolit or www.masolit.net
OTO is located at 60 North 6th Street (2nd floor) Brooklyn, NY, 11211
L train to Bedford Avenue
3 Blocks west on North 6th - just shy of Kent
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Mar 12, 2008
just thinking out loud on del.icio.us
posted at 16:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 07, 2008
a song for tim on friday
posted at 13:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“Losing My Edge” was the first LCD Soundsystem single released on 8 July 2002.
When I was DJing, playing Can, Liquid Liquid, ESG, all that kind of stuff, I became kind of cool for a moment, which was a total anomaly. And when I heard other DJs playing similar music I was like: ‘Fuck! I’m out of a job! These are my records!’ But it was like someone had crept into my brain and said all these words that I hate. Did I make the records? Did I fuck! So, I started becoming horrified by my own attitude. I had this moment of glory though. People would use me to DJ just to get them cool. They’d be like ‘It’s the cool rock disco guy’ and this was really weird. And to be honest I was afraid that this new found coolness was going to go away and that’s where ‘Losing My Edge’ comes from. It is about being horrified by my own silliness. And then it became a wider thing about people who grip onto other people’s creations like they are their own. There is a lot of pathos in that character though because it’s born out of inadequacy and love.— James Murphy
twhid: haha, thanks dude! permanent link to this post
Feb 23, 2008
Photos of RSG’s KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party at OTO
posted at 15:03 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Feb 22, 2008
Let’s GET REAADYYY TO RUUUUUUMMMMBLE…
posted at 14:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
RSG’S KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party
Tonight Only
BYOL (Bring your own Laptop)
(7pm to 10pm) at OTO
More info here
twhid update
And if the snow stops you then you were never really any competition anyway. permanent link to this post
Tonight Only
BYOL (Bring your own Laptop)
(7pm to 10pm) at OTO
More info here
twhid update
And if the snow stops you then you were never really any competition anyway. permanent link to this post
Feb 15, 2008
RSG’s KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party is back
posted at 13:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
We sadly had to cancel this OTO event at the last minute but we’re back on for Friday February 22 (7pm to 10pm). Time to get your war on.
BYOL (Bring your own Laptop)
More info here permanent link to this post
BYOL (Bring your own Laptop)
More info here permanent link to this post
Feb 08, 2008
Tonight’s OTO canceled
posted at 16:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Darn. Due to circumstances out of our control, we’re going to cancel the KRIEGSPIEL LAN Party at OTO tonight. We’ll reschedule soon and let you know the new date. Looks like late Feb, early March.
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Feb 07, 2008
Restless Crowd Control, 2001
posted at 13:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Restless Crowd Control (RCC) from mriver on Vimeo
Restless Crowd Control (RCC) was a one night installation at the Good Bad Art Collective in Brooklyn (2001).- slide projections, video projections, internet video-conferencing, custom police barricades, music by Willing (Fritz Welch, Ian Christe) and special guest Stephen O’Malley (of Sunn 0))), Khanate and Lotus Eaters). The linked vid is a 20 mins still shot of Willing’s performance. Play loud. Enjoy.
twhid sez - Awesome! I didn’t even know we had video of this. Whatever happened to Good Bad anyway?
M.River updates - Fritz just emailed to note that the secound guitar (off screen with Ian) is Stephen O’Malley of Sunn 0))), Khanate and Lotus Eaters. Also, I’ve been told that the Good Bad Art Collective (Denton /Brooklyn) split soon after. permanent link to this post
Jan 30, 2008
KRIEGSPIEL - Guy Debord’s 1978 “Game of War” Produced for computer by RSG
posted at 14:35 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On February 08, from 7pm to 10 pm, OTO is pleased to present -
+ LAN party! +
KRIEGSPIEL
Guy Debord’s 1978 “Game of War”
Produced for computer by RSG
* bring your own laptop *
In 1978 the French Situationist Guy Debord designed and fabricated a board game called “The Game of War.” Thirty years later RSG is resurrecting this largely forgotten game, translating the game instructions from French to Java and releasing it as an online computer game. We explore the contradiction between Debord, a symbol of radical politics and art in 1960s France, and the Napoleonic war game he created. In Debord’s own words the game was the only thing in his entire body of work that had any value. Was it nostalgia, or a vision of things to come?
Founded in 2000, RSG is a collective of programmers and artists working on experimental software products. The Kriegspiel team consists of: Alexander R. Galloway, producer and programming; Carolyn Kane, research; Adam Parrish, programming; Daniel Perlin, sound; DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek, music; and Mushon Zer-Aviv, design.
* bring your own laptop *
More info at OTO
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Jan 26, 2008
USM
posted at 20:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
USM from mriver on Vimeo.
MTAA’s very unscary 3 min movie of a Coney Island funhouse made in under 3 hours for a screening at EFA’s gallery in 2007 curated by Marina Zurkow. Play it loud, alone and in the dark. permanent link to this post
Jan 24, 2008
young laptop
posted at 12:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
laptop from mriver on Vimeo.
Teaching net art skills to the next generation. permanent link to this post
Jan 12, 2008
Photos from last nights OTO with Elaine Tin Nyo
posted at 14:32 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
more at Tintype and Flickr
Thanks to Elaine and all the tamale people. Good times.
Update - Tamaler Michele O’Donaghue has some photos at her I wanna make some Tamales …(hell yeah!)
Flickr set. Thanks Michele. permanent link to this post
Jan 08, 2008
Frank (Again) - a performance for Breaking Solitude
posted at 18:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Frank(Again), a performance by MTAA (New York) in the frame of Breaking Solitude a project of panoplie.org and Annie Abrahams.
Saturday January 12 20h 8 PM GMT+1 (Paris local time), 2pm New York time at http://panoplie.emakimono.org/index.php/projets/voir/16
MTAA will draw, with input from the online audience, a larger than life snowman named Frank.
Only 30 places available. Please sign up before the perfromance at Panoplie.org permanent link to this post
Jan 05, 2008
Elaine Tin Nyo’s “I Want to Make Some Tamales”
posted at 20:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On January 11, from 7pm to 10 pm, OTO is pleased to present “I Want to Make Some Tamales”, a cooking lesson by Elaine Tin Nyo
Hands-on cooking lesson 7-8:30
Open public feeding 8:30 until the tamales run out
Enrollment is limited for the cooking lesson. Please contact mriver@mteww.com to reserve your place (materials fee: $5).
Elaine Tin Nyo is a conceptual artist with a computer and kitchen in Harlem, New York and a locker in Chelsea filled with dance shoes.
Elaine’s works explore the structures of sensual experience and social interaction. Her primary subjects have been social structures such as dinners, classrooms and ballroom dance. Her photographs, recipes, videos, installations and performances have been presented by BlindSpot, Deitch Projects, Thread Waxing Space, The New Museum, Creative Time, Bronx Museum, Fargfabriken, Neueberger Museum, Leslie Tonkonow Projects, Chez Bushwick, and French Culinary Institute.
Upcoming shows at Over The Opening
February 08 - RSG
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Dec 31, 2007
still07
posted at 20:14 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
the wild blue yonder, the decent, la jetee, fearless, street fight, loud QUIET loud, a sound of thunder, enemy at the gate, so wrong they’re right, the illusionist, stop making sense, heart of gold, the departed, storefront hitchcock, my country, my county, requiem, the host, minority report, the good shepard, the last days, the last king of scotland, darshan, the embrace, flesh + blood, robo cop, hannibal rising, at worlds end, old joy, acid house, the last waltz, letters from imo jima, matthew barney - no restraint, high tech soul, blood and chocolate, the call of cthulha, star wars episode v - the empire strikes back, primeval, the good german, factory girl, 300, unbreakable, bug sonic youth - corporate ghost, blood simple, miller’s crossing, undead, mouth of madness, roma, the thing, mr. brooks, spiderman 3, the lives of others, bloody child, b.i.k.e, gerry, good will hunting, live free or die hard, the king is alive, blood diamond, eastern promises, elephant
Take one image, without pausing the film, from each DVD I rent and watch alone in 2007. Show each of the 60 images for 1 second in 5.7 MB QuickTime movie.
still07
update
still 07 from mriver on Vimeo. permanent link to this post
Dec 28, 2007
Cya 07. Hello 08
posted at 20:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
http://triptych.tv/
http://www.jimpunk.com/iPod.Movies/last_rain.php3
http://www.williamboling.com/peel/index.html
http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=RMN8NRH&key=GXC
http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/disco-nnect/
http://www.seecoy.com/matrYOshki.html
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/sailing/
http://letsturnthisfuckingwebsiteyellow.com/
http://meineigenheim.org/dumpster/
http://www.loshadka.org/wp/?p=398
http://twitter.com/jennyholzer
http://www.ecoarttech.net/untitledlandscapes/index.html
http://thegreatinter.net/sleepover
http://www.peterpaulchocolates.com/
http://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/chan/events.html
http://the-eat-in.blogspot.com/
http://www.artcal.net/event/view/1/5808
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/9470/marcel-broodthaers-decor
http://www.geartekcorporation.com/passingtime/
a big end of 07 hug to Postmasters, James and Barry, the mighty AFC (sorry about that “brawl”), Rhizome (congrats LC - the new digs look fab), iCommons, Haifa Museum, Computer Fine Arts, Enzimi, Glowlab/Conflux, the “All Night Roma” folks, Eyebeam, Creative Capital, C. Jones, Bryce Wolkowitz, RSG, MO, Mikey Koller, Kate (our unofficial super hypothetical and under, if not even, paid studio assistant) and all who came to the OTO. See you all in 08. We have 2 big museum shows in California next year and a great group of artist lined up for OTO.
Peace in 08. permanent link to this post
Dec 20, 2007
Mark River is out of here…
posted at 17:53 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Going to Columbus for Christmas. I might try posting some in Ohio. Might.
t.whid adds:
I love this pic. Have fun in Ohio M.River. permanent link to this post
Dec 17, 2007
Photos from Mike Koller’s HOLIDAY REJECTS
posted at 13:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“Naughty” and “Nice” slide show of found (Googled) holiday photos - faux mantel with projected Yule log loop and found (Googled) holiday photos - projected flash animation Christmas tree
Some more shots from the show at Tinjail (start at link and scroll back) and at Flickr in the OTO set. Enjoy. permanent link to this post
Dec 14, 2007
It’s A Very Special Holiday OTO Tonight only (7- 10)
posted at 16:53 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mike Koller’s The Holiday Rejects
M.River of MTAA calls it “…a heart warming celebration of the holidays fueled by sugar, eggnog, and forced photo ops. What could go wrong?”
t.whid update
oops. Our posts collided. M.River’s is funnier. permanent link to this post
M.River of MTAA calls it “…a heart warming celebration of the holidays fueled by sugar, eggnog, and forced photo ops. What could go wrong?”
t.whid update
oops. Our posts collided. M.River’s is funnier. permanent link to this post
Dec 05, 2007
December at OTO - Mike Koller’s ‘THE HOLIDAY REJECTS’
posted at 15:00 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
One night only!
Friday December 14 7PM to 10PM
Over The Opening is pleased to present Mike Koller’s
THE HOLIDAY REJECTS
With the proliferation of video and photography equipment and even more so the availability and user-friendly nature of at-home post-production equipment and software, the do-it-yourself documentarian is a driving force behind all our familial interactions. The need to record, in detail, the various persons and their reactions to all the activities has increasingly become the chief activity itself. The time spent face to face becomes second to the execution of a thorough archive of the event. A smiling photo is more important than the argument it took to create it, the video containing each persons thoughts for the New Year takes precedent over the people themselves. In these ways the family becomes the discarded artifact of creating a visual history of events that are largely fictionalized or staged versions of an unknown third party’s expectations.
The Holiday Season, more than any other, creates a steady stream of videos and photos posted for all to see. Presented in a one night ‘X-mas Party’ format are the photos and videos from 69 different family celebrations in a tribute to the discarded persons who were pivotal to their creation, The Holiday Rejects. True to the season, the party will feature food, drink and music to set the mood. Also featured will be three new animated video projections of a Christmas tree, a window overlooking a wintry landscape and the inescapable Yule Log. Come, imbibe, document, post.
Mike Koller is an artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn.
Upcoming events at OTO:
Jan 11 - Elaine Tin Nyo
Feb 08 - RSG (Alex Galloway)
More OTO info and directions… permanent link to this post
Dec 04, 2007
back from the SS5K Roma
posted at 16:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Back from the SS5K ROMA. Loved it. I’ll have some updates soon. (Sorry T.Whid. I’m sad to say the lack of web updates and contact was not so much due to the great wine but lack of sleep and wifi. Shame really.) permanent link to this post
Nov 23, 2007
Time has come today (Hey)
posted at 21:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
T.Whid fixed the dates in the MTAA-RR archive
Yeah, I know. It’s been broke forever.
T.Whid update
It’s *mostly* fixed. There’s still some funkiness here and there. Especially in Feb 06 — bah! permanent link to this post
Yeah, I know. It’s been broke forever.
T.Whid update
It’s *mostly* fixed. There’s still some funkiness here and there. Especially in Feb 06 — bah! permanent link to this post
Nov 20, 2007
When in Rome…
posted at 13:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA´S Super Slow 5K - ROMA (SS5K Roma)
A leisurely 5K (3.11 mile) group performance around the city of Rome
Following the success of the Super Slow 5K at Brooklyn´s McCarren Park in September 07, MTAA brings the SS5K to Italy. The SS5K Roma is a one day race/group performance in the streets of Rome. Registration to the SS5K Roma is free and open to the public. It begins at 12PM in the Mattatoio in Testaccio and ends when it seems right or at 5PM, whichever comes first. Refreshments will be served, folding chairs and blankets will be utilized. The performance/race will be overly documented. “Celebrity” judges will be on hand to award trophies for “Best Dressed” as well as the coveted SS5K 07 “Mr. or Ms. Congeniality Roma.”
The Super Slow 5K Roma takes place on Sunday December 2nd, 2007 at 12PM to 5PM (rain or shine) and starts at Mattatoio di Testaciio at Campo Boario , Rome, Italy
MTAA´s SSK5 ROMA is part of Enzimi 07
With thanks to Christina Ray and the fine folks at Glowlab
For more info visit http://mtaa.net/art/slow/roma/ permanent link to this post
A leisurely 5K (3.11 mile) group performance around the city of Rome
Following the success of the Super Slow 5K at Brooklyn´s McCarren Park in September 07, MTAA brings the SS5K to Italy. The SS5K Roma is a one day race/group performance in the streets of Rome. Registration to the SS5K Roma is free and open to the public. It begins at 12PM in the Mattatoio in Testaccio and ends when it seems right or at 5PM, whichever comes first. Refreshments will be served, folding chairs and blankets will be utilized. The performance/race will be overly documented. “Celebrity” judges will be on hand to award trophies for “Best Dressed” as well as the coveted SS5K 07 “Mr. or Ms. Congeniality Roma.”
The Super Slow 5K Roma takes place on Sunday December 2nd, 2007 at 12PM to 5PM (rain or shine) and starts at Mattatoio di Testaciio at Campo Boario , Rome, Italy
MTAA´s SSK5 ROMA is part of Enzimi 07
With thanks to Christina Ray and the fine folks at Glowlab
For more info visit http://mtaa.net/art/slow/roma/ permanent link to this post
Nov 12, 2007
“Performed Listening”
posted at 20:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Photos from Olson’s “Performed Listening” now up at OTO’s Flickr Set and at Tintype
Thanks to all who made it out. permanent link to this post
Nov 04, 2007
MTAA-RR en LOLCATS Pidgin
posted at 14:53 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 31, 2007
Happy Halloween
posted at 12:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Oct 30, 2007
James and Barry Live
posted at 17:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Tonight at 6:30 ath the Cue Art Foundation - Brian Sholis, writer and Editor of Artforum.com at Artforum in conversation with bloggers Barry Hoggard (bloggy.com) and James Wagner (jameswagner.com)”
more info here
Will not be able to go, but wanted to give some link props back to our 2 fav hybrid collectors/blogers/critics/curators/photographers/political activist/web gurus/and all around underdog art fans, James and Barry. Have fun guys. permanent link to this post
more info here
Will not be able to go, but wanted to give some link props back to our 2 fav hybrid collectors/blogers/critics/curators/photographers/political activist/web gurus/and all around underdog art fans, James and Barry. Have fun guys. permanent link to this post
Oct 27, 2007
2 newish projects now up on Tinjail - Walk and Flight
posted at 17:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
still from Flight
still from Walk
“Flight” is video loop (x 4) of a wing over Ohio. It was first presented as a projection at OTO’s Transporter Again
“Walk” is 2 videos, shot one year to the day apart, in the same location. permanent link to this post
Oct 13, 2007
OTO Pics
posted at 19:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Thanks to all who came out to the first OTO last night. Tons of fun. More Pics of the show now up on Flickr in the OTO Set
and even more at Tintype’s OTO Set
Update - 2 cool photos of the SGAR on Bloggy permanent link to this post
Oct 02, 2007
OTO starts Oct 12 (8pm to 11pm)
posted at 16:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Over The Opening (OTO)
Please join us for the launch of our once a month DIY exhibition space.
60 North 6th Street, 2nd floor
Brooklyn, NY, 11211
L train to Bedford Avenue
3 Blocks west on North 6th - just shy of Kent
On the second Friday of each month, from 8PM to 11PM, the artist collective MTAA convert their N6th St. Brooklyn studio into a venue for the presentation of time-based art.
The OTO project begins on October 12 with “Again Transporter,” new works by Michael Sarff.
still from Michael Sarff’s “Kingdom”, 2007
More details at tinjail.com/over_the_opening permanent link to this post
Sep 25, 2007
SS5K Post Event Report
posted at 00:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA’s Super Slow 5K
I’ve been thinking of how to sum up the SS5K. I have to say it has been hard to shape the event into a solid thought. I felt the urge to retell the performance/ action in some solid documentation narrative. I think I’ll let that go. I’ll let that others tell the story at some other time. All I would like to say is that a very small group got together one afternoon and performed the SS5K and that, in the end; everyone said it was a wonderful afternoon. You can view some images here.
permanent link to this post
I’ve been thinking of how to sum up the SS5K. I have to say it has been hard to shape the event into a solid thought. I felt the urge to retell the performance/ action in some solid documentation narrative. I think I’ll let that go. I’ll let that others tell the story at some other time. All I would like to say is that a very small group got together one afternoon and performed the SS5K and that, in the end; everyone said it was a wonderful afternoon. You can view some images here.
permanent link to this post
Sep 19, 2007
SS5K Post Mortem…Soon
posted at 17:03 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Keeping with the overall pace of the SS5K, I’m still working on a final report and set of images. Until then, here is a shot of Kate - winner of the SS5K best dressed trophy.
More on the SS5K soon… permanent link to this post
Sep 10, 2007
Update on this Sunday’s SS5K
posted at 13:12 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
It’s less than a week until the start of the Super Slow 5K.
I hope you have all been training. As an incentive for participation, we would like to unveil the SS5K limited edition print (edition of 100). Free if you come run, walk, stroll or just hang out.
twhid update:
Here’s a closer look at the limited edition bib/print:
(click for larger image 348KB JPEG) permanent link to this post
Aug 31, 2007
The Internet: A place for friends
posted at 11:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 30, 2007
new .mov at Tinjail
posted at 18:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 24, 2007
MTAA’s Super Slow 5K!
posted at 14:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA’s Super Slow 5K!
a leisurely 5K (3.11 mile) group performance around McCarren Park’s running track
I’ve read on marathon training web sites, that one can walk 5 kilometers (3.11 miles) at an “easy pace” in 62.5 minutes. I’d like to slow that down a tad. I’d like to slow it down with a group of like-minded noncompetitive “athletes”. I want to race with people who are ready to say - “I’ll finish this 5K when I darn well feel like it and only after I stop by the official MTAA Super Slow 5K refreshment stand for another hotdog”. That’s the race I want to run.
The MTAA Super Slow 5K is a one day race/group performance on the running track in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. Registration to the SS5K is free and open to the public. It begins at 11AM and ends when it seems right or 4PM, whichever comes first. Refreshments will be served, folding chairs and blankets will be utilized. The performance/race will be overly documented. “Celebrity” judges will be on hand to award trophies for “Best Dressed” as well as the coveted SS5K 07 “Mr. or Ms. Congeniality”.
When?
Sunday September 16th, 2007 from 11AM - 4PM (rain or shine)
Where?
Williamsburg Brooklyn’s McCarren Park (map)
Registration?
Email superslow5K@gmail.com or just show up around 10:30AM the day of. Free and open to the public!
More details at: http://mtaa.net/art/slow/.
MTAA’s SSK5 is part of Conflux 07 www.confluxfestival.org
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twhid update
We promise that it won’t be like this (Hipster Olympics via Gothamist):
mriver adds
Dang. LOL.
Yeah, it will kinda be like that but done with love and actual effort. Also, as of this morning, we have 0 people signed up so I might be running alone. permanent link to this post
Aug 22, 2007
YouTube Bye Bye
posted at 14:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Just when I was starting to think about ways to use YouTube more as a site for artworks, Google decideds to go with
overlay video ads
Ick. Time to find a new vid site.
twhid adds:
YouTube has always sucked for a variety of reasons. The only thing it has going for it is a huge audience. But video quality sucks and their little bug in the bottom right sucks.
I suggest Blip.tv!
mriver adds:
Yeah, yeah. I understand they do not have plans at this point to slap ads on my little home movies/ artworks - but still… it’s time for me to move. permanent link to this post
Ick. Time to find a new vid site.
twhid adds:
YouTube has always sucked for a variety of reasons. The only thing it has going for it is a huge audience. But video quality sucks and their little bug in the bottom right sucks.
I suggest Blip.tv!
mriver adds:
Yeah, yeah. I understand they do not have plans at this point to slap ads on my little home movies/ artworks - but still… it’s time for me to move. permanent link to this post
Aug 10, 2007
Turn That Damn Sculpture Down!
posted at 18:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 07, 2007
T.Whid Week - Art Blog Party
posted at 22:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
T.Whid sums up a fun Art Blogger cocktail party host by Edward Winkleman at his gallery
Yes, he had a few. permanent link to this post
Yes, he had a few. permanent link to this post
OMG! UR totally dead!!!!
posted at 12:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
msnbc.com’s netiquette guru Popkin (and MTAA style council) on Cory Arcangel’s “Friendster Suicide” and MyDeathSpace.com
Check it permanent link to this post
Check it permanent link to this post
Aug 06, 2007
T.Whid Week - Anti War
posted at 20:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA at Cape Town’s AVA
posted at 15:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
We are showing onKawaraUpdate (v2) in
“3C - Committee and Critics Choice”
at the AVA in Cape Town South Africa from July 30 to August 17 2007.
Big thanks to Kathryn Smith for the show. permanent link to this post
Big thanks to Kathryn Smith for the show. permanent link to this post
Aug 05, 2007
T.Whid Week - Barney Opening
posted at 11:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
T.Whid’s first take on the show outside the mob scene of Barney’s DR9 opening.
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Aug 04, 2007
T.Whid Week - Art Fairs
posted at 13:55 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Yes, once again T.Whid has foolishly gone off on vacation leaving the MTAA-RR for me to screw up. So, for the next 7 days, I’m going to post some of my favorite clips of T.Whid. I think of them as an ongoing set/ movie called “Hey, Tim”. To start off, here is Tim on art fairs. I hope you will enjoy them.
twhid adds… on vacation, but found an open wireless network at this little lake side cottage-ville in Ohio. w00t! permanent link to this post
twhid adds… on vacation, but found an open wireless network at this little lake side cottage-ville in Ohio. w00t! permanent link to this post
Aug 03, 2007
the summer 07 lull report - part 2
posted at 00:13 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
tinjail’s jailhouse online cinema presents
the east coast west coast dance off
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the east coast west coast dance off
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Jul 30, 2007
CHASING THE NEW IS DANGEROUS TO SOCIETY
posted at 15:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Yes, it could be a fake, but Jenny on Twitter is a great mesh of a social network and art. (via AFC)
This, however, does not change my ambivalence about Twitter best summed up by Helen A.S. Popkin’s article Twitter Nation: Nobody cares what you’re doing. permanent link to this post
This, however, does not change my ambivalence about Twitter best summed up by Helen A.S. Popkin’s article Twitter Nation: Nobody cares what you’re doing. permanent link to this post
Jul 26, 2007
The Summer 07 Lull Report - Part 1
posted at 13:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Yes, things are slow right now. This is the last weekend to see KDM100 and 25 Reasons at Postmasters. Please check it out.
Next up, on September 16, we will present new performance/ event called MTAA’s Super Slow 5 K. This is a leisurely 5k (3.11 mile) group artwork/ 5k race / 5 hour picnic around McCarren Park’s running track in Williamsburg Brooklyn. This work is part of Conflux 07. It should be a hoot. More details soon. permanent link to this post
Next up, on September 16, we will present new performance/ event called MTAA’s Super Slow 5 K. This is a leisurely 5k (3.11 mile) group artwork/ 5k race / 5 hour picnic around McCarren Park’s running track in Williamsburg Brooklyn. This work is part of Conflux 07. It should be a hoot. More details soon. permanent link to this post
Jul 14, 2007
another summer .mov
posted at 14:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jul 13, 2007
New Media Art in the Daylight?
posted at 17:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Yup, it can happen. If you are in NYC this weekend, check out Solar One’s
City Sol 07 located at 23street next to the East river featuring the Frontier Mythology installation by our palls
Cary Peppermint + Christine Nadir (EcoArtTech)
Need more reasons to go?
I’ll have some pics from the Thurs night opening up soon.
Update:
permanent link to this post
Need more reasons to go?
I’ll have some pics from the Thurs night opening up soon.
Update:
permanent link to this post
Jul 10, 2007
summer movs
posted at 15:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jul 06, 2007
at Eyebeam
posted at 21:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA +RSG’s Gordon Matta-Clark Encryption Method (GMCEM)
In fall of 2002, RSG gathered 500 printed pages (1 ream) of data from MTAA using the Carnivore client installed at the Eyebeam’s studios. Each 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper was then torn in half and stacked in a plexi box permanent link to this post
at Postmasters
posted at 12:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
There’s a slideshow of some of the work in Not Your Parents’ MTV on New York Magazine’s web site :-) Woohoo!
M.River took the snaps below, there’s more at his Tintype blog…
Karaoke DeathMatch 100 (2007, video, software, web site, computers, benches, desk)
25 Concrete Examples Why John Cage Is Not Our Father (2001, DVD-Video loop) permanent link to this post
M.River took the snaps below, there’s more at his Tintype blog…
Karaoke DeathMatch 100 (2007, video, software, web site, computers, benches, desk)
25 Concrete Examples Why John Cage Is Not Our Father (2001, DVD-Video loop) permanent link to this post
Jul 05, 2007
new summer .movs
posted at 11:51 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
2 new slooooooooo loadin browser crashin summer .movs at tinjail.com/jailhouse
garden and fun permanent link to this post
garden and fun permanent link to this post
Jun 29, 2007
The Amateur’s hour
posted at 19:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
By undermining mainstream media and intellectual property rights, he says, it is creating a world in which we will “live to see the bulk of our music coming from amateur garage bands, our movies and television from glorified YouTubes, and our news made up of hyperactive celebrity gossip, served up as mere dressing for advertising.” This is what happens, he suggests, “when ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule.”
NYT Review “The Cult of the Amateur”
I love garage bands. I feel that some of the best American music, blues, jazz, hip-hop, punk, flows from some “amateurs” sitting around in a garage/shack/public housing party/ dive bar making and sharing music. The net is making the “garage/shack/public housing party/ dive bar” larger. Here is to the unwashed. permanent link to this post
NYT Review “The Cult of the Amateur”
I love garage bands. I feel that some of the best American music, blues, jazz, hip-hop, punk, flows from some “amateurs” sitting around in a garage/shack/public housing party/ dive bar making and sharing music. The net is making the “garage/shack/public housing party/ dive bar” larger. Here is to the unwashed. permanent link to this post
Jun 22, 2007
your future leader and or myspace pal
posted at 13:05 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“When do you hang with an old dude online? When he’s running for office!”
MTAA’s fav avatar/ netiquette journalist rates the presidential candidates myspace profiles.
Ha ha…
Democrats
Republicans
Third Party candidates
permanent link to this post
MTAA’s fav avatar/ netiquette journalist rates the presidential candidates myspace profiles.
Ha ha…
Democrats
Republicans
Third Party candidates
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AIOTD – MTAA Self Portrait as Black Bears
posted at 01:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In a dream last night, I went to an opening as a black bear. I spent most of the opening sitting on the floor drinking a beer. I swear if MTAA ever has a solo show again, I will make this dream come true
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permanent link to this post
Jun 18, 2007
AFC on AHH
posted at 13:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 16, 2007
MTAA – weekend posting note
posted at 12:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
With T.Whid at the iSummit in Croatia and me Camping at Watch Hill, MTAA is totally out of the office this weekend. It’s summer. Go outside. Last one off the net, please turn off the lights.
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Jun 15, 2007
Hunting for that ship
posted at 18:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is my CC art story of a project that seems to be somehow cursed.
The ship that I have been using for the project came from an image Joy tossed into the iCommonsair Pool Joy had been posting images of old ships from Croatia. I think she was considering using some of the images for an artwork. Last night, after posting the last image for my project, as I sat in bed, I thought “I bet that ship is not old and I bet it has a copyright on it…shit.
Here is the ship’s trail. The image was taken from Cao Fei’s blog Cao Fei is one of the iCommons Artist in Residence. Cao Fei seem to have got it from the Cape Farewell Project “Art and Climate Change” who picked it up from an artist named David Buckland
“David Buckland is a designer, artist and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York and collected by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles amongst others.”
more of his bio here
So now, I’m going to email David Buckland to see if I can use his image for non-commercial project. This is, in the end, what CC is all about. Not doing what I’m doing.
I’ll update if I hear from him. permanent link to this post
The ship that I have been using for the project came from an image Joy tossed into the iCommonsair Pool Joy had been posting images of old ships from Croatia. I think she was considering using some of the images for an artwork. Last night, after posting the last image for my project, as I sat in bed, I thought “I bet that ship is not old and I bet it has a copyright on it…shit.
Here is the ship’s trail. The image was taken from Cao Fei’s blog Cao Fei is one of the iCommons Artist in Residence. Cao Fei seem to have got it from the Cape Farewell Project “Art and Climate Change” who picked it up from an artist named David Buckland
“David Buckland is a designer, artist and film-maker whose lens-based works have been exhibited in numerous galleries in London, Paris and New York and collected by the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Metropolitan Museum, New York and the Getty Collection, Los Angeles amongst others.”
more of his bio here
So now, I’m going to email David Buckland to see if I can use his image for non-commercial project. This is, in the end, what CC is all about. Not doing what I’m doing.
I’ll update if I hear from him. permanent link to this post
10 iCSAFGM images
posted at 14:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I finished up my 10 iCSAFGM images last night and tossed a CC license on them via Flicker. You can see the set at Tintype. I still need to do a bit of research on the ship image I picked up from Joy but in general and place some credits on, but it’s almost done.
update: they can alos be found on flickr tagged icsafgm permanent link to this post
update: they can alos be found on flickr tagged icsafgm permanent link to this post
Jun 14, 2007
Dubrovnik.
posted at 13:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
As I’ve been making new photoshoped images from the commons Summit AiR Flickr group (iCSAFGM), I have been using the “C” of the creative commons license “CC” as a design element. I have also used mirroring as a element. In my mind, when we use images or content from another source we do not reproduce it but renders it in a new way, much like a mirror reflexes back an image but also changes the image.
So, as part of this project, I’ve been flipping the “C” around and doubling it within the images. Tim sent me an email this morning with a strange fact.
“According to the Croats here… the 4 Cs all pointing outward… is a symbol of greater Serbia and is a bit of a local swastika since the serbs attacked Croatia during the Balkan war.”
“It’s not an exact duplicate of the symbol but was close enough that a local artist was kinda freaked to see it… should we delete it from the blog?”
So, I cut two images off the blog. I send my best thoughts of peace and respect to the city of Dubrovnik.
As for the project, I’ll put some more up tonight (sans 4 Cs). I might move the project over to my photo blog (tinjail.com/tintype) to give it more space. I’d like to get a good set of 10 done before Firday. permanent link to this post
So, as part of this project, I’ve been flipping the “C” around and doubling it within the images. Tim sent me an email this morning with a strange fact.
“According to the Croats here… the 4 Cs all pointing outward… is a symbol of greater Serbia and is a bit of a local swastika since the serbs attacked Croatia during the Balkan war.”
“It’s not an exact duplicate of the symbol but was close enough that a local artist was kinda freaked to see it… should we delete it from the blog?”
So, I cut two images off the blog. I send my best thoughts of peace and respect to the city of Dubrovnik.
As for the project, I’ll put some more up tonight (sans 4 Cs). I might move the project over to my photo blog (tinjail.com/tintype) to give it more space. I’d like to get a good set of 10 done before Firday. permanent link to this post
iCSAFGM 5
posted at 02:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 13, 2007
iCSAFGM 3
posted at 12:22 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 12, 2007
iCSAFGM 2
posted at 23:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Jun 11, 2007
iCommons Summit AiR Flickr group mixr (iCSAFGM)
posted at 23:41 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
So, I’ve been thinking. As I’m stuck in New York at work, how can I add anything to the iCommons Summit? Answer - a bad photo shopped jpegs mix project taken from the iCommons AiR Flickr group. Ummmmm…rad. If ya want to toss one in as well, send a link. permanent link to this post
Jun 10, 2007
dc
posted at 10:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
dc
Dubrovnik, Croatia
twhid update
snapshot from my room’s terrace… gorgeous! click for a larger image… permanent link to this post
Jun 08, 2007
Where is T.Whid
posted at 13:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
jellomix
After a crushing defeat in the Karaoke Death Match 100, T.Whid has fled the country to represent MTAA at the
iCommons Summit 07
June 15 to June 17 in
Dubrovnik, Croatia
As well as participating in the summit, MTAA and a group of fellow artist will be mounting an exhibition in Dubrovnik and in Second Life. More details soon.
Yes, some artist will be going to Venice , Münster or Basel this summer to show art to the artworld. MTAA will be in Dubrovnik trying, in some small way, to change the way the artworld works.
Also. Tim made this Simple CC Diagram that explains it all. Sounds like we will have some t-shirst made for the show. permanent link to this post
Jun 01, 2007
more on the GMCEM
posted at 18:43 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 29, 2007
RSG + MTAA’s GMCEM (2002)
posted at 12:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I went over to Eyebeam on Monday to install GMCEM as part of RSG’s Carnivore section of the 10 Year Anniversary show (part 1 of 3). Looks like it will be a good show. Sounds like it opens on Thursday.
The Gordon Matta-Clark Encryption Method (GMCEM)
In fall of 2002, RSG gathered 500 printed pages (1 ream) of data from MTAA using the Carnivore client installed at the Eyebeam’s studios. Each 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper was then encrypted by tearing each sheet of paper in half and then sealing the two stacks within a plexi glass display. This lo-fi data encryption attempts to fuse the minimal aesthetics of Gordon Matta-Clark’s cut paper stacks from the 70’s with Patriot Act surveillance of the early 00’s.
Here is a photo of the top of the GMCEM on the studio floor. I hope to get a good install shot when the show opens. permanent link to this post
The Gordon Matta-Clark Encryption Method (GMCEM)
In fall of 2002, RSG gathered 500 printed pages (1 ream) of data from MTAA using the Carnivore client installed at the Eyebeam’s studios. Each 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper was then encrypted by tearing each sheet of paper in half and then sealing the two stacks within a plexi glass display. This lo-fi data encryption attempts to fuse the minimal aesthetics of Gordon Matta-Clark’s cut paper stacks from the 70’s with Patriot Act surveillance of the early 00’s.
Here is a photo of the top of the GMCEM on the studio floor. I hope to get a good install shot when the show opens. permanent link to this post
May 23, 2007
idol art
posted at 18:13 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
First came
Marisa Olson , now
Sanjaya is a AI performance artist.
(Yeah…I do not know if this is “real” or not)
In other bad Karaoke performance art news… you can still vote M.River, in round 39 of the KDM100. I’m doing Marilyn Monroe doing Happy Birthday.
Please. permanent link to this post
(Yeah…I do not know if this is “real” or not)
In other bad Karaoke performance art news… you can still vote M.River, in round 39 of the KDM100. I’m doing Marilyn Monroe doing Happy Birthday.
Please. permanent link to this post
May 17, 2007
Drunken Pirate Photos…
posted at 16:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
or Why the KDM100 Will Come Back to Haunt Us
MTAA’s fav netiquette guru, Helen A.S. Popkin, advises us today to “cap Myspace in the back of the head…”
Will do.
twhid adds: Just for the hell of it… Help! we’re being held hostage by a chinese web site!
Via Google translation:
MTAA’s fav netiquette guru, Helen A.S. Popkin, advises us today to “cap Myspace in the back of the head…”
Will do.
twhid adds: Just for the hell of it… Help! we’re being held hostage by a chinese web site!
Via Google translation:
Year, they are in front of the camera. […] They are not actors, the only real show for his life in the cabin. […] Never left our sight. […] Who are they? Why sacrificed privacy 24H watch from being the world?permanent link to this post
Nano Corp. as MTAA
posted at 12:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
More on
Being MTAA, just for a day from
nano_CORPORATION
twhid adds: Those photos are great! LOL. I was confused at first — couldn’t find the photos — the nano_Corp’s photos are here. permanent link to this post
twhid adds: Those photos are great! LOL. I was confused at first — couldn’t find the photos — the nano_Corp’s photos are here. permanent link to this post
May 04, 2007
What am I doing right now?
posted at 11:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 19, 2007
bold face names
posted at 12:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Rhiz party in AFD
Good lord everyone looks cute.
twhid adds…
Damn! Missed the society pages AGAIN! Gar! permanent link to this post
Good lord everyone looks cute.
twhid adds…
Damn! Missed the society pages AGAIN! Gar! permanent link to this post
Apr 13, 2007
my long lost brother with hair
posted at 03:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 10, 2007
tinjail movs part 6
posted at 00:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 04, 2007
tinjail movs - part 5
posted at 13:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 28, 2007
disco-nnect
posted at 22:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 27, 2007
tinjail net.mov - part 4
posted at 12:39 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dante (aka the Unscary Movie)
For the most part it’s black video with someone screaming…but in a funny way. A cut of this film was first shown in a screening at EFA’s gallery. Turn off the lights, sit back and scream along. permanent link to this post
For the most part it’s black video with someone screaming…but in a funny way. A cut of this film was first shown in a screening at EFA’s gallery. Turn off the lights, sit back and scream along. permanent link to this post
Mar 23, 2007
note from nano-corp.
posted at 12:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Inspired by your work I built an “update” of roman opalka’s work using the myspace interface. It has been online for 2 weeks, about 30 contributions have already been posted. I would love to have your feedback on this project. You can see it at: opalka_update
nano_CO.PRESIDENT
nano-corp
mtaa feedback = rock on nano corp. permanent link to this post
Mar 21, 2007
new tinjail net.mov - part 3
posted at 16:46 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In 2006, I rented and watched 76 DVDs. Each DVD, viewed alone, at night, at my kitchen table, was photographed without pause while playing. One image for each DVD was then placed on the Tintype blog under the category
DVD Still Project 06.
A looping slide show, using the ever poplar and ever sad “Ken Burns Effect”, joins the images together as the final document of the work.
DVD Still Project 06, the Movie
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A looping slide show, using the ever poplar and ever sad “Ken Burns Effect”, joins the images together as the final document of the work.
DVD Still Project 06, the Movie
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attention interwebites
posted at 00:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
for those about to
disco-nnect, we (of MTAA) salute you
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Mar 19, 2007
Ten Years Ago? Fuck…
posted at 19:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Port at MIT
MTAA’s first online artwork Buying Time
twhid adds:
We’ve been net artists for 10 years… crazy! permanent link to this post
MTAA’s first online artwork Buying Time
twhid adds:
We’ve been net artists for 10 years… crazy! permanent link to this post
new tinjail net.mov - part 2
posted at 12:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 15, 2007
new tinjail net.mov
posted at 12:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
kingdom
two quicktime palindrome loops of watching a parade pass by and passing by a museum. this is the first in a set of small new works at tinjail under the title net.mov permanent link to this post
two quicktime palindrome loops of watching a parade pass by and passing by a museum. this is the first in a set of small new works at tinjail under the title net.mov permanent link to this post
Mar 13, 2007
from a land down under (myspace)
posted at 00:32 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Once upon a time, I made a site for MTAA on mysapce. (Yeah, I know, I know.) Then, a person named “Penny” from Australia asked to be MTAA’s friend. So I, of course, said, “Yes”. Then she asked if I wanted to be part of a chain of email performances. So I, of course, said, “Yes”. (Yeah, I know, I know.) This is where it gets a bit complicated but stay with me. Penney made a list of performers. The person above MTAA name was to send us an artwork and the person below our name was to get an artwork. Now, the person above our name was Emily. Emily emailed that she thought that email was a bit impersonal (or at least I think that was what she thought), She asked if she could mail us some art. So I, of course, said, “Yes”. Today, in the mail, came
Emily’s first project.
Wonderful right? If we get another one, I’ll post it on the blog as well.
Now, as for sending an artwork, the person we got was Penny (who, you’ll remember, also started the project.) What did we send her? We sent her a set of instructions for a performance on how to be “MTAA” that, if she completed and documented, would be the artwork. (Yeah, I know. I know.) Anyways, here is what we sent her:
Being MTAA, Just for one Day
To Be Performed by Penny Spankie
Dress in a black t-shirt, blue jeans, black boots, and a black belt. Perform any or all of the following artworks/ actions. Each performance attempted should be documented with 2 photographs or 2 short videos.
1. lying propped up in bed
2. checking your hair in a mirror
3. tossing a paper airplane out of a window
4. pointing at public sculpture
5. jumping over things on the street.
6. holding an open umbrella inside your home.
7. listening to music with headphones on.
8. drinking a beer not in a bar
So, guess what? She wrote back with this documentation of choice #2 (Checking your hair in the mirror)
Reply Video - for MTAA - Email Art - RCW
Perfect.
So, If we get any more email myspace art, you’ll see it here. That’s all for now. Thanks Emily and Penney. permanent link to this post
Wonderful right? If we get another one, I’ll post it on the blog as well.
Now, as for sending an artwork, the person we got was Penny (who, you’ll remember, also started the project.) What did we send her? We sent her a set of instructions for a performance on how to be “MTAA” that, if she completed and documented, would be the artwork. (Yeah, I know. I know.) Anyways, here is what we sent her:
Being MTAA, Just for one Day
To Be Performed by Penny Spankie
Dress in a black t-shirt, blue jeans, black boots, and a black belt. Perform any or all of the following artworks/ actions. Each performance attempted should be documented with 2 photographs or 2 short videos.
1. lying propped up in bed
2. checking your hair in a mirror
3. tossing a paper airplane out of a window
4. pointing at public sculpture
5. jumping over things on the street.
6. holding an open umbrella inside your home.
7. listening to music with headphones on.
8. drinking a beer not in a bar
So, guess what? She wrote back with this documentation of choice #2 (Checking your hair in the mirror)
Reply Video - for MTAA - Email Art - RCW
Perfect.
So, If we get any more email myspace art, you’ll see it here. That’s all for now. Thanks Emily and Penney. permanent link to this post
Mar 11, 2007
take a hike
posted at 12:43 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 10, 2007
feast
posted at 23:17 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
diawarhol
posted at 14:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 09, 2007
friday dance party at mtaa-rr’s embed art week…
posted at 15:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I went to see Cory and Hanne give a talk last night on art and the net. The talk, at some point, involved placing artist names into YouTube searches. So, of course, I placed “mtaa, art” into YouTube this morning and got the following top result…
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Mar 08, 2007
cory’s blue tube
posted at 15:06 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“Embed Art Week” rolls on here at the MTAA-RR with Cory’s “Blue Tube”. Sly. permanent link to this post
jellyfish
posted at 03:43 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 07, 2007
Jean Baudrillard
posted at 02:54 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
momadriveby
posted at 01:35 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 06, 2007
t.whid’s away…
posted at 19:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
T.Whid is out on the West cost for the rest of the week. Here is another embed movie while he’s away. permanent link to this post
dull wing
posted at 02:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 04, 2007
duchamp
posted at 13:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Feb 19, 2007
stone cold busted
posted at 20:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Yes, for the record, I am Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern’s father and I don’t want to talk about it. Period.
twhid chimes in:
and you’re a “broke-ass Brooklyn artist” — hahahahahahahaha permanent link to this post
twhid chimes in:
and you’re a “broke-ass Brooklyn artist” — hahahahahahahaha permanent link to this post
Jan 29, 2007
time for a pop quiz…
posted at 15:24 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here are some questions that MTAA needs to think about for a new performance/ video thing (just thought I’d share):
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Where would you like to live?
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Your favorite painter?
Your favorite musician?
The quality you most admire in a man?
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Your favorite virtue?
Your favorite occupation?
Who would you have liked to be?
Your most marked characteristic?
What do you most value in your friends?
What is your principle defect?
What is your dream of happiness?
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
What would you like to be?
In what country would you like to live?
What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite flower?
What is your favorite bird?
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Who are your favoite poets?
Who are your heroes in real life?
What are your favorite names?
What is it you most dislike?
What historical figures do you most despise?
What event in military history do you most admire?
What reform do you most admire?
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
How would you like to die?
What is your present state of mind?
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
What is your motto?
From The Infamous Proust Questionnaire
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What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Where would you like to live?
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Your favorite painter?
Your favorite musician?
The quality you most admire in a man?
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Your favorite virtue?
Your favorite occupation?
Who would you have liked to be?
Your most marked characteristic?
What do you most value in your friends?
What is your principle defect?
What is your dream of happiness?
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
What would you like to be?
In what country would you like to live?
What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite flower?
What is your favorite bird?
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Who are your favoite poets?
Who are your heroes in real life?
What are your favorite names?
What is it you most dislike?
What historical figures do you most despise?
What event in military history do you most admire?
What reform do you most admire?
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
How would you like to die?
What is your present state of mind?
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
What is your motto?
From The Infamous Proust Questionnaire
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Jan 09, 2007
more on cats and less on phones
posted at 22:24 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
It has almost become law that to be a blogger, at some point, you must post about a cat. No one knows why this is. It is just how the Net operates. It is also a sign that a blog has run past relevance. Posting on cats is the net equivalence of jumping the shark So, just to drive Tim insane for his post below, here is a link for a Google image search on
phone cat
Enjoy permanent link to this post
Enjoy permanent link to this post
what may be the first MTAA-RR blog post about a cat
posted at 20:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
and net art 2.0 rolls on with
Evan Roth’s Satanic Images.
Google image searches for the 666th photo taken on various digital cameras.
I just want to point out that the cat in the third row IS evil. Very evil permanent link to this post
I just want to point out that the cat in the third row IS evil. Very evil permanent link to this post
Dec 31, 2006
more 06 cya
posted at 14:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
When I was thinking about what to add to
this list 06,
I sent an email off to artist
Rick Silva
and collector, curator, photographer and art blogger extraordinaire
Barry Hoggard
asking what they liked in art in 06. Both sent lists of work I loved as well as shows that I wish I had seen. Enjoy.
One of my favorite works in 06 was Rick’s Recap. Here is a list of some of Rick’s favorites for the year.
cassini - saturn’s rings
spike lee - when the levees broke - a requiem in 4 parts
matmos - the rose has teeth in the mouth of the beast
pleix -birds
john kilduff - let’s paint tv
media archeology: software cinema festival - houston, texas
cai guo qiang at site santa fe
james turrell’s ‘meeting’ at ps1 at around 10 degrees farenheit right before they close for the night
john hodgeman - areas of my expertise
drawing restraint 1-9 at sfmoma
gazira babeli - secondlife code performer
radar at denver art museum
In Dangling Between the Real Thing and the Sign in The Window, James and Barry curated a group of artists who I felt held the mirror to 06. It was funny, dystopic and experimental. I hope, in 07, they will do it again. Here are some of Barry’s highlights for the year.
Susan Dessel’s bodies from our show
videos of Robert Boyd
Jeremy Eilers sculptures
Klara Liden Bodies of Society 2006
New Charles Goldman sculpture
This 9/11 show
Heather Rowe’s sculpture
Jacques Louis Vidal’s videos
Barry adds at the end of his list “I saw a lot of painting I liked too.” permanent link to this post
One of my favorite works in 06 was Rick’s Recap. Here is a list of some of Rick’s favorites for the year.
cassini - saturn’s rings
spike lee - when the levees broke - a requiem in 4 parts
matmos - the rose has teeth in the mouth of the beast
pleix -birds
john kilduff - let’s paint tv
media archeology: software cinema festival - houston, texas
cai guo qiang at site santa fe
james turrell’s ‘meeting’ at ps1 at around 10 degrees farenheit right before they close for the night
john hodgeman - areas of my expertise
drawing restraint 1-9 at sfmoma
gazira babeli - secondlife code performer
radar at denver art museum
In Dangling Between the Real Thing and the Sign in The Window, James and Barry curated a group of artists who I felt held the mirror to 06. It was funny, dystopic and experimental. I hope, in 07, they will do it again. Here are some of Barry’s highlights for the year.
Susan Dessel’s bodies from our show
videos of Robert Boyd
Jeremy Eilers sculptures
Klara Liden Bodies of Society 2006
New Charles Goldman sculpture
This 9/11 show
Heather Rowe’s sculpture
Jacques Louis Vidal’s videos
Barry adds at the end of his list “I saw a lot of painting I liked too.” permanent link to this post
Dec 30, 2006
06 cya
posted at 22:27 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Nerdz Rising 06
Cory Archangel at Team
Jessica Ciocci at Foxy Production
Michael Bell-Smith at Foxy Production
Paul Slocum at Vertex List
Tom Moody at Artmoving Projects
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy at Postmasters
Straight up Net Art
UNIVERSAL ACID
punk rock 101
Toni Burlap
With Elements of Web 2.0
Weather Gauge
Tracking Transience
Oil Standard, Greasemonkey conversion of US Dollars to Barrels of Oil
DVblogH4ck
www.pulp.href
<$BlogPageTitle$>
Lambs In Ascension
Tracking Transience
deptofnetworkperformance
Midnight
My Digital Pog Page
Some Other Good Stuff (Lots of MOMA for some reason)
Dada at MOMA
“…But I was Cool”, Jerry Gant, Robert Pruitt and Dread Scott at Aljira
Lee Walton at Conflux
Noah Lyon at 33 Bond Street
Herzog & de Meuron at MOMA
Douglas Gordon at MOMA
8 Bit at MOMA
On and Off at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
Nicole Eisenman at Leo Koenig Inc.
The Downtown Show at The Grey Art Gallery
Update: (aka oh, yeah)
Strange Powers at Creative Time
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Cory Archangel at Team
Jessica Ciocci at Foxy Production
Michael Bell-Smith at Foxy Production
Paul Slocum at Vertex List
Tom Moody at Artmoving Projects
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy at Postmasters
Straight up Net Art
UNIVERSAL ACID
punk rock 101
Toni Burlap
With Elements of Web 2.0
Weather Gauge
Tracking Transience
Oil Standard, Greasemonkey conversion of US Dollars to Barrels of Oil
DVblogH4ck
www.pulp.href
<$BlogPageTitle$>
Lambs In Ascension
Tracking Transience
deptofnetworkperformance
Midnight
My Digital Pog Page
Some Other Good Stuff (Lots of MOMA for some reason)
Dada at MOMA
“…But I was Cool”, Jerry Gant, Robert Pruitt and Dread Scott at Aljira
Lee Walton at Conflux
Noah Lyon at 33 Bond Street
Herzog & de Meuron at MOMA
Douglas Gordon at MOMA
8 Bit at MOMA
On and Off at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
Nicole Eisenman at Leo Koenig Inc.
The Downtown Show at The Grey Art Gallery
Update: (aka oh, yeah)
Strange Powers at Creative Time
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Dec 29, 2006
another leftover 06 AIOTD
posted at 15:58 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The Long Campaign
A computer driven, dual channel, video of a MTAA rock, scissor, paper game. Software selects chance game play and keeps the accumulated score forever. permanent link to this post
A computer driven, dual channel, video of a MTAA rock, scissor, paper game. Software selects chance game play and keeps the accumulated score forever. permanent link to this post
Dec 28, 2006
AIOTD 06 Leftovers
posted at 15:48 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
…a late Merry Christmas or an early Happy New Year to all.
And now, by popular demand (of one MTAA fan), here are a few leftover AIOTD’s from 06 for you to snack on.
Power of Love and Hate - a dual portrait of MTAA listing (off the cuff) all the things they love and hate using overlapping dialogue.
Believing (In the Morning) - a dual portrait of MTAA enthusiastically using morning beauty products.
Clocking In - a computer driven video in which MTAA chimes the hours by beating an alarm clock with bats.
I think we have some more 06 AIOTDs sitting around. We’ll post them if they show up permanent link to this post
And now, by popular demand (of one MTAA fan), here are a few leftover AIOTD’s from 06 for you to snack on.
Power of Love and Hate - a dual portrait of MTAA listing (off the cuff) all the things they love and hate using overlapping dialogue.
Believing (In the Morning) - a dual portrait of MTAA enthusiastically using morning beauty products.
Clocking In - a computer driven video in which MTAA chimes the hours by beating an alarm clock with bats.
I think we have some more 06 AIOTDs sitting around. We’ll post them if they show up permanent link to this post
Dec 14, 2006
iPhil can be yours
posted at 13:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
$250 to the Rhizome benefit
gets you a MTAA print of iPhil
Yup. That’s right. For supporting a new media not for profit, you can own an MTAA work that does not need to be plugged in. Wild. permanent link to this post
Yup. That’s right. For supporting a new media not for profit, you can own an MTAA work that does not need to be plugged in. Wild. permanent link to this post
Dec 05, 2006
land of the ice and snow..
posted at 14:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Saw fellow camp Creative Capital 06 alum Jane Marsching last night. Her project is up. Check it.
Climate Commons - a networked conversation about climate change, sustainability, and the Arctic developed by Jane D. Marsching with Matthew Shanley from November 27 2006 - February 28, 2007.
climate-commons.net
Also, if you’re in Boston, Jane’s show “Arctic Listening Post” is at the ICA from December 10, 2006 - March 11, 2007.
Update: Here is Holland Cotter’s NTY review of the shows up at the ICA with a mention of Jane’s project. permanent link to this post
Climate Commons - a networked conversation about climate change, sustainability, and the Arctic developed by Jane D. Marsching with Matthew Shanley from November 27 2006 - February 28, 2007.
climate-commons.net
Also, if you’re in Boston, Jane’s show “Arctic Listening Post” is at the ICA from December 10, 2006 - March 11, 2007.
Update: Here is Holland Cotter’s NTY review of the shows up at the ICA with a mention of Jane’s project. permanent link to this post
Nov 30, 2006
Detroit Rock City
posted at 13:26 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
NYT on the new MOCAD
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Nov 26, 2006
MTAA art at home in NJ
posted at 14:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
When it came time to remove our installation
3’ High and Rising, Newark from the E7 show at
Aljira, we received an email asking if MTAA would be interested in donating the work. We, of course, said “Yes. It’s for you.” So, like Cats on Broadway, MTAA is “now and forever” raising the desk at Aljira in Newark, NJ by 3 feet.
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Nov 22, 2006
Baste every 10 minutes
posted at 14:16 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
For my brother Doug and all who will attempt to roast a turkey for the first time this year:
McSweeney’s
BUTTERBALL HELP-LINE HELP-LINE
twhid adds…
…my humble turkey related links. permanent link to this post
McSweeney’s
BUTTERBALL HELP-LINE HELP-LINE
twhid adds…
…my humble turkey related links. permanent link to this post
Nov 16, 2006
Last minute reminder: 3x3 was last night!
posted at 17:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Just in case you don’t look at dates and just do what the MTAA-RR tells you, the show was last night.
Blind following of the MTAA-RR is fine, in most cases, but we would not want you showing up at EFI, find a locked door and then wonder why we would go the empty gallery as art route again.
Oh, yeah. The 3x3 show was fun. permanent link to this post
Blind following of the MTAA-RR is fine, in most cases, but we would not want you showing up at EFI, find a locked door and then wonder why we would go the empty gallery as art route again.
Oh, yeah. The 3x3 show was fun. permanent link to this post
Nov 04, 2006
The world premier of The Unscary Movie - Nov 15
posted at 16:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The world premier of The Unscary Movie - a very, very short video by MTAA
In the spring Marina Zurkow asked us if we could make a 3 minute film in 3 hours. We said, “Yup. ”
In the early summer, we filmed Coney Island’s Dante’s Inferno ride. It took a bit more than 3 minutes but not much more. In the early fall, we edited the film. It took a bit more than 3 hours but not much more.
The Unscary Movie is, for the most part, black video. It is, for the most part, loud. It is, for the most part, 3 minutes of sitting in the dark while someone screams and groans. Sometimes a monster pops up. Sometimes you see daylight. It’s not very scary. It’s not action packed. If you come to see it, you should just pass the 3 minutes thinking of the summer past. Feel free to scream along.
3 Minutes : 3 Hours
Wednesday November 15 – 7pm
EFA Gallery | EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC
premiering 3 x 3 works by artists:
Chris Doyle, Margarida Garcia, Josh Greene, Oliver Kellhammer, Erin Lee, Zachary Mortensen, MTAA, Ruth Ozeki, Michael Portnoy, Robert Ransick, Marcia Scott, Abigail Simon, Elaine Tin Nyo, Lance Wakeling, Josh Weinstein, Marina Zurkow,(+ organized by Marina Zurkow) permanent link to this post
In the spring Marina Zurkow asked us if we could make a 3 minute film in 3 hours. We said, “Yup. ”
In the early summer, we filmed Coney Island’s Dante’s Inferno ride. It took a bit more than 3 minutes but not much more. In the early fall, we edited the film. It took a bit more than 3 hours but not much more.
The Unscary Movie is, for the most part, black video. It is, for the most part, loud. It is, for the most part, 3 minutes of sitting in the dark while someone screams and groans. Sometimes a monster pops up. Sometimes you see daylight. It’s not very scary. It’s not action packed. If you come to see it, you should just pass the 3 minutes thinking of the summer past. Feel free to scream along.
3 Minutes : 3 Hours
Wednesday November 15 – 7pm
EFA Gallery | EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor, NYC
premiering 3 x 3 works by artists:
Chris Doyle, Margarida Garcia, Josh Greene, Oliver Kellhammer, Erin Lee, Zachary Mortensen, MTAA, Ruth Ozeki, Michael Portnoy, Robert Ransick, Marcia Scott, Abigail Simon, Elaine Tin Nyo, Lance Wakeling, Josh Weinstein, Marina Zurkow,(+ organized by Marina Zurkow) permanent link to this post
Nov 03, 2006
just another cool show alert…
posted at 18:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
One of the best parts of our residency at Aljira and our retreat with Creative Capital was the chance to meet and be mentored by the artist Dread Scott.
Dread has been making politically strong and conceptually sharp work for years. I believe his advice and encouragement has helped focus our studio practice over the last few months. When you make work that does not always mesh well with what you believe the art world is, it’s good to hear from an artist who has navigated his work within the artworld while maintaining his work’s heart.
Dread will be showing at Aljira this fall with Jerry Gant, and Robert Pruitt. Sounds like it will be a great show. So, check it out.
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art
³…But I was Cool²
November 9, 2006-January 27, 2007
Opening reception Nov. 9, 2006 5:30 PM 7:30 PM
Exhibition with Jerry Gant, Robert Pruitt and Dread Scott
Panel Discussion with the artists Sunday Nov 12, Noon
Artists Talk Nov. 12, 2006 12 noon 2:00 PM
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Dread will be showing at Aljira this fall with Jerry Gant, and Robert Pruitt. Sounds like it will be a great show. So, check it out.
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY
Aljira: a Center for Contemporary Art
³…But I was Cool²
November 9, 2006-January 27, 2007
Opening reception Nov. 9, 2006 5:30 PM 7:30 PM
Exhibition with Jerry Gant, Robert Pruitt and Dread Scott
Panel Discussion with the artists Sunday Nov 12, Noon
Artists Talk Nov. 12, 2006 12 noon 2:00 PM
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Oct 21, 2006
boo
posted at 13:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
2 Halloween links I found this morning that you might enjoy…
a haunted house made out of balloons
ghost in the Tate permanent link to this post
a haunted house made out of balloons
ghost in the Tate permanent link to this post
Oct 20, 2006
to give back
posted at 18:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Infinitive Phil
Digital Print by MTAA
11 x 17 edition of 20
$250
Made exclusively for Rhizome, this print captures the still frames from the artists’ video contribution to Cory Arcangel’s legendary ‘Infinite Fill’ exhibition, in which Phil Hartman plays Phil Donahue
Rhizome Community Campaign
DC 911 - The Evildoers’ Remix
DVD with unique cover collage
1 hour 10 minutes.
$100
DC 911 is a guerilla edit of the pro-Bush propaganda film DC 9/11 - A Time of Crisis. First shown during the 2004 RNC at Postmasters Galley in New York. The video is a collaboration between new media art duo MTAA, video artist bodyatomic and musician/DJ tinydiva
Turbulence Fundraiser
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Digital Print by MTAA
11 x 17 edition of 20
$250
Made exclusively for Rhizome, this print captures the still frames from the artists’ video contribution to Cory Arcangel’s legendary ‘Infinite Fill’ exhibition, in which Phil Hartman plays Phil Donahue
Rhizome Community Campaign
DC 911 - The Evildoers’ Remix
DVD with unique cover collage
1 hour 10 minutes.
$100
DC 911 is a guerilla edit of the pro-Bush propaganda film DC 9/11 - A Time of Crisis. First shown during the 2004 RNC at Postmasters Galley in New York. The video is a collaboration between new media art duo MTAA, video artist bodyatomic and musician/DJ tinydiva
Turbulence Fundraiser
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Oct 19, 2006
2bl2 live in store.
posted at 02:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
A live demonstration of MTAA art practice in which a recording will be made of the event celebrating the artwork made. In other words, at the opening celebrating the public release of the MTAA’s artwork 2bl2, commissioned by the good folks of rhizome.org, MTAA will create a new 2bl2 sound artwork using the sound of the opening. I’m thinking about it as a big information loop. Get it?…No? Ummmm…Ok - I understand. T.Whid’s not sure about this one as well. How about: please come to the opening and see MTAA do some stuff that we like to call art? It might be interesting. Ok, Please. How’s that? Please. Please. I’ve gone to so many openings and events this past month that my eyes are tearing shut. I keep having that same sad conversations at openings that I kick myself about later. “Oh No, yeah. We’re working on stuff in the studio. Yeah. You should stop in. That would be cool.”. I never really know what to say. I end up all panicked. This time will be different. I’ll have you by my side while I go through it. Just come over and sit down. Say “Hello.” Help me stay calm and focused. Please. Thanks.
RHIZOME COMMISSIONS 2005-2006
New Museum Store
556 West 22nd Street
NYC
October 24, 2006 6:30pm
Participants: Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico, Peter Horvath, Jason Corace and Vicky Fang, Andy Deck, Jason Freeman, Sean Kerr, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenberg, MTAA, Thomas Laureyssens, Adriaan Stellingwerff
Admission: FREE
“The Rhizome Commissions Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of original works of Internet-based art. In 2005, Rhizome awarded eleven grants to an international group of artists. All the works took the Internet as their primary vehicle for exhibition; several also extended off the web as sculpture, video or installation. This evening will celebrate the works with a one-night installation and presentations by several of the commissioned artists. Cocktails will be served.”
update: note to self - never blog with a fever permanent link to this post
RHIZOME COMMISSIONS 2005-2006
New Museum Store
556 West 22nd Street
NYC
October 24, 2006 6:30pm
Participants: Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico, Peter Horvath, Jason Corace and Vicky Fang, Andy Deck, Jason Freeman, Sean Kerr, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenberg, MTAA, Thomas Laureyssens, Adriaan Stellingwerff
Admission: FREE
“The Rhizome Commissions Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of original works of Internet-based art. In 2005, Rhizome awarded eleven grants to an international group of artists. All the works took the Internet as their primary vehicle for exhibition; several also extended off the web as sculpture, video or installation. This evening will celebrate the works with a one-night installation and presentations by several of the commissioned artists. Cocktails will be served.”
update: note to self - never blog with a fever permanent link to this post
Oct 18, 2006
another tinjail shot.
posted at 13:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
rhizome at 1071
Yeah, I know it’s kinda hard to tell what’s going on but it might sum up the energy of the night. permanent link to this post
Yeah, I know it’s kinda hard to tell what’s going on but it might sum up the energy of the night. permanent link to this post
Oct 16, 2006
P-UNIT
posted at 17:59 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
This week from 11am to 11pm,
Noah Lyon (aka retardroit)
presents “The Living Installation: Part Deuxxx Tracying Eminem”
at the soon to open 33 Bond Gallery.
Stop on in and check out the work in progress. Closing party Sat Oct 21.
Tinjail pic from the first night.
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Tinjail pic from the first night.
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last one out, hit the lights.
posted at 12:28 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
We are about to loose one of the great music and art venues in New York City. No, not CBGB’s. They shut down last night. I’m talking about
Monkeytown. Looks like the doors shut in early November. Go see what you’ll wish you had while it’s still here.
Hmmm…Monkeytown Las Vegas anyone? permanent link to this post
Hmmm…Monkeytown Las Vegas anyone? permanent link to this post
Oct 10, 2006
Paraskevidekatriaphobia
posted at 16:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
General note: It’s Friday, October the 13th this week.
More info on Paraskevidekatriaphobia
twhid adds:
the inevitable Wikipedia link… permanent link to this post
More info on Paraskevidekatriaphobia
twhid adds:
the inevitable Wikipedia link… permanent link to this post
Sep 26, 2006
fall travel, part 2
posted at 15:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Sep 25, 2006
fall travel
posted at 13:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Sep 21, 2006
you will not need to wrap it.
posted at 17:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In case you are still wondering what to pick up for my birthday on Friday, here is a link for the
limited edition 75th Anniversary 19’Bambi Airstream Thanks. Love ya.
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Sep 19, 2006
photo documentation of…
posted at 01:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Sep 15, 2006
E7 rolls on.
posted at 12:49 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Earlier this summer, the
E7 (Aljira Emerge 7)
show was reviewed in the NYT with a nice mention of MTAA’s
3’ High and Rising, Newark.
The show gets another good review in the paper toady. This time
Holland Cotter
gives it his thumbs up. No mention of MTAA (Rats, Holland Cotter is one of my favs) this time but it’s great
that the Emerge artist, the show, Aljira and the city of Newark is getting some love and support. Rise Newark Rise.
E7 is slated to come down Sept 30, so check it out. permanent link to this post
E7 is slated to come down Sept 30, so check it out. permanent link to this post
Sep 14, 2006
vlog preformance
posted at 16:21 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“the birth of a new art form” ???
Wikipedia tries to sort out the unfolding story of Lonelygirl15 permanent link to this post
Wikipedia tries to sort out the unfolding story of Lonelygirl15 permanent link to this post
Sep 13, 2006
more from conflux 06
posted at 16:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
From our art pal Lee Walton, a sad day of self exile from Union Sqaure. No tears Lee, no tears.
On Friday, September 15th effective precisely at Noon- Lee Walton will leave Union Square Park never to return again.
Following a self-imposed life restriction, Walton’s world will get a little bit smaller. In the morning, Walton will be spending his final hours in the park before his departure. Exactly at noon, he will descend the steps of the park and begin walking south in search of a cold valedictory beer.
Any additional company and support on this difficult day would be welcomed and appreciated.
Hint: The 4th floor windows at the DSW shoe store on 14th street yield an excellent view of Walton’s final descent down the steps of Union Square Park. permanent link to this post
On Friday, September 15th effective precisely at Noon- Lee Walton will leave Union Square Park never to return again.
Following a self-imposed life restriction, Walton’s world will get a little bit smaller. In the morning, Walton will be spending his final hours in the park before his departure. Exactly at noon, he will descend the steps of the park and begin walking south in search of a cold valedictory beer.
Any additional company and support on this difficult day would be welcomed and appreciated.
Hint: The 4th floor windows at the DSW shoe store on 14th street yield an excellent view of Walton’s final descent down the steps of Union Square Park. permanent link to this post
Sep 12, 2006
Port Huron Project
posted at 15:30 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Also, as a part of the Conflux Festival, Mark Tribe’s Port Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent Saturday, September 16, 5 PM, Central Park West.
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Sep 09, 2006
art festival
posted at 14:50 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 31, 2006
Knox Rocks
posted at 12:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
1. Cool Karaoke art show in Knoxville with Abe ! and MO ! (and other “a list” art stars.)
2. Check out The Art Gallery of Knoxville’s website. It’s total “jimpuckolinaish”. Right on Knoxville. permanent link to this post
2. Check out The Art Gallery of Knoxville’s website. It’s total “jimpuckolinaish”. Right on Knoxville. permanent link to this post
Aug 24, 2006
gif.art
posted at 12:31 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Some old (way back in 01 folks) tinjail.com gif.art in the new
This is (Not) a magazine Issue 18:
“Click to go forward, never go back”
This is (not) a Magazine proffers the new 2-bit-good-for-nothing Issue compiled entirely from animated GIFs made or found by artists working in and around the internet today. permanent link to this post
“Click to go forward, never go back”
This is (not) a Magazine proffers the new 2-bit-good-for-nothing Issue compiled entirely from animated GIFs made or found by artists working in and around the internet today. permanent link to this post
Aug 23, 2006
Net Art Catch and Release Program 2006 (NA CARP 06)
posted at 00:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
If you find it
If you like it
If it was made in 06
then tag it “net_art_06”
del.icio.us/m.river
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If you like it
If it was made in 06
then tag it “net_art_06”
del.icio.us/m.river
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Aug 18, 2006
AIOTD - Reception Record
posted at 00:11 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
AIOTD - Reception Record / Self Portrait as an Open Mic.
On October 24, the New Museum bookstore will hold a reception for the Rhizome 06 commissions. The event will include MTAA’s net based audio art work / community ”2bl2”
At the Reception, MTAA will be create a new sound artwork called “Reception Record”. This work is a recording of the reception held for the artwork being produced. In other words, an artwork will be created from the material generated by the celebration of the artwork being created. It’s kind of a horse / cart thing.
Yes, you can say that the New Museum/ Rhizome reception is really for the “2bl2” project NOT the “Reception Record” project (which will be hosted within the “2bl2”) Let’s consider this detail only a small conceptual glitch akin to a hic-up.
So, if you find yourself in New York at the New Museum bookstore on the evening of the 24th of October and you see a microphone standing by itself in some corner, please go say “Hello”. Wish the microphone congratulations. Tell it a story or a joke. Get a few free reception drinks from the bar and chat it up. Have one of those awkward art opening conversations that just drift off and end. “Hey! How’s it going? What have you doing lately? Yeah? Cool…Excuse me, I’m going to go get anpther drink and say “Hi” to someone. Let’s hang out sometime soon” permanent link to this post
On October 24, the New Museum bookstore will hold a reception for the Rhizome 06 commissions. The event will include MTAA’s net based audio art work / community ”2bl2”
At the Reception, MTAA will be create a new sound artwork called “Reception Record”. This work is a recording of the reception held for the artwork being produced. In other words, an artwork will be created from the material generated by the celebration of the artwork being created. It’s kind of a horse / cart thing.
Yes, you can say that the New Museum/ Rhizome reception is really for the “2bl2” project NOT the “Reception Record” project (which will be hosted within the “2bl2”) Let’s consider this detail only a small conceptual glitch akin to a hic-up.
So, if you find yourself in New York at the New Museum bookstore on the evening of the 24th of October and you see a microphone standing by itself in some corner, please go say “Hello”. Wish the microphone congratulations. Tell it a story or a joke. Get a few free reception drinks from the bar and chat it up. Have one of those awkward art opening conversations that just drift off and end. “Hey! How’s it going? What have you doing lately? Yeah? Cool…Excuse me, I’m going to go get anpther drink and say “Hi” to someone. Let’s hang out sometime soon” permanent link to this post
Aug 15, 2006
Eye Calls
posted at 15:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Aug 11, 2006
tin or aluminum anniversary
posted at 12:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Congrats to Rhizome for 10 great years.
MTAA will be joining the year long Rhizome party on October 24 at the New Museum bookstore with the rest of the 06 Commissions. (Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico, Peter Horvath, Jason Corace and Vicky Fang, Andy Deck, Jason Freeman, Sean Kerr, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenberg, Thomas Laureyssens, and Adriaan Stellingwerff.)
It’s a one night stand and we’ll be doing something with 2bl2
permanent link to this post
MTAA will be joining the year long Rhizome party on October 24 at the New Museum bookstore with the rest of the 06 Commissions. (Hans Bernhard and Alessandro Ludovico, Peter Horvath, Jason Corace and Vicky Fang, Andy Deck, Jason Freeman, Sean Kerr, Ethan Ham and Tony Muilenberg, Thomas Laureyssens, and Adriaan Stellingwerff.)
It’s a one night stand and we’ll be doing something with 2bl2
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Aug 07, 2006
3’ High And Rising, Newark -
posted at 14:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
We’re just back from the Creative Capital “Art Boot Camp” to find a
review in the NY Tiimes of Aljira Emerge
Tristate Talent Search Hits a High Note
“Mr. Sarff and Mr. Whidden have done their best to be noticed, reinstalling the gallery front-of-house reception desk on a three-foot-high wooden podium. It seems a slightly hostile gesture, for visitors are confronted by someone looking down on them as they enter the gallery. It will be interesting to see what Mr. Sarff and Mr. Whidden have to say about their work during the artists’ talks that accompany the exhibition.” permanent link to this post
Tristate Talent Search Hits a High Note
“Mr. Sarff and Mr. Whidden have done their best to be noticed, reinstalling the gallery front-of-house reception desk on a three-foot-high wooden podium. It seems a slightly hostile gesture, for visitors are confronted by someone looking down on them as they enter the gallery. It will be interesting to see what Mr. Sarff and Mr. Whidden have to say about their work during the artists’ talks that accompany the exhibition.” permanent link to this post
Jul 31, 2006
out of the office automated reply…
posted at 23:52 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Dear Internet, MTAA will be away at “art boot camp” for a week starting Tuesday. Please try to be good while we are away. Thanks.
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Jul 09, 2006
AIOTD - Pirated Movie 2
posted at 13:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
On a slightly lower moral high horse than my last bootleg movie post - It’s that time again. Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest (thumbs up - no matter what the press sez) just came out. This means I’m hunting the subways of NYC for the Bootleg. Once I have the bootleg in hand, it will be time to make the “Pirated Movie 2”
For the Pirated Movie, MTAA took the bootleg and projected it in black and white without sound at Postmasters. We had a group of artist perform a live soundtrack for the film. This one time only performance was recorded and mixed with sections of the bootleg to create a final DVD.
This year, I’d like to mess with the recipe a bit. I’m still thinking about projecting the bootleg silent in black and white but I’d like to try it outdoors without the bands. Just set up some chairs on a sidewalk or in a park and press play. The final DVD will document the results.
hmmmm…at the beach?
twhid adds: let’s just shoot it out your window onto Franklin St. and use the sound! permanent link to this post
For the Pirated Movie, MTAA took the bootleg and projected it in black and white without sound at Postmasters. We had a group of artist perform a live soundtrack for the film. This one time only performance was recorded and mixed with sections of the bootleg to create a final DVD.
This year, I’d like to mess with the recipe a bit. I’m still thinking about projecting the bootleg silent in black and white but I’d like to try it outdoors without the bands. Just set up some chairs on a sidewalk or in a park and press play. The final DVD will document the results.
hmmmm…at the beach?
twhid adds: let’s just shoot it out your window onto Franklin St. and use the sound! permanent link to this post
bootleg 911
posted at 12:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
James Wagner’s post on Chris Moukarbel took me back to the thought that fueled dc911. If you take our pain for propaganda (and/or profit), we will take your film for art.
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Jun 28, 2006
AIOTD - We Never Get the Chance to
posted at 22:46 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
This AIOTD is a performance/ collaboration between MTAA and another artist in a public space or gallery. At 5pm on Saturdays, members of MTAA bring a coffee or a beer (depending on the collaborating artist choice) to the performance location. MTAA and the collaborating artist have a beer or coffee and talk about what happened last week. When one and only one coffee or beer is done, everyone shakes hands, says goodbye, and walks away. The performance occurs for one month.
update - oh, btw, if you are an artist or a gallery in nyc that would like to do this AIOTD with us this fall, just give me an email. (mriver@mteww.com) thanks. permanent link to this post
update - oh, btw, if you are an artist or a gallery in nyc that would like to do this AIOTD with us this fall, just give me an email. (mriver@mteww.com) thanks. permanent link to this post
Jun 13, 2006
more on culture war 2.0
posted at 15:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
President Bush’s brand new chief domestic policy adviser, Karl Zinsmeister, has a few thoughts on contemporary art.
When Art Becomes Inhuman
twhid adds:
This author is one sick fuck. A sample:
Equating pedophilia and homosexuality — nice guy. permanent link to this post
When Art Becomes Inhuman
twhid adds:
This author is one sick fuck. A sample:
Novel writers and film and theater producers have started selling voyeurism, drugs, homosexuality, and pedophilia to middle-Americans at the mall, instead of leaving these things to patrons of peep shows and trendy art galleries. One of the most heavily Oscar-awarded movies of recent years — American Beauty — combined all four of those degradations in one package.
Equating pedophilia and homosexuality — nice guy. permanent link to this post
Jun 07, 2006
A GLOBAL CREATIVE MOVEMENT
posted at 13:01 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
And speaking of the devil, let’s take a look in Ye Ol’ MTAA mail box…
Here is note from the youth marketing group “Look-Look.”
from t.whid: Golly, that sounds fun!
And it goes on to tell us we have a chance to win an iPod or something if we submit some music or art.
MTAA has always been interested in “setting the benchmark for a new generation of global creators.” I remember that just the other day, T.Whid and I sat around in some dim bar in Brooklyn yakin’ about how could we, as net-based performance and conceptual artists, voice the tone of our generation — even though, now in our mid 30s, we have probably passed the golden moment when each generation gets to self-define as a point of rebellion. At this point, a big dog (one of those pitbull mixes that I like and Tim thinks are ugly) walked into the bar and we lost our train of thought.
Anyhoo.
Although we are a bit busy right now and will not be able to make some new work for Coca-Cola (as loyal sons of Warhol, lord knows we would if given truck loads of cash), we can give you not a drawing or some music but an idea. It is an idea T.Whid and I have been kicking around. It might be the idea that “sets the tone for a new generation of global creators.” Here it is…
“Info-materialism” permanent link to this post
Here is note from the youth marketing group “Look-Look.”
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO KICK-0FF A GLOBAL CREATIVE MOVEMENT?
from t.whid: Golly, that sounds fun!
Coca-Cola has asked us, Look-Look, to find the most creative thinkers and doers from all over the world to contribute original work to a new website. This collection of videos, animations, songs, photos, paintings, drawings, (and anything else you can dream up) will set the tone — and the benchmark — for a new generation of global creators. That’s why you’ve been handpicked for this invitation.
And it goes on to tell us we have a chance to win an iPod or something if we submit some music or art.
MTAA has always been interested in “setting the benchmark for a new generation of global creators.” I remember that just the other day, T.Whid and I sat around in some dim bar in Brooklyn yakin’ about how could we, as net-based performance and conceptual artists, voice the tone of our generation — even though, now in our mid 30s, we have probably passed the golden moment when each generation gets to self-define as a point of rebellion. At this point, a big dog (one of those pitbull mixes that I like and Tim thinks are ugly) walked into the bar and we lost our train of thought.
Anyhoo.
Although we are a bit busy right now and will not be able to make some new work for Coca-Cola (as loyal sons of Warhol, lord knows we would if given truck loads of cash), we can give you not a drawing or some music but an idea. It is an idea T.Whid and I have been kicking around. It might be the idea that “sets the tone for a new generation of global creators.” Here it is…
“Info-materialism” permanent link to this post
Jun 06, 2006
The club is open.
posted at 11:57 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
By the power of the web 2.0, MTAA’s
AIOTD - Walton becomes true.
The Aspiring Lee Walton Meme (thanks AFC)
Update: as soon as we get 100 members, we’re going to have a party for Lee. permanent link to this post
The Aspiring Lee Walton Meme (thanks AFC)
Update: as soon as we get 100 members, we’re going to have a party for Lee. permanent link to this post
Jun 01, 2006
AIOTD - Walton
posted at 17:02 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
We like Lee Walton’s art. We also like Lee Walton, as a human being and artist, in general. We’ve talked with Lee about doing an online performance in which our two homepages kinda blur for a day. As in, you’re looking at Lee’s homepage and MTAA walk onto it, look around and then walk off. We also thought about a space on the net between out home pages. It would be kinda like a lounge, a resting place away from the net.
We’ve never got around to doing a project with Lee. I hope we will. In the meanwhile, here is an AIOTD. MTAA’s Unofficial Lee Walton Artist Fan Club (ULWAFC). Send me (mriver@mteww.com) an email to join. permanent link to this post
We’ve never got around to doing a project with Lee. I hope we will. In the meanwhile, here is an AIOTD. MTAA’s Unofficial Lee Walton Artist Fan Club (ULWAFC). Send me (mriver@mteww.com) an email to join. permanent link to this post
Link-a. Policies of affectivity, aesthetics of biopower
posted at 12:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA’s Five Small Videos About Interruption and Disappearing
in a net group show: vinculo-a.net
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May 28, 2006
AIOTD 3’1”
posted at 19:44 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA’s “3 Feet High and Rising, Newark”
Artwork titled after De La Soul’s 1989 debut album which was titled after the Johnny Cash song “Five Feet High and Rising” (“How high’s the water, Mama?/It’s three feet high and rising”)
MTAA proposes to raise Aljira Center for Contemporary Art’s reception desk 3’1”
The rising of the desk (and chair) will be accomplished by a platform and steps made of salvaged wood from an unnamed New York art museum combined with material gathered from the streets of downtown Newark, New Jersey. permanent link to this post
Artwork titled after De La Soul’s 1989 debut album which was titled after the Johnny Cash song “Five Feet High and Rising” (“How high’s the water, Mama?/It’s three feet high and rising”)
MTAA proposes to raise Aljira Center for Contemporary Art’s reception desk 3’1”
The rising of the desk (and chair) will be accomplished by a platform and steps made of salvaged wood from an unnamed New York art museum combined with material gathered from the streets of downtown Newark, New Jersey. permanent link to this post
3’1”
posted at 19:17 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
The drawing for MTAA’s “3 Feet High and Rising, Newark”
Context: MTAA is getting ready to make the 3rd in a series of what we like to call “Reception Desk Mods”. We have walled in White Columns’ desk and caged 31 Grand’s. This July, we will raise Aljira Center For Contemporary Art in Newark’s desk by 3 feet 1 inch. More info to come soon. permanent link to this post
Context: MTAA is getting ready to make the 3rd in a series of what we like to call “Reception Desk Mods”. We have walled in White Columns’ desk and caged 31 Grand’s. This July, we will raise Aljira Center For Contemporary Art in Newark’s desk by 3 feet 1 inch. More info to come soon. permanent link to this post
May 23, 2006
Lee Walton in China (almost)
posted at 22:23 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“Instructed by email from Brooklyn, New York and locally executed by the
co-artist and curator in Shanghai, China, Western Shift consists of moving
objects towards the West.”
The resulting video Western Shift can be viewed by visiting the following site then clicking on WESTERN SHIFT permanent link to this post
The resulting video Western Shift can be viewed by visiting the following site then clicking on WESTERN SHIFT permanent link to this post
May 10, 2006
More Infinite Phil World Tour
posted at 19:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Hey, If you happen to find yourself in Viborg Denmark, This is Not A Magazine is showing MTAA’s Infinite Phil at Senko Studio.
Yeah, yeah…I know I could have put a bunch of links all over this post but I did not. Also, I think Phil now holds the MTAA record for most widely exhibited artwork. S.N.A.D comes in a close 2nd. permanent link to this post
Yeah, yeah…I know I could have put a bunch of links all over this post but I did not. Also, I think Phil now holds the MTAA record for most widely exhibited artwork. S.N.A.D comes in a close 2nd. permanent link to this post
What new on the 2bl2?
posted at 00:14 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Check out “Thrush Exile” It’s a 10 min. field recording from a creek in West Virginia. Perfect listening for late night emails.
permanent link to this post
May 06, 2006
Gina and Ronda and myspace
posted at 11:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA knows this very nice pop culture/art/music writer down in Florida named Gina Vivinetto. She also runs a gallery/ music space called Bombshell. Gina makes us laugh.
Also down in Florida is a women named Ronda Storms. She’s the Hillsborough County Commissioner. She successfully banned the county government from acknowledging gay pride “in any way, shape, or form.” She also got gay pamphlets out of the public Library. Ronda make us shake our heads and wonder how bigots get government jobs
Anyways, here is the sad story of how Gina got canned from her job for posting a snarky comment on myspace about Ronda.
TAMPA - A tbt* pop music critic resigned Thursday after acknowledging she had posted negative comments on a Myspace.com profile that parodied Hillsborough County Commissioner Ronda Storms.
The messages posted by Gina Vivinetto, a columnist for the free tabloid daily, which is published by the St. Petersburg Times, were “inappropriate,” Neil Brown, the Times’ executive editor and vice president, said late Thursday.
The comments, which Brown declined to describe in detail, were “mocking Ronda Storms in a somewhat sexual nature,” he said.
more from the st. pete times
Note you can go to Bombshell’s myspace site for Gina’s take on the story. Seems “mocking Ronda Storms in a somewhat sexual nature” is not as depraved as it sounds. I think she said posting something about Ronda leaving underwear in Bombshell’s bathroom. Yeah, it’s juvenile but not that depraved. permanent link to this post
Also down in Florida is a women named Ronda Storms. She’s the Hillsborough County Commissioner. She successfully banned the county government from acknowledging gay pride “in any way, shape, or form.” She also got gay pamphlets out of the public Library. Ronda make us shake our heads and wonder how bigots get government jobs
Anyways, here is the sad story of how Gina got canned from her job for posting a snarky comment on myspace about Ronda.
TAMPA - A tbt* pop music critic resigned Thursday after acknowledging she had posted negative comments on a Myspace.com profile that parodied Hillsborough County Commissioner Ronda Storms.
The messages posted by Gina Vivinetto, a columnist for the free tabloid daily, which is published by the St. Petersburg Times, were “inappropriate,” Neil Brown, the Times’ executive editor and vice president, said late Thursday.
The comments, which Brown declined to describe in detail, were “mocking Ronda Storms in a somewhat sexual nature,” he said.
more from the st. pete times
Note you can go to Bombshell’s myspace site for Gina’s take on the story. Seems “mocking Ronda Storms in a somewhat sexual nature” is not as depraved as it sounds. I think she said posting something about Ronda leaving underwear in Bombshell’s bathroom. Yeah, it’s juvenile but not that depraved. permanent link to this post
May 03, 2006
they still show art in Brooklyn (part 2)
posted at 14:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
May 01, 2006
Cary Peppermint & Christine Nadir, Practical Performances
posted at 15:10 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Chapters from the DVD “A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness
- Summer 2005” will be posted (three at a time) on DV Blog
starting May 1st.
“A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness, Summer 2005” is a video performance work made in the woods and on rural back-lots. Performative chapters on the DVD include, Move This Rock, Waiting On Bob, DoAble, Home Economics, Sticks Like Snakes, Digging for Chicory, and Springwater Finale. This video is the first in a series of forthcoming performance-art videos by Peppermint & Nadir which engage issues, ideas, and mythologies of the American concepts of wilderness, space, the frontier, and humans’ ethical relation to animals, forestlands, and nature. permanent link to this post
“A Series of Practical Performances In The Wilderness, Summer 2005” is a video performance work made in the woods and on rural back-lots. Performative chapters on the DVD include, Move This Rock, Waiting On Bob, DoAble, Home Economics, Sticks Like Snakes, Digging for Chicory, and Springwater Finale. This video is the first in a series of forthcoming performance-art videos by Peppermint & Nadir which engage issues, ideas, and mythologies of the American concepts of wilderness, space, the frontier, and humans’ ethical relation to animals, forestlands, and nature. permanent link to this post
Apr 29, 2006
March Today
posted at 12:04 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
It’s a wonderful spring day in NYC. Please join MTAA at today’s anti-war march.
info here
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Apr 27, 2006
AIOTD Newark
posted at 15:42 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
MTAA will be making a new site and /or performance based
artwork for a group show in downtown Newark New Jersey this July.
Newark? Yes, Newark.
Yes, we could use some help on this. If anyone has any bright ideas, feel free to email them in. Our self imposed production budget is around 100 bucks. So, think small. If you do send in an idea and we go for it, let’s call it collaboration. Here are some of my random thoughts on Newark so far. train ride. monorail, airport, swamp, throwing rocks at Manhattan, warehouse, museum, park, parking lot, kids, sea containers, goggle maps, helicopters, port, planetarium, perfume factories, abandon car,
Oh… and here is MTAA’s late “happy birthday” to the Port Newark born Containerized Shipping. CS turned the big five-0 yesterday. Congrats permanent link to this post
Newark? Yes, Newark.
Yes, we could use some help on this. If anyone has any bright ideas, feel free to email them in. Our self imposed production budget is around 100 bucks. So, think small. If you do send in an idea and we go for it, let’s call it collaboration. Here are some of my random thoughts on Newark so far. train ride. monorail, airport, swamp, throwing rocks at Manhattan, warehouse, museum, park, parking lot, kids, sea containers, goggle maps, helicopters, port, planetarium, perfume factories, abandon car,
Oh… and here is MTAA’s late “happy birthday” to the Port Newark born Containerized Shipping. CS turned the big five-0 yesterday. Congrats permanent link to this post
Apr 20, 2006
N. H. 5 D.!
posted at 18:19 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I’m beginning to think, that T.Whid thinks, that some of my posts (like the one yesterday) are a bit…vague. He might be right but here it is. MTAA High Five, T.Whid.
Brooklynvegan notes that it’s NATIONAL HIGH FIVE DAY
Also of note: Nintendo RBI Baseball video reenactment of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series permanent link to this post
Brooklynvegan notes that it’s NATIONAL HIGH FIVE DAY
Also of note: Nintendo RBI Baseball video reenactment of Game 6 of the 1986 World Series permanent link to this post
Apr 19, 2006
Triple Candie
posted at 13:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Cady Noland Approximately: Sculpture & Editions, 1984-1999
Cady Noland from a Google Images search
twhid update:
Tom Moody has more… permanent link to this post
Cady Noland from a Google Images search
twhid update:
Tom Moody has more… permanent link to this post
Apr 13, 2006
What’s new on the net?
posted at 15:18 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is a small gem from the MTAA-RR email bag.
Emo + vLoging + Ohio + a dog = the state of the net
MTAA Notes: It’s all in the Tags folks. permanent link to this post
Emo + vLoging + Ohio + a dog = the state of the net
MTAA Notes: It’s all in the Tags folks. permanent link to this post
Apr 12, 2006
Final 4
posted at 17:25 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I’ve been to blue to post about this but here it is.
“When the final buzzer sounded, the dejected-looking [MTAA] trotted off the floor, their magical ride at an ugly end.”
sniff.
Congrats to Instant Coffee permanent link to this post
“When the final buzzer sounded, the dejected-looking [MTAA] trotted off the floor, their magical ride at an ugly end.”
sniff.
Congrats to Instant Coffee permanent link to this post
WMD
posted at 15:38 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Apr 09, 2006
what’s playing on 2bl2?
posted at 13:20 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In my dream, ECC speaks to me of
Bjorkeley
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Apr 06, 2006
“Among the Trees”
posted at 12:56 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Lee Walton’s new work
“Trees”
opens this Friday at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
permanent link to this post
Apr 04, 2006
they still show art in Brooklyn…
posted at 13:07 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
If you find yourself in Brooklyn this weekend, check out the
Momenta benefit. I have a small painting named
“Locker” in the show. Last year,
”Softsoft” was pick up by
James and
Barry. So, you know that if you get “Locker” for your collection, you will be in high class company.
Also in Brooklyn this weekend, the answer to the age old question - “Can appropriation, at the core, be a subset fan art?”
The Matthew Barney Show curated by Eric Doeringer permanent link to this post
Also in Brooklyn this weekend, the answer to the age old question - “Can appropriation, at the core, be a subset fan art?”
The Matthew Barney Show curated by Eric Doeringer permanent link to this post
RU READY TO ROCK? I said…RU READY?
posted at 00:10 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
OK…(actually, this post will NOT rock, but here it anyways…
To Be Listened To…(2bl2) is now open for you to enjoy and activate. Big thanks to the artist who supplied 2bl2 with “seed” work to get things going. Please feel free to jump in and add some sound.
To Be Listened To… (2bl2 for short) is an open relay for sound art, audio blogs, mashups, re-mixes, dance mixes or any other sort of experimental audio. 2bl2 is comprised of 10 thematic podcast feeds with 8 open feeds to which anyone may post an audio file. Each feed’s name, along with the original ‘seed’ post, sets its tone.
1. …as you sit in front of your computer around midnight (prologue). By MTAA
2. …in a bar in Brooklyn on a spring Sunday afternoon, sipping a Bloody Mary, waiting for your love to appear. - with seed project “Troy’s (Non)Mixtape of Love” by Marisa Olson
3. …with eyes closed in a theater before a movie starring Brando begins. - with seed project “Cushing’s Disease” by Helen and Ben
4. …as you commute to the job you are thinking of leaving once again. - with seed project “DJ Hump” by Frankie Martin
5. …before calling 911 while waiting for something outside to stop fucking screaming. - with seed project “coma loveship” by : Pee In My Face With Surgery
6. …while sitting on your kitchen floor holding a photograph of your father. - with seed project “What Kind of Information? “by Cary Peppermint
7. …in a park in Europe as you wait for the sun to rise and the snow to stop. - with seed project “Did It Again “ by G.H. Hovagimyan
8. …in a hotel near the Everglades while having sex in the afternoon. - with seed project “Everglade” by Messages [Taketo Shimada + Tres Warren (Psychic Ills)]
9. …while running, but not running as in jogging, running as in blindly racing though the streets without direction or goal. - with seed project “Running” by tinydiva (Margaret Jameson Composer, Performer and Producer. Add’l Guitars by Thomas Jameson)
10. …as you fall asleep in the bed in the place that you call home (epilogue). by MTAA
So, have fun. Sit in bed with your headphones on. Make some noise. Interact. Thanks. permanent link to this post
To Be Listened To…(2bl2) is now open for you to enjoy and activate. Big thanks to the artist who supplied 2bl2 with “seed” work to get things going. Please feel free to jump in and add some sound.
To Be Listened To… (2bl2 for short) is an open relay for sound art, audio blogs, mashups, re-mixes, dance mixes or any other sort of experimental audio. 2bl2 is comprised of 10 thematic podcast feeds with 8 open feeds to which anyone may post an audio file. Each feed’s name, along with the original ‘seed’ post, sets its tone.
1. …as you sit in front of your computer around midnight (prologue). By MTAA
2. …in a bar in Brooklyn on a spring Sunday afternoon, sipping a Bloody Mary, waiting for your love to appear. - with seed project “Troy’s (Non)Mixtape of Love” by Marisa Olson
3. …with eyes closed in a theater before a movie starring Brando begins. - with seed project “Cushing’s Disease” by Helen and Ben
4. …as you commute to the job you are thinking of leaving once again. - with seed project “DJ Hump” by Frankie Martin
5. …before calling 911 while waiting for something outside to stop fucking screaming. - with seed project “coma loveship” by : Pee In My Face With Surgery
6. …while sitting on your kitchen floor holding a photograph of your father. - with seed project “What Kind of Information? “by Cary Peppermint
7. …in a park in Europe as you wait for the sun to rise and the snow to stop. - with seed project “Did It Again “ by G.H. Hovagimyan
8. …in a hotel near the Everglades while having sex in the afternoon. - with seed project “Everglade” by Messages [Taketo Shimada + Tres Warren (Psychic Ills)]
9. …while running, but not running as in jogging, running as in blindly racing though the streets without direction or goal. - with seed project “Running” by tinydiva (Margaret Jameson Composer, Performer and Producer. Add’l Guitars by Thomas Jameson)
10. …as you fall asleep in the bed in the place that you call home (epilogue). by MTAA
So, have fun. Sit in bed with your headphones on. Make some noise. Interact. Thanks. permanent link to this post
Apr 03, 2006
found art on the MTAA-RR?
posted at 14:16 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
I was just looking at the MTAA-RR Archive and noticed something strange. It seems as though we have been either 1. hacked or 2. we’ve unknowingly created some weird results when we moved the blog a few months back. Tim’s away till Monday, so we’ll have to wait on the answer for the time being.
Until then, check the new found MTAA-RR archive for the year 1970. Note: what sucks about this is that we do not have a working archive for the site at this point. permanent link to this post
Until then, check the new found MTAA-RR archive for the year 1970. Note: what sucks about this is that we do not have a working archive for the site at this point. permanent link to this post
Apr 01, 2006
tintype
posted at 13:15 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
dvd still project 06
One jpeg from each dvd I rent and watch by myself in 2006. Jpeg is shot without pausing the dvd. permanent link to this post
One jpeg from each dvd I rent and watch by myself in 2006. Jpeg is shot without pausing the dvd. permanent link to this post
Mar 28, 2006
MTAA at the big dance…
posted at 12:36 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Update on Collaborative March Madness
Concept Trucking / Leisurearts just wrote to say -
“MTAA has made the final four as a number 11 seed! Your success was modeled/is hitched on George Mason University’s in the NCAA tourney. I will be posting an updated bracket soon! Guess you better start rooting for the Patriots to win it all.”
twhid adds:
I have had zero (or, more likely, negative) interest in this so-called March madness… until now! Go George Mason!
(more update)
The chart is updated. Check it out… permanent link to this post
Concept Trucking / Leisurearts just wrote to say -
“MTAA has made the final four as a number 11 seed! Your success was modeled/is hitched on George Mason University’s in the NCAA tourney. I will be posting an updated bracket soon! Guess you better start rooting for the Patriots to win it all.”
twhid adds:
I have had zero (or, more likely, negative) interest in this so-called March madness… until now! Go George Mason!
(more update)
The chart is updated. Check it out… permanent link to this post
Mar 20, 2006
first round
posted at 01:34 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
just got an email that MTAA is in some sort of March Madness
permanent link to this post
Mar 15, 2006
net art prints…
posted at 13:45 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Mar 14, 2006
IOTD - Website Visitations
posted at 13:47 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
While packing up the Rhizome show at Scope, Lee Walton told me his cool idea for a MTAA / Walton net art project. The idea is to somehow blur the lines between the websites for a day. Not linking the sites but blending them a bit. He described it as akin to the 5 Small Videos “On/Off” project but on other artist homepages. I liked the idea of avatars for MTAA and an avatar Walton wondering around each others pages or just walking off together to get a beer.
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Mar 04, 2006
SNAD readme for March 2006
posted at 14:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
In March you will be able to go the Scope Art Fair in NYC and buy a
16” x 20” framed print of MTAA’s Simple Net Art Diagram (SNAD) for
625 USD. The weird part is that you could, at this very moment, download
the SNAD digital graphic file from this site, blow it up into a 16” x 20” graphics file using any number of popular graphics editing programs, take it to a printer and then to a frame shop and have the exact same thing that we’re selling. This process will cost you less than 625 USD (it would run you under $250, depending on your choice of frame of course, we suggest something heavily and deeply carved with lots of gold leaf).
Actually, that’s exactly how we created the print we’re selling. M.River downloaded the Illustrator version from the web, imported it into a 16” x 20” Photoshop document, scaled it to fit comfortably in the frame of reference and then sent it off to a digital output joint.
So. What’s the deal?
First, the SNAD is free. Yes, thanks to a generous Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, you can do with it as you will. Which naturally leads to this question: If it’s free, what are you buying for 625 bucks?
The answer: Production.
Yes, that’s right. You will be paying for the cost, time, and expertise of having MTAA make the work for you. As the production was done by a member of MTAA, the work may be thought of as an “Official Production SNAD” or, more obtusely, an “OP-SNAD.” However, it’s completely legal and even encouraged for others to print their own SNADs and sell them. If you buy a SNAD print from someone other than a member of MTAA you will have an “Entrepreneurial Production SNAD (AKA EP-SNAD). If you print it yourself, you will have a “DIY Production SNAD (AKA DIY-P-SNAD)”. For us, EP-SNADs or DIY-P-SNADs are both nice choices for your home, office, gallery or museum. Although, if you’re short on time, have the money and can actually find one, an OP-SNAD is the way to go.
If you happen to buy a 16” x 20” OP-SNAD, what will keep MTAA from making more? The short answer is “nothing,” but there are some reasons that we probably won’t:
1. We’re lazy.
2. We tend not to repeat ourselves. Sure, someday we might make a 48” x 60” on canvas OP-SNAD or maybe a 32” x 40” light box OP-SNAD, but chances are you will be the only one in the world with a 16” x 20” OP-SNAD from 2006.
Get it? Got it? Good.
(Note, this is a rare post that was written by both members of MTAA. The first draft, by M.River, was edited by T.Whid for this final version. It should probably go in the Texts part of this web site, but it seems too time-relative to belong there.) permanent link to this post
Actually, that’s exactly how we created the print we’re selling. M.River downloaded the Illustrator version from the web, imported it into a 16” x 20” Photoshop document, scaled it to fit comfortably in the frame of reference and then sent it off to a digital output joint.
So. What’s the deal?
First, the SNAD is free. Yes, thanks to a generous Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, you can do with it as you will. Which naturally leads to this question: If it’s free, what are you buying for 625 bucks?
The answer: Production.
Yes, that’s right. You will be paying for the cost, time, and expertise of having MTAA make the work for you. As the production was done by a member of MTAA, the work may be thought of as an “Official Production SNAD” or, more obtusely, an “OP-SNAD.” However, it’s completely legal and even encouraged for others to print their own SNADs and sell them. If you buy a SNAD print from someone other than a member of MTAA you will have an “Entrepreneurial Production SNAD (AKA EP-SNAD). If you print it yourself, you will have a “DIY Production SNAD (AKA DIY-P-SNAD)”. For us, EP-SNADs or DIY-P-SNADs are both nice choices for your home, office, gallery or museum. Although, if you’re short on time, have the money and can actually find one, an OP-SNAD is the way to go.
If you happen to buy a 16” x 20” OP-SNAD, what will keep MTAA from making more? The short answer is “nothing,” but there are some reasons that we probably won’t:
1. We’re lazy.
2. We tend not to repeat ourselves. Sure, someday we might make a 48” x 60” on canvas OP-SNAD or maybe a 32” x 40” light box OP-SNAD, but chances are you will be the only one in the world with a 16” x 20” OP-SNAD from 2006.
Get it? Got it? Good.
(Note, this is a rare post that was written by both members of MTAA. The first draft, by M.River, was edited by T.Whid for this final version. It should probably go in the Texts part of this web site, but it seems too time-relative to belong there.) permanent link to this post
Feb 23, 2006
new media, the low points
posted at 20:33 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
hahahhahahh… remember flash mobs? haaaaa ahaha.
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Feb 16, 2006
Found Art
posted at 13:29 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Feb 12, 2006
Damn.
posted at 16:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Even my breakfast has a blog.
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Help a pal out.
posted at 16:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Here is a note from a MTAA “pal”. Feel free to post your cultural highs and lows here. here.
Hey Kids:
I’m writing a story on the 2004 Year in Entertainment, and I’m looking for some input.
The year opens with Janet Jackson’s boob, so you kinda get the idea of how the rest of the story’s gonna go. If anything else sticks in your mind or made a big impression on you this year, TV, movie, music, celebrity break-up, procreation, accidentally released porn tape, etc., please advise. You know, stuff like Britney getting married, Pixies touring, Ashlee screwing up, blah blah blah permanent link to this post
Hey Kids:
I’m writing a story on the 2004 Year in Entertainment, and I’m looking for some input.
The year opens with Janet Jackson’s boob, so you kinda get the idea of how the rest of the story’s gonna go. If anything else sticks in your mind or made a big impression on you this year, TV, movie, music, celebrity break-up, procreation, accidentally released porn tape, etc., please advise. You know, stuff like Britney getting married, Pixies touring, Ashlee screwing up, blah blah blah permanent link to this post
Yikes!
posted at 16:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
and now the possibility arises for pure conceptual art?
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wish I had seen this show…
posted at 16:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
“…they also totally rock as musicians. repeated this phrase twice, in one short paragraph - cause its damn straight true.” artloversnewyork on Paper Rad’s performance at EAI
btw - if you ever get the feeling that NY has another art world, one that you would like to know about but you can not find, check around artloversnewyork site. (and they link to the MTAA-RR…thanks!) permanent link to this post
btw - if you ever get the feeling that NY has another art world, one that you would like to know about but you can not find, check around artloversnewyork site. (and they link to the MTAA-RR…thanks!) permanent link to this post
Year 4703 or 2 depending on who is counting
posted at 16:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
An early post because I know that I will forget - Not only is next Wednesday (Feb 9) the beginning of the year of the Rooster, I believe it will also be the two year anniversary of the mtaa-RR.
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snow snow snow…
posted at 16:37 GMT by M.River in /news/mriver
Well, it’s winter in New York and I’m bored. Yes, bored. I know it’s boring to complain about being bored but that’s all I got right now. Just to underline all of this, here is my luch-time list of 10 things that can be made of snow as art. If you make any of these snow sculptures, send me a jpeg.
1. an inside out igloo
2. smoke stack with smoke
3. an icebox
4. Netscape 4.7
5. 100 white bunnies, dancing
6. Enron,on fire
7. life size garden gnome
8. one ream of paper
9. New York Times, Sunday edition
10. one quart of vanilla ice cream permanent link to this post
1. an inside out igloo
2. smoke stack with smoke
3. an icebox
4. Netscape 4.7
5. 100 white bunnies, dancing
6. Enron,on fire
7. life size garden gnome
8. one ream of paper
9. New York Times, Sunday edition
10. one quart of vanilla ice cream permanent link to this post
Secret art project
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Hey. Check it. This is my wireless new media ready made that I sneaked into the latest show at Eyebeam ! Shhhhhhhhh….
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unreadable at any speed
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T.Whid and I received a rough draft of an interview we did for an online art/ culture magazine. It’s a good interview and we had fun doing it. We will post all the details when it is live.
The reason I’m posting about receiving the rough draft is this – After reading the rough draft, I realized that I feel sorry for anyone who has to translate what I say from audio tape or proof read what I write. When I write, as you probably know if you read the mtaaRR, I have terrible spelling and grammar. On top of that, I couch sentences inside of sentences. It’s just my style or lack there of. When I speak – as some of you I‘m generally passive in conversation…lots of pointing and grunting - I ramble on like Abe Simpson. This is fine for me and T.Whid seems to get what I’m saying – but I fell bad for anyone else who has to deal with it. What do they call it? Adult ADD? Here is a fine example from the interview.
“These web pages had this quasi-porn look to them -at least that’s what we were shooting for, but as you kinda dig though the piece a little more and you investigate pass the visual part of the piece, you realize that these little web pages, these fake web pages, are basically pages that we built to kinda have the look “about us”.”
Note: Hey look. It’s a narcissistic post with a narcissistic self quote. Sad. permanent link to this post
The reason I’m posting about receiving the rough draft is this – After reading the rough draft, I realized that I feel sorry for anyone who has to translate what I say from audio tape or proof read what I write. When I write, as you probably know if you read the mtaaRR, I have terrible spelling and grammar. On top of that, I couch sentences inside of sentences. It’s just my style or lack there of. When I speak – as some of you I‘m generally passive in conversation…lots of pointing and grunting - I ramble on like Abe Simpson. This is fine for me and T.Whid seems to get what I’m saying – but I fell bad for anyone else who has to deal with it. What do they call it? Adult ADD? Here is a fine example from the interview.
“These web pages had this quasi-porn look to them -at least that’s what we were shooting for, but as you kinda dig though the piece a little more and you investigate pass the visual part of the piece, you realize that these little web pages, these fake web pages, are basically pages that we built to kinda have the look “about us”.”
Note: Hey look. It’s a narcissistic post with a narcissistic self quote. Sad. permanent link to this post
why we need mac mini
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This
is a shot of sculpture we are working on for 1YPV. It joins all the materials in the performance into a projection tower. I’ll post some more photos as we work on it.
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What’s up with Frank The Snowman?
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At midnight on Saturday, T.Whid and I walked into Superior Deli near our studio in Brooklyn with a video camera and a debit card. For the next 18 minutes we wandered the aisles making odd sculptural design decisions like, “Do we need a bag of charcoal?” or “Tall boys?” After hauling the goods back to the studio in the cold night air like a pair of over-sized, black-cloaked elves; we knew what we had to do: drink beer and build a snowman. Somewhere in the night, we named him after our favorite architect, Frank (who, as a hockey lovin’ Canadian, might enjoy the thought that two artists named a sculptural snowman made from newspapers, hot glue and crumpled tinfoil after him).
After finishing Frank, we walked out of the studio to the 3am surprise of winter’s first snowfall. Brooklyn’s empty streets never looked better. So, please stop by Artist Space on Dec 13-17 and say “hi” to Frank. We believe he has the power to grant your winter wishes. permanent link to this post
After finishing Frank, we walked out of the studio to the 3am surprise of winter’s first snowfall. Brooklyn’s empty streets never looked better. So, please stop by Artist Space on Dec 13-17 and say “hi” to Frank. We believe he has the power to grant your winter wishes. permanent link to this post
What to do late Saturday night or early Sunday morning?
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I’m thinking about checking the
24 Hour Incidental
at the Swiss Institute.
Fav work from the website? I hope to see Jason Dodge’s Kristin Larson has been to the South Pole
“Jason Dodge will utilize the open structure of the event by inviting Kristin Larson, who has explored the South Pole, to visit anonymously at any time, for any amount of time.”
This show is part of Performa 05. Roberta Smith gives an overview of Performa in the Friday NYT
Performance Art Gets Its Biennial
MTAA will be part of the Performa show at Artist Space in December. More details soon. Very soon. permanent link to this post
Fav work from the website? I hope to see Jason Dodge’s Kristin Larson has been to the South Pole
“Jason Dodge will utilize the open structure of the event by inviting Kristin Larson, who has explored the South Pole, to visit anonymously at any time, for any amount of time.”
This show is part of Performa 05. Roberta Smith gives an overview of Performa in the Friday NYT
Performance Art Gets Its Biennial
MTAA will be part of the Performa show at Artist Space in December. More details soon. Very soon. permanent link to this post
What’s the deal with your blog?
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Tim, CJ and I, as we walked away from a panel talk on blogs and criticism, chatted a bit about the MTAA-RR. Basically, how do we use it?
Although the subject and tone of our posts change over time, the MTAA-RR mainly functions as an open notebook and studio. Some posts are about work, some about our lives and some about the world around us.
The RR also works as an intersection for conversations Tim and I have. Sometimes what I post comes down to passing information to Tim or responding to something we talked about. It’s a good way to track ideas as they bounce between us. Tim tends to place more personal beliefs and life out here and I tend to stand off. The result is the same. What do we want to record? What do we want to transmit?
The odd question, for me, was when CJ asked how Tintype (my other blog) works. I think I made some vauge answer about it being “photos that I like”. I may have said something lame like - “it’s not really for people to look at”. Which, if thought about, makes no sense. The thing is I’m a bit more selective about posting on Tintype than I am on the MTAA-RR. Photos have to be a certain type of subject shot in a certain way. What my “certains” are, I am not certain but the rate is about 10 or 20 to 1. Even with being systematic in choice, the overall Tintype look translates as random. Here are a bunch of pictures someone likes. Here are some dogs, here are some wings, here is some guy wondering around. permanent link to this post
Although the subject and tone of our posts change over time, the MTAA-RR mainly functions as an open notebook and studio. Some posts are about work, some about our lives and some about the world around us.
The RR also works as an intersection for conversations Tim and I have. Sometimes what I post comes down to passing information to Tim or responding to something we talked about. It’s a good way to track ideas as they bounce between us. Tim tends to place more personal beliefs and life out here and I tend to stand off. The result is the same. What do we want to record? What do we want to transmit?
The odd question, for me, was when CJ asked how Tintype (my other blog) works. I think I made some vauge answer about it being “photos that I like”. I may have said something lame like - “it’s not really for people to look at”. Which, if thought about, makes no sense. The thing is I’m a bit more selective about posting on Tintype than I am on the MTAA-RR. Photos have to be a certain type of subject shot in a certain way. What my “certains” are, I am not certain but the rate is about 10 or 20 to 1. Even with being systematic in choice, the overall Tintype look translates as random. Here are a bunch of pictures someone likes. Here are some dogs, here are some wings, here is some guy wondering around. permanent link to this post
more on the WF-RSS-S
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During a conversation about Blogs over on Rhizome Raw list, the possibility that everyone will stop placing new material on the net and just repost what’s already online came up. This was in response to Re-Blog. Twhid thought this was funny. So, he posted my AIOTD (02-14-04) World’s First RSS Sculpture
Geert Dekkers then shared his idea of what the WF-RSS-S might look like. “Drawing no. 780, Thursday July 08, 2004.”
Now, if I can only get this Re-blogged. permanent link to this post
Geert Dekkers then shared his idea of what the WF-RSS-S might look like. “Drawing no. 780, Thursday July 08, 2004.”
Now, if I can only get this Re-blogged. permanent link to this post
The Overlook