Looking around the tiny art blogosphere (James Wagner, Tom Moody) it looks like Paperrad and Matt Barton’s piece, extreme animalz: the movie: part 1, was the hit of the show. Well, it was pretty obvious at the opening that it was the hit of the show. It’s a great piece and funny too.

M.River has some photos up. M.River and me in front of 1YPV, 1YPV, Paperrad and more Paperrad.

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It’s usually pretty hard to tell how one’s own piece was received. We had a pretty good spot and a very large display to show our piece and I couldn’t have been happier with how it was installed (thanks again to the crew).

But a gallery isn’t the best place to have this piece shown. It was really conceived for the web and the gallery versions would need a very committed gallery to be shown correctly. What is the correct way to show 1YPV (gallery version)? It needs to be installed for a year and it needs to be accessible to the public 24/7. Does anyone know any galleries that want to give themselves over to MTAA for a year?

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The opening was fun; saw lots of people, etc, etc.

Artists generally hate openings that they’re in (many hate them entirely). I had only one person asking annoying questions this time. He kept asking them even though I was trying to pay attention to someone else whom I actually wanted to talk to. The (I’ll call it a) conversation ended something like this:

annoying guy: “So it’s not that complex?”

me: “No, it’s not complex at all.” permanent link to this post