During the celebration 0f SL5B, nitwacket will be filming machinimas of visitors and posting them to a site on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/Nitwacket
Inside the "camera" (walk through the lense) - the floor and wall animations change with "Touch".
HD copies of our current Machinimas can be seen at Vimeo -
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If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever
Vanessa Albury, Tanyth Berkeley & Todd Chandler, Tammy Rae Carland, Patricia Cronin, Amrita Das, Leela Devi, Rob Hauschild, Paa Joe, Joss paper effigies, Roy Kortick, Lisa Ross, Victorian hair wreaths, Marc Swanson & Joe Mama-Nitzberg Curated by Becky Smith
July 10th to August 8th, 2008 Opening Reception Thursday, July 10th, 6-8 PM
If Love Could Have Saved You, You Would Have Lived Forever is an exhibition of art and objects that reference the aesthetics, material culture, and traditional gestures surrounding death and remembrance.
On view is Vanessa Albury’s Funeral (Projection), in which a darkened room is filled with a single-slide projection of a still image taken by Albury at her grandmother’s funeral. Tanyth Berkeley and Todd Chandler will present a video made in memory of their friend Brad Will, an anarchist and documentary filmmaker who was shot and killed during a teacher’s strike in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2006.
Tammy Rae Carland has photographed a range of idiosyncratic items taken from her childhood home after the death of her mother, creating a poignant portrait through quotidian objects. Patricia Cronin will exhibit a bronze sculpture from her Memorial to a Marriage Series, in which she created a grave marker for the Woodlawn Cemetery plot she has reserved for herself and her partner Deborah Kass.
Ghanaian fantasy coffins are constructed in shapes that reflect the lives, careers, and aspirations of their inhabitants – cocoa beans, pineapples, airplanes, boats, and Bibles are common forms. We are pleased to present a coffin replica of a slave castle by Paa Joe, the foremost maker of figural coffins. The anonymous nature of mourning will be addressed through disposable-camera snapshots of impromptu roadside memorials, taken and collected by Rob Hauschild.
Joss paper effigies are burned at Chinese Taoist funerals as a way of sending gifts and comforts to loved ones who have crossed over to the spirit realm. This age-old tradition has become heavily influenced by Western pop culture, creating a new market for paper replicas of luxury objects like LV wallets, Rolex watches, credit cards, sneakers, and beer. Rob Hauschild and Becky Smith accumulated this collection for a forthcoming book, Funny to Burn.
Roy Kortick, an artist working in ceramic and mixed media, has made a memorial for his beloved dogs K and Sammy, which also addresses the communal trauma of living in New York during 9/11. Paintings by Leela Devi and Amrita Das, from the Mithila region of Southern Nepal/Northern India, will be exhibited in New York for the first time. The paintings depict the devastating effects of the tsunami in Sri Lanka, and a long-distance tribute to the victims of 9/11. Lisa Ross photographs the adorned burial mounds of the Uyghur people from the Xinjiang area of Western China, a tradition of ornamenting twigs and branches in the desert to venerate local saints and mystics.
Victorian hair wreaths, a memento mori tradition that became popular after the death of Queen Victoria’s husband Prince Albert, makes use of the hair of a loved one to create intricately woven floral tableaus. Marc Swanson and Joe Mama-Nitzberg have collaborated on a series of photographs of floral arrangements designed in memory of gay icons Darby Crash, Anna Nicole Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Halston.
Finally, Becky Smith will exhibit her personal collection of photographs of blank grave markers, which are used to sell headstones – a macabre reminder of the inevitability of everyone’s future demise.
http://www.bellwethergallery.com/
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"Italian Hacktivism: Theory, Practice and History
By Bruce Sterling
(((Certain people may be tragically unaware that Italian hacktivism *has* a theory, practice and history, so they should pore over this extensive testament by Alessandro Ludovico, who was definitely there from the get-go.)))
Paper and Pixels in Love:
An Email Interview with Alessandro Ludovico
By Michael Dieter and Nicole Heber"
Italian Hacktivism: Theory, Practice and History | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
"Lyon is the first city in France to become a member of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network. It is also the first city to be appointed as « City of Media Arts ». The nomination was decided and announced by Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of the Organization."
UNESCO: LYON APPOINTED FIRST 'CITY OF MEDIA ARTS' OF UNESCO'S CREATIVE CITIES' NETWORK: 03/07/2008 (MaximsNews Network):
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IAB Seminar 2008
"IAB Seminar è l'evento annuale tipicamente dedicato ad affrontare tematiche specifiche, discipline "verticali" e "best practice" relative al mondo della comunicazione interattiva che, per questa edizione, sarà incentrato sulla "Misurabilità delle performance della comunicazione online e su mobile device"."
"The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (CAC) wants you to see toilet paper rolls and gummy bears in a new way.
Those are just two of the unique materials employed by thirteen artists in “Transformed,” a group exhibition of two-dimensional, sculptural, installation and video art. Commonplace objects including fishing line, chairs, toothpicks and light bulbs have been manipulated, re-appropriated and elevated to the status of fine art.
“These materials are frequently relied upon for utilitarian purposes,” said CAC associate curator Natalie Bray. “The works in ‘Transformed’ investigate the physical potential of mundane and familiar items to become art objects that transcend their former roles in everyday life.”
“Transformed” features works by:
Matt Calderwood | YaYa Chou | Tim DeVoe | Tara Donovan | Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Tom Friedman Robert Lazzarini | Steven Siegel | Yuken Teruya | Shirley Tse | Fischli & Weiss | Rachel Perry Welty"
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Video Art Screening
Thursday 3 July 2008, 8 pm – 9:30 pm
Rawabet Theatre (next to the Factory Space of the Townhouse Gallery)
3, Hussein Al Me'mar Pasha St., Off Mahmoud Bassiouny St., Downtown, Cairo
Townhouse Gallery is pleased to invite you to the Video Art Screening that will feature the works of 15 participants of the 3-week Video Art Workshop led by artist Ahmed El Shaer; this will be followed by a video screening curated by Ozge Ersoy.
Since its emergence in the early 1960s, video art has evolved into a distinctive artistic medium, pursuing a significant dialogue with mass culture, narrative storytelling and alternative social and political discourses. Using electronic moving images that have increasingly widespread in our daily lives, video art is very much a medium of today. It is precisely these new strategies and forms of image making that the Townhouse’s First Video Art Workshop, led by Ahmed El Shaer, aimed to focus on and open up a platform for their potentials.
Workshop participants are: Abdulrahim Abdukarim, Amado Al Fadni, Arwa Saleh, Bahar Eddin Adam, Enas El Sadiek, Holie Henry, Mariam Yassin Mekiwi, Mina Noshy, Mohammed Ala’, Omar Awaad, Samar Hassab Allah Qassim, Chadi A. Salama, Shahinez Niaze, Taieb ben Dhaou Ksi Ksi and Yara Rabya Mohamed
Townhouse Gallery - Cairo
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