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Last night I went out to see the Doug Aitken projections at MoMA.
They are brilliant. The sculpture garden's side entrances on 53rd
street are open in the evening for the month of the exhibition. My
wife commented that the use of media stars such as Donald Sutherland
didn't add anything. Go see this piece. It's major and a breakthrough.

I also went downtown to another exhibition opening at Bryce Wolkowitz
gallery,
601 west 26th. The show has projection pieces that are portraits. My
faves are MTAA and Julian Opie. MTAA have side by side portraits
of them blinking. Opie has his stick figure profile of a women
walking with a leather dress. The bracket of the high production
values of Aitken's projection and the intimacy of the downtown
gallery show is worth exploring.

Both Art Dirt Redux <http://spaghetti.nujus.net/artDirt> and RANTAPOD
<http://spaghetti.nujus.net/rantapod> have been accepted for the 20th
annual Stuttgard Filmwinter Festival for expanded Media. Which is
going on right now.

Frank Popper's book, From Technological to Virtual Art has been
published, <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?
ttype=2&tid448>. This is due in part to Joseph Nechvatal's working
with Popper to organize the material and make it happen. Joseph
Nechvatal also has a terrific interview with Popper that is well
worth reading <http://post.thing.net/node/264>. I'm pleased to say
that my work has been included in this book.