public.exe: Public Execution this week- June 14-20

What’s Happening This Week

For more information about the exhibition and to view the on-line works: http://www.exitart.org/public.exe

Tuesday, June 15, 6.30-8pm
Panel Discussion
public.exe: Redefinition of Public in Relationship to Artistic Practice and the Institution
Moderated by Michele Thursz, co-curator of public.exe: Public Execution
Participants: Yucef Merhi, Serkan Ozkaya, and Ricardo Dominquez, artists included in the exhibition


Wednesday, June 16, 11am-2pm
Walking Tour
Ricardo Miranda Zuniga
Public Broadcast Cart
Meeting point: Exit Art
Final location: Nikola Tesla Corner, 40th Street and 6th Avenue at Bryant Park

Public Broadcast Cart is a shopping cart outfitted with a dynamic microphone, a mixer, an amplifier, six speakers, a mini-FM transmitter, and a laptop with a wireless card. The audio captured by the microphone on the cart is fed through the mixer to three different broadcast sources. The laptop sends the audio to the thing.net's server from which the audio is broadcast on line at http://radio.thing.net. The Public Broadcast Cart is designed to enable any pedestrian to become an active producer of a radio broadcast. The cart reverses the usual role of the public from audience to producer of a radio broadcast and online content.
For more information: http://www.volume71.com/


Saturday, June 19, 2pm
Walking Tour
Brendan and Patrick FitzGerald
Privately Owned Public Spaces
Meeting point: Starbucks at 325 West 49th Street between 8th/9th Avenues
Brendan and Patrick FitzGerald will perform walking tours of the neighborhood north of Exit Art in which they discuss New York City zoning laws intended to provide public space within privately owned developments and how/why the building owners often ignore them entirely. In creating Privately-Owned Public Spaces walking tours, the FitzGeralds’ were inspired by their research into the development laws in New York City and their discovery of the complex relationship between what is considered to be public and private space.
For more information: http://walkingtoursnyc.com/


Always on view at Exit Art:
On plasma screen at entrance
Siebren Versteeg
Dynamic Ribbon Device, 2003

Internet connected computer program that formats a live scrolling news feed from the Associated Press

In window along 36th Street
Serkan Ozkaya
What an art gallery should actually look like (large glass), 2004
approximately 15,000 slides

On computer near turnstile:
xurban.net
Siegecraft, 2004
website

In cafe above mirror:
Kelley Walker
Untitled, 2004
poster

Distributed materials

Elena Bajo & Warren Neidich
Silent: A State of Being, 2004
brochure/poster

Beth Coleman & Howard Goldkrand
Site Expansion, 2004
chrome-plated sticker

Paper Rad
Tux Dog 2004, 2004
newspaper

Kelley Walker
Untitled, 2004
CD with poster project

Maciej Wisniewski & Tamas Banovich
Netomat, 1999-2004
CD with software for alternate browser