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"Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium" on Friday

Ceci Moss | Wed Feb 17th, 2010 10:01 a.m.

Join us this Friday, February 19th, at 7pm in the New Museum's theater for the next New Silent Series event, Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium.

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that explores how the Web informs the experience of reading literature and viewing artworks. The publication’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The New Silent event, The Medium Was Tedium, examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff.

Friday, February 19, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
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Reminder

Rhizome | Wed Feb 10th, 2010 11 a.m.

Join us at the New Museum next Friday, February 19th, at 7pm for the New Silent Series event Triple Canopy: The Medium Was Tedium.

Triple Canopy is an online magazine that explores how the Web informs the experience of reading literature and viewing artworks. The publication’s development has been inspired in part by a critical engagement with the legacy of Aspen magazine (1965-71). Artists and writers contributed projects to Aspen in the form of easily distributable media such as flip books, flexi-disc records, and paper sculpture. These projects coincided with a broader contemporaneous phenomenon: artworks intended to appear exclusively in magazines. The New Silent event, The Medium Was Tedium, examines how this move from the exhibition space to the printed page has been subsequently repeated by artists in relation to other media, such as television programming and the Internet. Triple Canopy’s editors will discuss practices that traverse mediums and the media with artists Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, and Erin Shirreff.

Friday, February 19, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
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Reminder

Rhizome | Thu Jan 14th, 2010 9:56 a.m.

We hope that you can join us for two Rhizome-sponsored events at the New Museum tonight and tomorrow. Details below.

Rhizome Commissions 2010

Each year, Rhizome awards grants to eleven emerging artists for the creation of original works of new media art. Established in 2001, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded sixty-four grants throughout its history to projects that have gone on to have a great impact in the field of contemporary art. At this event, select artists from the most recent commissioning round will present and discuss their works in progress.

Participating artists: Maria Carmen del Montoya and Kevin Patton, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay and Angelo Plessas

Thursday January 14th, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
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Cinema Fury: A New Performance by Caden Manson / Big Art Group

Rhizome presents Cinema Fury, an action-media performance created by Caden Manson / Big Art Group. Organized by Nick Hallett, Cinema Fury will be an immersive installation and a participatory performance that is designed to bring the audience into the action.

In Cinema Fury, Big Art Group will explore the idea of corruption in the information age, and the chaotic possibilities that arise through errors, glitches, and interruptions within digital transmissions. By reinterpreting models of data transmission and decomposition as performance strategies, Cinema Fury opens new interpretive pathways to understanding the process of contemporary “media-ization.” Concepts of transmogrification, both of the folkloric and post-digital varieties, recur throughout. Big Art Group will draw on material from two upcoming major productions: Flesh Tone (2010) and No Show (2011).

Friday January 15th, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$10 Members/ $12 General Public
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Upcoming Event

Rhizome | Fri Jan 8th, 2010 1:30 p.m.

Rhizome presents Cinema Fury, an action-media performance created by Caden Manson / Big Art Group. Organized by Nick Hallett, Cinema Fury will be an immersive installation and a participatory performance that is designed to bring the audience into the action.

In Cinema Fury, Big Art Group will explore the idea of corruption in the information age, and the chaotic possibilities that arise through errors, glitches, and interruptions within digital transmissions. By reinterpreting models of data transmission and decomposition as performance strategies, Cinema Fury opens new interpretive pathways to understanding the process of contemporary “media-ization.” Concepts of transmogrification, both of the folkloric and post-digital varieties, recur throughout. Big Art Group will draw on material from two upcoming major productions: Flesh Tone (2010) and No Show (2011).

Friday January 15th, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$10 Members/ $12 General Public
BUY TICKETS HERE

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Upcoming Event

Rhizome | Fri Jan 8th, 2010 noon

Angelo Plessas, ElectricityComesFromAnotherPlanet.com, 2008 (Rhizome Commission 2009)

Each year, Rhizome awards grants to eleven emerging artists for the creation of original works of new media art. Established in 2001, the Rhizome Commissions Program has awarded sixty-four grants throughout its history to projects that have gone on to have a great impact in the field of contemporary art. At this event, recently commissioned artists Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, Maria del Carmen Montoya & Kevin Patton and Angelo Plessas will present and discuss their works in progress.

Thursday January 14th, 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
$6 Members/ $8 General Public
BUY TICKETS HERE

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"Variety Evening at the New Museum" Now on Vimeo!

Ceci Moss | Thu Dec 10th, 2009 9 a.m.

The video documentation from VVORK's New Silent Series event "Variety Evening at the New Museum" is now up on Rhizome's Vimeo account. Check it out!

Big thanks to Travess Smalley for his help with the clip.

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Photos of "Variety Evening at the New Museum"

Rhizome | Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 10 a.m.

Check out these snapshots of Rhizome's New Silent Series event from last week "Variety Evening at the New Museum." Organized by VVORK, local performers staged works by artists Wojceich Kosma, Adrian Piper, Kristin Lucas, Vladimir Nikolic, Tao Lin, Pierre Bismuth and Claire Fontaine. The acts were presented together in a dramaturgy to be understood as a single performance, allowing for new interpretations of each piece. The evening is intended to be carried on as a single score, with instructions for how it can be repeated at different venues in the future.

"Wait" by Wojciech Kosma

"Rhythm" by Vladimir Nikolic

“Exhibitions” by Pierre Bismuth & Claire Fontaine, performed by Amy Mackie

“Refresh” by Kristin Lucas

“Exhibitions” by Pierre Bismuth & Claire Fontaine, performed by Chris Wiley

“Bach Whistled” by Adrian Piper

“i went fishing with my family when i was five.” by Tao Lin

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Next Week

Rhizome | Thu Oct 22nd, 2009 10 a.m.

Image: Wojciech Kosma, Wait, 2008 (Courtesy of VVORK)

Join us next week, Friday Oct. 30th at 7pm, for this month's New Silent Series event "Variety Evening at the New Museum." Berlin-based collective VVORK will present a contemporary variety show, composed of daring and experimental translations of original artworks. Variety is inspired by how culture of all kinds--sound, moving image, graphics--cycles easily between states and forms. For this one-night event, local performers will stage works by artists Wojciech Kosma, Vladimir Nikolic, Tao Lin, Pierre Bismuth, Adrian Piper, Kristin Lucas and Claire Fontaine. Containing readings, video, performance, dance and music, Variety will present the acts together in a dramaturgy that can be understood as a single performance, allowing for new interpretations of each piece. When finished, the evening will be carried on as a single score, with instructions for how it can be repeated at different venues in the future. VVORK is a website (vvork.com) and curatorial project by artists Aleksandra Domanovic, Oliver Laric, Georg Schnitzer and Christoph Priglinger.

This New Silent Series program is made possible by the Austrian Cultural Forum NYC, and the Experimental Television Center, New York.

Friday, October 30th @ 7pm
at the New Museum, New York, NY
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Reminder

Rhizome | Thu Sep 24th, 2009 3 p.m.

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Image: Michael Smith and Joshua White, Open House, 1999

Join us tonight at 7pm at the New Museum for "the Art of Blandman: An Evening with Michael Smith."

Visit the link below for tickets and details:

http://www.newmuseum.org/events/367

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Mark Your Calendars for September 24th

Rhizome | Fri Sep 18th, 2009 4 p.m.

Image: Michael Smith, Outstanding Young Men of America, 1996 (Still)

This is a reminder to join us next Thursday September 24th for a discussion with Michael Smith at the New Museum. Not to be missed! Full details and ticket information below.

Throughout his career, Michael Smith’s original approach to video, installation, and performance has broken artistic ground—albeit subtly. Steering away from the transgressive actions associated with avant-garde performance, Smith employs the idioms of popular entertainment and comedy to critique culture at large. His eponymous alter ego Mike, who is known for pathologically banal behavior, sends up cultural normalcy and spotlights the ways people consume ideas and lifestyles marketed to them. For this event, New Museum Adjunct Curator and Rhizome Executive Director Lauren Cornell will talk with Smith about his use of comedy, both as a way to engage and quantify audience response and to generate new work. Their conversation will cut through Smith's expansive body of work by focusing on pieces that have been exhibited at the New Museum, including Down in Rec Room, shown in “Not just for Laughs: The Art of Subversion” in 1981; Government Approved Home Fallout Shelter Snackbar (made in collaboration with Alan Herman), shown in “The End of The World” in 1983; and Open House, a site-specific installation by Smith and Joshua White created for the New Museum in 1999.

The Art of Blandman: An Evening with Michael Smith
Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7pm
at the New Museum
$8 General/ $6 Members
BUY TICKETS HERE

The event is part of Rhizome's New Silent Series.

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