INDETERMINATE HIKES+ AND BASECAMP.EXE
Dates:
Fri Jun 01, 2012 16:00 - Sat Jun 02, 2012
Location:
Brooklyn,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
319 SCHOLES PRESENTS INDETERMINATE HIKES+ AND BASECAMP.EXE
part of Bushwick Open Studios
June 1 – June 2, 2012
Scheduled "Indeterminate Hike" tours begin at 319 Scholes:
Friday, June 1: 4pm and 7pm
Saturday, June 2: 2pm, 4pm, and 7pm
319 Scholes presents ecoarttech at Bushwick Open Studios for a wilderness excursion through Bushwick’s sublime, pristine industrial landscape. The journey begins at the basecamp.exe installation at 319 Scholes to prepare for an Indeterminate Hike through urban wilds. With their new Indeterminate Hikes+ app, ecoarttech will be leading impromptu hikes throughout the weekend, departing from the gallery, as well as a series of scheduled hikes.
Indeterminate Hikes+ is a mobile phone app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings, and the basecamp.exe installation psychically prepares hikers for IH+ wilderness excursions. Most of us use our smartphones as instruments of rapid communication and consumerism. IH+ re-appropriates this technology as a tool of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of the places we inhabit and slowing us down at the same time. The app imports the experience of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps, encouraging its participants to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention usually accorded only to nature, such as canyons and waterfalls. Visit the IH+ website to learn more and view the latest hiking trails pioneered by IH+ hikers.
Participating artists: ecoarttech (Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint)
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint founded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. Their collaborative explores what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, they investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature,” built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces. Their recent work includes commissions for the Whitney Museum, Turbulence.org, and University of North Texas and exhibitions/performances at MIT Media Lab, Banff New Media Institute, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery, and Neuberger Museum of Art.
For additional information and image requests, contact: info@319scholes.org.
part of Bushwick Open Studios
June 1 – June 2, 2012
Scheduled "Indeterminate Hike" tours begin at 319 Scholes:
Friday, June 1: 4pm and 7pm
Saturday, June 2: 2pm, 4pm, and 7pm
319 Scholes presents ecoarttech at Bushwick Open Studios for a wilderness excursion through Bushwick’s sublime, pristine industrial landscape. The journey begins at the basecamp.exe installation at 319 Scholes to prepare for an Indeterminate Hike through urban wilds. With their new Indeterminate Hikes+ app, ecoarttech will be leading impromptu hikes throughout the weekend, departing from the gallery, as well as a series of scheduled hikes.
Indeterminate Hikes+ is a mobile phone app that transforms everyday landscapes into sites of bio-cultural diversity and wild happenings, and the basecamp.exe installation psychically prepares hikers for IH+ wilderness excursions. Most of us use our smartphones as instruments of rapid communication and consumerism. IH+ re-appropriates this technology as a tool of environmental imagination and meditative wonder, renewing awareness of the places we inhabit and slowing us down at the same time. The app imports the experience of wilderness into virtually any place accessible by Google Maps, encouraging its participants to treat these locales as spaces worthy of the attention usually accorded only to nature, such as canyons and waterfalls. Visit the IH+ website to learn more and view the latest hiking trails pioneered by IH+ hikers.
Participating artists: ecoarttech (Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint)
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint founded ecoarttech in 2005 to explore environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. Their collaborative explores what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, they investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature,” built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces. Their recent work includes commissions for the Whitney Museum, Turbulence.org, and University of North Texas and exhibitions/performances at MIT Media Lab, Banff New Media Institute, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery, and Neuberger Museum of Art.
For additional information and image requests, contact: info@319scholes.org.
319 Scholes presents E-Vapor-8 curated by Francesca Gavin
Dates:
Sat May 05, 2012 19:00 - Fri May 18, 2012
Location:
Brooklyn,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
“I would only believe in a God that knows how to dance.” – Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche, 1885
“E-Vapor-8″, titled after a 1992 track by the rave band Altern 8, explores the influence and relationship between contemporary art and rave and electronic music culture. Here everything can be taken from ‘the archive’ and reworked – the surface glare of squeaky voice, the speed of imagery and sound, infantalist fashion, smiley faces, pirate radio, fractal imagery, hyper color fluorescents, sample-style editing processes, found footage of dancing and parties, Spiral Tribe’s politicization, and kiddie-rave pop songs. There are more serious ideas behind the visual and aural melting pot. Ideas around community, technology, intellectual and physical freedom, rebellion and myth-making all play into this wave of contemporary work.
Rave is now positioned, aesthetically and aurally, as a proto universe for contemporary, technology-infused art. House and rave provided some of the first examples of defunct technologies being co-opted and reused by a younger generation for creative purposes. Computer-made graphics once used as rave visuals are now considered precursors to online experimentation. The processes of cut and paste, sampling and looping that were the basis of DIY electronic music are echoed in video editing techniques and online footage amalgams. Early house and rave culture provided a model of democratization of culture, just as contemporary visual artists consider their use of the internet now. The hedonistic drug references of the period are gone. The moment of mass cultural upheaval has passed. We are left with a sense of DIY utopia and the desire to create work that is immediate, sensorial, and at times simply fun.
Participating artists include: Fatima Al Qadiri, Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, Jeremy Deller, Aleksandra Domanovic, Cecile B Evans, Jeffrey Gibson, Alexandra Gorczynski, Leslie Kulesh, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, Marisa Olson, Hannah Perry, Christian J. Petersen (Dumb Eyes), Travess Smalley, Lucy Stokton, and Daniel Swan.
Francesca Gavin is a writer, editor and curator based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, the art editor of Twin and a Contributing Editor at AnOther and Sleek Magazine. Her books ‘100 New Artists’, ‘Creative Space’, ‘Hell Bound: New Gothic Art’ and ‘Street Renegades’ are all published by Laurence King. She has curated international exhibitions including ‘Responsive Eyes’ (Jacob’s Island, London 2012) ‘The New Psychdelica’ (MU, Eindhoven 2011) and ‘Syncopation’ (Grimmuseum, Berlin 2010). She has written for publications including Vogue, Wallpaper*, It’s Nice That, Nylon, Bon, icon, Oyster, Blueprint, Art Review and Sunday Times Style and is the curator of the Soho House group.
“E-Vapor-8″, titled after a 1992 track by the rave band Altern 8, explores the influence and relationship between contemporary art and rave and electronic music culture. Here everything can be taken from ‘the archive’ and reworked – the surface glare of squeaky voice, the speed of imagery and sound, infantalist fashion, smiley faces, pirate radio, fractal imagery, hyper color fluorescents, sample-style editing processes, found footage of dancing and parties, Spiral Tribe’s politicization, and kiddie-rave pop songs. There are more serious ideas behind the visual and aural melting pot. Ideas around community, technology, intellectual and physical freedom, rebellion and myth-making all play into this wave of contemporary work.
Rave is now positioned, aesthetically and aurally, as a proto universe for contemporary, technology-infused art. House and rave provided some of the first examples of defunct technologies being co-opted and reused by a younger generation for creative purposes. Computer-made graphics once used as rave visuals are now considered precursors to online experimentation. The processes of cut and paste, sampling and looping that were the basis of DIY electronic music are echoed in video editing techniques and online footage amalgams. Early house and rave culture provided a model of democratization of culture, just as contemporary visual artists consider their use of the internet now. The hedonistic drug references of the period are gone. The moment of mass cultural upheaval has passed. We are left with a sense of DIY utopia and the desire to create work that is immediate, sensorial, and at times simply fun.
Participating artists include: Fatima Al Qadiri, Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, Rhys Coren, Petra Cortright, Jeremy Deller, Aleksandra Domanovic, Cecile B Evans, Jeffrey Gibson, Alexandra Gorczynski, Leslie Kulesh, Samuel Levack and Jennifer Lewandowski, Marisa Olson, Hannah Perry, Christian J. Petersen (Dumb Eyes), Travess Smalley, Lucy Stokton, and Daniel Swan.
Francesca Gavin is a writer, editor and curator based in London. She is the Visual Arts Editor of Dazed & Confused, the art editor of Twin and a Contributing Editor at AnOther and Sleek Magazine. Her books ‘100 New Artists’, ‘Creative Space’, ‘Hell Bound: New Gothic Art’ and ‘Street Renegades’ are all published by Laurence King. She has curated international exhibitions including ‘Responsive Eyes’ (Jacob’s Island, London 2012) ‘The New Psychdelica’ (MU, Eindhoven 2011) and ‘Syncopation’ (Grimmuseum, Berlin 2010). She has written for publications including Vogue, Wallpaper*, It’s Nice That, Nylon, Bon, icon, Oyster, Blueprint, Art Review and Sunday Times Style and is the curator of the Soho House group.
C.R.E.A.M. curated by Lindsay Howard
Dates:
Sun Apr 01, 2012 00:01 - Mon Apr 30, 2012
C.R.E.A.M. showcases the work of artists who are politically engaged in open source art & technology while using their creative practice to address issues related to the monetization of net-based work. The pieces subvert existing models, create new ones, and draw inspiration from e-commerce, software piracy, crowdfunding, computer viruses, and various approaches to digital rights management.
ARTISTS:
JODI
Greg Leuch (Live Artist Talk April 24th 4pm PST)
Aram Bartholl
Lucy Chenin & Emilie Gervais
Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach
David Horvitz (Live Artist Talk April 24th time TBD)
0-Day Art
SPECIAL EVENT:
Wednesday April 11th, 2012 7:00pm EST
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (New York, NY) or Online
Join curator Lindsay Howard and 0-Day art, a warez group focused primarily on the acquisition and distribution of net art, as they talk about ideas behind monetization and limiting access to art work on the internet.
ARTISTS:
JODI
Greg Leuch (Live Artist Talk April 24th 4pm PST)
Aram Bartholl
Lucy Chenin & Emilie Gervais
Kim Asendorf & Ole Fach
David Horvitz (Live Artist Talk April 24th time TBD)
0-Day Art
SPECIAL EVENT:
Wednesday April 11th, 2012 7:00pm EST
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (New York, NY) or Online
Join curator Lindsay Howard and 0-Day art, a warez group focused primarily on the acquisition and distribution of net art, as they talk about ideas behind monetization and limiting access to art work on the internet.
319 Scholes presents Big Reality curated by Brian Droitcour
Dates:
Thu Mar 15, 2012 19:00 - Thu Mar 29, 2012
Location:
Brooklyn,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
319 SCHOLES PRESENTS BIG REALITY
Curated by Brian Droitcour
March 15 – 29, 2012
Opening: Thursday March 15, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: Thursday – Sunday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment
“Big Reality” proposes that contemporary everyday life seamlessly integrates elements of fantasy and play through consumer technology and networked media. The exhibition explores this proposition through artworks that draw imagery, themes, and devices from a relatively young and heavily stereotyped genre of play: the fantasy role-playing game. Born in the early seventies, when Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax hacked the rules of historical war simulations to make room for individual heroics and magic spells, the RPG blends game and narrative, systems and storytelling. It brought romance and adventure to models of numerical cognition, which appealed to players familiar with nascent computing culture. “From Nethack to play-by-post forums on the WWW,” an Ars Technica blogger wrote in 2009, “the first thing that computer geeks do upon inventing a new medium is play Dungeons and Dragons with it.” Whether played with dice and pencils, costumes and props, or a videogame console, the RPG codes a particular, specifically contemporary relation of the self of the world, one in which technology and abstraction, fantasy and play are deeply implicated in the routines of everyday life.
Fluxus and Oulipou captured the spirit of a freshly cybernetic world in works that incorporated chance, systems, open-endedness and open relations between author and audience. Gygax and Arneson gave the same spirit a popular form. With a few exceptions, the works in “Big Reality” are not games. Rather, they crystallize in a variety of mediums the expansive attitude toward life that play and imagination afford. The exhibition’s artists grew up in a world with RPGs, in a time when concepts of “virtuality” and “real life” were necessarily disrupted as everyday modes of communicating and receiving information about the world rapidly changed. For them, fantasy is not an escape but one of many facets of an increasingly big reality.
With work by: Arcanebolt (Mark Beasley, Taras Kemenczy, Alex Iglizian), Bradley Benedetti, BFFA3AE, Laura Brothers, John Bruneau, The Center for Tactical Magic, Jacob Ciocci, Brody Condon, Chris Coy, Julia Ellingboe, Desiree Holman, Timothy Hutchings, Butt Johnson, Daniel Leyva, Guthrie Lonergan, Nick Montfort, Shana Moulton, Brenna Murphy, Oregon Painting Society, Robby Rackleff, Billy Rennekamp, Deb Sokolow, Eddo Stern, Third Faction, John Tynes, Andrej Ujhazy, and David Wightman.
The “Big Reality” exhibition catalogue includes texts by Brian Droitcour, Tavis Allison, Joanne McNeill and Kristin Lucas (in conversation), Gene McHugh, as well as artists’ texts by The Center of Tactical Magic, Nick Montfort, John Bruneau, and Andrej Ujhazy. It will be available for sale on Lulu.com starting March 12 and at 319 Scholes during the run of the exhibition.
For additional information and image requests, contact: info@319scholes.org.
Curated by Brian Droitcour
March 15 – 29, 2012
Opening: Thursday March 15, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Gallery hours: Thursday – Sunday, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and by appointment
“Big Reality” proposes that contemporary everyday life seamlessly integrates elements of fantasy and play through consumer technology and networked media. The exhibition explores this proposition through artworks that draw imagery, themes, and devices from a relatively young and heavily stereotyped genre of play: the fantasy role-playing game. Born in the early seventies, when Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax hacked the rules of historical war simulations to make room for individual heroics and magic spells, the RPG blends game and narrative, systems and storytelling. It brought romance and adventure to models of numerical cognition, which appealed to players familiar with nascent computing culture. “From Nethack to play-by-post forums on the WWW,” an Ars Technica blogger wrote in 2009, “the first thing that computer geeks do upon inventing a new medium is play Dungeons and Dragons with it.” Whether played with dice and pencils, costumes and props, or a videogame console, the RPG codes a particular, specifically contemporary relation of the self of the world, one in which technology and abstraction, fantasy and play are deeply implicated in the routines of everyday life.
Fluxus and Oulipou captured the spirit of a freshly cybernetic world in works that incorporated chance, systems, open-endedness and open relations between author and audience. Gygax and Arneson gave the same spirit a popular form. With a few exceptions, the works in “Big Reality” are not games. Rather, they crystallize in a variety of mediums the expansive attitude toward life that play and imagination afford. The exhibition’s artists grew up in a world with RPGs, in a time when concepts of “virtuality” and “real life” were necessarily disrupted as everyday modes of communicating and receiving information about the world rapidly changed. For them, fantasy is not an escape but one of many facets of an increasingly big reality.
With work by: Arcanebolt (Mark Beasley, Taras Kemenczy, Alex Iglizian), Bradley Benedetti, BFFA3AE, Laura Brothers, John Bruneau, The Center for Tactical Magic, Jacob Ciocci, Brody Condon, Chris Coy, Julia Ellingboe, Desiree Holman, Timothy Hutchings, Butt Johnson, Daniel Leyva, Guthrie Lonergan, Nick Montfort, Shana Moulton, Brenna Murphy, Oregon Painting Society, Robby Rackleff, Billy Rennekamp, Deb Sokolow, Eddo Stern, Third Faction, John Tynes, Andrej Ujhazy, and David Wightman.
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The “Big Reality” exhibition catalogue includes texts by Brian Droitcour, Tavis Allison, Joanne McNeill and Kristin Lucas (in conversation), Gene McHugh, as well as artists’ texts by The Center of Tactical Magic, Nick Montfort, John Bruneau, and Andrej Ujhazy. It will be available for sale on Lulu.com starting March 12 and at 319 Scholes during the run of the exhibition.
For additional information and image requests, contact: info@319scholes.org.
Klaus Gallery Builds a "New Wall" for Online Art
I was also impressed by the way Malashock's selling the work, particularly with the history he provides of "Public Online Ownership". It must be reassuring for collectors to be working with someone so knowledgeable. I'm interested to see the solutions they come up with as new exhibitions are revealed.
