Brush-off
Yea, I probably could have been more specific with the unicorn landscapes, hackerism, and one trick pony art boing boing posts as "art pablum". Proops bothers me because his painting actually seems to be going from awful to even more awful. "Painting Downloading: Please wait, is pretty facile, but "humorously" censoring the genitals of a classical painting, or whatever else he's interested in as a means of social commentary, is utterly infantile.
Out of Office AutoReply
Certainly there are examples of multiple takes on projects where the development is meaningful, but it seems to me the rate at which Apple turns out new computers was implicit in using the older computers. The screens to me seem the most successful iteration of that project because it helps to minimize the conversation about the sale of the computer and the art, which is undoubtedly the least engaging aspect of the work.
ROFL! A Gong Show for Artists and Internet Nerds
Dates:
Fri Jun 22, 2007 00:00 - Thu Jun 21, 2007
Don't miss ROFL!, the Internet competition Art Fag City has been working on with John Seroff of Tofu Hut at Joe's Pub, Friday June 22nd at 11:30 pm. Briefly, the event is basically an internet gong show pitting the finds and creations of cewebrity contestants such as Andrew Baron of Rocketboom, and Josh Fruhlinger of Wonkette against each other. I've pasted the less brief, (but super fun) press release below.
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Competitors are:
Featuring web art, presentations and
"teh funney" from
Josh Fruhlinger of Comics Curmudgeon and Wonkette
Cintra Wilson of Salon and Dregublog
Michelle Collins of You Can't Make It Up and
VH1's Best Week Ever
Andrew Baron, co-creator and producer of Rocketboom
Tony Carnevale of Channel 102
Marisa Olson, Marisa Olson/ Nasty Nets member/ editor / curator of Rhizome.org
Stu VanAirsdale of The Reeler
Charles Broskoski of Supercentral
ROFL is the very best of the internet, lovingly hand-picked by eight of AmericaaE
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Competitors are:
Featuring web art, presentations and
"teh funney" from
Josh Fruhlinger of Comics Curmudgeon and Wonkette
Cintra Wilson of Salon and Dregublog
Michelle Collins of You Can't Make It Up and
VH1's Best Week Ever
Andrew Baron, co-creator and producer of Rocketboom
Tony Carnevale of Channel 102
Marisa Olson, Marisa Olson/ Nasty Nets member/ editor / curator of Rhizome.org
Stu VanAirsdale of The Reeler
Charles Broskoski of Supercentral
ROFL is the very best of the internet, lovingly hand-picked by eight of AmericaaE
