Adjunct Needed for Web Class at Purchase College
The course meets 1 evening a week, Tuesdays, 7 to 10:20, starting Jan. 25. Assignments include class exercises, homework, quizzes and 2-3 projects. Students can choose the topic of the projects with the approval of the teacher.
To apply, please submit a resume and cover letter to Jeanine Meyer at Jeanine.Meyer@purchase.edu.
BIOFEEDBACK: Benefit for Critical Art Ensemble at Tonic
A Benefit for Steve Kurtz and Critical Art Ensemble
Featuring Tony Conrad + HangedUp, Dj Olive + Toshio Kajiwara + Markus Miller + Dj North Guinea Hills, Tyondai Braxton, Services, New Humans, Dub Trio, Talibam and special appearance by Barbara Bush (aka Martha Wilson)
Thursday, October 21, 8pm, $12 (two floors of music)
Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street (between Rivington and Delancy)
More Event Info: http://www.caedefensefund.org/biofeedback.html
Contact: Dion Workman (dionATtinynumbers.com), Brooke Singer (brookeATbsing.net)
The Benefit:
"Biofeedback: Give Me Back My Lab and My Freedom of Speech!" is an energetic round-up of musicians, entertainers and visual artists who are creating loud and clear feedback in support of Steve Kurtz and the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE). This benefit will help raise money for Kurtz's legal fees in a case of FBI harassment and silencing dissent. To date, the CAE Defense Fund has raised an impressive $30,000, but projected costs are estimated at $150,000. There is still hope that the court will realize the absurdity of the case and dismiss Kurtz of charges in December; if this does happen, the fund will be used to help others who may find themselves in a similar unfortunate position of political scrutiny.
For more information about the case, visit www.caedefensefund.org. And for information about CAE’s projects, visit www.critical-art.net.
Flash Art Submissions Sought for WiFi.ArtCache
WiFi.ArtCache is a platform for experimenting with location and proximity
based digital art media. Using Macromedia Flash, Art-Technologists are able
develop digital art that respond to a variety of physical and social
parameters.
This is a call for contributions for art-technologists interested in
contributing to the WiFi.ArtCache during its exhibition at Spectropolis
October 1-4, 2004. Deadline for submissions is September 26th.
Please send submissions, questions and inquiries to wifiartcache at
techkwondo dot com.
By simply coding to a provided ActionScript 2.0 API, Flash artists are able
to create an interactive experience that changes based on how many people
have downloaded their art object, how many people are currently interacting
with their art object, or whether their art object is currently in range of
the WiFi.ArtCache. Such parameters as how many people are communicating
with the node at a particular moment, how many individual pieces of media
have been downloaded can be used as indicators as to how “socially active”
is the physical area surrounding the WiFi.ArtCache. Likewise, individual
pieces of media can have a “precious” quality through a mechanism that
limits how many of a specific piece can be in use at any particular moment.
The WiFi.ArtCache is a physical object — a server containing a standard WiFi
802.11 access point. When exhibited at the Spectropolis event at New York’s
City Hall Park in Lower Manhattan, the WiFi.ArtCache will contain a
storehouse of art objects. Visitors to the event can download these art
objects onto their 802.11 equipped laptops and experience the artists’
interpretation of location and proximity effects.
Developer documentation and downloads can be found at:
http://wifiartcache.techkwondo.com/overview.jsp
General information about the WiFi.ArtCache concept can be found at:
http://www.techkwondo.com/projects/artcache/
Additionally, the WiFi.ArtCache will contain a generic storehouse of digital
ephemera that visitors can upload and download to the server. Scratchy
audio, yellowed digital documents, discolored image files and spoiled emails
can all be found and dropped off at the WiFi.ArtCache.
WiFi.ArtCache was developed by Julian Bleecker with support from Eyebeam
Atelier. This exhibition is sponsored by the Downtown Alliance, NYCWireless,
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Spectropolis.
Spectropolis is curated by Wayne Ashley, Yury Gitman and Brooke Singer
http://spectropolis.info
http://www.techkwondo.com/projects/artcache
http://www.eyebeam.org
http://www.nycwireless.org
http://www.lmcc.net
Spectropolis: Mobile Media, Art and the City
In addition to twelve projects presented in City Hall Park, there will be several hands-on workshops and two panels free to the public.
Spectropolis is curated by Wayne Ashley, LMCC's curator of new media and public programs, and artists Yury Gitman and Brooke Singer.
Spectropolis is produced by Dana Spiegel, Director of NYCwireless, Jordan Silbert, and Jordan Schuster; and co-sponsored by the Downtown Alliance, NYCwireless, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
The Brooklyn Museum, Pace University and the New School University are generously hosting Spectropolis events.
For more information, please visit http://www.spectropolis.info.
Computer Technician Position Available @ SUNY Purchase, New Media Program
Position to be filled by August 15th 2004 Purchase College/State University of New York seeks to hire an experienced computer technician to serve the New Media Program. Requirements: The successful applicant will have at least a bachelor's degree, solid computer skills, including experience in video post-production and server administration, and the ability to communicate and work with faculty, student and technical staff. Duties expected of the successful applicant include: 1. Maintain, administer, backup and supervise:
An 18 seat PC computer lab ; Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Adobe PhotoShop, Macromedia Flash, Java, MIDI and more; A 12 seat PC video editing/3D computer lab; A Cross platform research lab of 4 workstations running appropriate software for student and faculty projects;Two department servers.
2. Consult with the department faculty and participate in the planning, designing and equipping of the new digital media facilities as well as develop long range resource upgrade strategies.
3. Work collaboratively with faculty and staff to devise and support the successful implementation of technology in the classroom, including managing the allocation of server space.
4. Identify, train and supervise College Lab Assistants and student assistants appointed to the areas and facilities, which utilize computers and digital technology systems.
5. Help plan and then manage anticipated new technologies. Future capabilities could include running streaming audio and video and supporting peer-to-peer applications. 6. In addition to above technical responsibilities, the person would be available during specified hours to help students with video post-production and senior projects as well as mentor student technical workers. As the facilities evolve, there is a requirement as well as opportunity for continual learning and professional growth. Send a letter describing qualifications and experience with a current résumé and names of three references to:
Purchase College
Office of Human Resources
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
human.resources@purchase.edu
An Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer
Art Exhibit Pushes Boundaries Of Online Sharing
I was quoted in this HuffPo article by AP journalist Barbara Ortutay. The exhibition is very interesting and thought provoking. The Public Private runs through April 17 at Parsons.
Presenting at MoMA tomorrow!
Artistic Research Science Fair
D. Graham Burnett, Sal Randolph, Steve Rowell, Brooke Singer, and Alexandra P. Spaudling
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 12:30–2:00 p.m.
Education Classroom B, mezzanine, The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The included projects are long-term, multifaceted endeavors that are rarely represented in traditional venues such as museums or galleries, making this session a unique opportunity to learn about them through a direct dialogue with their creators. The program concludes with a round-table conversation among the artists, moderated by D. Graham Burnett, focusing on such questions as: Can science and scholarship be the medium of the artist? What can be learned from the contrast between the creatively driven approach of artistic research and the focused methodology of empirically oriented investigative practices? What happens at the intersection of precise knowledge and infinite possibility? D. Graham Burnett is an editor at Cabinet magazine and teaches at Princeton University.
Franklin Street Works Opening this SAT
Ricardo and I have a project in the new exhibition, Strange Invitation, at the amazing Franklin Street Works Gallery in Stamford, CT. Opening is this SAT 5-8pm.
Gatsby Revisited in the Age of the One Percent
My photograph Quanta Resources, Pittston, PA, from the Sites Unseen series is included in the exhibition Gatsby Revisited in the Age of the One Percent from March 13 – April 15 at the Contemporary Art Gallery on the campus of UConn, Storrs.
Other artists are: Tina Barney, Man Bartlett, James Casebere, Jessica Craig-Martin, Patricia Cronin, Sebastan Errazuriz, Shepard Fairey, Eric Fischl, Charles Hagen, Alex Katz, Robert Longo, Julian Opie Martin Parr, Julika Rudelius and Elizabeth Shrier.
Closing reception on April 15th!
Making Art With Food in Mind Panel at the Just Food Conference in NYC
ExcessNYC (Ricardo and I!) will participate in this panel on March 30th. Looking forward, the panelists look great.
From http://withfoodinmind.org/wfim_events/making-art-with-food-in-mind/:
With Food in Mind is thrilled to participate in the 2013 Just Food Conference. In our conference session, artists will offer practical advice on using food as medium or material when working to foster social change.
Attendees will hear from Atom Cianfarani, sustainable designer and co-author of A Roof Grows in Brooklyn: The Do-It-Yourself Green Roof Workbook; Jason Gaspar, multimedia artist and artist-in-residence at Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum; Lisa Gross, artist and chairman/founder of The Boston Tree Party; Tattfoo Tan, artist; and Brooke Singer & Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, collaborating artists on ExcessNYC. All of these artists are responding to the challenges and concerns of feeding populations sustainably by creating local, community-oriented, and aesthetically conscious models.
Making Art with Food in Mind will take place on Saturday, March 30 from 10:30am to 11:45am at the Food & Finance High School in New York City. Purchase tickets here.
Databody Mention in Hyperallergic Essay
There is an interesting essay, The Migration of Social Exchange, recently posted on Hyperallergic by James Holland. He mentions my Databody piece from spring 2001 (yes, prior to 9/11). Nice that it is still relevant after over a decade. This is a thoughtful piece that ruminates on the changing landscape of what it means to be social.
Farmer’s Market 2.0 at NY Hall of Science
Ricardo and I gave a short presentation on ExcessNYC at this cool “conceptual” farmers market at the Hall of Science organized by Liz Slagus last weekend. 
Tonight: Talk at NYU’s ITP with Stefani Bardin
I am giving a talk tonight with artist and sometime collaborator, Stefani Bardin, at NYU’s ITP. See the link for details. Should be fun & lively! The event is titled : INPUT / OUTPUT: POLLUTION / SOLUTION: BODIES / SITES. Thanks to Marina Zurkow for organizing.
http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/event-artists-stefani-bardin-and-brooke-singer/
Peekskill Project V: Opens
I have two photographs in Peekskill Project V at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill, NY. There is a lot of great work from artists like Brandon Ballengée, Diana Cooper, Jeffrey Gibson and Ellen Harvey.
