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The New American Dictionary
The Boston-based performance group Institute for Infinitely Small Things has published a book called The New American Dictionary.
The dictionary highlights the terminology of fear, security and war that has permeated American English post 9-11. It includes 68 new terms i.e. Preparedness and Freedom Fries as well as terms that have recently been redefined i.e. Torture.
The dictionary also has an interactive dimension. 58 terms are left undefined for the reader to pencil in their own definition. Furthermore, readers are invited to submit their additions to the institute for a possible inclusion in the 2nd edition.
The New American Dictionary is available at several online stores.
exhaust emissions balloons
a huge balloon, tied to a car�s vent-pipe, depicting the amount of exhaust emissions a car releases a day.
the "bursting earth" project is similar, but more dynamic. activists attach world globe balloons on exhaust pipes of cars in Berlin. the exhaust gas inflates the ballons. after the message becomes readable, there is a big "bang".
[link: frederiksamuel.com & adsoftheworld.com & 20to20.org]
WoW!
Aram Bartholl is a german artist renowned for making physical abstractions of the digital world, particularly game-worlds.
One of Aram's not-to-be-missed performances is inspired by the popular computer game World of Warcraft (WoW).
In WoW, the nickname of the player's avatar is constantly hovering above the head of the player so that the identity is visible for everyone else in the game.
Aram took this little feature out of cyberspace to see how it would look if people's names would float above their heads in the physical world too.
WoW has been performed at different locations around the world. Luckily, it is well-documented!
• Getting coffee WoW style • Workshop in Ghent • Project Site
REALIZING THE IMPOSSIBLE: ART AGAINST AUTHORITY
Aesthetics and Politics
REALIZING THE IMPOSSIBLE: ART AGAINST AUTHORITY by Josh MacPhee, Erik Reuland, editors :: There has always been a close relationship between aesthetics and politics in anti-authoritarian social movements. And those movements have in turn influenced many of the last century's most important art movements, including cubism, Dada, post-impressionism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, Fluxus, Situationism, and punk. Today, the movement against corporate globalization, with its creative acts of resistance, has brought anti-authoritarian politics into the forefront. This sprawling, inclusive collection explores this vibrant history, with topics ranging from turn-of-the-century French cartoonists to modern Indonesian printmaking, from people rolling giant balls of trash down Chicago streets to massive squatted urban villages and renegade playgrounds in Denmark, from stencil artists of Argentina to radical video collectives of the US and Mexico. Lots of illustrations, all b&w.;
CALL FOR PAPERS - INTENDED TO PROVOKE: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline: January 10, 2008
INTENDED TO PROVOKE: Social Action in Visual Culture[s]
The Fifth Annual Visual Cultures Symposium
at George Mason University
Thursday, March 27, 2008
What happens when art is made as an intentionally political act?
This symposium addresses the use of art as a form of social action -resistance - intervention -
opposition. We seek to interrogate the ways in which shifts in our understanding of what
constitutes "art" are intertwined with social conditions and our will to change them.
Academic or creative work from scholars, students, artists and activists is encouraged. We
construe the term “art” broadly, in all of its contemporary meanings: from fine art in galleries and
museums to street performance and graffiti to mass media images.
INTENDED TO PROVOKE will be the fifth annual visual culture symposium at George Mason
University. Following in the tradition of the preceding symposia, INTENDED TO PROVOKE
will be an interdisciplinary, multimedia inquiry into issues relevant to the theme, and to visual
culture in general, from multiple perspectives to include faculty, graduate and undergraduate
work.
In past years our co-sponsors have included a diverse group of departments and programs at the
University, including programs in Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies and Honors, and the
Departments of Art and Visual Technology, English, Art History and History, Sociology and
Anthropology, Philosophy, New Century College, and Women’s Studies.
Possible Panel ideas/themes include, but are not limited to:
Tactical/Digital Media
Performance Art: Infiltrating the Public
Graffiti: Art and Illegality
Art for Arts Sake: How Changing the Art World Makes a Social Statement
Political Images: Art in the Campaign
Music Videos as a Space for Promoting Change
Contestation: Immigration/Globalization Visualized
Community-based Art
Visual Culture and the Politics of Gender
EcoArt
How To Submit
Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due January 10, 2008, and should be submitted via
email to Ellen Gorman at elgorman@msn.com. All paper presentations will be no longer than 15
minutes, including accompanying visual images, and each panel will conclude with questions from
and dialogue with the audience.
Concurrent Juried Exhibition of Student Work
As in previous years, the symposium will be presented concurrently with a juried exhibition of
student work created in relation to a parallel theme. For more information, please download the
call for submissions at http://beauty.gmu.edu/visualcultures/
Symposium Organizers
Lynne M. Constantine
Associate Chair, Art and Visual Technology
Assistant Professor, Art and Visual Technology
Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies
George Mason University
lconstan@gmu.edu
Ellen Gorman
Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies, George Mason University
Lecturer, Georgetown University and Corcoran College of Art + Design
elgorman@msn.com
Tracy McLoone
Doctoral Candidate, Cultural Studies
Instructor, New Century College and Honors Program
George Mason University
tmcloone@gmu.edu
Call for student art - Provocations: The Art of Social Engagement
http://beauty.gmu.edu/visualcultures/
Art Submission Deadline: January 28, 2008, 5 p.m.
Provocations: The Art of Social Engagement
A Juried Exhibition of Student Artwork
George Mason University
March 24-28, 2008
The art of social action, resistance, intervention, opposition has a history that stretches back to the earliest human mark-making. Today, socially engaged art in every medium and of every kind—from direct responses to social concerns like global climate change and war, to works that critique or spoof politics and power, to works that present alternative visions of human interaction—is a vital part of what’s happening on college campuses.
Undergraduate and graduate students whose work engages with the social are invited to submit artworks for a juried exhibition to be held in Gallery 123 in the George W. Johnson Center at George Mason University from March 24-28, 2008. The exhibition will accompany Intended to Provoke: Social Action in Visual Culture[s], the fifth annual Visual Cultures Symposium at George Mason University, to be held on March 27, 2008. For more information on the symposium, go to http://beauty.gmu.edu/visualcultures.
The exhibition will be juried by Mark Cooley, Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University. Mark is a new genre artist interested in exploring politics/economics, power, identity and visual rhetoric in American popular (and not so popular) culture. Mark's work has been shown internationally in online and offline venues such as Exit Art, Postmasters Gallery, Furtherfield.org and Rhizome.org.
Specifications for Artwork
Works by current undergraduate and graduate students in all media (2D, 3D, video, animation, web-based) will be considered. Because of space limitations, wall works should not exceed 6’x6’, and 3D works should not require more than 3”x3” of floor space. Videos and animations should be short (under 10 minutes).
All work submitted for consideration should have been completed within the last two years. Prizes will be awarded for three works judged best in show.
HOW TO ENTER
Entries must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, January 28, 2008. Complete the attached entry form (or download at http://beauty.gmu.edu/visualcultures) and submit one form with each work entered. No more than two entries maximum per participant, please. Please do not send original slides or master copies of your work, as submissions will not be returned. Delivery and pickup of work selected for the exhibition will be the responsibility of the artists.
warToys
http://www.flawedart.net/wartoys
needed - pop-up blocker off & high-speed interenet
The Fine Art of War
The Fine Art of War: Cultural outreach from the Military Industrial Complex.
http://www.flawedart.net/fineartofwar
