http://www.flawedart.net
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.;
ethics: new media art
Current topics of interest (and i'm open to more) copyright/copyleft, propriety and open source philosophies, hacking and hacktivism, issues concerning (mis)representation, simualation and virtuality.
Thank you,
mark cooley
Lost and Found Mashups
What do Sonic Youth, King Crimson, Babe the Blue Ox, John Lennon, Lung Fish, Bjork, Memphis Slim, Michael Jackson, Fiona Apple, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Fela Kuti and Frank Zappa have in common?
This is a story the not-too-distant past. A time when cd cases littered the front and back seats of cars and were far too infrequently replaced with new ones, causing us to become much more intimate and ultimately tired of the music that once immersed us. This is a recording that attempts to create something new from the old. This is a recording that attempts to pull the unheard out of the overplayed. And finally, this is the story of a small collection of cd's that traveled together over many miles before ultimately succumbing and rendered unplayable by the hazards of life on the road.
http://www.flawedart.net/files/audio/guthead/index.html
One Night With You: Solo Compositions for the Casiotone MT-520 Electronic Keyboard
Instrument: Casio, Casiotone MT-520 Electronic Keyboard
Note: The aural record of one night in the basement with a dusty Mid-1980s Casiotone Keyboard.
http://beauty.gmu.edu/AVT483,616/Cooley/files/audio/casio/index.html
stations between stations
The public airways are mapped almost entirely to the mandates of consumer demographics, psychographics and other methods of locating, courting and creating compliant consumers and citizens. This sad context provides an aesthetic space where the mash-up and obliteration of those tired fictitious sites of meaning becomes a satisfying experience.
These recordings, created for podcast distribution, were made in the southeast of the United States on various points along Interstate 95 from Richmond Virginia and Fayetteville North Carolina. They capture profiles of American consciousness as competing sectors of the consciousness industry represents them and simultaneously they are the decomposition of preconfigured and seemingly stable consciousness moving at high velocity toward utter decay and slippage into forbidden, unclaimed and contested spaces.
The artist’s automobile acted as crude mixing instrument as it was driven recklessly between competing frequencies sliding in and out of coherence and exploring the spaces between stations, colonized electromagnetic frequencies and codified identities.
http://beauty.gmu.edu/AVT483,616/Cooley/files/audio/between_stations/index.html
(Second) Life Studies: Geoff Scott at The Field Museum of Art
Master landscape painter Geoff Scott offers up a gorgeous series of conte, pastel and watercolor studies. Done on location during Geoff's most recent metaverse travels.
http://www.thefieldmuseumofart.org
The Field Museum of Art is a privately held museum institution dedicated to collecting and exhibiting Fine Art that endeavors to illuminate, celebrate and document the natural world. Since our inception in 1987, our mission has led us to collect and exhibit the work of many renowned master artists who've found inspiration in representing the wonders, beauty and sublimity of nature for future generations to enjoy and contemplate.
http://www.thefieldmuseumofart.org
