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Sunday, January 16, 2005
A Chilling Effect: IP Law's Impact on Art
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I came across these short films (via Copyfight: How Does IP Law Affect
Art? posted by Donna Wentworth) entered in a recent moving image contest
at Duke University Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain
which has a program dedicated to the Arts + Culture. Their goal is to
"study the balance between intellectual property and the public domain."
CSPD is paying attention to The View from Artists:
In particular, we are attempting to make sure that artists views are more
widely heard on the intellectual property issues that concern them. What
should the intellectual property system do for them, in protecting their
work, in granting them access to create that work in the first place and
in setting the baseline rules that determine the structure of
distribution? These issues should not be decided merely by intermediaries.
Our events in the past have included artists such as Negativland and DJ
Spooky, composers such as Dukes Scott Lindroth and Anthony Kelley and
film-makers such as CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins and Faculty Co-Director
David Lange.
As for the videos, check out the winners. I agree with Donna W., that the
tied-for-3rd-place winner, "Stealing Home" by Terry Tucker and Andrew
Fazekasis is my absolute fave. Check it out here (5Mb, mp4) or download it
from their homepage.
It's so good in fact, I think I'll include it in an upcoming talk I'll be
giving to high school students on fair use in the arts.
Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 10:49 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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KartOO: A Visual Search Engine
A friend sent me the url for an unusual search engine called KartOO
(thanks Axel!):
KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you
click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers
the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive
maps through a proprietary algorithm…
Check it out – it has amazing and strange mapping capacities.
Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 10:19 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink:
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Saturday, January 15, 2005
Mapping Sitting: Arab Portrait Photography @ Grey Art Gallery
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Mapping Sitting
a project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari
at Grey Art Gallery NYU.
from their website:
"Conceived by contemporary artists Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari working
with the archives of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation (AIF), Mapping
Sitting explores how photographic portraits operated in the Arab world
over the past century. Raad and Zaataris projected and photographic
installations on view in the exhibition highlight four distinct practices:
1) identity photos; 2) the Middle Eastern tradition of photo surprise; 3)
itinerant photography; and 4) institutional group portrait photography.
Collectively, the images convey the pluralistic and multifaceted
communities captured by indigenous photographersimages far different from
photos of the region circulating widely in the popular press today. In
Mapping Sitting, Raad and Zaatari reveal how Arab portrait photography not
only pictured individuals and groups, but also functioned as commodity,
luxury item, and adornment. Concentrating on commercial images, the
exhibition not only raises questions about portrait photography in the
Middle East, but also about portraiture, photography, and visual culture
in general." […]
ART REVIEW | 'MAPPING SITTING'
Turning 'Them' to 'Us,' Face by Familiar Face
By HOLLAND COTTER (NYTimes)
"[…] It's important to remember that this small exhibition is a
tip-of-the-iceberg affair. An accompanying book significantly expands its
scope. And the Arab Image Foundation continues to grow. Under its
director, Zeina Maasri, it has begun to incorporate photographs from the
Arab diaspora in the West, like those seen in "A Community of Many Worlds:
Arab Americans in New York City" at the Museum of the City of New York
three years ago.
"Not that any archive can give the accurate measure of a culture, Arab or
otherwise. Photography is history edited, filtered, cropped, retouched.
But it's also the most concrete and detailed visual evidence we have of
common life - "their" life, which is our life - across time and space. The
broader and denser the picture, the realer. And it's a reality that can't
be argued or exhorted away, which is why thousands of words by politicians
are as nothing to a single face in an ocean of faces on a gallery wall."
Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 02:18 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Cabinet: Crocheted Models of Hyperbolic Space
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Cabinet is pleased to invite you to a party to celebrate the "Sea" issue
of Cabinet magazine:
Time: Saturday, January 22nd, 7-10 pm
Venue: White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, New York (entrance on Horatio
Street)
AND
to a very special panel with Cornell's "crocheting mathematicians":
Time: Saturday, February 5th, 5 pm
Venue: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th St., New York (admission: $5, tickets
can be purchased in advance by calling The Kitchen box office at
212-255-5793 x11)
In conjunction with Margaret Wertheim's contribution to the issue, Cabinet
has teamed with The Institute for Figuring (Los Angeles) and the Kitchen
to co-organize a panel featuring Cornell mathematicians David Henderson
and Daina Taimina . Henderson and Taimina will discuss their discovery of
crocheted models of hyperbolic space, a geometric form that is found in
the crenellation of lettuce leaves, the anatomy of sea slugs, and the
shape of the physical cosmos. Build your own paper models of the
'hyperbolic soccer ball' and learn how to crochet your way out of the
parallel postulate as math, physics, and feminine handicraft intersect in
this one-of-a-kind event. Wertheim, Director of the Institute for
Figuring, will moderate. Not to be missed, especially by artists,
architects, crochet enthusiasts, or mathematicians! Read Wertheim's
interview in Cabinet's Issue 16.
[subscriptions]
Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 08:51 AM in Publications | Permalink:
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Friday, January 14, 2005
Europeans Rule, Sort-of: Upcoming Whitney Bi + Greater NY
via NYTimes:
INSIDE ART
Two Europeans to Head the Whitney Biennial
By CAROL VOGEL
Two European curators - Chrissie Iles, who is English, and Philippe
Vergne, who is French - have been chosen to organize the 2006 Whitney
Biennial, this country's most influential survey of contemporary American
art.
"These two curators have both been living and working in the United States
at premier institutions," said Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Whitney
Museum of American Art, in making the announcement this week. "They are
deeply knowledgeable and involved in American art. On the other hand,
having an international perspective will give the biennial a new, fresh
look."
Ms. Iles is a curator at the Whitney, and Mr. Vergne the senior curator of
visual arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In September he was
named director of the new Franois Pinault Foundation for Contemporary Art
in Paris, opening in late 2007.
Ms. Iles comes to the project with particularly relevant experience: she
was one of three Whitney curators who organized the 2004 biennial.
"This one has to be different in spirit," Ms. Iles said. "Times do
change." She came to the Whitney in 1997 after being the head of
exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, where she also
organized exhibitions of works by American artists including Sol LeWitt,
Gary Hill and Donald Judd.
Mr. Vergne, who said he considered himself a "first-generation immigrant,"
having come to the United States eight years ago, said he and Ms. Iles
were starting to put together lists of artists they were interested in.
Instead of worrying about representing specific disciplines, like
paintings or performance art or film, he said, they are starting out by
looking at art.
Both curators say it is too early to give any specific details about the
direction the biennial will take or what themes, if any, will be
addressed. Nor do they know if works will be shown in Central Park, as in
the last two biennials.
But they have time to decide. The next biennial opens in March 2006.
"There are lots of options on the table," Mr. Weinberg said. "We're
looking at the possibility of the biennial traveling. But it's too soon to
talk about anything right now. It should start with choosing the artworks
first."
via Artnet News:
1/11/05
WHITER NEW YORK?
Arguably one of the most anticipated spring shows in New York is P.S. 1's
"Greater New York 2005," Mar. 13-Sept. 26, 2005, the successor to the
"Greater New York" exhibition of 2000 that some say launched the current
orgy of art commerce (it included Cecily Brown, Julian LaVerdiere, Inka
Essenhigh, Paul Pfeiffer, Lisa Ruyter, James Siena and Do-Ho Suh, among
others.) Young artists, convinced that "Greater New York" can make or
break their careers, are especially obsessed with the show. But P.S. 1 is
keeping the final lineup a secret until the last possible moment,
according to a report in the January 2005 issue of Artforum magazine. P.S.
1 may even forego a press preview, and unveil the show in its entirety
only on opening day.
One secret, however, is more than evident in the photo that accompanies
the Artforum story, which includes Museum of Modern Art director Glenn
Lowry, P.S. 1 director Alanna Heiss, and curators Klaus Biesenbach, Bob
Nickas, Amy Smith-Stewart and a host of others – everyone involved in
organizing the show seems to be white. "Where are the curators of color?"
said Artnet Magazine columnist Charlie Finch. Perhaps black, Latino and
Asian curators can look forward to taking part in 2010.
Friday, January 14, 2005 at 08:43 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Sunday, January 09, 2005
"We Are The World (Reprise)"
Last week we posted the announcement for Regarding Clementine, a group
exhibition in Chelsea's Clementine Gallery that takes on "the discomforts
and joys of the art industry, the life of artists, the practices of
curation and creation…"
It was hinted that Nina Katchadourian was "working up something musical
and special that addresses quality of life for artists." That something is
now ready to roll:
"We Are the World (Reprise)"
Nina Katchadourian
All of the people involved in the "Regarding Clementine" show, including
the curator and the gallerists, were invited to sing on a version of "We
Are the World." The song, written by Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson, was
originally recorded in 1985 and featured many of the most famous pop
singers and performers of the time. The project raised about $60 million
for famine relief aid to Africa.
The money raised from the sale of "We Are the World (Reprise)" will be
used to purchase health insurance for one year for one uninsured artist. A
winner will be determined by a raffle held during the closing reception
for the "Regarding Clementine" show, on Friday, February 4th from 6-8 pm
at Clementine Gallery.
Here are the rules:
1) You must currently not have health insurance.
2) Only one entry per person is allowed. Multiple entries will disqualify
you.
3) You must be present at the gallery during the closing reception to win.
If you would like to enter the raffle, you can pick up a slip at the
gallery desk, fill it out, and drop it in the blue bubble.
And what if this project hasn't raised all the money by the time of the
raffle? In that case, the winner will get the health insurance at the
point in time when the sales from this piece has generated the necessary
funds, whenever that is.
Good luck!
Sunday, January 09, 2005 at 12:54 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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