LA: Art Against Empire Exhibition
By Zulma | March 11, 2010
Art Against Empire
By Josh M.
This just in (from Evil Monito, check it HERE):
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
3/10 to 4/18/10
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is proud to present Art Against Empire?Graphic Responses to U.S. Intervention Since World War II, curated by Carol A. Wells from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG). Featuring works by Josh MacPhee, Corita Kent, Jay Belloli, Cedomic Kostovic, Stephen Kroninger, and more.
Art Against Empire uses the power of posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed.
Art Against Empire showcases over 100 political posters in the LACE galleries, spanning two dozen sovereign nations including Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba, Iran, and South Africa. It attempts to inform, challenge and inspire by confronting the viewer with images of past struggles that remain powerfully relevant today. It both raises questions about past interventions and fosters debate about present ones. The exhibition will also provide insight into why the amount of devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti can be linked to its long history of French colonialism and U.S. imperialism.
The United States is the focus of this exhibition. As citizens, we are ultimately responsible for the actions that are taken by our government in our name. Censorship and repression, so prevalent in wartime, invariably attempt to eliminate dissent, thereby violating the principles on which this democracy was founded. These posters document the efforts of people who refuse to remain silent and who use the power of art to inspire action.
Opening reception: Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 8 to 10 pm
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028
http://www.politicalgraphics.org/
http://www.welcometolace.org/
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Braddock, Pennsylvania new Space
By Zulma | March 11, 2010
Transformazium Music Video
By K C
An endearing animation about a project some friends have been creating in Braddock, PA. I can’t say I feel the same about Braddock. The sound of the steel mill and the polluted environment are thankfully absent. Regardless the folks involved are in a category of the most dedicated and hardworking peeps I know, and they know creative folks, watch it!
Transformazium Music Video from Joshua Tonies on Vimeo.
Transformazium Music Video from Joshua Tonies on Vimeo.
Transformazium: uses the creative process and locally identified resources to transform ideas into tangible social and economic benefits. Our collaborative arts programming and skill-building workshops connect communities stratified by class, race and age and expand upon existing community networks and resources, while rendering models of possibility for other post-industrial cities.
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It’s Baaack! Vectorial Elevation @ Winter Olympics by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
By Zulma | February 10, 2010
In Vancouver are these awesome spot lights that ANYONE (with internet access and a laptop aka on this side of the digital divide) CAN CONTROL and move. Click here to participate in this virtually immersive experience.
have fun,
zee
(from the page)
Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this web site lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.
check out the You Tube Video
from the skinny blog: http://heavyworld.com/theskinny/?p=514
People interested in visiting Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games will have an added incentive to explore the city during the two weeks of athletic competition. In celebration of the Olympic games, the city of Vancouver will welcome Vectorial Elevation, a large-scale interactive light installation created by Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The work, which has been previously staged in Spain, Ireland, France and Mexico, features twenty 10,000-watt searchlights which move in concert to create a silent, shifting canopy of light. Vectorial Elevation is one of the world’s largest interactive artworks.
from Mark Tribe @ Brown: https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Rafael+Lozano-Hemmer
Technologies: 18 robotic 7kW xenon searchlights, 4 webcams, TCP/IP to DMX converter, Java 3D interface, GPS tracker, linux web and e-mail servers.
Keywords: public, spectacle, telepresence
http://heavyworld.com/theskinny/?p=514K
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@ the Beach
By Zulma | February 2, 2010
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Just Seeds Art Show in DC
By Zulma | January 30, 2010
JustSeeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade
Exhibition Dates: January 8 – January 30
First Friday Reception: Friday, January 8, 2010, 6-9PM
Live music by experimental trio Vodka and Donuts!
Food and refreshments will be served
$5 suggested donation
The JustSeeds Artists? Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to collaborate, sell their work online in a central location and support social movements. Utilizing print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates work together over many miles to create, resist, and bring meaningful artwork to the masses for affordable prices. These artists believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society. Featuring works by: Santiago Armengod, Jesus Barraza, Graham Boyle, Melanie Cervantes, DC51 Collective, Alec Icky Dunn, Thea Gahr, Sabeth Jackson, Nicolas Lampert, Josh Mac Phee, Colin Matthes, Cesar Maxit, Dylan Miner, Roger Peet, Jesse Purcell, Favianna Rodriguez, Erik Ruin, Beth Schaible, Chris Stain, Meredith Stern, SWOON, Mary Tremonte, Kristine Virsis, Pete Yahnke, and Bec Young.
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La Otra Campa?a and the EZLN CALL for Submissions
By Zulma | January 30, 2010
New Time limit CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
“La Otra Campaña” and the EZLN is launching a graphic campaign under the motto “Primero Nuestros Presos”(Our Prisoners First). We are inviting everyone to participate in this campaign.
The designs will be used for stickers, posters, and stencils.
-Stickers: 10 x 14 cm or 20 x 28 cm, full color, minimum resolution 300
ppp, formats .png, .jpg, .tiff.-Posters: We will only print 2 designs, in which we will decide collectively, size 41 x 68 cm, in 2 colors, the designs that wont be printed as posters will be printed for fliers.
-Stencils: Send your image and we will publish all designs in high resolution in the La Otra grafica website (http://laotragrafika.vientos.info) to be reproduced as many times possible.
Send all designs to: laotra.grafica@gmail.com.
New time limit Wednesday the 27th of January
-Red de Medios Libres abajo y a la izquierda
-Campaña Primero Nuestros Presos
(Full Version in Spanish)
Extendemos la fecha de entrega de la CONVOCATORIA GR?FIKA
En el contexto por la libertad de los presos políticos de México y el
mundo, el EZLN junto con la Otra Campaña lanzan una iniciativa llamada
¿ Campaña Primero Nuestros Presos?, a la cual se suman colectivos,
organizaciones, pueblos e individuos con el fin de impulsar y construir
diversos esfuerzos para continuar con la lucha y conseguir la liberación
de los Presos políticos de la Otra Campaña.
Entendiendo que una de las tareas principales es la información y
difusión, hacemos un llamado a los colectivos, organizaciones e
individuos para que envíen su gráfica combativa con el tema ?libertad a
los Presos políticos?, ya sea de todos en su conjunto o de algún caso en
particular. Los diseños serán utilizados para crear una campaña de
difusión visual de carácter nacional con pegatas, carteles y esténciles.
Te invitamos a que nos envíes tu gráfica, si es para pegata que sea de 10
x 14 cm o su múltiplo, en todos los colores posibles, resolución media 300
ppp (puntos por pulgada), ya sea en formato .png, .jpg, .tiff.
Si es para cartel sélo imprimiremos dos diseños, los cuales
seleccionaremos de manera colectiva, la medida es de 41 x 68 a dos tintas,
mismos que también utilizaremos para realizar volantes.
Si es para esténcil manda tu imagen, la publicaremos en el sitio de la
otra gráfica (http://laotragrafika.vientos.info). La totalidad de las
imágenes que recibamos serán publicadas en el mismo sitio para que sean
reproducidas cuantas veces sea posible. La dirección electrónica a la que
puedes enviar tu imagen es laotra.grafica@gmail.com.
Puedes consultar la lista de Nuestros Presos en:
http://es.wordpress.com/tag/estos-son-Nuestros-Presos/
Esta convocatoria inicia desde el momento de su publicación hasta el
miércoles 27 de enero.
-Red de Medios Libres abajo y a la izquierda
-Campaña Primero Nuestros Presos
thanks justseeds.org collective
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space invader 3
By Zulma | January 27, 2010
by Leigh Bowery
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Before Lady Gaga there was Leigh Bowery
By Zulma | January 27, 2010
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Maybe Gaga’s inspiration
By Zulma | January 27, 2010
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Leigh Bowery
By Zulma | January 27, 2010
Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was an Australian performance artist, club promoter, actor, pop star, model and fashion designer, based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980s and 1990s London and New York art and fashion circles influencing a generation of artists and designers. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, Antony and the Johnsons, John Galliano, the Scissor Sisters, David LaChapelle, Lady Bunny plus numerous Nu-Rave bands and nightclubs in London and New York which arguably perpetuated his avant garde ideas.
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Flamenco Dancer in Triana
By Zulma | January 24, 2010
from my friend Vicky in Sevilla
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Sri Lankan general committed horrible atrocities in the name of War
By Zulma | January 11, 2010
Human Rights Watch research determined that the Sri Lankan government is responsible for widespread abductions and ?disappearances? that are a national crisis. Human Rights Watch urged the government to reveal the whereabouts of the ?disappeared,? immediately end the practice, and hold the perpetrators accountable.
Similar to Juarez, Sri Lanka is currently suffering from a stream of Dissapearances. Please write your govt. rep’s and try to get their attention on this. Also, don’t buy anything from Walmart that says Sri Lanka. Show the govt. you’ll spend your dollars in a moral way.
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on the web is this remark real?
By Zulma | January 9, 2010
Kirsten Rae Simonsen, "You Seem Like A Real Unique And Interesting Person", originally uploaded by cbiggs.
image by Kirsten Rae Simonsen,
I hope so. lol
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UNDERGROUND FILM ARTIST SHARES AT THE MOMA
By Zulma | January 9, 2010
The Museum of Modern Art in NYC:? An Evening with Jim Finn
Monday, February 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m.? Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
A brilliant and wickedly satirical mash-up of documentary, fictionalized restaging, and agitprop, Jim Finn?s The Juche Idea (2008) takes as its inspiration and its target the film theories and principles of self-reliance espoused by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Absolutist in the extreme, the Dear Leader?s moviemaking edicts were designed to uphold the ?monolithic ideology of the Party.? Finn subjects them to withering parody through genre-defying experimental conceits, incorporating scenes from North Korean melodramas and propaganda films dating back to the 1950s, allusions to the 1978 kidnapping of the late South Korean filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, and absurdist reenactments of English-language lessons from official textbooks. Robert Koehler in Variety writes, ?The evidence that current film-making is brimming with original, standard-breaking creations has to include the work of Jim Finn?. To say that [his] films open up new possibilities for satire, ideas, and language isn?t an overstatement.? Finn also presents his recent short films, Dick Cheney in a Cold, Dark Cell (2009) and selections from la loteria (2004?05).
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/8609
For more info about jim finn’s movies:? http://jimfinn.org/index.html
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The Yes Men Strike again
By Zulma | December 26, 2009
The Ugandan delegation to the COP-15 climate talks has been the first to react to Canada’s announcement of ambitious new emissions-reduction targets and vigorous climate-debt reparations to African nations. “This is a day that will define our century,” said Margaret Matembe, MP and head of the Climate Committee of Uganda, an environmental caucus in the Ugandan parliament. “Today, we no longer have to wait for a COP20 or COP100 before the voices of our children are heard.” Visit the http://en.cop-15.org/
The Yes Men in Copenhagen = a corporation and/or government is going to get humiliated for good reason. This time it’s Canada.
More here: http://theyesmen.org/canada
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New Media helps Graff Artist
By Zulma | November 25, 2009
By chris on tempt1
“That was the first time i’ve drawn anything since 2003! It feels like taking a breath after being held underwater for 5 minutes.” –Tony Quan aka Tempt One
eyewriter.org is live!!
Tony Quan, aka Tempt1, is a legendary LA graffiti writer, publisher and activist. He was diagnosed with ALS in 2003, a disease which has left him almost completely physically paralyzed… except for his eyes. Earlier this year, members of FAT, OpenFrameworks, G.R.L., The Ebeling Group and Tempt1, teamed up to create a low-cost, open source eye-tracking system that will allow ALS patients to draw using just their eyes. Check out the project along with source code, free software, diy instructables and eyetags by Tempt1 at eyewriter.org. The EyeWriter core development team consists of Tony Quan, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue, Zach Lieberman, Theo Watson and James Powderly. With support from: The Ebeling Group, the Not Impossible Foundation and Parsons Communication Design & Technology. Many thanks to: Keith Pasko, LM4K, Eleanor Dunk, Jamie Wilkinson, and Greg Leuch. |
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Eyebeam Fellowships 2010
By Zulma | November 24, 2009
Eyebeam Fellowships 2010
Category: Awards, Grants, Fellowships [View all]
Posted by: Eyebeam
Deadline: 12/11/09
Eyebeam, the leading nonprofit art and technology center in the US, is accepting applications from artists, hackers, engineers, designers, curators, and creative technologists to participate in their fellowship program. The ideal fellow has experience working with and making innovative technological art or creative technology projects. Fellows will engage in their own independent projects, projects initiated by or conceived collaboratively with Eyebeam’s staff, fellows, and residents.
The upcoming 11-month cycle will run from 3/1/2010 to 1/31/2011. Selected Fellows will be expected to work at least four days per week at Eyebeam’s location in New York, and to contribute to the Eyebeam community as mentors to residents and youth and as principals in research initiatives, programs, and education. Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend.
Deadline: December 11, 2009
Visit http://eyebeam.org/get-involved-fellowships/calls/open-call-eyebeam-fellowships-2010 for information.
from the CAA website of course
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She is an Astronomer
By Zulma | November 23, 2009
December 3, 10:00am – 11:30am
Windward Campus, Paliku Theatre
Join ?a ?panel ?of ?female ?astronomers ?as ?they ?discuss their ?research ?at ?the ?UH? Institute ?for ?Astronomy. Dr. Beth Biller, Dr. Elena Moise and Dr. Lisa Kewley each speak about their work, followed by ?a ?question-and?-answer? session? with the audience. ??This ?FREE ?symposium ?targets ?middle? and ?high ?school? girls,?but?welcomes ?all? students? and? teachers.? Teachers can contact nancyali@hawaii.edu or call 236-9169 for more information and to reserve seats.
Ticket Information
FREE
Event Sponsor
Center for Aerospace Education, Windward Campus
More Information
236-9169, nancyali@hawaii.edu, http://aerospace.wcc.hawaii.edu/imaginarium.html
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The McCoy’s
By Zulma | November 17, 2009
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from networked performance
By Zulma | November 17, 2009
By jo on writings
“Abstract: This article examines the racialization of informational labor in machinima about Chinese player workers in the massively multiplayer online role playing game World of Warcraft. Such fan-produced video content extends the representational space of the game and produces overtly racist narrative space to attach to a narrative that, while carefully avoiding explicit references to racism or racial conflict in our world, is premised upon a racial war in an imaginary world — the World of Azeroth. This profiling activity is part of a larger biometric turn initiated by digital culture’s informationalization of the body and illustrates the problematics of informationalized capitalism. If late capitalism is characterized by the requirement for subjects to be possessive individuals, to make claims to citizenship based on ownership of property, then player workers are unnatural subjects in that they are unable to obtain avatarial self-possession. The painful paradox of this dynamic lies in the ways that it mirrors the dispossession of information workers in the Fourth Worlds engendered by ongoing processes of globalization. As long as Asian “farmers” are figured as unwanted guest workers within the culture of MMOs, user-produced extensions of MMO-space like machinima will most likely continue to depict Asian culture as threatening to the beauty and desirability of shared virtual space in the World of Warcraft.” Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft, Lisa Nakamura, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication. [via]
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