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This was originally a link to a now expired page six article on the Genart art show at the Puck building. (the complete article is now posted in the comments section of this thread) Curators Jon Raymond and Jay Sanders took the oppurtunity to make the whole show a prank. All but one of the artists in the show are friends of the curators using pseudonyms and made work specifically for the show, work which they would not make "in real life" Not only was the art work itself a prank, but many of the dramatic events at the opening were staged. The incedents ranged from an organized protest, to accusations of adultry and spilled drinks.
my hand became my enemy
Either way, art seems to have triumphed once and for all, at the price of having nowhere to go. "Art after the end of art," Danto called it. Could art really have escaped its own history?
Charlotte Morman
" I had no difficulty being Korean in America. We were thinking in
terms of numbers. This virgin land here was so big that I didn’t
have a problem. I could go anywhere. I wanted to do everything. I
was like an elephant in a china shop. I could break everything. I
was very excited about a revolution with Charlotte Mormon and
me. In Germany I was making a kind of “sexable music” and I
couldn’t find in Germany an instrumentalist girl who would play
nude for me. In Japan I was looking for some nude girls, but at
that time, classical music was a middle class thing in Japan. So
they were very prudent. So they didn’t understand what I wanted.
But Charlotte Mormon was wild oats, a tough girl. So she was a
very tough girl; she knew what I was trying to do.
America had become a very important art country by then.
America was invading Germany and France already and I needed a
homeland, to homestead. When I was in New York I came here to
SoHo. I lived on Canal street for almost 10 years." -NJP
Fame Exchange
Stephen Vitiello
Listen to Walker Arts Center audio project 7/1-30/01 crossfade
Tetrasomia
The Light of Falling Cars
The World Trade Center Residency
Scratchy Marimba
TWISTER
interviewed
What exactly is a Media Z Lounge, a Sky
Media Loft, or a Login Gateway? And could
someone please explain what happens
when you take a Chariot to the Heavens?
Here's an interview with digital artist John Simon. Pretty interesting, but I don't know what to think about his art. He taught "computer art" at SVA, and I like his approach (from the little I can make out of it.)
When I was teaching in the Computer Art MFA program at the School of Visual Arts [in New York] I taught both programming and systems. The systems class was meant to explain how the computer worked, layer by layer, from "why the user interface looks like a desktop" to "how electricity and transistors can be made to store and manipulate information." I don't think we should allow creative innovators to use application software without showing them how it is all put together.He had a piece in bitstreams, so maybe Tom could comment on his work?