teh SET call for participation / at Western Kentucky University
Deadline:
Mon Mar 22, 2010 00:00
Location:
United States of America

Hello!
Please contribute to a set being produced in collaboration with teh and Western Kentucky University's Main University Gallery. We want this to be better than real, prettier than pretty, happier than happy (think magic reefs, waterfalls, secret caverns, space-age landscapes - all at once). We need your shiny or reflective things (jewels, mirrors, treasures, sculptures, bedazzled items, wrappers, bits, bric-a-brac, ideas, etc). We will put your all your things in teh SET! No size constraints, no material constraints (just no biohazards).
Contributions will not be returned, but they will find new lives at the end of the project. Deadline for receipt of goods and information: Monday March 22, 2010.
Send your items to:
teh SET sparkle business
c/o Photography and Media Art
UTC Department of Art #1301
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Send your information to:
jessica@jessicawestbrook.com
Please include your name, a short bio (less than 250 words), and a short description of your collaborative element(s) in the body of your email, so that we can credit you in the promotional materials/press and in the installation. Please put "teh SET sparkle business" in the subject line of your email. Questions? Contact jessica@jessicawestbrook.com.
This is a collaborative/cumulative project being produced by Teh, and hosted by Western Kentucky University. Teh involves Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook and is interested in simulation, immersive environments and site sensitive "natural" conditions at the intersection of popular culture, art and technology. A complete list of contributors and contributor info will be released when that information is available in late March.
Thank you!
TEH Plot
Dates:
Sun Dec 20, 2009 00:00 - Sun Dec 20, 2009

TEH is a common typographical error and refers to a collaborative art and technology group with interests in research, displaced communication, simulation, nature/culture, and geography. TEH is currently examining weather as a shared experience/vocabulary, and presents this research through installation and technologically mediated experience.
TEH plot is a Summer Scene in Boston and includes: generated cicadas, liquid fresh cut grass, Meatballs glitch, and responsive cluster lighting... amongst other Summery components.
December 18 - January 22
Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook
Artists' Reception / Talk : December 19 / 5:30 to 8:00pm
FPAC Gallery
300 Summer Street M1
Boston, MA 02210
Hours: Mondays - Wednesdays 9AM-3:30PM, Thursdays-Fridays 9AM-10PM, Saturdays 5PM-10PM.
TEH: Nowcasting, generative sound installation
Dates:
Fri Oct 23, 2009 00:00 - Wed Oct 14, 2009
Location:
United States of America
Sewanee’s University Art Gallery presents Nowcasting, an installation created by the collaborative group TEH, from Oct. 9 through Nov. 22. An artists’ talk in Convocation Hall at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, will be followed by a reception. Sewanee’s University Art Gallery is located on Georgia Avenue on the campus of the University of the South. The gallery is free, accessible, and open to the public. Hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon - 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Visitors to Nowcasting will experience the building of a digitized storm in the confines of the gallery. Like TEH’s other works, this installation is intended to “challenge the senses through the use of simulation, and present weather/environment through mediated, virtual and physical processes.” Entering a gallery space transformed by sound, visitors will question the reality of what their senses tell them about the surrounding environment.
TEH includes the artists Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook. They named their collaboration TEH after a mistake commonly made when using a keyboard—typing “teh” instead of “the.” This name represents the group’s interest in how an actively participating audience can be a factor in the meaning of an artwork. Individuals have unintended and surprising effects on the messages they create and receive. This name also represents the group’s interest in the difficulties of communication. Messages are often scrambled, or mean different things to different people. Representations intended to simulate reality can never be exactly the same thing. The group’s current focus is on the intersection of technology with weather and specific physical sites.
Phillip Andrew Lewis often explores the viewer’s navigation of mental and physical environments in his work. He received his MFA from the Memphis College of Art. In 2005 Lewis established Medicine Factory, a contemporary art space in downtown Memphis, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Adam Trowbridge uses a variety of approaches and media, including performance, video and computer-driven installations, to explore the connections, and the gaps, between what we experience and what we understand. Trowbridge received his MFA in Electronic Visualization / Responsive Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his work has been featured nationally and internationally.
Jessica Westbrook works with photography, video, language, and information design. In her work she explores subjective and often contradictory responses to anything from cultural artifacts to extreme situations. Westbrook received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art. In 2005 she established the artist’s collective SEED in Chattanooga, and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Visitors to Nowcasting will experience the building of a digitized storm in the confines of the gallery. Like TEH’s other works, this installation is intended to “challenge the senses through the use of simulation, and present weather/environment through mediated, virtual and physical processes.” Entering a gallery space transformed by sound, visitors will question the reality of what their senses tell them about the surrounding environment.
TEH includes the artists Phillip Andrew Lewis, Adam Trowbridge, and Jessica Westbrook. They named their collaboration TEH after a mistake commonly made when using a keyboard—typing “teh” instead of “the.” This name represents the group’s interest in how an actively participating audience can be a factor in the meaning of an artwork. Individuals have unintended and surprising effects on the messages they create and receive. This name also represents the group’s interest in the difficulties of communication. Messages are often scrambled, or mean different things to different people. Representations intended to simulate reality can never be exactly the same thing. The group’s current focus is on the intersection of technology with weather and specific physical sites.
Phillip Andrew Lewis often explores the viewer’s navigation of mental and physical environments in his work. He received his MFA from the Memphis College of Art. In 2005 Lewis established Medicine Factory, a contemporary art space in downtown Memphis, and he has exhibited nationally and internationally.
Adam Trowbridge uses a variety of approaches and media, including performance, video and computer-driven installations, to explore the connections, and the gaps, between what we experience and what we understand. Trowbridge received his MFA in Electronic Visualization / Responsive Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his work has been featured nationally and internationally.
Jessica Westbrook works with photography, video, language, and information design. In her work she explores subjective and often contradictory responses to anything from cultural artifacts to extreme situations. Westbrook received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art. In 2005 she established the artist’s collective SEED in Chattanooga, and has exhibited nationally and internationally.
BIN, collective installation reception
Dates:
Fri Feb 06, 2009 00:00 - Tue Jan 13, 2009
Location:
United States of America
What happens when artists work together?
BIN, a collective experiment runs 1/9/09 - 2/20/09 at AVA Center at 30 Frazier Avenue in Chattanooga, TN.
Everything is free and open.
SEED, an art collective in Chattanooga, TN is producing BIN. The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations.
SEED is pleased to announce the participation, contribution, and/or telematic conversation by some fantastic collectives including Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+, and The Yes Men.
SEED hopes you will join us for an artist/curator talk at AVA Center on Wednesday January 28, beginning at 5:30 pm with Jessica Westbrook, SEED collaborator, about “shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system” and Adam Trowbridge on “Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics.”
SEED and AVA hope you will join us for an installation reception on Friday February 6, 5:30-8pm.
Additional programs include a collaborative event with InCubate-Chicago and scheduled Skype calls with participating collectives. Details will be available soon.
Launched in 2005, SEED began as a loosely organized artist run collective with a studio, research projects, experiments, programs and initiatives in Chattanooga, TN. Our mission remains to push the boundaries of creative practice and expectations in the South, invent opportunities, develop connections for our projects, and be an educational resource for our community. Our motivation is art.
AVA Center is located at 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga TN, 37405 and can be found at www.avartists.org.
For more information see: http://seedbin.wordpress.com, skype: teleSEED or write info@seed-2005.com
BIN, a collective experiment runs 1/9/09 - 2/20/09 at AVA Center at 30 Frazier Avenue in Chattanooga, TN.
Everything is free and open.
SEED, an art collective in Chattanooga, TN is producing BIN. The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations.
SEED is pleased to announce the participation, contribution, and/or telematic conversation by some fantastic collectives including Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls, InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+, and The Yes Men.
SEED hopes you will join us for an artist/curator talk at AVA Center on Wednesday January 28, beginning at 5:30 pm with Jessica Westbrook, SEED collaborator, about “shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system” and Adam Trowbridge on “Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics.”
SEED and AVA hope you will join us for an installation reception on Friday February 6, 5:30-8pm.
Additional programs include a collaborative event with InCubate-Chicago and scheduled Skype calls with participating collectives. Details will be available soon.
Launched in 2005, SEED began as a loosely organized artist run collective with a studio, research projects, experiments, programs and initiatives in Chattanooga, TN. Our mission remains to push the boundaries of creative practice and expectations in the South, invent opportunities, develop connections for our projects, and be an educational resource for our community. Our motivation is art.
AVA Center is located at 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga TN, 37405 and can be found at www.avartists.org.
For more information see: http://seedbin.wordpress.com, skype: teleSEED or write info@seed-2005.com
BIN, collective installation in Chattanooga Tennessee
Dates:
Fri Feb 20, 2009 00:00 - Wed Dec 10, 2008
Location:
United States of America
http://seedbin.wordpress.com/
BIN, an art installation happening at the AVA Center in Chattanooga Tennessee, will present the work of art collectives from around the United States. SEED, an art collective based in Chattanooga, is producing this art installation in cooperation with Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls (LA/New York), InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+, and The Yes Men.
BIN will manifest at the AVA Center in Chattanooga, TN January 9 - February 20, 2009. There will be several programs including talks on Wednesday January 28, 2009 with Jessica Westbrook, SEED collaborator, artist, and UTC Art Faculty, about "shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system" and Adam Trowbridge on "Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics." A reception is scheduled for February 6, 2009. Other programs will be announced as more information becomes available. AVA Center is located at 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga TN, 37405 and can be found at www.avartists.org.
The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations. BIN will turn a gallery installation into a distance-collapsing intersection of diversity + social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations.
Launched in 2005, SEED began as a loosely organized artist run collective with a studio, research projects, experiments, programs and initiatives in Chattanooga, TN. Our mission remains to push the boundaries of creative practice and expectations in the South, invent opportunities, develop connections for our projects, and be an educational resource for our community. Our motivation is art.
SEED STUDIO
Info@seed-2005.com
658 Gurley Street
Chattanooga, TN 37405
www.seed-2005.com
http://seedbin.wordpress.com/
Contact: Jessica Westbrook
cell 708.724.4860
aim / skype : teleSEED
www.JessicaWestbrook.com
BIN, an art installation happening at the AVA Center in Chattanooga Tennessee, will present the work of art collectives from around the United States. SEED, an art collective based in Chattanooga, is producing this art installation in cooperation with Basekamp (Philadelphia), BLW, Common Places Project (Tampa), DeadTech (Chicago), Fugitive Projects (Nashville), Graffiti Research Lab (New York), Guerrilla Girls (LA/New York), InCUBATE-Chicago (Chicago), Mess Hall (Chicago), Paintallica (Washington), RTmark, TEAM LUMP (Raleigh), 6+, and The Yes Men.
BIN will manifest at the AVA Center in Chattanooga, TN January 9 - February 20, 2009. There will be several programs including talks on Wednesday January 28, 2009 with Jessica Westbrook, SEED collaborator, artist, and UTC Art Faculty, about "shifting motivations: art practice as relation, network, system" and Adam Trowbridge on "Negotiating with Terror: Review of Fronts, Collectives, Movements and Guerrilla Tactics." A reception is scheduled for February 6, 2009. Other programs will be announced as more information becomes available. AVA Center is located at 30 Frazier Ave. Chattanooga TN, 37405 and can be found at www.avartists.org.
The motivation for BIN comes through a need to address the historical marginalization of artists and methods for overcoming this scenario. Each collective involved in this project is a vital model for alternative pathways, invention, action, and interdisciplinary approaches to making. This project is not predetermined. Instead of formulas, conventions, expectations, and objects - SEED is working with online relationships, and local negotiations. BIN will turn a gallery installation into a distance-collapsing intersection of diversity + social practice + collective action + time/site sensitive negotiations.
Launched in 2005, SEED began as a loosely organized artist run collective with a studio, research projects, experiments, programs and initiatives in Chattanooga, TN. Our mission remains to push the boundaries of creative practice and expectations in the South, invent opportunities, develop connections for our projects, and be an educational resource for our community. Our motivation is art.
SEED STUDIO
Info@seed-2005.com
658 Gurley Street
Chattanooga, TN 37405
www.seed-2005.com
http://seedbin.wordpress.com/
Contact: Jessica Westbrook
cell 708.724.4860
aim / skype : teleSEED
www.JessicaWestbrook.com