joy garnett
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Works in United States of America

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BIO
Joy Garnett is a painter based in New York. She appropriates news images from the Internet and re-invents them as paintings. Her subject is the apocalyptic-sublime landscape, as well as the digital image itself as cultural artifact in an increasingly technologized world. Her image research has resulted in online documentation projects, most notably The Bomb Project.

Notable past exhibitions include her recent solo shows at Winkleman Gallery, New York and at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; group exhibitions organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Artists Space, White Columns (New York), Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK), and De Witte Zaal, Ghent (Belgium). She shows with aeroplastics contemporary, Brussels, Belgium.

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homepage:
http://joygarnett.com

The Bomb Project
http://www.thebombproject.org

First Pulse Projects
http://firstpulseprojects.net

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DISCUSSION

UK Artist Banksy Goes Postal in Greater NY Area (via NEWSgrist)


UK Artist Banksy Goes Postal in Greater NY Area
Permalink: http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2005/03/uk_artist_banks.html

via NYTimes:
Need Talent to Exhibit in Museums? Not This Prankster
By RANDY KENNEDY
Okay, whoever thought up/approved this idiotic title over at the
NYTimes should be taken out and shot. But do check out the Times'
slide show of Banksy inserting things on walls at local museums.

"...over the last two weeks, a shadowy British graffiti artist who
calls himself Banksy has carried his own humorous artworks into four
New York institutions - the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the American Museum of Natural
History - and attached them with some sort of adhesive to the walls,
alongside other paintings and exhibits. Similar stunts at the Louvre
and the Tate museum have earned the artist - who will not reveal his
real name - a following in Europe, where he has had successful gallery
shows and sold thousands of books of his artwork. But his graffiti has
also landed him in legal trouble.

"Elyse Topalian, a spokeswoman for the Met, said that museum officials
believed that a painting found there - a small, gold-framed portrait
of a woman wearing a gas mask - was hung surreptitiously on March 13.
Guards noticed it and removed it from a wall near other paintings in
the American wing, she said. Ms. Topalian added that no damage had
been done to the wall or to other artworks.

"The museum does not look kindly on such unauthorized additions to its
walls. "I think it's fair to say that it would take more than a piece
of Scotch tape to get a work of art into the Met," Ms. Topalian
said...."

"...Pictures of the illicit art installations, apparently taken by an
accomplice of Banksy, were posted yesterday at woostercollective.com,
a site that has become a repository of pictures of graffiti and other
street and urban art. Some of the pictures show a bearded man in an
overcoat and hat, looking a little like Inspector Jacques Clouseau,
hanging his paintings in the museums.

"...Banksy - who prefers to be called not an artist, but a "quality
vandal" - said he decided to invade those four New York museums for a
simple reason.

"'I've wandered round a lot of art galleries thinking, "I could have
done that,"so it seemed only right that I should try,' he wrote.
'These galleries are just trophy cabinets for a handful of
millionaires. The public never has any real say in what art they see.'

"He said he had entered all of the museums during normal visitors'
hours. Asked how he was able to hang his works without being noticed
by museum guards or security cameras, Banksy responded rather
opaquely. 'You just have to glue on a fake beard and move with the
times,' he said."
[...]

Read about this story at the Wooster Collective;for those as yet
unacquainted with Banksy's talents here's his homepage. Also here's a
collection of his graffiti in and around London.

Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 04:11 PM in Misc. | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2005/03/uk_artist_banks.html

DISCUSSION

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DISCUSSION

Review of Palladio: IS IT ART? IS IT ADVERTISING?


Review of Palladio:

IS IT ART? IS IT ADVERTISING?
By Holly Daggers, The Forward Motion Theatre
http://www.forwardmotiontheater.org/VJ/Palladio/index.html

Bill Jones and Ben Neill premiere
PALLADIO: a playable film
http://www.PalladioMovie.com

"In the future there will be no photographs. In the future there will
be no objects at all.... In the future there will only be Art," says
the bombastic unseen narrator of Palladio, a new film by Bill Jones
with live music by Ben Neill and live video remixing by Jones. That's
Art as Lifestyle apparently: The kind of Art which is experienced
through portable media players..., Art as Style..., Art in the age of
Steve Jobs where iPods are as cool as the commercials that sell
them....

Johnnie is an Artist. We know this because he is seen brooding around
NYC in stylish black jackets standing against shop windows and posing
like a model in Central Park -- pretty, young, and moody. Though we
never actually see him create anything he is by turns a VJ, a painter,
and eventually a rock guitarist. Picture Morissey as a VJ, but squint
until he becomes a shameless label-whore. In his first scene he plays
a concert at downtown's a/v cabaret Remote Lounge, and his
self-centered melancholia is compromised by his video accompaniment: a
VJ remix of sampled television commercials -- but not the pretty
parts, just the advertising..., the parts where the corporate logo
fades in and an announcer reads the market-researched ad-slogan. A
tongue-in-cheek bite at sampler-culture.

Mal is a disillusioned advertising executive (coincidentally the same
ad exec responsible for all those sampled ads) who loves seeing his
corporate soap-selling transformed into a profound new artform. In
fact, he is inspired to dump the trappings of his Madison Avenue
office and reinvent his company in the image of Johnnie's art. He
assembles a colony of media stylists at his palatial Hudson Valley
estate Palladio, then releases a large coffee table book (also called
Palladio) and sets out on an international book tour to herald his
edgy new discovery to the world. With the intent of ending the trend
of irony in advertising, he hopes to convince corporations to throw
their advertising dollars behind the sincerity of Art.

Molly is "the girlfriend", the woman who inspires creativity by virtue
of her inability to commit in a relationship. She was Johnnie's
girlfriend back in art school, but dumped him when he got too serious.
She becomes Mal's girlfriend briefly only to be stolen away by Johnnie
again while Mal is abroad on his publicity tour. "Sometimes I feel
like just a body" she confesses to the camera, and that about sums up
her character. Molly talks endlessly into her cellphone about drifting
through life and unsatisfying sexual encounters to an unseen friend,
therapist, or possibly one of those 1-900 confession hotlines.

These characters are well-acted but superficial sketches,
intentionally so as Palladio the Movie constantly breaks into
commercial interruption. A drive up to Mal's estate in a yellow hummer
segues laughingly into a series of Hummer ads including the slogan
"Nothing feels like a Hummer", and a sentimental reunion between
Johnnie and Molly breaks into a sacherine MasterCard ad with almost
identical characters and staging. As Mal's dreamteam of young
creatives is assembled, Jones cuts away to the steamy opener of a
daytime soapopera and the analogy is immediately obvious. Who has time
for character development in the age of fast downloads and screensaver
art? We know what these actors represent, no need to bore us with the
details. Is it surprising that an audience can dispose of the
backstory trappings that make characters three-dimensional, when we
don't need any overworked effort to recognize romance in a 10-second
diamond commercial, or the jungle-thrill of driving a Hummer to the
supermarket...? In the age of laptop music and iMovie masterpieces,
time and effort are of the past. Quality is now measured in megapixels
and value is directly related to the price of plug-ins.

The logo saturated televisionworld that baby boomers have created --
the very same instant-gourmet existance Mal wants to defeat -- is the
only world Johnnie and Molly have ever known. They are nothing but
labels, commercials, product placement. Reputation is replaced with
brandname recognition. They don't know who they are or why they're
here, and they certainly don't extend any effort in finding out, but
they know they want to be stars. Their lives are measured in page hits
and blogger-like confessions; their audience is anonymous downloads,
and Johnnie's final concert-by-cellphone is cut tragicly short when he
implodes from a network overload of wireless callers.... Mal is the
real hero here, trying desperately to bring sincerity to advertising,
and find friendship in a generation that does nothing but sell him
out. Ultimately he makes the mistake of trusting Johnnie, who
selfishly steals his girlfriend as quickly as he pirated Mal's
commercials. Don't trust anyone under 30!

DISCUSSION

Fwd: Cultural Politics 1.1


hi everyone -- I'm proud to have an in the first issue of Cultural
Politics Journal.

best wishes,
joy
http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/joy.html

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: john armitage
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 20:52:34 -0000
Subject: Cultural Politics 1.1

Dear friends and colleagues

The first issue of Cultural Politics has just been published. The
contents page is below. I would be grateful if you would forward this
message on to anyone who you think might be interested in the journal
and on to any relevant mailing lists. Submissions and subscriptions
information is below the contents page.

Best wishes to all.

John

---------------------------------

Cultural Politics
Volume 1, Issue 1
March 2005

Introducing Cultural Politics
John Armitage, Ryan Bishop and Douglas Kellner

Mao Zedong's Impact on Cultural Politics in the West
Andrew Ross

Pornography of War
Jean Baudrillard

Cold Panic
Paul Virilio

The Anthropologist as Witness in Contemporary Regimes of Intervention
George E. Marcus

*Special Section on the Cultural Politics of Information &
Communications Technologies*
Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics
Jodi Dean

Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner

Hardt and Negri's Information Empire: A Critical Response
Mark Poster

*Field Report*
Follow the Image
Joy Garnett

*Book Review*
The (Not so) Disparate Voices of E-Democracy
Joss Hands
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Paper Submissions to:
j.armitage@unn.ac.uk
ellrb@nus.edu.sg

Subscription Information:
3 Issues per volume; one volume per anumn; 2005: Volume 1.
Online: http://www.bergpublishers.com/uk/culture/culture_about.htm
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DISCUSSION

REminder: Palladio this Friday & Saturday


flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI March 1 - 7, 2005
http://nyc.flavorpill.net/current.jsp#palladio

MULTIMEDIA
Palladio feat. Ben Neill and Bill Jones

when: Fri 3.4 & Sat 3.5 (8:30pm)
where: Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, 212.864.1414) map
price: $21 ($10 at the door)
links: Event Info | Ben Neill | Bill Jones
http://www.palladiomovie.com
http://nyc.flavorpill.net/current.jsp#palladio

Jonathan Dee's novel Palladio uncovers the awkwardness of two former
lovers becoming coworkers at an avant-garde ad agency. In a new
adaptation at Symphony Space, composer Ben Neill and media artist Bill
Jones expand on the novel's theme with the premiere of their
interactive movie, featuring musicians and video mixed live.
Performers Mikel Rouse, Zoe Lister-Jones, and Cort Garretson are
digitally transported into an environment created from the ads
depicted in the story, as the worlds of music, art, and advertising
combine — adding powerful fuel to the ongoing debate over the lines
between commerce and culture. (LM)

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Palladio @ The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/goingson/music/

The New Yorker
Issue of 2005-03-07
Posted 2005-02-28

"PALLADIO"
Jonathan Dee's 1998 novel about the intersection of art and
advertising is the basis for a new music-video performance work by the
avant-garde composer Ben Neill and the media artist Bill Jones (which
includes songs with lyrics written by Lance Jensen, the creative
director at Modernista who designed Volkswagen's "Drivers Wanted"
campaign). Mikel Rouse, the composer-performer best known for his
cutting talk-show opera "Dennis Cleveland," leads the cast. (Thalia
Theatre, Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St. 212-864-5400. March 4-5
at 8:30.)

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