joy garnett
Since the beginning
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

NEWSgrist - where spin is art
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/

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DISCUSSION

one last cocktail


D.C. DIARY
by Tyler Green 3/17/04
A painting revival, via works by Joy Garnett and Ian Whitmore
Artnet Magazine - reviews
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/green/green3-17-04.asp

DISCUSSION

Press Release / Medienmitteilung AIL-Project HGKZ (fwd)


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Media Release (for immediate release)
Zurich, March 15, 2004

Artists in Swiss Science Labs

The Artists-in-Labs-Project of the University of Art and Applied Sciences
Zurich creates new research opportunities in Switzerland at the interface
between art and science. 14 artists from Australia, Germany, India, Austria,
Singapore, UK, USA and Switzerland were chosen and awarded with a 3 to 5
months AIL grant.

The Artists-in-Labs-Project (AIL) of the University of Art and Applied
Sciences Zurich encourages education, research and innovative processes and
methods of production, which blend the disciplines of art and science. It is
assumed that innovative research basically takes place in novel
collaborative environments like these, so artists can now work between April
and November 2004 in Swiss science laboratories.

The project is a new development for Switzerland. It opens up the horizon
for creative strategies, which address the changes currently taking place in
the art world and in its context. Similarly, the analysis and observation of
these changes in the new fields and contexts of Science is also the main aim
of this program. Here, the central component of this exchange and
collaboration between art and science incorporates communication, perception
and imagination as well as comparisons of the aesthetic experience.
Therefore, the AIL-Project offers new applied research potentials, which
open up the discourses about the interface between art and science. It also
offers artists, designers and teachers at the HGKZ the possibility to
collect new experiences, improve their technical know-how and have access to
research ideas in nine unique contexts from the science community.

Selection of Artists took place in January

The jury consisted of: Prof. Dr. Ruth Durrer, Theoretical Physics,
Departement de Physique Theorique, Universite de Geneve, Beat Gerber, Head
of Communication, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Villigen, Kaspar Kasics,
Independant Filmmaker, Zurich, Dominik Landwehr, Head Science & Future,
Migros Culture Percentage, Prof. Dr. Moira Norrie, Director, Institute of
Informations Systems, ETH, Zurich, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott, Media Artist, HGKZ,
Zurich. In January the jury selected 12 from 206 applications. Artists were
favoured whose proposals indicated an interest in building bridges between
art and science through innovative, interpretive and original conceptual
ideas. This included the ability to communicate creative ideas, processes
and methodologies. The jury was looking for solid projects, which have
interactive potentials and in this light the relevance of the artist

DISCUSSION

Re: thoughts on Appropriation versus Sampling


I just stumbled across this short essay by Leon Golub;
here's a quote and the link:

"I'm nuts on images. I cut them out of books and newspapers, mostly books
and magazines. And this is absolutely crucial to me, because this is one
of the ways I tap into the world. It's the way I visualize it. But I see
the world not just out of my own obsessive attitude. I see the world
because it comes to me through media. Through film, through newspapers,
through TV...we're surfeited really. We're over exposed. We're shoved at
all the time by media. And I've often said it's kind of a half joke, you
know how they say you're sixty or eighty percent water? Well, actually
we're made up of twenty-five thousand photographs, eleven thousand films.
All of this has moved through us and is affecting us in some way or the
other. So we're media creatures. We're living in an extraordinary visual
world."

full text: http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/bostonarts/2002/golub.html

more on Leon Golub:
http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArch/Golub.htm
http://www.jca-online.com/golub.html

various solo shows at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NYC
http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/artistsrffa/artgol01.html

DISCUSSION

Re: an end to joywar...


hi Michael,

I don't think it's necessary to remove any of this artwork -- I just meant
that we should move on to the next project/s now. I think as a whole it's
pretty damn cool.

I don't think the discussion is "over" either --

best,
J

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Szpakowski wrote:

> HI Joy
> just so that we can be clear, are you saying you'd
> like us to take the mirrors/works down now?
> I've grown quite attached to my contribution and I'm a
> bit reluctant to bin it -plus I'd certainly like to
> keep my links page to others' work intact with perhaps
> a little reworking of the editorial -as you say, cause
> aside, there's some nice work.
> Obviously if you feel really strongly here then I for
> one will do whatever you wish but it would be a shame
> to see the "remix" pieces go, I think.
> best
> michael
> --- Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com> wrote:
> > Jo-Anne Green wrote:
> >
> > > I find myself feeling reluctant to see Joywar
> > continue.
> >
> > I too think that Joywar was a fantastic show of
> > ingenuity and solidarity,
> > and that perhaps our work is done here. I'm not
> > interested in turning it
> > into a bloodfest. We're artists, not insurgents.
> >
> > My original feeling stands: that
> > lawsuits--objections to sampling--of
> > this kind are not meritorious, that they are
> > ignorant and rooted in fear,
> > that they cramp and discourage creativity, that they
> > belong to an old,
> > dead world. My worries were met with a fantastic,
> > positive creative
> > onslaught. Clearly we are all on pretty much the
> > same page. Thanks to
> > everyone for your creative input, and for your
> > friendship ('cause I was
> > really freaked-out. thanx, I feel less so now).
> >
> > I think the main thing was that this "problem" was
> > turned
> > into a locus of creativity. It's important not to
> > lie down and be a
> > doormat everytime your principles are challenged. We
> > *are* living at the
> > forefront of a strange and exciting creative
> > revolution. It seems slow
> > and weird (it is) but taken as a whole, it's
> > exciting. call it growing
> > pains. I really don't believe I've done anything
> > wrong by making this
> > painting from a found image. There is nothing
> > immoral about doing what I
> > do. I will continue to sample media images and news
> > photographs. I have a
> > big new project on the front burner. And it's great
> > when your community
> > supports you.
> >
> > How cool is that? Let's move on now.
> >
> > (If something else bad happens, believe me you'll be
> > the first to know).
> >
> > So in the meantime,
> > yours in virtuosity --
> > Agent.Joy
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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DISCUSSION

an end to joywar...


Jo-Anne Green wrote:

> I find myself feeling reluctant to see Joywar continue.

I too think that Joywar was a fantastic show of ingenuity and solidarity,
and that perhaps our work is done here. I'm not interested in turning it
into a bloodfest. We're artists, not insurgents.

My original feeling stands: that lawsuits--objections to sampling--of
this kind are not meritorious, that they are ignorant and rooted in fear,
that they cramp and discourage creativity, that they belong to an old,
dead world. My worries were met with a fantastic, positive creative
onslaught. Clearly we are all on pretty much the same page. Thanks to
everyone for your creative input, and for your friendship ('cause I was
really freaked-out. thanx, I feel less so now).

I think the main thing was that this "problem" was turned
into a locus of creativity. It's important not to lie down and be a
doormat everytime your principles are challenged. We *are* living at the
forefront of a strange and exciting creative revolution. It seems slow
and weird (it is) but taken as a whole, it's exciting. call it growing
pains. I really don't believe I've done anything wrong by making this
painting from a found image. There is nothing immoral about doing what I
do. I will continue to sample media images and news photographs. I have a
big new project on the front burner. And it's great when your community
supports you.

How cool is that? Let's move on now.

(If something else bad happens, believe me you'll be the first to know).

So in the meantime,
yours in virtuosity --
Agent.Joy