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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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Re: Fwd: [undercurrents] Fwd: Arts Intolerance: Emily Jacir/Ulrich Museum Wichita (fwd)


My *first* reaction was actually: *There are JEWS in Wichita?!* Okay, wow.

So I guess being Palestinian is even worse than being a jew in Wichita.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, t.whid wrote:

> THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!!
>
> I'm going to force a museum to allow my aesthetic opinion to be equally
> balanced the next time I see something I don't like in a gallery or museum.
>
> BLUE! I HATE BLUE! I demand space in the gallery for my opinion to be heard!
>
> It's absolutely ridiculous. The admins of this so-called art institution
> should be ashamed of themselves.
>
> On Dec 14, 2004, at 1:00 PM, Plasma Studii wrote:
>
>> while this would be outrageous in new york, this is in wichita. ever been
>> there? it's actually not totally freaky proudly conservative, and
>> anti-everybody else like much of texas, but about like nj. not as
>> glamorous, but not despondent. i grew up near there.
>>
>>
>> anyway, seems like nobody HAS to send their work to the mid-west, we
>> choose to (or we choose agents who choose to, etc) but the view of what
>> is decent policy for art will be different there. what we see as a
>> shocking breach, they wouldn't think twice about. this issue is probably
>> somewhere in between.
>>
>> here, art museums can give more "rights" to the artists and their work and
>> say "sorry" to investors. not on all occasions, but often. it's seen as
>> integrity. there, they just don't do that. investors come first, and
>> artists are way down the list of concerns. "artistic integrity" (as we
>> define it) might get a laugh. no doubt, this museum was afraid of pissing
>> off investors.
>>
>>
>> but more importantly, it's a cultural difference. here (and i don't mean
>> just ny, but metropolises where art is gets taken more seriously), there
>> isn't nearly as much compromise as acceptance. you don't see hamburgers
>> on a menu in an indian restaurant. there, people tend to try to
>> accommodate everyone with compromises. something for everyone.
>>
>> and that's exactly what this sounds like. folks angry about only seeing
>> one side of an issue are appeased by seeing 2. i don't agree and probably
>> no one on this list does either. but we'd be members of a minority
>> mind-set there. we have an unspoken "respect" for art, that just isn't
>> universal.
>>
>>
>> we can choose to send works into that disrespectful zone, the mid-west,
>> where they don't follow our rules. we can shrug and accept their
>> reactions or just not send any there. we could also complain that they
>> don't speak english enough in bangladesh.
>>
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Arts Intolerance: Emily Jacir/Ulrich Museum Wichita


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:17:40 -0500
From: Barbara Hunt <bhunt@artistsspace.org>
To: Joy Episalla <jepisalla@nyc.rr.com>, Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com>,
Christian Rattemeyer <crattemeyer@artistsspace.org>
Subject: Fwd: [undercurrents] Fwd: Arts Intolerance: Emily Jacir/Ulrich Museum
Wichita

Begin forwarded message:

From: martha rosler <navva@earthlink.net>
Date: December 11, 2004 10:35:59 PM EST
To: undercurrents@bbs.thing.net
Subject: [undercurrents] Fwd: Arts Intolerance: Emily Jacir/Ulrich
Museum Wichita
Reply-To: undercurrents@bbs.thing.net

>> From: Emna Zghal <emna@earthlink.net>
>> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:07:37 -0500
>> Subject: [aaw] Arts Intolerance: Emily Jacir/Ulrich Museum Wichita
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> The following messages are from my friends Kamran Rastagar (visiting
>> professor at Brown University) and Emily Jacir (artist).
>> Emily's work at the a Museum in Kansas is being attacked by some
>> religious
>> group and the museum in authorizing this group to invade the space of
>> her
>> installation by materials this group is choosing.
>> I think this sets a dangerous precedent, all artists should be
>> allowed to
>> express themselves and have their work be received on its own terms.
>> The
>> fact that a Palestinian, and in this case a Palestinian American, is
>> only
>> allowed to express her view with some sort of a disclaimer shouldn't
>> be
>> acceptable. That this "disclaimer" or "balancing material" is not
>> authored
>> by the Museum and is without the agreement of the artist is
>> outrageous.
>>
>> I guess the first step is to write to the museum director and curator.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Emna Zghal
>> http://www.nathirat.net
>>
>>
>> ------ Forwarded Message
>>
>> Dear Friends,
>>
>> The following is a call for assistance by the Palestinian-American
>> artist Emily Jacir, whose work has been showing to critical acclaim
>> internationally. An exhibition of her work "Where We Come From" was
>> to go up at a museum in Wichita, Kansas affiliated with Wichita
>> State University. The administration of the museum has now
>> unilaterally decided to allow an outside religious group to have
>> access to the museum in order to place a poster, and political
>> materials 'balancing' Emily's work in the museum just outside her
>> gallery for the duration of her show.
>>
>> This is a major deviation from any norms of conduct in the arts
>> and academic community - the precedent this sets is clear and
>> disturbing; anti-gay groups can place materials at a show by a gay
>> artist,anti-semites at a show by a Jewish artist, etc.
>>
>> Please forward this widely, and write a note to the director of the
>> museum (info below) - if anyone has connections with free-speech
>> academic arts groups that are concerned about these kinds of issues,
>> please involve them.
>>
>> Reviews of Emily's work:
>>
>> http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_6_42/ai_113389509
>> (ArtForum)
>> http://adbusters.org/magazine/art_activism/exile.php
>> http://www.contemporary-magazine.com/reviews59_1.htm
>> http://www.newyorkmetro.com/arts/articles/04/whitney/3.htm
>>
>> - K. Rastegar
>>
>> -----------------------
>> Visiting Assistant Professor
>> Department of Comparative Literature
>> Marston Hall, Box E
>> Brown University
>> Providence, RI 02912
>> email: kamran_rastegar@brown.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Forwarded message from emily jacir -----
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I was slated to have a one person show at the Ulrich Museum in
>> Wichita, Kansas in January 26th. The piece was Where We Come From
>> which was included by Dan Cameron on the 8th Istanbul Biennale
>> "Poetic Justice", and a small excerpt of it was also included in
>> this years Whitney Bienniel.
>>
>> This show has been planned for over a year, much to my horror two
>> days ago I was told that the The Jewish Federation of Kansas has
>> put pressure on the University and the Museum so that they have been
>> granted permission to place brochures and a sign in the gallery
>> expressing their views concerning the politics of the Middle East.
>> Actually, the University and Museum have no idea what text is
>> contained in the brochures and what the posters are but have given
>> them permission nonetheless.
>>
>> This is a complete infringement on my right to free speech, not to
>> mention an insult to me as an artist. It is intolerable that I have
>> to go through this just because of my background. I am sure no
>> other artist would accept to work under such conditions. They are
>> placing a huge unnecessary burden on my exhibit with the presence of
>> the brochures which are intended to silence or censor my work. I am
>> shocked that they would place such conditions in a the space of a
>> museum.
>>
>> On the one hand they are allowing me to speak but on another they
>> are trying to control my work by placing brochures, thereby
>> contextualizing and framing my work in ways I have no control over.
>> Not only is this an infringement to free speech but it also disturbs
>> the integrity of my work.
>>
>> This also sets a bad precedent for them - the next time the
>> University has a show that some group wants to object to they will
>> have to put that group's sign up in the gallery.
>>
>> I feel violated as an artist by their decision to put a sign in the
>> exhibition with my pictures. This modifies my installation and the
>> work is no longer what it was intended to be.
>>
>> I think people should be able to see my work on its own terms and be
>> able to form their own opinion. I am not against having a
>> conversation, or organizing panels where a variety of views can be
>> expressed if necessary.
>>
>> If this group is allowed to do this then perhaps other groups should
>> also demand that their own signs and brochures be placed in the
>> gallery as well. How could they be refused? The Museum has now
>> opened up my exhibition space as space for comments from one
>> political group so why deny others?
>>
>> I am very upset and people are telling me I should cancel the
>> exhibition. I am not sure what to do....I don't want to cancel
>> because it is not fair that the people in Wichita are unable to see
>> my work because of this fiasco but on the other hand these terms are
>> unacceptable....
>>
>> Please help me. Does anyone have contacts with the ACLU or ideas?
>>
>> The Director of the Museum is David Butler.
>>
>> Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
>> Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount, Wichita, Kansas 67260
>> contact: Dr. David Butler, Director
>> telephone: 316-978-3664, fax: 316-978-3898
>> e-mail: david.butler@wichita.edu
>>
>> Kevin Mullins is the Curator who invited me to Wichita.
>> Kevin.Mullins@wichita.edu
>> 316 978-5851
>>
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Sunday, December 12, 2004
Tansey's West Face: Of Paradoxes & Giant Snowballs

via NYTimes:

Find the Hidden Philosophers
By MIA FINEMAN

MARK TANSEY'S ambitious new painting "West Face" appears to be a suavely
rendered picture of a band of hikers trudging up a snowy mountainside. But
look closely, and you'll find a landscape treacherous with puzzles,
paradoxes, hidden images and allusions. [...]

His latest work, now on view at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, teases
the eye as well as the mind. Nothing in these six large paintings is quite
what it appears to be. A portrait of Karl Marx lurks in a giant snowball;
faces emerge in the shadows; a rocky cliff shifts from concave to convex
and back again. [...]

Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 10:48 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/tanseys_west_fa.html

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Cory Arcangel: Page Scraping, Disassembly, and Other Assorted Techniques
for Making Art from Other People's Code

Supermario
Announcing a lecture/demonstration by Cory Arcangel at 6:00 PM on
Thursday, December 16, in the LeRoy Neiman Gallery in Dodge Hall on
Columbia University's Morningside Campus at 116th and Broadway (see map).

Cory Arcangel is a computer artist whose work has been exhibited in the
Whitney Biennial, the American Museum of the Moving Image, Eyebeam, Foxy
Production, the Tate Britain, and Team Gallery. He is a founding member of
BEIGE, a group of computer programmers and enthusiasts who recycle
obsolete computers and video game systems to make art and music, and a
member of RSG (Radical Software Group).

In this presentation, "Page Scraping, Disassembly, and Other Assorted
Techniques for Making Art from Other People's Code," Cory will demonstrate
his work and discuss its relationship to technology and media culture.

Cory writes:
My work is inspired by and functions as a means to understand my own media
saturated existence. Since the present and future is filtered through the
past, my work with digital media technology is directly informed by my
time spent with television, music, video games and early Macintosh
computers. This interest focused and crystallized during my time spent as
a classical guitar major and TAMARA student at Oberlin Conservatory of
Music and College. I used the knowledge, discipline and dedication
acquired in my studies of classical music and applied them to the
similarly structured environment of working with computer code. This
lecture will focus on my tendency as an artist to work fluidly between
sampled images, music, and code.

This is the fifth lecture in a series on Open Source Culture.

The Art & Technology Lectures are organized by the Digital Media Center
and sponsored by the Computer Music Center. Streaming video of the
lectures is produced in partnership with the Columbia Center for New Media
Teaching and Learning.

Sunday, December 12, 2004 at 10:34 AM in Performances | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/announcing_a_le.html

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Saturday, December 11, 2004
Kincaid vs. Koons: Differentiate Your Brand, Baby!

[image: screenshot from The Official Thomas Kincaid Website's splash page]

There has been some musing once again over "Hi vs. Lo Art," this time over
at Insurgent Muse (thanks From the Floor!), this time regarding Thomas
Kincaid and Jeff Koons, and wondering if there is in fact a difference:

Insurgent Muse:
For a while now I've been fascinated and apalled by Thomas Kinkade, you
know, the "painter of light" who does all those cottage paintings that get
sold in the mall. They are the most horrific paintings I have ever seen,
but I am totally fascinated by the fact that the man is a multi-million
dollar industry, I mean, he has a fucking housing development for
christsake! You can actually live in a Thomas Kincade painting. So I was
really amused when I was reading this interview with John Baldessari on
Artnet and Baldessari brought up the topic of Kinkade:

JB. Yeah, you know something that just struck me, do you know the artist
Thomas Kinkade, who does these schlock paintings? He's a huge industry. He
has all these satellite galleries that sell his work. He's licensed all of
his imagery so there's all his tchotchkes out there. It's enormous. Just
enormous. There's even now been a housing development with cottages that
look like his paintings.

ND: A housing development? Where?

JB: It's up in Northern California. So anyway, the point I'm trying to
make, if you listen to Kinkade's argument, it's exactly the same argument
as Jeff Koons. Exactly. "This is what America likes." The only difference
is that they operate in two different territories. Jeff operates in the
avant-garde art world, and this other guy operates on the other end of the
spectrum, but they talk exactly alike. He went to art school, he went to
Art Center. He just figured out what America wants. They want Hallmark
Cards. [...]

Okay, stop there and scroll down to Comments, particularly greg.org's:

JB's comments included, this sounds like a typical artworld misreading of
Kinkade's work and why he's supposedly so popular. So while this kind of
Koons-bashing is fun, it primarily serves to pat our artworld selves on
the back for making it out of the suburbs alive.

Kinkade's original system was designed to sell mass reproductions of his
paintings (which he never sells, only licenses)with carefully gradated
levels of "originality" and "master's hand"-style touches. The "personal
touches" mentioned above aren't grandma's photos, but brush-applied light
highlights. Kinkade-approved journeymen would come to the mall gallery
and, for several thousand more dollars, personally dapple sunlight on your
print (ed. 1339/2500). The Master himself would do it sometimes, for tens
of thousands of dollars.

Kinkade was selling kitschy, sentimental pictures, but he was doing it
through mass-manufactured originality. Yet it was actually more like
conceptual art, in a way; it absolutely relied on selling the aura of "the
art world" (but not the "avant-garde") and its implied promise of status,
connoiseurship, rarity and increasing value, etc.

Except that Kinkade broke the promise; he started licensing the same
images to the cards, posters, coffee cups, etc. and essentially flooded
the market with low-priced versions of what was supposedly so rare and
artistic. The market for his high-end products tanked, and he's been sued
by collectors and his franchisee/dealers for destroying their
exclusivity-based value proposition.

And the pressure to expand sales came precisely from being a publicly
traded corporation. But that "marketing and branding" critique could just
as easily be applied to any artist who gets attention--and high
prices--for his work, including Baldessari.

I mean, you could just as easily say JB's merely differentiating his brand
from Koons, thereby helping the Sonnabend corporation reach different
segments of the six-figures-and-up art market.

Moral to the story? Mmmm, differentiate your brand, baby!

Saturday, December 11, 2004 at 10:40 AM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/kincaid_vs_koon.html

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Thursday, December 09, 2004
ArtForum's Best

[image: Pedro Almodvar, Bad Education, 2004, still from a color film in 35
mm, 105 minutes. Enrique Goded (Fele Martnez). ArtForum]

The December ArtForum has many categories of "Best of 2004," some of which
can be read online, including Music, Film, and teasers from the Top Ten
lists of 13 different critics, as well as Martin Herbert on London and
Barry Schwabsky on the Bienal de So Paulo.

Much of BookForum's contents can be read online as well -- check out the
nifty shot of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty on the cover:

DEC/JAN 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS

(not including all the good stuff that you can only read in print)

POET WITHOUT A HERO
Marjorie Perloff on Anna Akhmatova

THE COWBOY IN THE LIBRARY
Pamela M. Lee on Robert Smithson

SENSATION UNDER GLASS
James Gibbons on Nathalie Sarraute

FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS
Morris Dickstein on Irving Howe

ARTS & LETTERS

Benedict Andersonon Herman Lebovics's Bringing the Empire Back Home:
France in the Global Age and Andrew Ross and Kristin Ross's
Anti-Americanism

Andrew Hultkrans on Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus's The Rose and the
Briar:Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad

Deirdre Bair on Suzanne Kirkbright's Karl Jaspers: A BiographyNavigations
in Truth

COLUMNS

Brooke Comer talks with Ali Salem
Ammar Abdulhamid on young Syrian intellectuals

Brian Thomas Gallagher on M.F.K. Fisher

FICTION

Ethan Nosowsky on Svetislav Basara's Chinese Letter

Kathryn Harrison on Marilynne Robinson's Gilead

Rick Moody on Jos Saramago's The Double

Bruce Hainley on William Corbett's Just the Thing: Selected Letters of
James Schuyler and Ron Padgett's Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard

NOTED

Bryan Walsh on Ma Jian's The Noodle Maker

James Poniewozik on Chris Lamb's Drawn to Extremes: The Use and Abuse of
Editorial Cartoons in the United States

Thursday, December 09, 2004 at 04:37 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/artforums_best.html

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Picture Critiques (Holidays on Ice?)

There's a post by "anon-51763186" over on Craig's List:
RANT: Picture Critiques

I am better than your kids.

If you work in an office with lots of people, chances are that you work
with a person who hangs pictures up that their kids have drawn. The
pictures are always of some stupid flower or a tree with wheels. These
pictures suck; I could draw pictures much better. In fact, I can spell, do
math and run faster than your kids. So being that my skills are obviously
superior to those of children, I've taken the liberty to judge art work
done by other kids on the internet. I'll be assigning a grade A through F
for each piece:

Kelly, age 9

This was a Christmas gift from Kelly to her parents. Good job Kelly, now
pack up your shit and find a foster home. If my kids tried to pass this
off as a gift, they'd come home from school and find all their shit
outside in a box. What a lousy gift, seriously. You give them video games
and toys, and they give you some half-assed drawing with a crooked tree. I
wonder how much a gift like this would set someone back. Five, maybe ten
minutes to find a napkin and some markers?

Grade: F

[and so on...]

Thursday, December 09, 2004 at 04:17 PM in Misc. | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/picture_critiqu.html

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Wednesday, December 08, 2004
Art critics are hot! (McEvilley Hits SVA)

[image: Artnet mag]

via Artnet News:
McEVILLY HEADS NEW ART CRITICISM PROGRAM
Art critics are hot! New York's School of Visual Arts is launching a new
MFA degree in art criticism and writing in fall 2005, headed by legendary
classicist and art writer Thomas McEvilly. According to the new chair, a
veteran of Rice University, Yale and the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, the coursework will be rigorous, and complemented by lectures by
critics visiting from around the world.

Books by Thomas McEvilley;

More books listed on Amazon.

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 at 08:19 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/_art_critics_ar.html

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Beach Bums: Art Forum + Miami Basel

[image via Artnet: The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, with
Rolls Royces]

via Modern Art Notes:

ArtForum joins the century
ArtForum has started a blog -- kinda. It's more of a long-format diary,
but at least ArtForum is beginning to revamp their website. The entries
are a little long to be true blog entries, there's nary a link to be
found, and they're more concerned with scene than art, but hey, maybe with
ABMB out of the way they'll become more truly blog-like. Or maybe, given
the academic dryness of the magazine, they'll become as stiff and
unreadable as, well... let's just see how they do. We're rooting for them.

Speaking of ABMB, I'll try to have some ABMB posts up on Wednesday and
Thursday. (I'm in NYC today.) For now, Walter Robinson at Artnet does his
usual post-event bang-up job.

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 at 08:01 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/beach_bums_art_.html

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Pew Survey: File-Sharing + Artists

via Public Knowledge:
Pew File-Sharing Survey Gives a Voice to Artists
A report from the Pew Research Center finds artists are divided but on the
whole not deeply concerned about online file-sharing. Only about half
thought that sharing unauthorized copies of music and movies online should
be illegal, for instance. And makers of file-sharing software like Kazaa
and Grokster may be unnerved to learn that nearly two-thirds said such
services should be held responsible for illegal file-swapping; only 15
percent held individual users responsible.

Note: the Pew Report is here [PDF]:
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Artists.Musicians_Report.pdf

The NYTimes article by Tom Zeller is here:
The battle over digital copyrights and illegal file sharing is often
portrayed as a struggle between Internet scofflaws and greedy
corporations. Online music junkies with no sense of the marketplace, the
argument goes, want to download, copy and share copyrighted materials
without restriction. The recording industry, on the other hand, wants to
squeeze dollars - by lawsuit and legislation, if necessary - from its
property.

The issue, of course, is far subtler than this, but one aspect of the
caricature is dead on: the artists are nowhere to be found. A survey
released yesterday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, an arm
of the Pew Research Center in Washington, aims to change that. The report,
"Artists, Musicians and the Internet," combines and compares the opinions
of three groups: the general public, those who identify themselves as
artists of various stripes (including filmmakers, writers and digital
artists) and a somewhat more self-selecting category of musicians.

Most notably, it is the first large-scale snapshot of what the people who
actually produce the goods that downloaders seek (and that the industry
jealously guards) think about the Internet and file-sharing [...]

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 at 07:55 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2004/12/pew_survey_file.html

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Nixing The Artful Ipod (Or: Negativity @ Apple + Ebay)

Remember our recent post:
Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition ?

Well, here's follow-up via Wired News (thanks t.whid!):
EBay Negative on Negativland IPod

By Katie Dean

02:00 AM Dec. 08, 2004 PT

EBay removed a modified U2 iPod from its auctions Monday after Apple
Computer complained of copyright violations, to the wonder of several
intellectual-property attorneys.

Francis Hwang, an artist and director of technology at Rhizome.org,
purchased a U2 iPod and loaded it up with seven albums from Negativland, a
collage band that mixes original music with audiovisual clips from other
artists and corporations. Hwang wanted to make an artistic statement about
sampling and free culture, and planned to donate the proceeds of the sale
to Downhill Battle, a music-activism group.

This unauthorized iPod modification is an artful mashup of the forces of
corporate megarock and obscure experimental music, and a provocative
symbol of the ongoing struggle between those who would confine culture and
those who would free it," Hwang wrote in the auction listing. "With the
recent release of Apple's iPod U2 Special Edition, and the continuing
legal battles over the sampling and copying of music, there has never been
a better time for such a tribute to the impact of technology on the flow
of culture."

The iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition commemorates a 1991 copyright
battle between the two groups. Negativland released a single that parodied
U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" without permission. The
collage group believes the song, and its other creations, are fair use.
U2's label, Island Records, sued Negativland and the case was eventually
settled out of court. Negativland's controversial song, "U2," is illegal
to sell in the United States and was not included in the auction.

Hwang's auction offering included all the standard features of the U2 iPod
plus the addition of the Negativland albums loaded onto the device. The
Negativland CDs were also included. Hwang also meticulously modified the
cardboard box, labeling it iPod Special Edition U2 vs. Negativland and
adding pictures of the collage band to the box. Hwang also included a
disclaimer in the auction that states that Apple did not authorize the
work, so there is no confusion for the buyer.

Hwang, an iPod and PowerBook owner and self-described "Apple snob,"
thought the revamped iPod would be funny and raise awareness of a case
that is still relevant today, especially with the popularity of mashups.

"It just feels right to me that I should be allowed to do this and I'm a
little surprised that they reacted this way," Hwang said. "I think it's
pretty unfair and I think it's unfortunate."

The item received nine bids -- topping out at $455 -- before it was pulled
"because an intellectual-property rights owner notified us ... that your
listing infringes the rights owner's copyright, trademark or other
rights," according to an e-mail Hwang received from eBay.

EBay spokesman Hani Durzy said that the company has a program in place
that allows copyright owners to report specific listings that violate
their rights. Also, because the listing made it clear that the item was
unauthorized, the listing was removed.

Apple did not respond to requests for comment.

Several intellectual-property attorneys said they didn't see a reason for
removing the listing.

"If he's just modifying the box, he's just reselling the box that the
goods came in," said Scott Hervey, an attorney based in Sacramento,
California. Plus, "there's no copyright infringement of the sound
recordings."

"I don't see anything and if (Negativland) is not making a stink about it,
then there's no problem," Hervey said. Negativland could presumably
complain that its pictures are being used without permission.

"We always have to be careful when people invoke intellectual-property
rights in order to stop things that have nothing to do with IP," said Fred
von Lohmann, senior IP attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
"I'm a little surprised that Apple would complain but I'm doubly surprised
that eBay would remove the auction."

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EFFector 17.44: Supreme Court to Hear MGM v. Grokster (fwd)


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Subject: EFFector 17.44: Supreme Court to Hear MGM v. Grokster

EFFector Vol. 17, No. 44 December 10, 2004 donna@eff.org

A Publication of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
ISSN 1062-9424

In the 315th Issue of EFFector:

* Supreme Court to Hear MGM v. Grokster
* Libel Case Could Chill Online Speech
* Nominate a Pioneer for EFF's 2005 Pioneer Awards!
* EFF Seeks Systems Administrator
* MiniLinks (14): Artists: "We're Not Threatened by Filesharing"
* Administrivia

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* Supreme Court to Hear MGM v. Grokster

The US Supreme Court today granted certiorari in MGM v.
Grokster. The Court will hear oral arguments in the case
in March 2005. EFF represents one of the defendants in
the case, StreamCast Networks, makers of the Morpheus
peer-to-peer (P2P) software application.

"The copyright law principles set out in the Sony Betamax
case have served innovators, copyright industries, and the
public well for 20 years," said Fred von Lohmann, senior
intellectual property attorney at EFF. "We at EFF look
forward to the Supreme Court reaffirming the applicability
of Betamax in the 21st century."

For this breaking news item:
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_12.php#002139>

Background in MGM v. Grokster:
<http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/>

AP: "Filesharing Goes to High Court":
<http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,65995,00.html>

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* Libel Case Could Chill Online Speech

EFF, ACLU Ask California Supreme Court to Restore Free
Speech Protections for Internet Users and Service
Providers

California - EFF and the ACLU of Northern California
have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a case
that could undermine a federal statute protecting the
free speech of bloggers, Internet Service Providers,
and others who use the Internet to post content written
by others. The case in question is a libel suit filed
against Ilena Rosenthal, a women's health advocate, after
she posted a controversial opinion piece on a Usenet
news group. The piece was written not by Rosenthal,
but by Tim Bolen, a critic of plaintiff Terry Polevoy.

In the brief, EFF and the ACLU argue that Section 230
of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 protects
Internet publishers from being held liable for allegedly
harmful comments written by others. Similar attempts
to eliminate the protections created by Section 230
have almost universally been rejected, until a
California Court of Appeals radically reinterpreted
the statute to allow lawsuits against non-authors. The
case is now being reviewed by the California Supreme
Court.

"Section 230 protects the ordinary people who use the
Internet and email to pass on items of interest written
by others, free from the fear of potentially ruinous
lawsuits filed by those who don't like what was said
about them," ACLU of Northern California Staff Counsel
Ann Brick. "The vitality of the Internet would
quickly dissipate if the posting of content written by
others created liability. The impulse to self-censor
would be unavoidable."

"Every other jurisdiction addressing Section 230 has
given effect to Congress' broad protections and
Internet speech has flourished as a result," said
EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. "The Court of Appeals
upset this settled law, and we are simply asking
the California Supreme Court to set things right."

For the full release:
<http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_11.php#002132>

EFF, ACLU brief in Barrett v. Clark:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID'2>
(EFF; PDF)

Background on Barrett v. Clark:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID'3>
(EFF)

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* Nominate a Pioneer for EFF's 2005 Pioneer Awards!

EFF established the Pioneer Awards to recognize leaders on
the electronic frontier who are extending freedom and
innovation in the realm of information technology. This
is your opportunity to nominate a deserving individual
or group to receive a Pioneer Award for 2005.

The Pioneer Awards nominations are open to individuals
and organizations from any country.

All nominations are reviewed by a panel of judges chosen
for their knowledge of the technical, legal, and social
issues associated with information technology.

This year's award ceremony will be held in Seattle in
conjunction with the Computers, Freedom and Privacy
conference (CFP), which takes place in mid-April.

Details are available at the Pioneer Awards website:
<http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer/>

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* EFF Seeks Systems Administrator

EFF is seeking a full-time Systems Administrator to work in
our busy office in San Francisco's Mission District.

The sysadmin at EFF is a support position, keeping EFF's
web server, email server, LAN, and other systems running
while also providing desktop support to EFF's staff of 25.
The ideal candidate must work well with a very busy staff
with varying levels of technical expertise. EFF's sysadmin
is on call 24x7 for response to systems emergencies.

The ideal candidate must have three to five years of systems
administration experience. In addition, the candidate must
meet or exceed Sage level "Intermediate/Advanced." (See:
<http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm#Intermediate>.)

A successful candidate will be able to administer a wide
variety of different operating systems, including Windows
(2K, XP, etc.), MacOS X, and Unix/Linux. Since this
position requires desktop support, knowledge of applications,
including MS Office and various email clients, is required.
This position also requires knowledge of applications
running on servers, including Apache, Mailman, qmail and/or
Postfix, and anti-spam and virus products. This person
should be able to write administrative utilities in at
least one language, such as Perl, Python, Unix shell, or
C/C++. We're looking for a person who will make sure
software updates and backups are done religiously.

To apply, send a cover letter and your resume by December
20 to sysadminjob@eff.org. Please send these materials in
a non-proprietary format, such as an ASCII text file.
No phone calls please! Principals only.

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* miniLinks
miniLinks features noteworthy news items from around the
Internet.

~ Starbucks CD Sales Gives Record Industry the Shakes
In the latest fit of music distribution ingenuity, the
coffee chain sold 350,000 copies of "Genius," the Ray
Charles duet album that it helped to market and produce:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID40>
(Yahoo)

~ Artists: "We're Not Threatened by Filesharing"
Mary Madden of the Pew Internet and American Life Project
says, "What we hear from a wide spectrum of artists is
that, despite the real challenges of protecting work
online, the Internet has opened new ways for them to
exercise their imaginations and sell their creations":
<http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5478329.html>

~ EFF Meme Gets Northern Exposure
The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's biggest papers, recently
ran an article about the Induce Act that focused on how
the bill threatens devices like the iPod:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID41>

~ FL E-vote Study May Be Flawed
The Berkeley report on statistical anomalies in Florida's
e-voting results is being criticized by other scientists:
<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65896,00.html>

~ DVD Jukebox Maker in Hollywood Crosshairs
Kaleidescape, a company that makes super-expensive DVD
jukeboxes for the home, is being sued by the DVD Copy
Control Association for violating the terms of its
CSS license:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5482206.html>

~ Big Content Snubbed by Congress this Year
The public can sleep easier now that Congress has officially
adjourned without passing any of the copyright lobby's
biggest requests. Props to groups like Public Knowledge,
the librarians, the consumer electronics industry, Downhill
Battle, the EFF supporters who used our Action Center,
and many others who helped hold the line:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID43>
(LA Times)

~ George Tenet Calls for Restricted Net Access
"Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be
limited to those who can show they take security seriously,
he [Tenet] said." Wow:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID44>
(Washington Times)

~ Australia Rejects Mandatory Net Filtering
The plan to combat child pornography was going to be
expensive, but Communications Minister Helen Coonan
clarified, "The biggest issue is not so much the money
but such an expensive scheme would not necessarily
solve the problem and small to medium ISPs would be
driven out of business for little or no benefit":
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID42>
(Australian IT)

~ When EULAs Bite
Ben Edelman bites back:
<http://www.benedelman.org/news/112904-1.html>
LawMeme coverage:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID45>

~ Former Bush Campaign Official Indicted for Dirty Tricks
He apparently conducted a "low tech" denial of service
attack against Democratic offices during the 2002
election. Just how "low tech" was it? He repeatedly
called the offices and then hung up the phone:
<http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5473524.html>

~ Public Domain Case Appealed to 9th Circuit
The Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle and the Prelinger
Archive's Rick Prelinger will appeal their public
domain-protection case up to the 9th Circuit in the
wake of the court dismissal last month:
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65898,00.html>

~ Australian ISPs Rock "Free" Trade Agreement Boat
They succeeded in making an impact on what was
supposed to be a done deal - new amendments to bulk up
already-overfed copyright legislation:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID47>
(News.com.au)
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID48>
(Australian IT)

~ ACLU Files FOIAs on Anti-Terror Surveillance
The group is using Freedom of Information Act requests
to back up its contention that the FBI has engaged in
widespread, unwarranted surveillance of activist
organizations:
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,65909,00.html>

~ Lycos Stops Hilarious Anti-Spam Program
The company distributed a SETI@Home-style screen saver that
enlisted its host in denial-of-service attacks against
sites that Lycos designated as spam-sources:
<http://www.eff.org/cgi/tiny?urlID46>
(AP)

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NEWSgrist: East Village: Heyday of Scuzz Remembered


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Sunday, December 05, 2004
East Village: Heyday of Scuzz Remembered

[image via New York Magazine: Opening night at an East Village gallery,
1984. (Photo credit: Gary Azon)]

via New York Magazine (thanks bloggy!):
One Brief, Scuzzy Moment
By Gary Indiana
The East Village art scenethat heady mid-eighties era when uptown
collectors elbowed out Avenue B junkiesis about to be memorialized by a
New Museum show. Not so fast. One of the more pointed critics of the time
recalls the worst excesses of that art movementand the (infinitely cooler)
neighborhood that it eclipsed.

via The Guide:
Friday 12/10
ANOTHER 80'S REVIVAL
The East Village art scene of the early 80's is given the historical
treatment in a huge exhibition opening this week. The collagist David
Wojnarowicz and the photographer Peter Hujar are well established, but
lesser-known talents like the painter Martin Wong get their due as well.
In his paintings of love and graffiti on the Lower East Side, Mr. Wong
gives a hint of the untamed downtown that no longer exists.

"East Village U.S.A.," New Museum of Contemporary Art/Chelsea, 556 West
22nd Street; 12 to 6 p.m.; $3 to $6. (Through March 19.)

December: East Village in the 80s
via BAM:
In conjunction with the New Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition East
Village USA, BAMcaf Live presents some of the most influential performers
of the 1980s East Village club scene:

Penny Arcade
Fri, Dec 3 at 9pm

Phoebe Legere
Sat, Dec 4 at 9pm

Bob Holman
Fri, Dec 10 at 9pm

Ben Neill
Sat, Dec 11 at 9pm

via NewMusem.org (thanks Ben!):
"East Village USA"
The New Museum of Contemporay Art
December 9, 2004 - March 19, 2005
Imagine a village where everybody is an artist, nobody has or needs a
steady job, and anyone can be the art world's Next Big Thing. Such was the
myth (and occasionally the reality) of the East Village in the mid-1980s,
when glamour and sleaze were nearly indistinguishable, and the boy next
door was an androgynous, foot-high-peroxide- pompadour-sporting singer
named John Sex. It was the height of the Reagan era, with its Cold War
paranoia, intensified by growing nuclear fears, and inner cities and civic
institutions in a state of increased upheaval and decay. Meanwhile, the
East Village was busy inverting the values of trickle-down economics and
gunboat diplomacy by transforming itself into the American dream's dark
underside, its evil twin, its inner child run amok. [...]

Complete list of artists.

Sunday, December 05, 2004 at 09:54 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Saturday, December 04, 2004
Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition

via Rhizome.org:

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Rhizome's Francis Hwang has
opened an eBay auction for the Unauthorized iPod U2 vs. Negativland
Special Edition:

Commemorating the infamous early-90s case in which U2's record label
crushed indie noisemakers Negativland, this iPod is a U2 iPod that comes
pre-loaded with lots of Negativland tunes, and some fancy box
modifications. Experimental noise content trapped in a corporate megarock
shell--oh, the humanity! Profits will go to Downhill Battle, a non-profit
organization advocating for a less sucktastic music industry.

from his eBay description:

In 1991, the experimental sound collage band Negativland released a single
called U2, which extensively sampled both U2s hit single I Still Havent
Found What Im Looking For and colorful studio recordings of Top 40 disc
jockey Casey Kasem. This offbeat recording would have languished in
obscurity if werent for Island Records, U2s record label, which decided to
sue Negativland and their independent label SST Records for deceptive
packaging and copyright infringement. After a protracted legal battle,
Negativlands legal funds were exhausted and they settled out of court.
Today, it is illegal to produce the U2 single in the United States. (U2,
on the other hand, would go on to use unauthorized samples of appropriated
satellite video in their Zoo TV tour.)

Now you can commemorate this ignoble episode in intellectual property
history with iPod U2 vs. Negativland Special Edition. From its packaging
to its pre-installed content, this unauthorized iPod modification is an
artful mash-up of the forces of corporate megarock and obscure
experimental music, and a provocative symbol of the ongoing struggle
between those who would confine culture and those who would free it. [...]

Saturday, December 04, 2004 at 02:34 PM in Misc. | Permalink:
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Friday, December 03, 2004
The New New Museum (in Quicktime)

Speaking of Quicktime, there's a very cool little animation
by Chris Hoxie, Cameron Wu and Brandon Hicks over on the
New Museum site that demos the new building.

Friday, December 03, 2004 at 04:12 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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May 68 leaflets (La Lutte Continue)

I just came across this post from before the election on Social Design
Notes:

Some excellent images of May 68 leaflets from an exhibition by National
Library of France on the sources of Utopias [...]

Friday, December 03, 2004 at 04:05 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Tale of Crow

[still from 'Tale of Crow']

Doron Golan makes superb QuickTime shorts for the web -- here's the
latest:

'Tale of Crow' (re-edited)
duration: 4 min.
frame rate: 12.5 fps
Hebrew with English subtitles

Friday, December 03, 2004 at 12:55 PM in Film | Permalink:
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Thursday, December 02, 2004
Roberta, c'est la vie!

[image: Inside the Pavilion of Virginia Puff Paint]

"trans>" at Participant Inc.:

Roberta, c'est la vie!

Participant Inc, 95 Rivington Street (between Ludlow & Orchard)
TUESDAY, December 7, 2004, at 8pm

The very first show of the trans-mutated Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema at
its new venue, Participant Inc, on the theme of "trans>", as in,
trans-species, trans-gender, trans-sexual, trans-vestite, &
trans-formations...(etc)

"I wish I could change my sex as often as
I change my shirt."
-Andre Breton

Featuring polymorph films & videos by
Tara Mateik (Society of Biological Insurgents)
Rafael Sanchez
Charles Atlas (with Leigh Bowery)
Jean Painlev (seahorses)
(The Pavilion of )Virginia Puff-Paint [view XXX Quicktime clip]
Joseph Nechvatal (andrOgynes)
...and surprises.

The artist (venue) formally known as Robert Beck is NOW the Roberta Beck
Memorial Cinema the FIRST TUESDAY of the month, at Participant Inc.

Thursday, December 02, 2004 at 10:27 AM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Evening with John Dugdale @ SVA to Benefit Visual AIDS

[Image: John Dugdale, In the Forty-Second Year of His Age, 2002]

School of Visual Arts presents an evening with photographer JOHN DUGDALE
benefiting Visual AIDS

Thursday December 9, 2004 @ 7 PM
School of Visual Arts Amphitheater
209 East 23 Street, NYC

Suggested donation $10, SVA students $5

An evening with photographer John Dugdale. In 1993, an AIDS related
illness left SVA alumnus John Dugdale nearly blind, with only minimal
peripheral vision in his left eye. Despite this loss of sight, he
continues to work and his popularity as a photographer continues to grow.

Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS increases public awareness of the AIDS
pandemic. Through the Frank Moore Archive Project, Visual AIDS offers
direct, professional services to artists living with HIV/AIDS.

Don't forget the POSTCARDS from THE EDGE sale this Sunday (Dec 5) hosted
by Brent Sikkema Galllery and benefiting Visual AIDS.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 at 03:44 PM in Benefits | Permalink:
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NEW WEB EXHIBITION FOR World AIDS Day

VISUAL AIDS + THE BODY ANNOUNCE

NEW WEB EXHIBITION
for World AIDS Day
Eleven Artists curated by Ted Bonin

December 2004

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts
and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive
Project. In recognision of AIDS Awareness month, Ted Bonin curated the
touching current on-line exhibition Eleven Artists which features the work
of artist members: Joe Brainard, Scott Burton, Jimmy DeSana, Arnold Fern,
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, David Knudsvig, Ken Goodman, Frank Moore, Paul
Thek, David Wojnarowicz and Martin Wong.

In the Curators Statement, Bonin states:
Viewing the archive one is reminded of the enormous and premature loss of
so many fine artists, both established and promising; viewing the works,
one sees a visual representation of destruction that is almost unbearable
to watch unfold. Before completing just one section of the archive, the
toll of significant artists, many of whom Id had the pleasure of knowing
and, in some cases working with, overwhelmed me.

My selection includes those artists represented in the archive whose
absence remains a source of personal regret and sorrow. The archive
reminds us not only just how great the losses have been, but also of the
ongoing scourge of a disease, which much of the mainstream, and some
factions of the communities most affected, wrongly consider solved,
manageable, or something no longer to be feared. Ten years down the road,
the Archives accumulation of images demands we consider these haunting and
important works in a historical context. All eleven artists in this
exhibition became members of the Archive Project between 1994 and 1998,
nine of them as estates.

Ted Bonin is a partner in the New York gallery Alexander and Bonin. The
gallery represents artists living in the Americas and Europe as well as
the Estates of Ree Morton and Paul Thek.

Wednesday, December 01, 2004 at 03:13 PM in Art Exhibitions | Permalink:
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How To Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit

Columbia University School of the Arts

presents

A Lecture by Jon Ippolito:

"How To Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit"
Thursday, December 2
6:00 PM
702 Hamilton Hall
Columbia University
116th and Broadway
New York City

Jon Ippolito is an artist, a curator at the Guggenheim museum, and
co-founder of the Still Water program for network art and culture at the
University of Maine where he is an Assistant Professor of new media.

Mr. Ippolito's lecture, "How to Hack Copyright for Fun and Profit," will
examine alternative approaches to intellectual property and creativity.

Here's Jon's abstract:

Now that the music labels have sued 6,000 college kids and universities
are spending more on anti-plagiarism software than on student art
exhibitions, you'd think young people would finally grok the message that
sharing is bad. But as this presentation aims to demonstrate, a cadre of
dedicated artists, musicians, and activists are offering digital creators
an end-run around broadcast flags and RIAA summonses--from tools for
embedding open licenses in music files to an online environment for
sharing art and code to a semantic search engine for remixable art and
video. In conclusion, this presentation will examine the question of
whether such innovations are sufficient to prevent the lockdown of
creative culture.

This is the fourth lecture in a series on Open Source Culture. The series
will conclude with a lecture by Cory Arcangel on December 16.

The Art & Technology Lectures are organized by the Digital Media Center
and sponsored by the Computer Music Center. Streaming video of the
lectures is produced in partnership with the Columbia Center for New Media
Teaching and Learning.

Visit the site for more information about upcoming speakers, and streaming
video of previous lectures.

Monday, November 29, 2004 at 04:08 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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Palladio: The Movie

NEWSgrist is designing and hosting a blog, fan site and video clip archive
(in progress) for the latest project from media artist Bill Jones +
composer Ben Neill:

Palladio, a music performance video work-in-progress based on the novel by
Jonathan Dee.

Palladio will premier at the New Territories Festival in Glasgow and at
the Thalia Theatre (NYC) early next year.

from the press release:
Coming out of the world of DJ/VJ culture, Neill and Jones' networked
instrumental ensemble plays the video and music simultaneously. The
musical score includes Neill's evocative instrumental compositions as well
as songs with lyrics written by Lance Jensen, the award winning
advertising creative director. Mikel Rouse, a noted composer/performer and
creator of the TV talk show opera Dennis Cleveland will play a leading
role as an actor and singer.

Palladio's video component, projected onto a movie theater screen,
includes commercial samples seamlessly merged with live-action footage as
the lead characters played by Rouse, Zoe Lister-Jones and Cort Garretson
are digitally transported into an environment created from the ads
portrayed in the story.

Ben Neill, internationally known composer, performer and inventor of the
mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument, has been a pioneer in
the use of interactive computer technologies in live performance. Neill
has recorded seven CDs of his music on Six Degrees, Universal/ Verve,
Astralwerks, and other labels. Visual artist Bill Jones has been
exhibiting in galleries and museums for over two decades. He is also a
noted writer and editor who has founded a number of periodicals including
The Independent Film and Video Monthly and ArtByte the Magazine of Digital
Culture.

For a synopsis, cast previews, more information and tickets, visit
palladiomovie.com

Monday, November 29, 2004 at 03:52 PM in Performances | Permalink:
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"SoHo on crack"

Via NYTimes, excerpts: Chelsea Enters Its High Baroque Period, by Roberta
Smith:

After a decade of rapid growth, the neighborhood now harbors more than 230
galleries within its borders, which stretch from West 13th to West 29th
Streets and from 10th Avenue to the West Side Highway in Manhattan. That's
twice the number of galleries SoHo had at its zenith in the early 1990's.
The notion of spending a day "doing" the Chelsea galleries now seems
downright quaint, since it would take at least a week to see them all.

As a result of this explosion, the inevitable anti-Chelsea backlash has
been on the rise, too. The rap against Chelsea is that it is too big, too
commercial, too slick, too conservative and too homogenous, a monolith of
art commerce tricked out in look-alike white boxes and shot through with
kitsch. This litany is recited by visitors from Los Angeles and Europe, by
dealers with galleries in other parts of Manhattan or in Brooklyn and
often by Chelsea dealers themselves. As the Lower East Side gallerist
Michele Maccarone put it recently in an interview: "The Chelseafication of
the art world has created a consensus of mediocrity and frivolousness."

Two of the city's most highly respected small art museums, the Drawing
Center and the New Museum for Contemporary Art, both recently rejected the
idea of relocating to Chelsea, in part because they felt they would be
lost among so many galleries. Christian Haye, who has a gallery on 57th
Street and who once memorably described Chelsea as "SoHo on crack,"
agrees. "There are too many big galleries competing with one another and
acting like museums," he said recently. [...]

In all, the Chelsea gallery scene is exactly the opposite of monolithic or
homogeneous: astoundingly diverse, a series of parallel worlds catering to
different audiences and markets, from avant-garde to academic, blue-chip
to underground. With art fresh from places as far apart as China and
Williamsburg, Chelsea is messily democratic, the most real, unbiased
reflection of contemporary art's global character. The Gagosian Gallery's
impeccable three-ring circus on West 24th Street, the art world's answer
to Niketown, faces the one-man band photography gallery of Yossi Milo,
upstairs from a taxi garage. PaceWildenstein's Minimalist mausoleum on
West 25th is just down the street from a building rife with scruffy
old-time artist's cooperatives, decamped from SoHo. Understanding the huge
differences among Chelsea's current crop of galleries - their types,
tendencies, and origins - is the only way to begin to grasp the complexity
of the whole. [...]

Even as you wonder how many more galleries the neighborhood can possibly
absorb, you ask how long any of the dealers - excepting the few who own
their spaces - will be able to afford to stay there, and where else in
Manhattan they could go, and what it would mean to the city's cultural
identity if the area disappeared. As Chelsea's residential population
expands, will the storefronts be taken over by restaurants, boutiques, dry
cleaners, delis and copy shops, or will the lack of subways discourage
that? Could the proposed Jets stadium a few blocks to the north, with the
traffic, crowds and noise it will generate, be Chelsea's death knell? Will
the restoration of the High Line precipitate the northward crawl of the
West Village Gold Coast and meatpacking trendiness? Or will the art market
bubble simply, once again, burst?

Meanwhile, the Chelsea carnival continues, simultaneously expanding,
imploding and absorbing. All species of art gallery are evident, and at
every stage of development. Chelsea, like SoHo, is making itself up as it
goes along. A contemporary art scene on this scale has never happened
before, and it's hard to imagine it ever happening again.

Catch it now, because in a few years, Chelsea nostalgia will have replaced
SoHo nostalgia, and the current state of affairs will have become the good
old days.

Monday, November 29, 2004 at 03:36 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink:
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