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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.
extended network >
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/
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.
extended network >
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/
NEWSgrist: *The Hudson River School Revisited* Vol.4, no.18
NEWSgrist: *The Hudson River School Revisited* Vol.4, no.18
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Vol.4, no.18 (Nov 24, 2003)
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*Underbelly*
Bulletin board: post your own news, press releases, urls:
http://pub11.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum
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NEWSgrist
where spin is art
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{bi-weekly news digest}
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Vol.4, no.18 (Nov 24, 2003)
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Announcing: Without Fear or Reproach
For Immediate Release
WITHOUT FEAR OR REPROACH
18 november - 13 december 2003
http://www.aeroplastics.net/WFOR/WFOR_00.html
@
Witte Zaal (Sint-Lucas)
Posteernestraat, 9000 Gent BELGIUM
http://www.kunst.sintlucas.wenk.be/wittezaal/index.html
Colin COOK (USA)
Jiri DAVID (CZ)
Christoph DRAEGER (CH)
Matt DUCKLO (USA)
Maria FRIBERG (Sweden)
Rainer GANAHL (Austria)
Joy GARNETT (USA)
Leon GRODSKI (USA)
Jon HADDOCK (USA)
John ISAACS (UK)
Euan MacDONALD (UK)
Philippe MESTE (F)
Ryan McNAMARA (USA)
Alex McQUILKIN (USA)
David NICHOLSON (CAN)
Guy RICHARDS SMIT (USA)
Alastair THAIN (UK)
Dana WYSE (CAN)
Carrie YAMAOKA (USA)
Curated by Jerome Jacobs
>From 18th November to 13th December the exhibition
'Without fear or reproach' will be held at the
WITTE ZAAL art center in Ghent. This exhibition is
intended (at last ) to offer a few visual comments
on the aftermath of the world-shattering events of
11th September 2001.
The starting point is Joseph Beuys' artistic/humanist
metaphor of the Twin Towers of the seventies and
eighties, when the Soho district in New York was
enjoying a boom as the mecca of the international
contemporary art scene. In his collage postcard,
Beuys compared the Twin Towers with the Arabian twin
brothers and patron saints Cosmos and Damian,
religious figures who in Arabic culture symbolized
full racial harmony. This is a metaphor entirely at
odds with the present highly charged symbolism of the
towers the stark contrast between the Christian-
Judaic and Islamic worlds.
Since 11th September, thousands of pages have been
written, packed full with the opinions of every type
of critic, politician, sociologist and intellectual
on the event and the way it ultimately led to the
American 'a crusade against evil
Oddly enough, hardly anything was heard from the
contemporary art camp. There were certainly artists'
visual reactions to fetishistic American imperialism,
but only on rare occasions have works of artists
(mainly American or living in the US) been gathered/
put in context under the flag of a single exhibition
on this much-debated subject. Some of the works have
not been created for this particular exhibition but
participate strongly in expressing it's concept.
'Without Fear or Reproach' is intended to be both
straightforward and meaningful: by leaving the masses
of opinions aside for a while and letting artists
react to the present 'American feeling', using
nothing more than the interpretative power of an
image or a text.
To this end, the Witte Zaal has invited Brussels art
dealer Jerome JACOBS (http://www.aeroplastics.net) to
curate an exhibition of twenty artists, most from
North America or the UK, in whose work this topic
forms a common theme or allusion.
However, this exhibition is not 'a deliberate critic'
of America. It will not focus essentially on pictures
of plain violence, but also on ironic reflections on
present-day American society, it's obsessions and
fears as well as its often violent and aggressive
attitude towards itself and the rest of the world.
+++
WITHOUT FEAR OR REPROACH
18 november - 13 december 2003
http://www.aeroplastics.net/WFOR/WFOR_00.html
@
Witte Zaal (Sint-Lucas)
Posteernestraat, 9000 Gent BELGIUM
http://www.kunst.sintlucas.wenk.be/wittezaal/index.html
+++
WITHOUT FEAR OR REPROACH
18 november - 13 december 2003
http://www.aeroplastics.net/WFOR/WFOR_00.html
@
Witte Zaal (Sint-Lucas)
Posteernestraat, 9000 Gent BELGIUM
http://www.kunst.sintlucas.wenk.be/wittezaal/index.html
Colin COOK (USA)
Jiri DAVID (CZ)
Christoph DRAEGER (CH)
Matt DUCKLO (USA)
Maria FRIBERG (Sweden)
Rainer GANAHL (Austria)
Joy GARNETT (USA)
Leon GRODSKI (USA)
Jon HADDOCK (USA)
John ISAACS (UK)
Euan MacDONALD (UK)
Philippe MESTE (F)
Ryan McNAMARA (USA)
Alex McQUILKIN (USA)
David NICHOLSON (CAN)
Guy RICHARDS SMIT (USA)
Alastair THAIN (UK)
Dana WYSE (CAN)
Carrie YAMAOKA (USA)
Curated by Jerome Jacobs
>From 18th November to 13th December the exhibition
'Without fear or reproach' will be held at the
WITTE ZAAL art center in Ghent. This exhibition is
intended (at last ) to offer a few visual comments
on the aftermath of the world-shattering events of
11th September 2001.
The starting point is Joseph Beuys' artistic/humanist
metaphor of the Twin Towers of the seventies and
eighties, when the Soho district in New York was
enjoying a boom as the mecca of the international
contemporary art scene. In his collage postcard,
Beuys compared the Twin Towers with the Arabian twin
brothers and patron saints Cosmos and Damian,
religious figures who in Arabic culture symbolized
full racial harmony. This is a metaphor entirely at
odds with the present highly charged symbolism of the
towers the stark contrast between the Christian-
Judaic and Islamic worlds.
Since 11th September, thousands of pages have been
written, packed full with the opinions of every type
of critic, politician, sociologist and intellectual
on the event and the way it ultimately led to the
American 'a crusade against evil
Oddly enough, hardly anything was heard from the
contemporary art camp. There were certainly artists'
visual reactions to fetishistic American imperialism,
but only on rare occasions have works of artists
(mainly American or living in the US) been gathered/
put in context under the flag of a single exhibition
on this much-debated subject. Some of the works have
not been created for this particular exhibition but
participate strongly in expressing it's concept.
'Without Fear or Reproach' is intended to be both
straightforward and meaningful: by leaving the masses
of opinions aside for a while and letting artists
react to the present 'American feeling', using
nothing more than the interpretative power of an
image or a text.
To this end, the Witte Zaal has invited Brussels art
dealer Jerome JACOBS (http://www.aeroplastics.net) to
curate an exhibition of twenty artists, most from
North America or the UK, in whose work this topic
forms a common theme or allusion.
However, this exhibition is not 'a deliberate critic'
of America. It will not focus essentially on pictures
of plain violence, but also on ironic reflections on
present-day American society, it's obsessions and
fears as well as its often violent and aggressive
attitude towards itself and the rest of the world.
+++
WITHOUT FEAR OR REPROACH
18 november - 13 december 2003
http://www.aeroplastics.net/WFOR/WFOR_00.html
@
Witte Zaal (Sint-Lucas)
Posteernestraat, 9000 Gent BELGIUM
http://www.kunst.sintlucas.wenk.be/wittezaal/index.html
+++
Drowning in Mecca (fwd)
here's an oddity from the cyberpunk writer Bruce Sterling's newsletter:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 12 Nov 2003 04:37:03 -0000
From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>
To: joyeria@walrus.com
Subject: Viridian Note 00390: Drowning in Mecca
Key concepts: Mecca, Ramadan, floods, obstreperous
Saudi behavior at climate change accords, pilgrims
drowning
Attention Conservation Notice: Few English-language
news sources seem to care much that Mecca is briefly
subaqueous
********************************************************
News has been coming out of Brazil lately that is
completely odd and off the map. Lula (and his peculiar
culture minister, Gilberto Gil) are the most remarkable
politicians today who aren't invading or shooting
anybody.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22831/story.htm
Johnson Atoll, chemical warfare disposal site, to be
returned to wilderness.
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2003_11_7.html#0E88A512
http://www.raytheon.com/rse/jatoll.html
New supercomputer climate model spawns unexpected tiny
typhoons.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994211
********************************************************
(((It wasn't bad enough that Al Qaeda decided to blow up
Mecca during this year's Ramadan.)))
Link:
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/tue/nov11w19.htm
(((They're also drowning. That's right, drowning from
torrential rains inside Saudi Arabia. Happens all the
time, eh? Eighteen feet of water in the spiritual center
of Islam, yep, move right along, business as usual,
nothing to notice here!)))
Links:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?idw44
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/saudi_weather_floods
Source: Yahoo, AFP
"12 dead as torrential rains hit Mecca: medics
"RIYADH (AFP) == Torrential rains around the Muslim holy
city of Mecca left 12 people dead, including six children,
and 50 injured, Saudi medical sources said.
"The severe weather hit Mecca on Monday and water
levels in some parts of the city reached six meters (20
feet), according to the medical sources.
"Earlier the Al-Jazeera daily had put the death toll
from the flooding at seven dead and 48 injured.
"'The floods trapped students and employees and traffic
came to a standstill in the Al-Zaher and Nuaraya
neighbourhoods... and all over the city,' said the paper.
"Meanwhile, Mecca's ruler Prince Abdul Majeed bin
Abdul Aziz was quoted by Al-Watan daily as saying 'one
person was killed when he was trapped in the flooding in
one of Mecca's villages.'
"Although Saudi Arabia is one of the most arid
countries in the world and includes the vast Rub al-Khali
desert, or Empty Quarter, severe rainstorms are common in
the mountainous region along the west coast."
(((Well, what goes around, comes around.)))
http://www.up.umnw.ethz.ch/~mmalte/fossil/awards.php?country=saudiarabia
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: 12 Nov 2003 04:37:03 -0000
From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>
To: joyeria@walrus.com
Subject: Viridian Note 00390: Drowning in Mecca
Key concepts: Mecca, Ramadan, floods, obstreperous
Saudi behavior at climate change accords, pilgrims
drowning
Attention Conservation Notice: Few English-language
news sources seem to care much that Mecca is briefly
subaqueous
********************************************************
News has been coming out of Brazil lately that is
completely odd and off the map. Lula (and his peculiar
culture minister, Gilberto Gil) are the most remarkable
politicians today who aren't invading or shooting
anybody.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22831/story.htm
Johnson Atoll, chemical warfare disposal site, to be
returned to wilderness.
http://www.nti.org/d_newswire/issues/2003_11_7.html#0E88A512
http://www.raytheon.com/rse/jatoll.html
New supercomputer climate model spawns unexpected tiny
typhoons.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994211
********************************************************
(((It wasn't bad enough that Al Qaeda decided to blow up
Mecca during this year's Ramadan.)))
Link:
http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/tue/nov11w19.htm
(((They're also drowning. That's right, drowning from
torrential rains inside Saudi Arabia. Happens all the
time, eh? Eighteen feet of water in the spiritual center
of Islam, yep, move right along, business as usual,
nothing to notice here!)))
Links:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?idw44
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/saudi_weather_floods
Source: Yahoo, AFP
"12 dead as torrential rains hit Mecca: medics
"RIYADH (AFP) == Torrential rains around the Muslim holy
city of Mecca left 12 people dead, including six children,
and 50 injured, Saudi medical sources said.
"The severe weather hit Mecca on Monday and water
levels in some parts of the city reached six meters (20
feet), according to the medical sources.
"Earlier the Al-Jazeera daily had put the death toll
from the flooding at seven dead and 48 injured.
"'The floods trapped students and employees and traffic
came to a standstill in the Al-Zaher and Nuaraya
neighbourhoods... and all over the city,' said the paper.
"Meanwhile, Mecca's ruler Prince Abdul Majeed bin
Abdul Aziz was quoted by Al-Watan daily as saying 'one
person was killed when he was trapped in the flooding in
one of Mecca's villages.'
"Although Saudi Arabia is one of the most arid
countries in the world and includes the vast Rub al-Khali
desert, or Empty Quarter, severe rainstorms are common in
the mountainous region along the west coast."
(((Well, what goes around, comes around.)))
http://www.up.umnw.ethz.ch/~mmalte/fossil/awards.php?country=saudiarabia
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
Artist in Residency Awards 2004 (AIL-Project) (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:49:48 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] Rene Stettler" <stettler@centralnet.ch>
To: "[iso-8859-1] Rene Stettler" <stettler@centralnet.ch>
Subject: [iso-8859-1] Artist in Residency Awards 2004 (AIL-Project),
Hochs[iso-8859-1] chule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich
Important Information about the AIL Artists-in-Labs Project which will sponsor up to 12 AIL Residency Awards in 9 different Swiss Science Labs in 2004.
http://www.artistsinlabs.ch German text see below
We are pleased to announce that our research group has secured funding from the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency KTI, as well as commitments from nine Swiss Science partner laboratories to proceed with a pilot program entitled: The Residency Awards.
The aim of the AIL Project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich is to encourage 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 we wish to encourage you all to apply.
a.. The deadline for artists to apply for residencies is January 5, 2004. Soon after this date, 12 Artists will be chosen for The Residency Awards in 2004, each with duration of 3 to 6 months.
Project proposals from artists who wish to work with the following scientific disciplines are encouraged: Bio-chemistry, bio-technology, solar energy, computational and information science, electron microscopy, micro-electronics, artificial intelligence research, ecological risk research, medicine, micro robotics, nano-technology, physics and environmental science research.
Information including application forms, regulations and laboratory details are available at http://www.artistsinlabs.ch. Artists from any age or nationality may apply.
Please see our website for more details.
Prof. Dr. Jill Scott and Rene Stettler
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich, School of Art and Design, Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich, Zurcher Fachhochschule, Forschung & Entwicklung Research & Development, AIL Artists in Labs Project, http://www.artistsinlabs.ch, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott, Media Artist, Project Leader, jill.scott@hgkz.ch, Rene Stettler, Scientific Coordinator, rene.stettler@hgkz.net, Hafnerstrasse 31 CH-8031 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. 0041 (0) 1 446 26 55, Fax 0041 (0) 1 446 26 53.
__________________________________________________________________________
Ausschreibung AIL-Programm
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:49:48 +0100
From: "[iso-8859-1] Rene Stettler" <stettler@centralnet.ch>
To: "[iso-8859-1] Rene Stettler" <stettler@centralnet.ch>
Subject: [iso-8859-1] Artist in Residency Awards 2004 (AIL-Project),
Hochs[iso-8859-1] chule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich
Important Information about the AIL Artists-in-Labs Project which will sponsor up to 12 AIL Residency Awards in 9 different Swiss Science Labs in 2004.
http://www.artistsinlabs.ch German text see below
We are pleased to announce that our research group has secured funding from the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency KTI, as well as commitments from nine Swiss Science partner laboratories to proceed with a pilot program entitled: The Residency Awards.
The aim of the AIL Project of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich is to encourage 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 we wish to encourage you all to apply.
a.. The deadline for artists to apply for residencies is January 5, 2004. Soon after this date, 12 Artists will be chosen for The Residency Awards in 2004, each with duration of 3 to 6 months.
Project proposals from artists who wish to work with the following scientific disciplines are encouraged: Bio-chemistry, bio-technology, solar energy, computational and information science, electron microscopy, micro-electronics, artificial intelligence research, ecological risk research, medicine, micro robotics, nano-technology, physics and environmental science research.
Information including application forms, regulations and laboratory details are available at http://www.artistsinlabs.ch. Artists from any age or nationality may apply.
Please see our website for more details.
Prof. Dr. Jill Scott and Rene Stettler
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich, School of Art and Design, Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst Zurich, Zurcher Fachhochschule, Forschung & Entwicklung Research & Development, AIL Artists in Labs Project, http://www.artistsinlabs.ch, Prof. Dr. Jill Scott, Media Artist, Project Leader, jill.scott@hgkz.ch, Rene Stettler, Scientific Coordinator, rene.stettler@hgkz.net, Hafnerstrasse 31 CH-8031 Zurich, Switzerland Tel. 0041 (0) 1 446 26 55, Fax 0041 (0) 1 446 26 53.
__________________________________________________________________________
Ausschreibung AIL-Programm
1st International Visual Studies Conference. (fwd)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:27:43 -0800
From: Edu-News <info@edu-news.com>
To: joy garnett <underbelly@newsgrist.com>
Subject: 1st International Visual Studies Conference.
1st International Visual Studies Conference.
Visual Studies in the 21st Century
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION
Dates: 15th and 16th February, 2004
Venue: ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, IFEMA, MADRID
http://www.visualstudies.net
The 1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held during
ARCO'04, organised by the Amigos de ARCO Association, in collaboration
with the Centro Parraga de Murcia.The Conference is being directed by Jose
Luis Brea, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).
The Conference's will feature a series of Plenary Lectures presented by
some of the most important academics and historians who have been doing
internationally recognised work on Visual Studies and Visual Culture. A
group of specialists will also present a set of preliminary papers on some
crucial issues in the nascent field of Visual Studies, organising the
debates into different panel discussion areas.
Attendance and participation are open to professors, advanced level
students, researchers, and those member of the art and university
community who are interested in attending or presenting a paper. An
Advisory Committee is responsible for accepting papers and organising
these presentations into different areas.
Plenary Lectures
The conference will feature the intervention of the most prestigious
writers and academics who, at an international level, have for some time
been exploring all of these issues:
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:27:43 -0800
From: Edu-News <info@edu-news.com>
To: joy garnett <underbelly@newsgrist.com>
Subject: 1st International Visual Studies Conference.
1st International Visual Studies Conference.
Visual Studies in the 21st Century
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION
Dates: 15th and 16th February, 2004
Venue: ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, IFEMA, MADRID
http://www.visualstudies.net
The 1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held during
ARCO'04, organised by the Amigos de ARCO Association, in collaboration
with the Centro Parraga de Murcia.The Conference is being directed by Jose
Luis Brea, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).
The Conference's will feature a series of Plenary Lectures presented by
some of the most important academics and historians who have been doing
internationally recognised work on Visual Studies and Visual Culture. A
group of specialists will also present a set of preliminary papers on some
crucial issues in the nascent field of Visual Studies, organising the
debates into different panel discussion areas.
Attendance and participation are open to professors, advanced level
students, researchers, and those member of the art and university
community who are interested in attending or presenting a paper. An
Advisory Committee is responsible for accepting papers and organising
these presentations into different areas.
Plenary Lectures
The conference will feature the intervention of the most prestigious
writers and academics who, at an international level, have for some time
been exploring all of these issues: