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The New American Dictionary
The Boston-based performance group Institute for Infinitely Small Things has published a book called The New American Dictionary.
The dictionary highlights the terminology of fear, security and war that has permeated American English post 9-11. It includes 68 new terms i.e. Preparedness and Freedom Fries as well as terms that have recently been redefined i.e. Torture.
The dictionary also has an interactive dimension. 58 terms are left undefined for the reader to pencil in their own definition. Furthermore, readers are invited to submit their additions to the institute for a possible inclusion in the 2nd edition.
The New American Dictionary is available at several online stores.
exhaust emissions balloons
a huge balloon, tied to a car�s vent-pipe, depicting the amount of exhaust emissions a car releases a day.
the "bursting earth" project is similar, but more dynamic. activists attach world globe balloons on exhaust pipes of cars in Berlin. the exhaust gas inflates the ballons. after the message becomes readable, there is a big "bang".
[link: frederiksamuel.com & adsoftheworld.com & 20to20.org]
WoW!
Aram Bartholl is a german artist renowned for making physical abstractions of the digital world, particularly game-worlds.
One of Aram's not-to-be-missed performances is inspired by the popular computer game World of Warcraft (WoW).
In WoW, the nickname of the player's avatar is constantly hovering above the head of the player so that the identity is visible for everyone else in the game.
Aram took this little feature out of cyberspace to see how it would look if people's names would float above their heads in the physical world too.
WoW has been performed at different locations around the world. Luckily, it is well-documented!
• Getting coffee WoW style • Workshop in Ghent • Project Site
REALIZING THE IMPOSSIBLE: ART AGAINST AUTHORITY
Aesthetics and Politics
REALIZING THE IMPOSSIBLE: ART AGAINST AUTHORITY by Josh MacPhee, Erik Reuland, editors :: There has always been a close relationship between aesthetics and politics in anti-authoritarian social movements. And those movements have in turn influenced many of the last century's most important art movements, including cubism, Dada, post-impressionism, abstract expressionism, surrealism, Fluxus, Situationism, and punk. Today, the movement against corporate globalization, with its creative acts of resistance, has brought anti-authoritarian politics into the forefront. This sprawling, inclusive collection explores this vibrant history, with topics ranging from turn-of-the-century French cartoonists to modern Indonesian printmaking, from people rolling giant balls of trash down Chicago streets to massive squatted urban villages and renegade playgrounds in Denmark, from stencil artists of Argentina to radical video collectives of the US and Mexico. Lots of illustrations, all b&w.;
Press release: Calling America blog live 3/11 - 3/17
CALLING AMERICA - http://flawedart.net/callingamerica
Calling America is a citizen's journalism project that explores, through a series of programs, the possibilities of sociable media platforms and common communications technologies in the practice of participatory journalism and documentary.
Program 1: March on the Pentagon
The first installment of Calling America takes place amidst the backdrop of the March on the Pentagon, March 17, 2007. A diverse group of activists from across the country were asked to keep a daily journal beginning one week prior to the march and ending the day of the march. Each participant will record, via telephone, a daily journal entry in which they reflect on their geographic, mental, spiritual and political journeys to Washington D.C. Participant's journal entries are recorded live and archived to the Calling America blog throughout the week. The project's aim is to provide an intimate look into the personal and political lives of a group of individuals brought together, at a critical point in history, to engage in direct democratic action.
Visit the blog (live from 3/11 - 3/17/2007)
www.flawedart.net/callingamerica/blog.html
Calling America has been developed for Multimediale, an art, politics and new media festival taking place at Provisions Library, Washington DC, April 19 - 22, 2007.
ABOUT MULTIMEDIALE - http://www.multimedialedc.org
MULTIMEDIALE considers the process in which the artist engages new media to affect or offer social and political change. Society is a global network of immediate communication in which artists proactively participate by using experimental media strategies. They explore new possibilities and reach outside the boundaries of their specific local situation and discipline. Using art as a vehicle for dialogue and criticism, they affect public opinion by building models and conceptual frames to offer social change or alternatives.
MULTIMEDIALE offers multiple ways of approaching art that goes far beyond traditional ways of thinking about media. It stimulates artists to create new work and explore new spaces for art making (= the city and its virtual appearance), hence the theme: CAPTURING THE CAPITAL!
MULTIMEDIALE seeks to energize the Washington DC community with new ideas about art, society and politics.
Organized by Randall Packer and Niels Van Tomme, curated by Niels Van Tomme.
mark cooley
assistant professor
art & visual technology
george mason university
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Calling America Program 1: The March on the Pentagon
Program 1: March on the Pentagon
A diverse group of activists from across the country were asked to keep a daily journal beginning one week prior to the March on the Pentagon, Saturday, March 17, 2007. Each participant will record via telephone to a multi-authored audio blog a daily journal entry reflecting on their geographic, mental, spiritual and political journeys to D.C.
The blog located at - http://www.flawedart.net/callingamerica/blog.html - will be live from Sunday, March 11 to Saturday, March 17, 2007
http://www.flawedart.net/callingamerica
Daily Encounters opens at MAP
Reception and gallery talk by the artists - Daily Encounters
For Immediate Release: January 31, 2007
For more information contact:
Julie Ann Cavnor 410-962-8565 / jcavnor@mdartplace.org
Media and Privacy Issues Addressed in Daily Encounters
Exhibition Dates:
February 20-March 31, 2007
Friday, March 2, 2007
Gallery Talk 6 pm / Reception 7 pm
Baltimore, Maryland—Maryland Art Place announces Daily Encounters, an exhibition that raises awareness about media and global communications and the affect each has on an individual’s personal privacy and security in a technologically-dependent world.
In her ongoing series, “Thoughts on Romance from the Road,” Victoria Crayhon searches out roadside movie marquees to post personal thoughts and messages. Left in place anywhere from hours to months, the texts present the idea of transgression, further confounding viewers with their seemingly incongruous placement. The artist creates large-scale prints that average 4x5 feet to document the process and to make the viewer feel they are a part of the experience.
Bethany Springer builds miniature satellite dishes fabricated of wood and portable communication towers made of vinyl and upholstery foam. Her sculpture and video work address universal structural systems that exist to “connect” otherwise disconnected places, making access to products and services faster, more convenient, and in contemporary society—expected. Through her installation-based work, Springer recreates the network systems that have enabled this lifestyle while drawing a parallel to the ever-increasing security issues that have stemmed as a result.
Mark Cooley and Edgar Endress’ “Dear Internet” project investigates how networked technologies become the basis for human interaction both on and off line. The content for the project is gathered from two primary sources, which include a participatory blog where users’ experiences are recorded and Live IP surveillance cameras that are accessed using advanced Google search techniques. The Dear Internet project will be screened live within MAP’s gallery, with cameras set to refresh every thirty seconds.
For more information about this exhibition and MAP’s additional program offerings, please visit our newly-designed website: www.mdartplace.org.
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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a not-for-profit center for contemporary art established in 1981 to: develop and maintain a dynamic environment for regional artists to exhibit their work, nurture and promote new ideas and new forms, and facilitate rewarding exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 5 pm. There is no admission charge to enter the gallery or to participate in MAP’s regularly scheduled programs and events.
Dear Internet - Call for letters
Dear Internet v1. investigates how networked technologies become platforms for the paradoxes of social relations in digital culture. Connection, fear, communication, alienation, interactivity, dislocation, intimacy, disembodiment, are all possible and often simultaneously present in our attempts to interact with others online and off.
The installation: A live screening of Dear Internet develops, with the help of participant input, over the course of the exhibition and serves as a partial expression of networked consciousness. Content for Dear Internet v1. is collected from 2 primary sources:
- A participatory blog that forms a collective memory of "users" experience in networked living. Dear Internet (the blog) is an unmoderated site for the publishing and archiving of letters written by Internet users concerning their relationships with the Internet. Through http://dearinternetuser.blogspot.com, users may address the internet directly and indulge in their deepest thoughts, feelings and fantasies with the abandonment, comfort and protection that only online anonymity can provide. Texts gathered from http://dearinternetuser.blogspot.com are remixed and projected in the gallery while they are read with text to speech software.
- Live IP surveillance cameras are accessed using a variety of well-known advanced google search techniques and projected in the gallery space. While these surveillance cameras are accessible to any internet user, they remain largely unknown to casual internet users. However, the cameras have attained significant attention from hackers, technophiles, security professionals, bored surfers and others. The interest no doubt comes from the common presumption that these surveillance cameras are left unsecure unintentionally by camera owners who have neglected to set-up camera security features. Internet users are often able to access full control of an accessed camera's, zoom, pan, snapshot and other features. Camera controls are removed from the interface for the Dear Internet installation and the cameras are set to refresh every 30 seconds.
http://www.dearinternet.org
a project by mark cooley and edgar endress
Letters wanted
Dear Internet is an unmoderated site for the publishing and archiving of letters written by Internet users concerning their relationships with the Internet. Through DearInternet.org, users may address the internet directly and indulge in their deepest thoughts, feelings and fantasies with the abandonment, comfort and protection that only online anonymity can provide.
Send and publish a letter to the Internet at: dearest_internet.user@blogger.com