http://www.flawedart.net
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.;
"Hijackers" in two inadequate descriptive systems
http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/files/inadequate/hijackers/index.htm
Re: ASSISTANCE: teaching materials for the digital world needed
San Jose State University Art & Design Dept. - http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/art_design/
San Jose State University CADRE Laboratory for New Media http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/art_design/
University of Buffalo SUNY Department of Media Study - http://mediastudy.buffalo.edu/
Trebor Scholz Courses @ University of Buffalo SUNY Department of Media Study
University of California San Diego Center for research and Computing in the Arts http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/people/index.html
University of California San Diego Department of Visual Art http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
Lev Manovich, University of California, San Diego
University of California Los Angeles Department of Art - http://www.art.ucla.edu/
University of California Los Angeles Design | Media Arts http://www.design.ucla.edu/
California Institute of the Arts http://www.calarts.edu/
California Institute of the Arts School of Art http://www.calarts.edu/schools/art/index.html
California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video http://www.calarts.edu/schools/film/index.html
Natalie Bookchin, CalArts http://www.calarts.edu/schools/art/faculty/bookchin.html
PROMIS in two inadequate descriptive systems
compiled and arranged by mark cooley
http://art-design.smsu.edu/cooley/files/promis/
Re: Lee Wells at the Lobby Gallery
mark
lee wells wrote:
>
> The Lobby Gallery Presents
> Machines of Power and Other Fun Stuff
> recent work by Lee Wells
> July 23 through September 4, 2004
> Opening reception: Friday July 23, 7-10:30pm
>
> 731 N. Sangamon
> Chicago, IL 60622
> 312.952.1823 mobile
> 312.432.4327 voicemail
> info@lobbygallery.com
> http://www.lobbygallery.com
>
> The Lobby Gallery is proud to present this solo exhibition of New York
> artist Lee Wells. The art featured is the newest in a body of work
> that he
> has been exploring since 1998, called Studies for Hyper-elevated
> Architecture. These works investigate systems of power and control,
> social
> dynamics and color field theory.
>
> The two series comprising Machines of Power and Other Fun Stuff create
> an
> odd sense of nostalgia. The machines themselves are re-photographed
> images
> of technological innovations such as fighter jets and rockets,
> primarily of
> the Reagan-era arms race. They are presented along side the Kids
> series of
> contemporaneous photographs of children playing and posing. In both
> series
> Wells partially obscures the images with an irregular grid pattern
> painted
> in acrylic. This results in a legible but incomplete and highly edited
> image, which could be compared to a memory. Those of us old enough to
> have
> experienced the cold war recognize ourselves or our children in the
> kids,
> whilesimultaneously remembering the machines as symbols of national
> pride,
> strength and protection against the enemy of the era. If more than a
> decade
> after the collapse of the Soviet Union the machines look as silly and
> dated
> as the kids' clothing, they are nevertheless a reminder of the lengths
> to
> which we can be driven by fear, and a lens through which we might view
> our
> present international situation.
>
> A veteran of the United States Army, Lee Wells studied art at the
> University
> of Chicago and Columbus College of Art and Design. He has exhibited
> internationally in solo and group exhibitions, most recently in the
> exhibition Objective Peace at the Historical Museum of the Infantry in
> Rome,
> Italy. This spring he organized and curated the well-received
> exhibition
> Active Duty: Armed Artists of America (AAA) at Studio 84 in
> Williamsburg,
> Brooklyn. Lee currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
>