The performance piece interweaves the past and present. I tell the story of the Tibetan King Songsten Gompo's conquest of Zhangzhung (believed to have encompassed Central Asia and parts of India) around 650 c. and his marriage to the Chinese Princess Wencheng and my understanding of that historic union as a Chinese American today in the face of Chinese occupation in Tibet. My hope is that the piece will raise awareness about Tibet and hopefully re-establish dialogue and friendly relations between the two groups as we have nothing to gain, but everything to lose as enemies. China is a large country with a population of over two billion. Its state-controlled media reinforces negative images of Tibetans and other minority groups, whether they're the Falun Gong or Uyghers on a daily basis, fueling paranoia and xenophobic nationalism. It's incumbent upon me, as a Chinese American, who has the privilege of free speech and information access to speak out, through the medium of art, against social injustice.

Students in the MFA Computer Art Program at SVA in New York  has a unique curriculum that exposes students to theories and technologies that allow them to explore their work in the areas of telecommunications, interactive multimedia, animation and installations. The Thesis Exhibition on May 21 will showcase graduating students' work that pushes the boundaries of digital art. Viewed more as contemporary art, the artists express their personal vision and current world view through digital media," says Charley Lewis, curator. According to department chair Bruce Wands, "This exhibition includes a wide range works: 3D animation/motion graphics, experimental video, networked media, interactive/video/audio installation, digital fine art, and prints."

May 21 – June 5, 2010
Reception: Tuesday, May 25, 6 – 8 pm
Meet the Artists: Thursday, June 3, 6 – 8 pm

Visual Arts Gallery
http://www.mfaca.sva.edu

The international selectors for the Nam June Paik Award 2010 met on the last weekend of February in the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf.

Solange Farkas (Sao Paulo), Udo Kittelmann (Berlin), chairman, Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona/New York), Miklós Peternák (Budapest) and Yukiko Shikata (Tokyo) came together to draw up the shortlist for the media art award established in 2002 by the Kunststiftung NRW.

Competing for the award, and taking part in an exhibition that can be seen from September 2010 in the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, are the following artists: Daito Manabe, Tokyo, Japan and Ei Wada a.k.a. Crab Feet, also from Tokyo; Hajnal Németh, Berlin; Eike, Budapest; the artist group Chelpa Ferro, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Ali Kazma, Istanbul, Turkey; Rosa Barba, Berlin and Amsterdam; Ignas Krunglevicius, Oslo, Norway.

The winners of the Newcomer Prize of the Nam June Paik Award 2008, Adriane Wachholz, Münster and Thorsten Hallscheidt, Cologne and Karlsruhe, will also present new works in the exhibition.

Kunststiftung NRW
Roßstraße 133
40476 Düsseldorf
Germany
http://www.kunststiftungnrw.de

If you are interested here's more information and how to apply.

The Disposable Film Festival was created in 2007 to celebrate the artistic potential of disposable video: short films made on non-professional devices such as one-time use video cameras, cell phones, point and shoot cameras, webcams, computer screen capture software, and other readily available video capture devices. With people everywhere gaining access to these devices, we felt the time was right to draw attention to the creative potential of this new mode of filmmaking. Far beyond its initial roles for video blogging and documentation, the DFF offers a forum to display how disposable media can be used for creative purposes. The DFF hosts screenings, competitions, and other events to showcase the best work within the disposable genre..

David Lynch, filmmaker; Fred Tavis, neuroscientist, Maharishi University; John Hagelin, physicist, Maharishi University. 

David Lynch, the award-winning writer, director, and producer, answers questions on his films, his 32-year practice of Transcendental Meditation, and the role of consciousness in the creative process. He is joined by physicist John Hagelin, who was featured in the documentary "What The Bleep Do We Know?" and neuroscientist Dr. Fred Travis, Director of the Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition at Maharishi University of Management.

PBS | NPR Forum Network in partnership with Emerson College 2005 Oct 1

This movie is part of the collection: PBS | NPR Forum Network Arts & Media
Producer: WGBH Production Company: WGBH Forum Network

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

The ARTslant art network anounces the November Juried Showcase!

There will be over $20,000 in cash and promotion.

Showcase Winners: Will be exhibited in the Showcase premium placement box and be promoted to thousands of art watchers and buyers. Award designation will appear on the Artist Profile. Premium placement fee applies.

Juried Winners: Receive special display in our Showcase and on our homepage. Winners will be presented to all Artslant subscribers throughout the ARTslant Views e-publication. Juried Winners go into the Golden Frame competition in March 2010.

Golden Frame Competition: A final panel of gallerists and curators will select three Golden Frame winners from all Juried Winners.

GOLDEN FRAME AWARDS

1st Prize

• $5,000 cash and cash equivalent prizes
• Exhibition in a top ArtSlant city
• Press preview and announcements
• Golden Frame edition print

2nd Prize

• $2,500 cash and cash equivalent prizes
• Exhibition in a top ArtSlant city
• Golden Frame edition print

3rd Prize

• $1,000 cash and cash equivalent prizes
• Golden Frame edition print

Find out more at ARTslant's showcase page.

Are you an artist to watch? Can you imagine exhibiting in a top art venue? Do you want to be seen by art watchers and collectors around the world? These are some of the possibilities in our Showcase (learn more about Juried 5 )!

GALLERY PANEL OF JURORS

 to include: SF Camerawork, San Francisco, Nettie Horn Gallery, London

plus 3 other international galleries

Spazialismo November 19 - December 30, 2009

bitforms gallery

529 West 20th St New York NY 10011 http://www.bitforms.com

via Art Agenda

Spazialismo is a group exhibition that explores the visionary concepts of Lucio Fontana's in the 1940's and 1950's about how people consider structures of space in the modern, yet still very natural world. The exhibit organizers say that it is also intended to serve as a vehicle for a contemporary review of the Spatialist texts, including 'Manifesto tecnico della Spazialismo," and "Television Manifesto." Fontana founded the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aries. The avant-garde school was founded to promote the idea that a new kind of art was needed to reflect the modern world as revealed by science.

Gathering the voices of five contemporary artists - Mel Bochner, R. Luke DuBois, Michael Joaquin Grey, Yael Kanarek and Matthew Ritchie - the exhibition focuses on expanded representations of space and dynamic movement. Also included will be photographic documentation of Fontana's 1951 illuminated arabesque for La Triennale di Milano - an early use of neon installation in an arts context.

Film, in the years to follow according to Fontana's manifestos, is evidence of the direction that the spirit has taken toward the dynamic. His principles chose to abandon the use of known forms of art and were a move toward development of art based upon the unity of space and time. According to Fontana, "The development of of the phenomena of color and sound are what integrates the new art. The subconscious - which houses all of the images perceived by intelligence - adopts the form of these images and accepts notions that give form to the nature of man, and transforms the individual."

While concepts such as Fontana's were the precursor for principles of postmodernism, a profound philosophy of our times,  most theorists and art lovers alike do not abandon earlier forms of art, choosing one form over another. In the current period of post-post-modernism one immediately grasps what Fontana theorized 40 years earlier. But this era also precludes a complete binary transformation from one to the other, rather this seems to be a time when art and imagery are created one way and interpreted another, in a remix culture unbound by scientific principles alone.

According to the gallery the exhibit began online, between several of the artists and has now grown to nine participating artists. A preview glimpse of the show reveals how the interaction between the artists pose questions of cultural, and aesthetic differences. This is indeed a range of abstraction ranging from the minimal to the expressive.

“…These painters, calling themselves TRANS, meeting in person or on the Internet, found that they share a common interest in the painting process, pure, and often not so simple. Unlike previous groups, they share no common ideology and they certainly are not likely to publish a manifesto.  And they all agree that it is the viewer's response, which completes the work…”
—Peter Selz

Exhibiting artists – Kasarian Dane, Stephan Fritsch, Brent Hallard, Leonhard Hurzlmeier, Robin McDonnell, Mel Prest, Richard Schur, Nancy White, John Zurier

Opening Reception Thursday, Nov. 12, 6-9 pm

According to Adobe, a lot of under the hood performance enhancements have been made to improve both responsiveness of the program and speed of the production process. Also added to Lightroom Beta 3 are:

Some of the new features included for you to play with in the Lightroom 3 beta are:

• Brand new performance architecture, building for the future of growing image libraries
• State-of-the-art noise reduction to help you perfect your high ISO shots
• Watermarking tool that helps you customize and protect your images with ease
• Portable sharable slideshows with audio—designed to give you more flexibility and impact on how you choose to share your images, you can now save and export your slideshows as videos and include audio
• Flexible customizable print package creation so your print package layouts are all your own
• Film grain simulation tool for enhancing your images to look as gritty as you want
• New import handling designed to make importing streamlined and easy
• More flexible online publishing options so you can post your images online to certain online photo sharing sites directly from inside Lightroom 3 beta (may require third-party plug-ins)*

Adobe and many other software companies have introduced early planned upgrades to software as public betas so that users can test the program for free and provide the application developers with valuable real time feedback about bugs, suggestions and new features.

If you haven't already you will have to register at the Adobe Labs site: http://labs.adobe.com/, then you will be able to download a Windows or Mac version of the software.

László Moholy-Nagy, Composition A 19, 1927

Through February, 2010 at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Hungarian artist László Moholy-Nagy became known in Germany through his formative work as a teacher at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Dessau from 1923 to 1928. His pioneering theories on art as testing ground for new forms of expression and the application of these theories to all areas of modern life are still influential today. Comprising roughly 170 works in the mediums of painting, photography and photogram, sculpture, and film as well as stage set design and typography from all phases of his career, the retrospective will examine the complex picture of Moholy-Nagy’s oeuvre in order to present the range of his creative output to the public for the first time since the last major exhibition of his work in Kassel in 1991. Never having been built before 2009, the artist’s spatial design 'The Room of Our Time', which brings together many of his theories, will be realized in the context of the exhibition.
Curator: Dr. Ingrid Pfeiffer

OPENING HOURS

TUESDAY, FRIDAY - SUNDAY 10 PM - 7 AM

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY 10 AM - 10 PM

NEXT GUIDED TOUR: 09 OCTOBER 2009

MEDIA PARTNER
Hans Frick GmbH Inneneinrichtungen

Donald Fisher, the co-founder of clothing giant Gap, who became one of the art world’s most prolific philanthropists, died of cancer yesterday, aged 81.

The news comes just days after the announcement that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will house the Fishers’ collection in a new wing of the museum. The works amount to what can be considered one of the world’s greatest private collections, with over 1000 works by 20^th- and 21^st-century greats, including masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly and Richard Serra.

It was only this year that Doris and Donald Fisher pulled the plug on their plan to house their personal collection in a purpose-built museum in the Presidio area of San Francisco – a proposed 100,000-square-foot contemporary art museum that came under continued objection from the Presido Trust, who felt the addition to the area would ruin the National Park.

Donald Fisher

An addition this year, a new section within the fair dedicated to solo artist presentations, Frame will show 29 young galleries from around the world that have been in existence for less than six years. The galleries’ selection has been advised by curators Daniel Baumann and
Sarah McCrory.

Taking place in Regent’s Park in a large temporary structure of approximately 21,000 square metres, Frieze Art Fair 2009 is designed for the second year running by architects Caruso St John.

Frieze Projects presents art that regards the particular circumstances of Frieze Art Fair as an opportunity to create work that could not exist elsewhere. This year’s seven projects create aesthetic opportunity out of the uncertainty that has become the hallmark of our troubled times; whether taking the form of grand architectural obstruction or finding new ways of protesting, authenticating or motivating our relationship to the objects we make, look at and buy, according to the fair organizers. The Frieze Projects' artists for 2009 are: Mike Bouchet, Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth, Ruth Ewan, Ryan Gander, Per-Oskar Leu, Monika Sosnowska, and Stephanie Syjuco.

UK-based collaborators Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth will create a seamless projection of stage-managed and live events filmed at the fair, transforming the exposition into a mise-en-scene featuring visitors, gallerists and art fair workers. There will be a broadcast performance of A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World, started in 2003, the artist’s collection of around 1,500 politically motivated or idealistic songs; Ryan Gander will set up an (almost) instant photo studio to make portraits of visitors to the fair looking at an artwork of their choice.

Jannis Varelas Dark Sun 2008 Mixed media on paper 163x117cm, Private collection, Milan Courtesy The Breeder

Monika Sosnowska will present a major structural intervention in which a large, heavy object crashes into the roof of the fair. Taking the form of a scale model of the infamous Palace of Culture in Warsaw – a ‘gift’ to the Polish people from the USSR – Sosnowska’s project is a kind of cultural meteorite, the imposition of one cultural edifice onto another; Stephanie Syjuco will set up a parasitic workshop in which a small group of artists will make bootleg copies of other works exhibited in the fair. The artists will use basic and inexpensive materials and will work in a gallery stand at the fair in full view of visitors. The copies will be displayed in an adjacent gallery stand.

Frieze Film
Frieze Film 2009 presents a newly commissioned project in four parts by Danish artist activists Superflex, The Financial Crisis (Session I–IV). Taking as their inspiration a passage in Lars Von Trier's film Epidemic, Superflex's new films will approach the economic crisis as a psychosis to be treated therapeutically.

Frieze Film will be shown in Channel 4's innovative '3 Minute Wonder' slot during the week of Frieze Art Fair from Monday 12 October to Thursday 15 October, at 7.55pm and onsite and Frieze Art Fair.

Frieze Music 2009 will be a performance conceived and choreographed by Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed. Co-commissioned by Frieze Music and Sadler's Wells, Work No. 1020 will be performed at Sadler's Wells during Frieze Art Fair 2009 from Friday 16 to Sunday 18 October. To book tickets visit http://sadlerswells.com

Sculpture Park
This year’s Sculpture Park, sponsored by Heath Lambert, presents work by a broad spectrum of artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy and Eva Rothschild.

The Stand Prize
The first Frieze Art Fair Stand Prize, sponsored by Champagne Pommery, will be judged by Peter Eleey (Curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis), Susanne Gaensheimer Director of the Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt/Main) and Margot Heller (Director of the South London Gallery, London). A prize of 10,000 GBP will go to the most innovative gallery stand at the fair. The prize will be awarded on the afternoon of Wednesday 14 October.

Several years ago, while making the lecture circuit rounds, American architect William Massie described a key goal within his practice as moving towards a more direct translation between bits and atoms. Architecture has always thrived on the tension between representation and material assemblages and what he was addressing with this comment was the dawning of an era characterized by a new proximity between digital models and physical output. In selected contexts, artists, architects, and designers have been exploring these accelerated development cycles for a decade but the involved technologies are descending in price so quickly that, for example, 3D printers are now cheaper than laser printers were in 1985. A key question: how does the looming ubiquity of these tools and workflows apply to the production and display of new media art? This article will explore digital fabrication (aka fabbing) at a variety of scales which include the curatorial questions raised by these new hybrid industrial design/sculpture objects as well as the implications on the practice of individual artists. Before delving into either of these milieus it would be useful to acknowledge some common language and terminology associated with fabrication and recognize some important precedents.

Wikipedia defines rapid prototyping as the "automatic construction of physical objects using solid freeform fabrication." Solid freeform fabrication is an umbrella term for a range of (often proprietary) techniques which include extrusion, sintering, curing and printing. So when we use the term "rapid prototyping" we are referring to some variant of the aforementioned 3D desktop printer. Another important process to consider is Computer Numerical Control (CNC) in which a geometrical form, as defined by a 2D or 3D CAD drawing, is translated into a tool path and cut out of an existing object or laminate. Common forms of CNC include milling and laser cutting. CNC is not new, one need only venture to their nearest signage shop to prove this point, but, like 3D printing, CNC technologies are going through a process of rapid miniaturization and are becoming affordable to individuals outside industry.