April 2009

A musical piece of mine is the soundtrack of this YouTube.

Also, an experiment with using the embed files from sites that link to my mp3s is here. This may not stay up long, I just think it looks kind of nice. I still don't put embedded files on this blog or Nasty Nets posts. I just don't like that little hang while the page is searching for some bastard company's proprietary software and then loading remote content. A lot of workplace computers don't just hang in that instance, they freeze.

From the New York Times obituary:

In October 1964, Mr. Brown opened “Meat Show,” an installation of thousands of pounds of raw meat, hanging carcasses of beef, lamb and pork, in a huge refrigerator unit separated into chambers by lingerie fabric. Attendees arrived in limousines in the meat market district of Manhattan — hardly the fashionable neighborhood it has become — and wore their overcoats to view the exhibition, which was kept at 38 degrees Fahrenheit. Mr. Brown called the installation “the grand opening service” of his new church, and the opening was covered by newspapers around the world. The Sunday Telegraph of London called it “the world’s most perishable art show.”

Mr. Brown joyously agreed, in a statement to The Sun Herald of Sydney, Australia.

“Most of this meat will go bad in a few days, which makes the whole exhibition more exciting,” he said.

Update: We're discussing Brown as well as past and present "meat art" here.

Another recycled Rhizome comment, this one about the IRL show at Capricious Space:

I enjoyed the performance by ASDF. As the IRL website described it, "With Mylinh Nguyen sitting in the gallery and David Horvitz chatting live from Golden Age in Chicago, ASDF made available an ephemeral show of 48 artists existing for only 4 hours. Each art work was available, one at a time, for only 5 minutes. The works were sized to print and available for download (also including instructions so that viewers may print the works using basic consumer technologies). After the 4 hours are up all the original files were deleted."

The 8 1/2 x 11 artworks inkjet-printed and hurriedly taped to the wall in a line around the room were nothing to write home about but it was interesting to see the webcam projection of the crowd in Chicago with their identical group of objects in a line around their room. It felt like looking through a doorway into a parallel universe. Who are these people standing around with their Chicago versions of the art? Is that Chicago-me mugging for the camera?

ASDF's was a work that took the real time/real space aspects of the gallery presentation into account, the internet vs white box dynamic, as well as the crowd or party vibe that became part of the art.

...on WNYU.

It's great to hear "surf club" art explained so well, although that term is not used in the interview.
Topics include: use of large photos ("we are very indebted to whatever community out there exists that seems to post very high resolution photos of family vacations and personal moments"), "that guy" ("the guy tasked with getting a company online and he has some strange idea that this is what the company needs but really just gets it wrong") and an offline project called "the Bar," a metal bar you can add or clip things onto, that is "vastly functional."

Double Happiness explains its three modes of art production as: generative (e.g., an original online painting), digestive (modified video or image), and regurgitative (little or no modification, other than being moved from the web to their site).