Michael Kontopoulos awarded grant through the Rhizome Commissions Program
Rhizome is pleased to announce the ten emerging artists and collectives that have been awarded grants through the Rhizome Commissions Program. All emblematic of new directions in the field of new media art, the works manifest in a variety of forms from performance, sound to web-based works and touch upon themes from cultural and historic memory, to reality TV, to the possibilities for humanizing participants in mass social networking systems.
Michael Kontopoulos, Measure of Discontent
Inspired by certain countries' efforts to impose a quantifiable value to the “happiness” of its people (notably, the tradition of Gross National Happiness in Bhutan), and the idea that if you can measure happiness, you can also measure unhappiness, Measure of Discontent aims to quantify and represent anxiety. By quantifying the subjective, in this case, anxiety or unhappiness, the artist aims to render poetic the contemporary American problem: a nation in crisis, and a state of palpable, national anxiety.
Chris O'Leary to Florida for artist residency
Christopher O'Leary will be pariticipating in a 3 week artist residency in FL. Starting June 29-July 19, 2009, Chris will be an Artist-In-Residence with Performance Artist Carole Kim. He'll be focusing on live-video performance collaborations and his own personal work at the Atlantic Center for the Arts New Smyrna Beach, FL.
TopChandler McWilliams performs John Henry von Neumann at Machine Project
John Henry Von Neumann, Sunday, June 28, 10am - 6pm
In the performance of “John Henry Von Neumann,” Chandler B. McWilliams will compete against a computer to complete a drawing in an eight-hour workday. The drawings are algorithmic, such that each line can be calculated from the previous lines. Random numbers will be used to generate the same seed line for McWilliams and the computer to execute the algorithm. He will use pen and paper while the computer uses a plotter. The result will be two drawings, one from the human hand, and one from the hand of the machine.
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado
Los Angeles, CA 90026
TopErkki Huhtamo's Magic Lantern Exhibition at The Hammer Museum
Alongside The American Magic Lantern Theatre's performance on Monday, June 22, 2009 in connection with the exhibition The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, The Hammer Museum presents a special one-evening exhibition of rare magic lanterns, slides and related paraphernalia from the collection of UCLA Design | Media Arts Professor Erkki Huhtamo. Dr. Huhtamo began collecting in the 1980s, and has put together one of the most important private collections in the field of early visual media and optical projections.
The exhibition features magic lantern projectors both from Europe and the United States, lantern slides, accessories such as illuminants, engravings depicting lantern shows and lanternists, broadsides, tickets, and other documents. Most of the items are shown publicly for the first time. The exhibition has been co-curated by Professor Huhtamo and Claudia Bestor, Hammer Museum.
The Magic Lantern Exhibition opens at 6pm, followed by the American Magic Lantern Theatre's Magic Lantern Show at 7pm (Billy Wilder Theatre). The events are free, but a complimentary ticket is required. It is recommended to come early!
TopJohanna Reed presents, Soil, Void at the EDA
Title: Soil, Void
When: 6-8 pm, Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Where: EDA/Gallery 1250, UCLA
What: The final iteration of "The Augmented Void," an independent research project that looked at how technologically augmented spaces effect one's experience of existence.
Participants will be asked to interact with a plot of soil in a gallery space. The soil will be contained in a large, rectangular, wooden garden plot. After the interaction is complete, the participants will be asked to document their experience on the Internet, on a provided desktop computer. The form of the interaction and documentation is to the discretion of the participant.
by, Johanna Reed, Chandler McWilliams, faculty mentor
TopAndres Colubri at the Museum of Jurassic Technology
Andres Colubri will present a live animation piece at the Museum of Jurassic Technology called Latent State. The opening is Friday June 19 at 7:30 with a second performance at 9:00pm. The Museum of Jurassic Technology is located at 9341 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited so please arrive early.
TopRebeca Mendez presents, At Any Given Moment, River, at Minotti Gallery
You are cordially invited to to an exhibition of Rebeca Méndez's recent works in conjunction with italian artist Mauro Mori at Minotti, Los Angeles. Méndez's work in the exhibition is At Any Given Moment, River, which is a video art installation measuring 140.75 w” x 126.5 h” (357.5 cm x 321.3 cm), and is on view from June 18–July 4, 2009.
Opening reception: Thursday, June 18, 7-9. MINOTTI, 8936 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048.
Rebeca Méndez’s artwork series At Any Given Moment explores issues of perception, specifically our relationship to technologically mediated nature. In At Any Given Moment, River, the repetitive rhythm, tight crop and large-scale image of a river emphasizes its particular organizational logic in time and space. The cross-rhythmic tensions between simple elements—water flowing at variable speed and under variable light conditions—create visual difference and reveal the patterns that one simple element produces through relationships and complex organization. This distancing approach, allows us to view ourselves from the outside, as part of the representation, thus learn about ourselves and challenge preconceptions of our surroundings, specifically of the nature of matter.
The At Any Given Moment Series was filmed in Iceland between 2006 and 2008, with a 16mm Bolex film camera and transferred to high definition video.
Contact: info@rebecamendez.com
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TopEddo Stern in Laguna Museum Show
Eddo Stern in Laguna Museum Exhibition , WoW.
WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon is based on the on-line game World of Warcraft and consists of works of art by contemporary artists who deal with gaming in their subject-matter, the artwork of artists who work directly on the game, and art from the World of Warcraft fan base. This exhibition has been organized by Laguna Art Museum and curated by Grace Kook-Anderson. Participating artists include; Chris Metzen, Sam Didier (a.k.a., Samwise), Chris Robinson, Justin Thavirat, and Roman Kenney (all from Irvine); Aram Bartholl (Berlin); Jorg Dubin (Laguna Beach); Jacqueline Goss (New York); Cyril Kuhn (Los Angeles); Antoinette LaFarge (Long Beach); Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski (Berlin); Robert Nideffer and Alex Szeto (Los Angeles); Airyka Rockefeller (San Francisco); RSG (New York); Anne-Marie Schleiner (Singapore); Eddo Stern (Los Angeles); Tale of Tales, Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn (Ghent, Belgium); The Third Faction (Azeroth); and Zeng Han (Guangzhou).
Laguna Art Museum
307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
TopRebeca Méndez in "Memory of the L.A. Billboard: Telepolis in the Archetype"
Rebeca Méndez in group exhibition: ‘Memory of the L.A. Billboard: Telepolis in the Archetype’
Exhibition Dates: May 30 - July 3, 2009. Opening Reception: Saturday May 30, 6pm-8:00pm.
Koplin Del Rio Gallery, 6031 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232.
Open to the public.
TopOsman Khan, Fabian Winkler and Daniel Sauter are award winners at 2009 Prix Ars Electronica
DMA is happy to announce the following winners of this year Prix Ars Electronica. Osman Khan won the Distinction award; Fabian Winkler and Daniel Sauter won honorary mention.
