SPACES ED RFQ

"Executive Director: SPACES, a leading, national alternative gallery located in Cleveland seeks an experienced arts professional to guide its mission."

more on the SPACES web site

[image from a google search for 'spaces' from the blog "7.5th Floor"]

Musicians Support Network Neutrality.

[from HP, who writes: "Cool, huh? Who would have thought rockers would get out there for net neutrality?"



179 bands and 35 labels have signed on [as of March 28] to this remarkable network activism effort. Founding bands and musicians include R.E.M., Death Cab for Cutie, Kathleen Hanna, John Doe, Sarah McLachlan, Kronos Quartet, and The Wrens.]


"Network neutrality -- or Net Neutrality -- is the principle that preserves a free and open Internet. Net neutrality ensures that all users can access the content, or run the applications and devices of their choice.

Rock the Net is a nationwide coalition of musicians and labels that support net neutrality. We come together at this critical time to demonstrate to Congress and the FCC the music community's broad support for this principle. As musicians and entrepreneurs, we understand the importance of treating all websites equally -- from the busiest online music store to the smallest blog. We urge Congress to support network neutrality."

more:

[image adapted from The Future of Music Rock The Net web site]

Video as Urban Condition

[with thanks to Anne Bray and Freewaves for identifying this interesting opportunity for time-based media artists]

Video as Urban Condition: how video shapes urban experience

The Video as Urban Condition "Video-pool" archive is a mobile collection ofmoving images reflecting the mutability of video as it shifts between factand fiction, entertainment and persuasion, urban fantasy and reality-TV, art and activism, surveillance and control.

The archive will be open to the public at Lentos Museum of Modern Art (in Linz, Austria), 19 April-27 May 2007. The Video-pool installation will form the environment and a constellation of points of reference for a series of events on the themes "Public Space and Personal Media-politics", "Model Cities, Wish Images and Playgrounds", "Voyeurism, (Self-)Control and TV".

Add your point of view!

We welcome your video contributions and compilations. Videos received before 19 April will take part in the Video-pool $1000 Prize Draw!

more about the project http://video-as.org/project
how to contribute http://video-as.org/videopool
upcoming events http://video-as.org/news
Lentos Museum http://www.lentos.at/en/index.asp

[image, illustration for an essay on the history of horizontality - http://varnelis.net/articles/horizontality - from a Google image search for "urban condition"]

Quantizing Effects: The Liminal Art of Jim Campbell

January 17 – June 3, 2007

Museum of Glass
1801 Dock Street
Tacoma, Washington

details

[image from Museum of Glass Web site:
Church on Fifth Avenue, 2001
Custom electronics, 768 LEDs, treated plexiglass,
29 x 22x 6.5 inches]

Artists Count

[Below, with thanks to NAAO Board member Laura Zabel, Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts]

Minnesota Citizens for the Arts

Artists Count!

A 2007 Economic Impact Study of Artists in Minnesota

State-wide economic impact study of individual artists in Minnesota.

[image, "suitsinpool.jpg" from a Google image search for "Minnesota Arts," harvested from the Minnesota Public Radio Web site.]

Bracketology Update

[From Kastav overlooking Kvarner Bay on the Adriatic coast in northern Croatia, I file an update to to an earlier post on the March Madness tournament for curators now underway on the Leisure Arts Web site]


"Last year we selected the top 64 Art Collectives for our first LeisureArts Championship. It's March Madness once more and the 2007 tournament features curators. Print out the bracket (please note our imaging software doesn't allow the use of "special" characters, so some names do not appear in their proper form, apologies in advance) and make your predictions as to who will take this year's championship! Put your bracketology skills to the test."

"Curatorial Championship: Day Two Update
In the second day of tournament action, top seeds continued to do well. Only Udo Kittlemann and Sarah Cook managed to knock off higher seeds (Okwui Enwezor and Gavin Wade respectively). Cook's victory was not without its predictors. Others advancing: Ralph Rugoff, Claire Doherty, Saskia Bos, Nina Montmann, Maria Lind, Annie Fletcher, Helen Molesworth, Nato Thompson, Ali Subotnick, Eric Troncy, Kenny Schacter, Stephanie Smith, Carlos Basualdo, and Rene Block."

==

"Curatorial Championship: Day One Update
There was just one significant upset Thursday, but plenty of top seeds could face challenges during Friday's action.

Top seeds carried the day in the East bracket, except that Elena Filipovic knocked off Steve Dietz. Also in the East, Massimiliano Gioni, Hon Hanru, Michael Fehr, Hamza Walker, and Simon Sheikh all advanced.

The big upset of the day occured in the West bracket where Kitty Scott took out Nicholas Bourriaud. Joseph del Pesco, Lars Bang Larsen, and Christian Rattemeyer also won.

In the South bracket we had Mary Jane Jacob, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jens Hoffmann advancing, and in what is likely a bracket buster for some (High Low & in between), Matthew Higgs was upset by Francisco Bonami.

Finally, we have the North bracket seeing Dan Cameron and Lisette Smits advance.

We have somewhat solved our internet access at sea problems, but access is not reliable and we may not get updates up as soon as we'd like. The bracket won't be posted again until the Sweet Sixteen, so you'll have to pencil in winners until then."

[note: bracket added to this post March 20.]











[see related March 2 post below]

[photograph of Kastav, Croatia from a google image search for "Kastav"]

77 Million Paintings

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
Gateshead UK

BRIAN ENO
31 January - 15 April 2007
The Constellations (77 Million Paintings)

"Eno’s latest work, The Constellations (77 Million Paintings) creates “visual music” using screens showing constantly evolving paintings. The 77 million paintings are generated from handmade slides, randomly combined by a computer using specially developed software. A soundtrack of interwoven sound accompanies the work."

more

WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution

NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, March 11, 2007

Women's Art
by Laura Sydell

"A new major exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles called "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution" includes works from 117 artists from 21 countries. The show explores the years between 1965 and 1980."

audio available on the NPR Web site

[image Untitled #50 1979 by Cindy Sherman from the series Untitled film stills 1977–80]

Contours & Detours | Natural Acts

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th STREET NW (at "D" Street)
Washington, DC 20004

March 9 - April 21, 2007

JASON FALCHOOK, Contours & Detours
JASON ZIMMERMAN, Natural Acts

"Founded in 2006, Civilian Art Projects is Washington, DC's newest gallery gnawing at the edges of contemporary aesthetic discourse. Through a challenging exhibition series supporting promising, up-and-coming artists working in a broad range of media, and through exciting events of cultural and social significance held throughout the season, Civilian will generate new energy, ideas and momentum thereby contributing to culture and community."

[image from Civilian Art Projects Web site]

Julio Morales: There’s Gonna Be Sorrow

Galería de la Raza
2857 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

March 9 - April 28, 2007
There’s Gonna Be Sorrow
A Solo Exhibition by Julio Morales

[second of two posts highlighting March programs at the Galleria]


"There’s Gonna Be Sorrow," Julio Cesar Morales’ first solo exhibition at the Galería de la Raza, is inspired by singer David Bowie’s 1974 failed theatrical adaptation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which later became the concept album Diamond Dogs.

There’s Gonna Be Sorrow is a stunning sonic and visual landscape that evokes the dystopian future explored by Orwell’s novel and Bowie’s music. In Morales’ work, peril, expectation, desire and disillusion create a field of tension. Working from a Latino perspective, Morales uses mutated sound samples of Diamond Dogs, language, typography, and idiosyncratic symbols from the Latin American urban landscape —such as the broken bottles that are often found embedded in the concrete atop walls to protect and define property boundaries—to create a dangerous topography that evokes issues of immigration, alienation, dystopia and surveillance.

The project includes multi-channel video, sculpture and sound with original music by Los Creamators and additional audio of the artist’s aunt singing obscure Mexican songs. Morales utilizes digital media in the broadest sense – as a printed mural, recorded sound, LED signs, video etc. His artistic practice can be described as employing the DJ’s method of remixing as a means to analyze the politics of culture.

Morales’ work has been previously shown at The 2006 Singapore Biennale, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; 2005 ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France; The Rooseum Museum of Art, Malmo, Sweden; Peres Projects, Los Angeles; 2004 The San Juan Triennial, San Juan Puerto Rico; Fototeca de Havana, Cuba; Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York City; MUCA ROMA, Mexico City; and The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. There’s Gonna Be Sorrow was made possible thanks to an Individual Artist Grant from The San Francisco Art Commission."

[image from the Galleria Web site.]

March Madness Bracketology

[With thanks for the tip to 'anonymous,' a curator, who wrote: "I have no idea how this works or who is behind it, but for some reason I'm in it."]

more, in context

[image from Leisure Arts web log see link above]