NETWORKED NATURE

Foxy Production
617 W 27th Street Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
t: 212 239 2758

NETWORKED NATURE

Organized by RHIZOME, an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art

January 11 - February 18, 2007
Opening reception: January 11, 6-8 PM

Foxy Production presents Networked Nature, a group exhibition that inventively explores the representation of 'nature' through the perspective of networked culture. The exhibition includes works by C5, Futurefarmers, Shih-Chieh Huang, Philip Ross, Stephen Vitiello, and Gail Wight, who provocatively combine art and politics with innovative technology, such as global positioning systems (GPS), robotics, and hydroponic environments.

Networked Nature is organized by Marisa Olson, Editor and Curator at Rhizome.

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[image: Gail Wight, Creep, 2004, time-lapse video on DVD, 3 LCD panels in aluminum frame, 15 × 60 x 2 in., detail view. from Foxy Production Web site.]

Terminals + Music for Worms and Compost

Hallwalls
Buffalo, New York
Exhibitions
January 13-February 17, 2007

Eric Brown
Terminals
"Salvaged materials—aluminum siding, unfinished wood and plaster—to create sculptures that incorporate the fundamental forms of architecture and design."

PAUL DICKINSON
Music For Worms and Compost
Inside, red worms break down organic wastes. Contact microphones amplify the movements of the worms. A chart provides a locating reference for the sounds. Video feeds transmit the decomposing interior to select locations.

LA Observed: Los Angeles before cars

From the remarkable LA Observed-An Online Journal of Los Angeles, Media, News and Sense of Place, with thanks to MFC for the tip.

Los Angeles before cars

[note that Los Angeles will host the NAAO Spring 2007 National Conference, VITALSIGNs: creative and healthy communities, April 26 - 29, 2007. Look for details on the NAAO web site. And in the months ahead, the Data Stream will highlight SouthLand artists, artist organizations and local projects.

TAX AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

EFA Studio Center
323 West 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018

Thursday Jan 4, 6:30 pm
TAX AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR ARTISTS

Speaker Susan Lee is a tax consultant and a financial planner who specializes in freelancers and artists. She is the host and producer of "You and Your Money" on WBAI-FM.

Admission $5 general public, free to EFASC Members

[image from UCLA Payroll Web site.]

Hammer Museum - Wolfgang Tillmans

through January 7, 2007

" This is the first retrospective exhibition in the United States of the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans is internationally recognized for creating work that captures evocative, intimate reflections of often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life."

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90024
310.443.7000

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[image from Hammer Museum Web site:
Wolfgang Tillmans
Deer Hirsch
1995]

On the One: James Brown

On the One: James Brown
May 3, 1933-December 25, 2006

[Growing up in Europe in the late sixties, hanging out with high school age musicians, I shared a commonly-held reverence for James Brown and the Fabulous Flames that bordered on worship. In the intervening decades I barely followed his career beyond the occasional hits, and tabloid headlines resulting from his tumultuous personal life.]


Boxing Day's WHYY's "Fresh Air" featured a fascinating hour-long tribute to the "Godfather of Soul" who passed away on Christmas Day.

Conversations with the brilliant and complex James Brown are complemented with excerpts from interviews with band leader Maceo Parker and funk bass player sans pareil Bootsy Collins, both of whom worked with James Brown.

Host Terry Gross puts it correctly: James Brown was "one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century."

Click here to listen to the show.

[photo by Bob Gruen]

Marcia Tucker Memorial

New Museum

Marcia Tucker [1940-2006]

Friends of the New Museum are invited to honor and remember Marcia Tucker, Founding Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, in a Memorial Tribute to be held on January 12, 2007 from 3-5PM. Organized by the New Museum in association with The Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, the memorial will take place at The New School's Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, NYC.

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[photo from the New Museum Web site]