FYWA:* Jello Time

[*For Your Weekend Amusement, from rhizome]

2008 Rhizome Commission
Rafael Rozendaal
Jello Time

more: "Gettin' Jiggly With It"

Your Ad Here

Apex Art
"291 Church Street - between Walker and White Streets, just two blocks south of Canal Street. The 1 and 9 trains stop at Franklin Station."
[New York, New York]

The (Self)Promotion Show
created and curated by you, the public

Opening reception:
Wednesday, January 9, 6-8pm
on view through February 16

* Do art and TV belong in the same sentence?
* Do people lie about watching TV?
* Are commercials better than programs?
* Can apexart get creative people to make a TV commercial about them?

Yes, yes, yes and yes!

Join us on Wednesday in the apexart living room as we gather around the television, forget the writers-strike worries, and watch nothing but ads. And if you can't join us here, make sure to watch the ads online and vote for your favorite: the winner gets $1,500 and their ad aired on network TV!


apexart recently held an open call, requesting submissions of a 30-second TV commercial about us from individuals and collaborative groups. In addition to being on view as part of the living-room-style installation, the commercials are available for viewing on our website, where viewers are encouraged to visit and cast votes for their favorite.

The exhibition was conceived to examine creative practices in contemporary culture and to reconsider the current promotional model of the art world.


Directions: A, C, E, N, R, W, Q, 6, J, M, Z to Canal or 1 to Franklin.

[graphic: first image from google search for 'televison ad.']

The People's Choice Music

[In honor of the holiday season, the Data Stream will be offering a selection of free online gifts in the days ahead. To begin the sharing of presents, below is a treat from Ubu Web, the brilliant archive of 20th and 21st century avant-garde art, a genuine online treasure]

Komar & Melamid
"The People's Choice Music" (1997)

"With the collaboration of composer Dave Soldier, Komar & Melamid's Most Wanted Painting project was extended into the realm of music. A poll, written by Dave Soldier, was conducted on The Dia Foundation's web site in Spring 1996. Approximately 500 visitors took the survey. Solder used the survey results to write music and lyrics for the Most Wanted and Most Unwanted songs:

The Most Wanted Song: A musical work that will be unavoidably and uncontrollably "liked" by 72 ± 12% of listeners.
[listen]

The Most Unwanted Song: Fewer than 200 individuals of the world's total population will enjoy this."
[listen]

more

[image: Komar & Melamid, "UNITED STATES: MOST WANTED PAINTING." From Dia web site]

Year of the Diamond Dogs

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
Through December 22

Julio Cesar Morales
The Year of the Diamond Dogs
a Hallwalls Artist in Residence Project (HARP)

The Year of The Diamond Dogs is a sonic and visual landscape that evokes the dystopian future explored by Orwell’s novel 1984 and Bowie’s Diamond Dogs. 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.

[text of post edited from Hallwalls Web site. Image of artwork by Julio Cesar Morales from Hallwalls Web site.]

Screen Cleaner

[With thanks for the tip to KMcL of Flashcoders New York]

FYA


[01.12.08 update: from DMcD on the West Coast, we learn that the link is down again. Sigh. See below for the commerce-driven alternative]

[01.11.08 revision: thanks to the SC in Newcastle Upon Tyne, we're now able to present the original cleaner. For context here's the alternate.]

[12.06.07 note: shortly after featuring this project, as often happens the site was removed from the Internet. Again, with thanks to KMcL we've put up a link to a similar project. The image above is a detail from the now defunct site which featured a very rambunctious, slobbery pug.]

Soft Turns

Neutral Ground
#203 - 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
S4P 2G3


November 10 - December 8, 2007
Soft Turns
Sarah Jane Gorlitz & Wojciech Olejnik

"This installation is comprised of two videos by Olejnik and Gorlitz: /mm and just add water. The videos were shot in time-lapse and feature a meticulously detailed model of a subway station constructed by the artists from candy and household objects. /mm takes the viewer slowly through the station, while just add water depicts the model slowly filling with water and then draining, peacefully and gently, leaving destruction in its wake.

Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik are an artist duo formerly from Ontario and now based in Berlin whose work addresses, complicates and in some cases contradicts the traditional understanding of the relationship between time and space."

[image from Neutral Ground Web site.]