Housewarming

Wunderbar Festival
"Housewarming"
138 St. Lawrence Square
Newcastle England NE6 1SU

"Jorn Ebner and Monica Ross cordially invite you to a housewarming in reverse.

On this site a row of council flats was demolished in 2008 to make way for the Byker South Redevelopment plan. The scheme has recently been shelved due to the current economic crisis - a situation that reflects the fragility of the social housing sector within society.

Housewarming will take place in open space, unsheltered and probably cold. No house stands here and another may or may not again: the artists imply the history of their private occupation of a flat on this site as the basis to host the sharing of social space. Tea, coffee, drinks and snacks will be provided by the artists, but guests are also welcome to contribute refreshments to be shared by all.

Housewarming is produced by Michelle Hirschhorn and supported by Wunderbar Festival, Newcastle City Council, ISIS Arts and the Friends of St. Lawrence Park."

more on Byker and The Byker Wall:

• BBC on the original Byker Development
• City of Newcastle > Environment and Planning > Regeneration > Ouseburn Byker Sites >St. Lawrence Square

Wunderbar Festival Schedule

[text and graphic from Housewarming Facebook Event page. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

24/7 Technological Culture

Part of Media Modes, a graduate student conference.

Conference Panels: 10am - 3:30pm
All events are free and open to the public

[Graphic and text from SVA website. Click to enlarge.]

E|AB Fair 2009

November 6-8
Editions|Artists' Book Fair
X Initiative
548 West 22nd Street
[Between 10th & 11th Avenue]
New York City, New York

VENDORBAR
304 West 10th Street, 1A
New York, NY 10011
1.212 431 4571

"VendorBar is part of an ongoing series of itinerant exhibitions and interventions, organized by Kirby Gookin and Robin Kahn, in which art is presented to the public that is either free, with no copyright, or sold inexpensively. The goal is to open up direct lines of communication between artists and the public in order to make ideas and artwork more accessible. Past projects include Free Show, Disappearing Act, Holiday Shopping, Copiacabana, Copilandia and To Market to Market. For E/AB'09 VendorBar is inviting artists to directly engage the public by presenting actions, exchanges and services that result in the production and distribution of artists editions made specifically for the event. Participating artists will include ARTifariti-Western Sahara Collective, Mike Bidlo, Gaye Chan & Nandita Sharma, Kirby Gookin, Geoffrey Hendricks, Nancy Hwang, Robin Kahn, Amanda Keeley, Alison Knowles & Alan Bowman, Cary Leibowitz, Larry Miller, Ken Montgomery, Peter Nadin, Yoko Ono, Tom Otterness, Sal Randolph, Showpaper, and Elaine Tin Nyo."

[Text and graphic from E|AB Fair 2009 website. Capiton: "Free Show: Nancy Hwang, 'Hand Job', 2008. Unlimited edition."Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Scan to Screen | Pixel to Projection

Orange County Museum of Art
850 San Clemente Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92660
1.949.759-1122

The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II

This exhibition traces experiments with electronic media art from the early 1970s to the present.

Karen Moss, Curator

Through February 12, 2010

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[Information and graphic from museum website. Caption: "Cory Arcangel and Frankie Martin, '414-3-Rave-95,' 2005; single-channel video; 4:54."]

Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness

American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore, Maryland

ph. 1.410.244.1900

Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
through September 5, 2010

"The quest for human rights and the search for personal fulfillment, as proposed in the 1776 American Declaration of Independence, provide the starting point for this international exhibition. Works by the last surviving descendant of the Tsars of Russia, Iroquois Indians, French Revolutionaries, illegal immigrants, Algerian War veterans, Guantanamo Bay detainees, Holocaust survivors, incarcerated prisoners, African-American civil rights activists and Iraqi doctors are among the 86 visionary artists to be featured."

[text and graphic from museum website and public information materials. Sculpture in situ by Adam Morales. Click on image to enlarge. Cross-posted to Signal Fire.]

Dead Halloween Show at RCMH

October 31, 1980
Radio City Music Hall
The Grateful Dead

Listen | Archive.org

Gracie turns 70

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing on October 30, 1939), lead singer of the seminal San Francisco psychedelic rock group The Jefferson Airplane.