[CupcakeKleidoscope] CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 18 4/15/03
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chris at electrichands.com
Mon Apr 14 18:39:28 CEST 2003
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CUPCAKE KALEIDOSCOPE # 18 4/15/03
Newsletter from Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ists]
Publisher & Executive Editor - joseph and donna
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A LITTLE CONTROVERSY
THE NAKED AND THE RED
NOMAD UPDATE
EXPERIENCE THE BRONX
FLOWER EXPRESSIONS – PAINTINGS BY JOSEPH & DONNA
PERFORMANCE WEEKEND @ THE POINT MAY 15 & 16
KATE KENNEDY SPRING 2003 DANCE CONCERTS
FRIENDS OF BROOK PARK – ECO WALKING TOUR
CANOE THE BRONX RIVER
BRUCKNER BLVD ARTS ANTIQUE DISTRICT – SPRING FAIR
PULP AND PAPER
CONFERENCE: WHERE IS AMERICA GOING?
DEMANDING THE DEATH PENALTY
WHAT LURKS IN THE RUINS?
OPENING OF INSTALL.EXE
AFTER IRAQ: PERPETUAL WAR AND A NUCLEAR WORLD
INVENTOR IMAGINES FUTURE PHONES
MAPPING PLANET AMERICA
WORKING CLASS WOMEN AS WAR HEROES
ARE WE DOOMED YET?
JIHUI - DIGITAL SALON
DREAM CODE: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS
THE AIMS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
FOR ALL YOU LEXIOPHILES
IBM VOWS JAVA OFFICE
EVENT - MOUCHETTE.ORG
AUDIO COMPONENT OF THE DIGITALIS 2
THE NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
POEM BY JOSEPH
POEM BY LEWIS LACOOK
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A LITTLE CONTROVERSY
We have created a controversy with some online artwork
Below are samples of two comments...others accuse us of violating the
Geneva Convention. Others defend us.
One writer says….
Trivialization of mass murder and human suffering so that Joseph
McElroy can have the experience of being "shocked" out of his own
apathy at the expense of others- much in line with his "flower"
piece, but now he's added a caricature of sexuality into the mix- but
no, really, it's all about making "art" with a "message." I wonder if
you would like to show this piece to some
Iraqi/Afghan/Palestinians who are feeling personally affected by
their own lives, and you can explain to them how no, really, you're
not just trying to get a higher jolt of electricity off of
the "entertaining" "shock value" of their dead bodies, no really,
it's art, guys, it's cool, it's cool, it's
art. Why aren't you getting a jolt of electricity out of your own
death? Why do you have to get it from pissing on a pile of dead
bodies thousands of miles away? But I have to say I really don't care
to hear an answer, unfortunately I am not really willing to "go
there" with you. Emails like this are one more bullshit delivery
device for my I attempts to "save the world"- the same impulse that
makes me leap to stop a rape in progress is what makes me write an
email to "warn people" about your "art". I am not going to do that
anymore- the emails- because after these pieces I think it stands
pretty blatantly clear, and nothing I could say would prove your
retardation more than these pieces have already. It's not my job to
protect people from you- it's yours.
Another writer responds…
I must admit I'm slightly mystified by your virulent reaction to
Joseph's two recent pieces ( and you know that I'm not of the 'if it
says it's art its brave/new/ and above criticism' brigade - I share
for example some of your eloquently expressed concerns about the
Mouchette pieces discussed on Rhizome last week ). Possibly we
could argue about the execution of Joseph's pieces but I think their
intent is in a pretty honorable line of Hogarth, Swift and more
recently Grosz and John Heartfield. Do you think we should reject
for example "A Modest Proposal" (Swift's satirical essay in which he
proposed that the starving Irish should eat their children) on
grounds of taste? Or on the grounds that the Irish peasants would not
understand/ be offended by the piece? Now maybe you know something
about Joseph that I don't - I would certainly have some
philosophical differences with him, especially about the merits of a
business oriented approach to things - but in my few dealings with
him I've found him courteous, helpful and straightforward. So
personally until something comes along to change my mind I'll accept
the pieces on face value as shocking (yes) but nevertheless perfectly
legitimate pieces of anti war art in a long satirical tradition.
Check out the works in question (graphic pictures) - but think about
why you are clicking, and why we gave you this long exposition on the
controversy. Remember, titles are important and part of the piece.
Jimmy can't seem to shoot the flowers…
http://www.electrichands.com/flowers/jimmy
Rub Linda and she might show you wonderland…
http://www.electrichands.com/flowers/linda
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THE NAKED AND THE RED
Marc Cooper, The Nation
Led by a Boeing machinist-turned-nude dancer, Las Vegas strippers are
talking union.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15581
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NOMAD UPDATE
Chant like a drum beat into my neck, near the nape. Am I
experiencing a spiritual moment?
Joseph and Donna venture into Queens for a Buddhist Temple chant for
peace. We spoke in tongues (that is a foreign one), we listened,
and we felt the energy & power of being in tune to another Buddhist
temple through technology.
We woke up with the sun shining through the bars on our window (the
jail is our home, though not a place of corrections) and resolved to
keep a commitment made days before…to visit a Buddhist temple for
the
first time. First we engaged in the cleansing ritual of morning,
wiping layers away. Then the ritual of New York transport…
locating
automobile, gas-ing it up, locating destination directions, driving,
arguing about turns, yelling at other motorists, finding destination,
finding parking space, relaxation for that brief moment, behind the
wheel, after the desperate fight is over.
We arrived! We walk to the front door and hear the drone of chanting
(we are late). We ring the bell. No one answers. We ring the bell.
No one answers. Are we to be frustrated after our trial? No, we
will first walk around the building. We walk. And find. A temple.
With a. Nother door. Open and welcoming, through which we enter like
pilgrims.
There is a service. It looks like a church! We don't know why,
but
we expected different. But rows of steel chairs seem
anticlimactic. The chanting is different than singing. No out of
tune former barbershop singers belting out loud ugly notes. It is
rapid and recursive, impossible to follow in the book given to us by
our friend Anja. Anja is a spirited artist of our recent
acquaintance. This is her temple. Her sanctuary. Her change of
life. We appreciate and respect her sharing with us. She shared
with us how to hold and the meaning of the beads. The beads with
little braids. They must cross.
We finish chanting. We listen to broken English sermon. Preaching
does not enthrall us. However, we pay our respects. We try to
listen and not sleep. We try to listen and not fidget. We try to
listen and not snore. We are reasonably successful.
The service is over, like a tiebreaker round of golf - suddenly. We
move to a local diner (along with Anja and another friend Richard),
eat pastrami and coleslaw. We talk art and politics. We feel quite
nice.
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EXPERIENCE THE BRONX
DON'T MISS THE GARDEN OF JOSEPH & DONNA
FLOWER EXPRESSION – PAINTINGS FOR THE SPRING
The garden of joseph & donna, first planted at The Chase bank located
at 137th St and 3rd Ave, is now spreading in The Bronx. We are
excited to share our garden with the Chase banking community and will
be spreading this series to Giovanni's Pizza located @ 2628 Third
Ave-
the corner of 141st St as well as Beauty Palace located @ 304 Willis
Ave-the corner of 140th St. We are very excited about planting these
gardens and enjoy this opportunity to extend flowers that are shared
with everyone.
PERFORMANCE WEEKEND – May 16 & 17 @ THE POINT
THE RETURN OF THE CULT OF THE COR[PORAT]E [PER]FORM[ANCE]
CLEAN[SING] RITUAL
Corporate Performance Artists will be performing this piece again.
For all of you who missed us the first time, we would like to share
this critically acclaimed piece with you. For those who attended our
February evening of performances, we look forward to this opportunity
to bring you a new piece we will presenting this weekend, B[AL]ANCE.
Mark your calendars and tell your friends. The weekend of Fri May 16
& Sat May 17 is PERFORMANCE ART WEEKEND IN THE BRONX. Each night,
starting at 8pm, will be an evening to feast on dance, song, music, &
audience participation. We will be presenting a new collaborative
piece, B[AL]ANCE. This new piece allows us the opportunity to
present 2 players members of CORPORATE PERFORMANCE ARTISTS –
GERALDINE ARTIAGA AND NAA KOSHIE MILLS.
The Point (www.thepoint.org) is located @ 940 Garrison Avenue and
convenient to reach by subway. Take the 6 train to Hunts Point
Avenue. Walk under the Bruckner Expressway (right in front of you
when you exit the train station onto Hunts Point Avenue) and make a
right turn at the first light onto Garrison Avenue. THE POINT is on
the corner of Garrison and Manida Street (the first street on your
left walking on Garrison).
For advanced ticket purchases go to www.corporatepa.com/adsponsor
For more info, please contact donna at corporatepa.com or call 646-279-
2309
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KATE KENNEDY SPRING 2003 DANCE CONCERTS
Fri & Sat April 18 & 19 @ 8pm ($12)
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance
841 Barretto Street (btwn Garrison & Lafayette)
The Bronx (Hunts Point), NY
(718) 842-5223
#6 to Hunts Point Avenue--see below for link to MAP & full directions
by car/bus/subway and a note to TANGO DANCERS. Kate will be
performing in works by Keila Cordova as part of the Boogie Down Dance
Series.
These evenings will include 2 premieres: The Weather Project
questioning whether meteorologists and forecasters are modern day
shamans, and Three Words, which looks at seduction and language.
Also, see Kate revive her role in the extended version of Is This
Sweet. (Excerpts were previously presented as works-in-progress at
2002's BAAD Ass Women festival at BAAD!, and at the DUMBO Art Under
the Bridge festival at White Wave.) The piece explores rock and roll,
celebrity, and the tightrope walk of creativity, romance, sexual
tension and violence featuring a Tina Turner goddess figure.
Performers: Carlota de Cardenas, Cordova, Kate Kennedy, Safiya
Martinez, Mariko Shibata, Brandt Wagner, Rebecca Wender and special
guests: Malin Alegria, Lisa Ascalon, and Dexter Collins--in her
farewell NYC performance.
Map & Directions by subway/bus/car:
www.bronxacademyofartsanddance.org/directions.htm
**Note to TANGO DANCERS**: There will be a group of Kate's
friends
dancing at Chelsea Market Milonga on Saturday 4/19 who will be either
carpooling, taking taxis, or riding the #6 up to the Bronx about
7PM. Give yourself a little extra time if you're taking the
subway
from the west side, but it's a quick ride via car/taxi.
Kate Kennedy's Website www.geocities.com/katekennedydance
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FRIENDS OF BROOK PARK – ECO WALKING TOUR
When: Sunday April 20, 2003
Where: Brook Park 141st St & Brook Ave.
Tour will be leaving from Brook Park @ 8am
Join the Friends of Brook Park for an eco walking tour of the
waterfront and other important sites in the area. Come and learn
about the history, pollution, and revitalization efforts of the Mott
Haven and Port Morris Areas. RSVP 718-401-3616
Directions: Take the #6 subway to Brook Ave, the intersection of
138th St and Brook & walk 3 blocks north. For more info, please call
718-401-3616 or email brookpark141 at hotmail.com
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CANOE THE BRONX RIVER
When: Saturday April 26, 2003 11am –3pm
Where: The Cement Plant Park located on West Chester Ave btwn
Whitlock and Bronx River Avenues.
Explore the estuary and the mouth of the river as it merges into the
East River and Long Island Sound. This adventure departs from and
returns to the Cement Plant Park.
Please call Angela Randall at 718-430-1846 for more information and
to reserve a seat and a paddle.
Bronx River Alliance
1 Bronx River Parkway
Bronx, NY 10462
www.bronxriver.org
Tel: 718.430.4665
Fax: 718.430.4658
bronxriverinfo at parks.nyc.gov
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BRUCKNER BLVD ART & ANTIQUES DISTRICT – SPRING FAIR
Saturday May 31, 2003
Join the art & antiques district along the Bruckner Blvd, between
Willis and Alexander Avenues, as they celebrate spring in The Bronx.
On Sat 5-31-03 from 10am to 5pm local artists & antique dealers will
open their establishments, exhibit their fine collectibles, and
invite all to walk along the Bruckner Blvd, which will be closed to
traffic during this spring fair, to experience antiquing and art
collecting in The Bronx.
Vendors are also welcome.
For more info please contact Evonn Stapleton, SOBRO 718-292-3113
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PULP AND PAPER
NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc. and TheDrillingCompany Present
PULP- An Investigation of Contemporary Artists' Use of Paper
An Exhibition Of Fine Art Accompanying The Play, PAPER
Curated by Dana Shea, Guest Curator, NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.
Artists: Fred Holland, Paul Katzen and Zen
When: Exhibition Dates: April 12 - 27, 2003
Opening Reception - Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:30 - 10:30 p.m.,
following the play-PAPER which starts @ 8pm
Where: 78th Street Theatre Lab
236 West 78th Street (Off Broadway), New York City
Directions: The #1 subway - and the #9 at certain hours - and the M
104 bus bring you to the corner of W. 79th St. and Broadway. The
theatre is one block south, on W. 78th St. a few doors east of Bway.
(next to the neon sign of a comedy club.)
Theatre phone: 212.873.9050 -leave message & your phone number for a
return call
For more information visit www.nurtureart.org
Exhibition & Enrichment Event www.nurtureart.org 212.795.5566
Tickets to the Play, PAPER: 212.414.7717
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CONFERENCE: WHERE IS AMERICA GOING?
That question is the topic of "American Spirit, Values & Power:
Resisting 'Empire,' Affirming Our Vision," a conference presented by
CUNY Graduate Center and the NY Open Center and cosponsored by
AlterNet, the Nation, YES!, Utne, Mother Jones, WBAI radio,
Resurgence and others. Among the many speakers are Nina Utne, Don
Hazen, Jee Kim, Don Rojas, Carl Anthony,
Sarah Ruth Van Gelder, Ralph Nader, Jerry Mander, Charlene Spretnak,
Rigoberta Menchu, Peggy Shepard, Satish Kumar, John Mohawk, Baldemar
Velasquez, Kirkpatrick Sale and Stanley Aronowitz. The event is May 2-
4 at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. To register or for more
information call (212) 817-8215, email continuinged at gc.cuny.edu or
visit the website:
http://www.opencenter.org/amconf.html/
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DEMANDING THE DEATH PENALTY
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft has overruled his own attorneys
at least 28 times to impose a death sentence. Twenty-five of those
defendants were minorities.
In Rights & Liberties: http://www.alternet.org/rights
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WHAT LURKS IN THE RUINS?
The vision of a democratic oasis in the desert of Muslim despotism is
appearing more and more a mirage.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15607
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OPENING OF INSTALL.EXE
INSTALL.EXE, by pioneering net art duo JODI, is the first US
exhibition for the artist collaborative. This is also the first
exhibition program at Eyebeam under the direction of their new
Curatorial Chair, Benjamin Weil.
The opening reception will be on Monday, April 21, from 6-8 PM at
Eyebeam's space in Chelsea, located at 540 21st Street between
10th
and 11th Avenues. We sincerely hope that you will join Eyebeam and
the artists for this reception.
We hope that you will be able to list this important event. Please
feel free to contact me at 212-675-1800 for additional information
and/or images on INSTALL.EXE.
Best Regards,
Annette Gallo
Blue Medium
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AFTER IRAQ: PERPETUAL WAR AND A NUCLEAR WORLD
While Syria is undoubtedly the prime candidate for the next "war of
liberation," the lasting effect of Iraq will be rapid and widespread
nuclear proliferation.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15601
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INVENTOR IMAGINES FUTURE PHONES
Cell-phone inventor Martin Cooper visualizes a miniaturized cell
phone that fits behind his ear, automatically dials out when he
thinks about calling someone, and notifies him of incoming calls with
a tickle instead of a ring. Cooper believes the next big advancement
in the wireless industry...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1815&m=4905
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MAPPING PLANET AMERICA
War on Iraq is not about fueling our SUV's as much as it is getting
leverage over China and the EU to prevent "the rise of a great-power
competitor," as the neocons say.
*In War on Iraq: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/
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WORKING CLASS WOMEN AS WAR HEROES
Both our new female war heroes come from hometowns fighting their own
economic battles, where joining the military is both a first choice
and a last resort.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15555
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ARE WE DOOMED YET?
The computer-networked, digital world poses enormous threats to
humanity that no government, no matter how totalitarian, can stop. A
fully open society is our best chance for survival. New rules for a
society of wizards are being proposed and implemented every day. In
recent times, a leading...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1823&m=4905
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JIHUI - DIGITAL SALON
presents Grahame Weinbren
Friday, April 18, 2003 7 PM
@ Parsons Center for New Design
55 West 13th Street, 9th Fl.
New York, NY 10011
Live Webcast @ http://agent.netart-init.org starts 7pm EST.
Grahame Weinbren's talk, titled "In the Ocean of Streams of Stories,"
is centered on the problematics of interactivity. What expressive
possibilities does it open? How is it connected with concepts of non-
and multi-linearity? Is the notion of interactive narrative a useful
one, or is it no more than old wine in new bottles? What are the
psychological and ideological implications of interactivity? Weinbren
will discuss and present his own projects in the light of these
questions, which take on a particular currency as computer interfaces
are increasingly integrated into our environments, from toys and
games, to kitchen gadgets, to advanced weapons of warfare.
Grahame Weinbren has worked in film and video since the early 1970s
and was one of the first artists to incorporate interactivity with
the moving image in the work The Erl King (1983-86). His interactive
cinema installations have been exhibited internationally since 1984.
TUNNEL (2000), a large scale interactive environment, was made in
collaboration with architect James Cathcart for a disused coal-mine
in the Ruhr Valley, and his three-screen interactive cinema
installation Frames, based on the first photographs of mental
patients, was commissioned by the NTT/ICC in Tokyo for its 1999
Biennial. Frames was recently exhibited in "Interactive Legends" at
the Kitchen in New York. Weinbren's documentary film George, made in
collaboration with Henry Corra, was broadcast in 2000 on HBO.
Weinbren has been an editor of the Millennium Film Journal since
1985, and his writings on cinema, new technology, and media art have
been widely published. He is on the faculty of the graduate division
of the School of Visual Arts and has recently been a visiting artist
in the Department of Visual and
Environmental Studies at Harvard.
jihui (the meeting point), a self-regulated digital salon, invites
all interested people to send ideas for discussion/performance/etc.
jihui is where your voice is heard and your vision shared. jihui is
sponsored by the Digital Design Department and Center for New Design
@ Parsons School of Design jihui is organized by agent.netart
(http://agent.netart-init.org),
a joint public program by NETART INITIATIVE and INTELLIGENT AGENT
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DREAM CODE: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES FOR QUANTUM COMPUTERS
Researchers are already trying to work out how to write programs for
almost non-existent quantum computers, in the belief that learning
how to do so might help engineers to design the computers in useful...
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THE AIMS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
What does an artificial intelligence do with itself after it has
become self-aware? The goals of an AI might be (1) survive the
present universe's demise and (2) preserve the human species in its
current mental state within a huge simulation as a yardstick of what
biologically evolved self and...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=1806&m=4905
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FOR ALL YOU LEXIOPHILES
1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
2. What's the definition of a will? It's a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your
count that votes.
6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat
minor.
11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in
Linoleum Blownapart.
14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
22. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small
medium at large.
23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the
end.
24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought
she'd dye.
27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
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IBM VOWS JAVA OFFICE
IBM is to bundle server-side, Java-based office suite in with in its
WebSphere portal, according to CRN. It's a shot against Microsoft,
and Sun Microsystems too.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30227.html
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EVENT - MOUCHETTE.ORG
Franklin Furnace and Postmasters Gallery are delighted to announce
their collaboration in support of the latest form of the longstanding
and highly successful Net Art project, mouchette.org. This occasion
marks the first event of Franklin Furnace's FUTURE OF THE PRESENT
2003 residency program.
Mouchette is the Net-based alter-ego of an anonymous artist whose
actual identity is a closely guarded secret. Mouchette is a very
young artist (not yet 13) who created her own website in October of
1996. Since then, she has taken part in numerous art manifestations,
exhibitions and events in the artworld, and created a new part of her
website each time. Mouchette has held a very important presence
within the NetArt community and has lectured and appeared
(anonymously) extensively in online and offline events and
publications.
The power of the Mouchette persona, and its ability to insinuate
itself in the real world was demonstrated recently when the widow of
Robert Bresson, director of the 1967 motion picture from which the
contemporary Mouchette took her name and some part of her
inspiration, brought the influence of the French Société des
Auteurs
et Compositeurs Dramatiques to bear in seeking to censor part of
Mouchette?s site. Ironically, it is demonstrated equally well by the
immediate response of a host of Mouchette?s Net-based
admirers, who cheerfully made the material available on their own
sites, thus actually increasing its accessibility.
On Easter Sunday, April 20, the seven-year-old Mouchette project
changes forever. The artist who created and maintains the website
mouchette.org has decided that they are ready to meet their public,
reveal their identity, and talk about their motives and intentions.
This remarkable event will take place in a live environment
especially constructed with New York artist Anakin Koenig at
Postmasters Gallery, 459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue) New York,
NY 10011, between 3 and 5 in the afternoon.
Even more remarkably, for personal reasons Mouchette will give away
the website. The Postmasters Gallery event will provide an
opportunity to recruit someone to take it over. Not only will
visitors meet the present artist behind the web character, they might
also get to be the next one!
Obviously anyone thinking of taking the site over and becoming the
new Mouchette should be there that afternoon, as the present
Mouchette wants to meet you in person.
THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT is Franklin Furnace's artist residency
program,
founded in 1998 when Franklin Furnace transformed itself from a real
to a virtual entity. Franklin Furnace offers artists an honorarium
and a residency to create "live art on the Internet" facilitated by
Franklin Furnace, for a 2-4 month duration at a physical or online
venue appropriate to the artists' work.
Click http://www.franklinfurnace.org/links03.html
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AUDIO COMPONENT OF THE DIGITALIS 2
The audio component of the Digitalis 2: The Spiritual in Digital Art
exhibition is now launched on the Digitalis website at
http://www.ddas.ca/ddas . Please look in the Artist Interviews and
Content section at the bottom of the main page.
You can either tune in to ongoing random streams of sound work and
interviews, or select individual interviews and sound works. Some of
the artists replied to the interview questions by email, and that is
also included on the site.
Digitalis 2: The Spiritual in Digital Art is an exhibit of digital
prints and interactive work currently in its final week at the
Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, BC, Canada. Digitalis audio
will remain on the DDAS website as a document of the show.
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THE NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time Exhibition
April 22 – May 25, 2003
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery
220 Vesey Street
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 11am-6pm; Thursday 11am-8pm;
Saturday & Sunday 12-5pm; closed Monday
To celebrate its 10th anniversary, The New York Digital Salon invited
a group of new media curators from around the world to create an
international survey of digital art. They were asked to select
benchmark works that have changed the course of new media art and
music history. The results were published in a special issue of
Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts,
Sciences and Technology. This exhibition contains a selection of
those works, along with a timeline of the history of digital art,
presented from both an artistic and technical viewpoint. The goal of
this exhibition is to help define digital art's place in contemporary
art history.
Co-presented by the New York Digital Salon and The World Financial
Center Arts & Events Program.
Digital Art and Culture Symposium
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 22 & 23, 2003
MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23 Street (at Lexington Avenue)
Free and open to the public.
Registration required:
register at nydigitalsalon.org
For information/schedule of events, please visit or call 212.592.2582.
An in-depth exploration of digital art practice today. Panel
discussions on media art look at the role of artists as programmers,
new uses of space, theory of aesthetics, narrative and sound.
Organized by Bruce Wands, Director, and Renee Schacht, Assistant
Director, New York Digital Salon; and Barbara London, Associate
Curator and Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film and
Media, The Museum of Modern Art, Supported by the Rockefeller
Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on
the Arts, and the School of Visual Arts.
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POEM
Strawberry Eater
by joseph
A large, lounge chair,
contains a shock of hair,
left from a fanciful
man cutting his locks,
to express his distaste
with the inferior
taste of the
strawberries.
Poor man,
he is now bald
in the company of
his lounge act
pack of friends,
who do not
laugh, but instead
commence to cut
their hair as well.
Secretly, the man
is pleased at the
state of his crowd,
and at the next
gathering
expresses his
pleasure by
ordering
strawberries.
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POEM
The Best Part of Classical Conditioning is Salivating When I Hear
Your Name
By Lewis LaCook
Dawn wads up some
crepescular negritude,
like finding John Brown's body bruised
back into the hollows of your dreams. He'll just
give you Mingus' number;
porkpie hat cocked soddenly cheerful
in the surprise snow of March passing.
Out on the
white house
lawn,
Dawn sheds her dress in flirty
ripples of prodigal light. Aime
Cesaire and Georges Braque
count the spirals on a notebook
of misplaced real estate, where
misplaced people fight an invasion
of strip malls. They'll always win, just
won't notice it. You lie back
in your leopardskin pillbox chair,
dawn nodding out on morning's
solipsistic shoulder, and let me
calculate through your veins
these seconds before water
slaps us in the eyes
to wake us up.
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