The Postmasters Show on
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Digital Foundations on:
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I FFFound out that one of the cover designs ended up on FFFound
Yaelle Amir writes about “the future is not what it used to be” on ArtSlant:
Several of the artists have elected to shed light on the internet’s negative affects by way of nostalgia, as they highlight what it has ultimately replaced. This approach is most clearly exemplified by Kristin Lucas’ colorful wax sculptures of obsolete technologies, as well as Michael Mandiberg’s laser-cut paper dictionary and daily newspapers, which have been rendered unreadable as a metaphor for their online alternatives.
I have a bad habit of not blogging little things. Like when I get blogged. It seems so recursive. But at the same time, I delish them, and then they just stay there.
So in an effort to change that practice, I am instituting a Ping Report, which I will do as needed, but at least once a month. Just links, and maybe some pull quotes from blogs and exhibitions.
To start out, here is a bunch of blog coverage of the Bright Bike, Digital Foundations, and my new laser cut work:
Bright Bike:
Again on MAKE blog
And Reblogged on Rolling Resistance.
And Treehugger
And Daily DIY
And Bike Commuters
And Scooter Scoop
And PSFK
And Style Crave
Trends Update
Bike Hacks
NotCot
Digital Foundations
Was featured on BoingBoing, Creative Commons Blog (twice), and on Just Write Click
Burned Books
James Wagner first post, and second post about his visit to see my new work
The DATA BASE piece was featured on the CRAFT zine
misc…
Here is some coverage of the Bright Idea Shade on Guanabee and Inhabitat
I don’t know if I posted the coverage of 31 Acts on N_P
And AfterSherrieLevine.com still riles people up. And was front and center at a conference at Berkeley
Some old news: Oil Standard was in OURS at Parsons
And some really old news: My work was included in http://greenmuseum.org/c/conmob/conmob.html, a show curated for greenmuseum.org by Claude Willey and Ryan Griffis:
curated by Ryan Griffis and Claude Willey with a carload of cultural projects focusing on the problems of mobility and energy. Features works by: Brian Collier, Free Soil, Amy Balkin/Kim Stringfellow/Tim Halbur/Greenaction/Pond, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Laurie Palmer, Platform, Josephine Starrs/Leon Cmielewski.
February 28 – April 4, 2009, Postmasters Gallery
“the future is not what is used to be”
Opening: saturday, february 28th 6-8 pm
“the future is not what is used to be” brings together artists engaged in the Internet shaped culture. Through drawings, photographs, sculpture, video, and online projects they explore social interaction in a networked world, reflection in the times of speed, new communication tools and smart technologies affecting cultural and sociopolitical reality, sustainable strategies for contemporary life, connectivity and dis-connect, digital/analog divide, instantaneity and obsolescence, the web as the largest image depository ever, and new forms of appropriation, means of production, and modes of political engagement.
What we do today shapes our tomorrows.
Kevin Bewertsdorf conducts Google searches for images that he then orders printed onto variety of objects employing online services like walgreens.com. These remotely made “Promotional Objects” transcend banality of its origins as private found imagery: from infinite web space onto a limited product, the unwitting subjects are made physical once again, staring at you across time and space.
Charles Broskoski’s “Films” reverse the culture of image overload. On his site, six well known films (Pulp Fiction, Terminator 2 and When Harry Met Sally among them) play continuously on a fixed daily schedule. There is a catch: the screen is black save only for the subtitles of the dialog; an absurd comfort of knowing that the movies are always there to serve as a catalyst for visual memory.
http://www.supercentral.org/9/
Marc Horowitz found an analog way to connect with his fellow twitterers: “for the next 100 people that add me on twitter ( twitter.com/ineedtostopsoon ) I’ll send you a small drawing.” The 100 drawings on view will be mailed out at the end of the show. In addition every afternoon Horowitz will broadcast “AnHourADay.me” – a livestream video and chat talkshow with scheduled field trips, interviews, concerts, covert meetings, cooking instruction, comedians, reviews, round tables, celebrity guests, LA artist studio visits, road trips, and more
http://www.ineedtostopsoon.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marchorowitz/sets/72157607123055883/
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung has been called “the John Heartfield of the digital era” His collages and animations composed entirely of imagery appropriated from the web deliver a biting political satire. New series -“In God We Trust” – presents global and domestic challenges facing the new Obama administration with the savior president cast as different deities (Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Krishna, prophet Abraham, Yoruba Orisha Trickster God Elegua/Eshu, Buddha, and Guadalupe)
http://www.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111.com/
Kristin Lucas pays hommage to the ever-replacable technological marvels: maclassic, a 25 years old icon of personal computing, and other nearly forgotten hardware objects are cast in colored wax as beautiful yet perishable candles
http://www169.pair.com/klucas/archive/
Michael Mandiberg’s altered encyclopedias, dictionaries, and newspapers, words incised into them with a laser cutter, highlight the loosing battle of printmedia at a time of rapid online delivery and the never ending newness of information. Everyday a fresh copy of The New York Times with the words “old news” cut onto it will be delivered to the gallery, a stack accumulating over the course of the exhibition.
Eva and Franco Mattes (0100101110101101.org) inject new synthetic life into art long gone. Their avatars in a virtual world Second Life re-enact seminal performance works from the seventies. Gilbert and George’s “The Singing Sculpture” and Marina Abramovic and Ulay’s “Imponderabilia” are staged for a very different audience.
http://www.0100101110101101.org/
Joe McKay finds the ghosts of Google Street View van and Mapjack car. His photographs recreate these stealth vehicles from partial reflections in store windows in San Francisco.
http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/
JooYoun Paek’s inflatable objects are smart appliances for urban survival. A bicycle cover made from garbage bags provides inconspicuous “blend-in” protection for a city cyclist, and a self-sustainable chair inflated by walking offers its user an independence from the urban infrastructure.
Sharing and communal nature and of online engagement has lead to formation of surfing clubs: group blogging sites with fast-paced conceptual exchange based on treatment and analysis of online material. Marcin Ramocki & Paul Slocum (with Spiritsurfers) will present “Where is it?,” a short video based on the blog posts of Spiritsurfers.
http://ramocki.net/surfing-clubs.html
*The title of this show is a quote from Paul Valery
Postmasters Gallery located at 459 west 19th Street between 9 and 10 Avenues is open Tuesday through Saturday 11 – 6 pm.
We made some serious improvements to Stencilano a month or so ago, but haven’t had the time to announce anything. Also working on some new lasering fonts, but more on that when there is something to show.
I installed some new and in-progress work for studio visits. The test installation helped me figure out how to put the work in the gallery, what goes with what, and what doesn’t, and fine tune those details. This is the first time I’ve made objects in nearly 10 years.
It also allowed me to invite in a number of friends, curators, and gallerists who provided some insightful feedback, asked some interesting questions, and generally started conversations outside of the one going on in my head.
All of these works are produced with the laser cutter. The drawings are BFK Rives paper cut at a very low power setting. The cut books are more complicated in their production; we have to secure the book, and cut through about 60 pages at a time. A video is coming soon.
A full set of images here. Here are a small selection:
This may be totally obvs to y’all, but i just realized I need to be adding my flickr imgs to *pools*
I added six laser cut images and six bright bike images late last night
here’s an image of how that affected traffic:
plus it got blogged (again)
anyway, lesson learned. lesson shared.
The new laser drawings are coming together. My dad the woodworker did a quick job of a really nice display case for the encyclopedia.
And we’re burning through paper
2001 - 2012 Michael Mandiberg
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