51570 USA

    Following

    http://thejogging.tumblr.com/ http://skulltheft.tumblr.com/ http://amorousmusings.com/

    Good Morning, 200924” x 18” black and white posterDownload TIFF

    Good Morning, 2009
    24” x 18” black and white poster
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    December 27, 2009, 8:22pm  Comments

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    Coco 66, Greenpoint

    A new project:

    Coco 66: Creative Director
    66 Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St.
    Brooklyn, NY 11222 (map)
    Open 4PM - 4AM
    Greenpoint Ave. on the (G) Train
    http://www.coco66.com

    Coco 66 is a performance space with front bar nested in a pretty great part of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Surrounded by businesses like Alter, In God We Trust, Black Rabbit, Word and Pencil Factory, Coco’s 200+ capacity performance space is primed to be utilized by a wide range of artists and musicians. Next door, the co-owned restaurant 68 feeds the folks of Greenpoint in a cozy atmosphere at affordable prices.

    I’ll be helping facilitate relationships between the venue and artists / event organizers; with the assistance of an in-formation advisory board boasting some of Brooklyn’s most creative grass-roots thinkers. Be on the lookout for great programming in 2010.

    Here are 2 upcoming events of note:

    CHERYL
    New Years Eve at Coco 66
    DJs Stina Puotinen, Destiny Pierce,
    Sarah Van Buren, and Nick Schiarizzi
    10pm-4am, 21+, FREE WITH RSVP

    No Fun Productions Proudly Presents
    Death Unit (Giffoni / Corsano / Tremaine / Sullivan)
    Northampton Wools (Thurston Moore / Bill Nace)
    Spykes (John Olson of Wolf Eyes)
    Regression (Nate Young of Wolf Eyes)
    Dog Lady
    Set order TBA
    Friday Jan 29th, 9pm, $8.00

    Photo: BEA rock camp showcase @ coco 66; (CC) near modern disaster



    December 18, 2009, 1:43pm   Comments

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    Partial Recall

    Partial Recall, 2009
    PDF, 8.1 x 11.5”

    ASCII drawing of the famous 3-breasted Martian prostitute in the film Total Recall. The page is the size of a Playboy. Drawn for A Similar But Different Quality, issue 2.



    December 05, 2009, 11:17pm   Comments

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    Searching For Peace, 2009Black and white poster, 8.5” x 11”
Commissioned by Denise Kupfershmidt and the Center for Peace Through Design for distribution at Printed Matter during Giftland 2009. The distributed version was blown-up to 24” x 36”.
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    Searching For Peace, 2009
    Black and white poster, 8.5” x 11”

    Commissioned by Denise Kupfershmidt and the Center for Peace Through Design for distribution at Printed Matter during Giftland 2009. The distributed version was blown-up to 24” x 36”.

    Download PDF



    December 03, 2009, 4:46am  Comments

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    Grab Life By The CheeseballsPNG, Ben Sisto 2009
Screen shot of a website displaying lyrics for Joseph Beuys’ Sonne Statt Reagan next to various advertisements. I also made a 20” x 30” black and white poster (download PDF) containing the translation of the lyrics as they appeared on Metrolyrics.com; using Yahoo! Babel Fish.

    Grab Life By The Cheeseballs
    PNG, Ben Sisto 2009

    Screen shot of a website displaying lyrics for Joseph Beuys’ Sonne Statt Reagan next to various advertisements. I also made a 20” x 30” black and white poster (download PDF) containing the translation of the lyrics as they appeared on Metrolyrics.com; using Yahoo! Babel Fish.



    December 03, 2009, 4:04am  Comments

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    Ice Rink

    Under the guise of Weirding Way, I spun some records at the Bell House on December 1st 2009. The night was named Ice Rink both as a celebration of winter and a nod to Wiley. About 4 hours prior to DJing I went to a Salvation Army and bought 20 discarded 12” singles for $0.99 each; resulting in the following playlist:

    Slim Thug - Diamonds
    Cam’ron feat. Jay Z & Juelz Santana - Welcome to New York
    Cassidy feat. Jadakiss - Can I Talk to You?
    Juelz Santana - Mic Check
    Fam-Lay - Fresh and Drivin feat. P
    Freeway - Where U Been
    Sly Boogie - California (remix)
    Mase - My Harlem Lullaby
    Trina feat. Lil Wayne - Don’t Trip
    Clipse - Cot Dam
    Trick Daddy - J.O.D.D. (Amended)



    December 02, 2009, 11:57am   Comments

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    4'33" for Twitter

    4’33” for Twitter
    http://twitter.com/bensisto
    Performed on Monday November 30th 2009

    Sound file:

    Wav (25 meg, 4:47 long)

    Device:

    IBM Thinkpad T43, built in microphone
    Default Ubuntu sound recorder

    Location:

    The artist’s bedroom
    Bushwick Ave & Grand St., Brooklyn NY

    Timeline:

    11:59:54 - Sound recording begins
    12:00:00 - Post: Beginning movement 1 of 4’33”
    12:00:30 - Post: Beginning movement 2 of 4’33”
    12:02:53 - Post: Beginning movement 3 of 4’33”
    12:04:33 - Post: Ending performance of 4’33”
    12:04:41 - Sound recording ends



    November 30, 2009, 12:58pm   Comments

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    Pledge

    Pledge, 2009
    Black text on white page
    Various sizes

    Download 8.5” x 11” PDF version



    November 16, 2009, 9:04pm   Comments

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    Following "Following"

    Following “Following
    Faux Vito Acconci Identity
    Twitter, 2009

    As a 40th anniversary homage to Vito Acconci’s Following Piece (1969) I have created a mock profile for the artist on Twitter. I created it in part due to sheer disbelief that, given the nature of activities on Twitter, no one else had made one! In any event, when a viewer signs up to follow the account they get back the message “Vito Acconci is now following you on Twitter.” At this point they are performing the act of following Following “Following”.



    November 16, 2009, 12:00am   Comments

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    Octo

    Octo
    8.5” x 11” PDF, 2009

    I. D.P.W.

    Quietly sing Happy Birthday to You in a WMG elevator.
    Listen to illegally downloaded music near a cop.
    Organize a Jackson Potluck.
    Cover a pedestal with chroma­-key green paint.


    II. Sacred TXTs

    Apron: Abuse of Flour Comes As No Surprise.
    Magic­-Eye style poster: Get A Job.
    Washroom curtain: Abuse of Shower Comes As No Surprise.
    Poem:  Who let Who Let the Dogs Out? Out?



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    November 06, 2009, 10:05pm   Comments

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