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The Weight of Words is an online exhibition curated by Pedro Torres of Spain for his Stuffinablank website, which brings words that move, form, and classify together with words which are sung, spoken, written, and found. Friends Joshua Caleb Weibely and Pascual Sisto (no relation) are in this one, plus a lot of folks I’m excited to learn more about. Thanks, Pedro!

For Immediate Release
TIDE POOL
December 10-January 8, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday December 10, 6-8PM

Sara Meltzer Gallery/Projects is pleased to present Tide Pool, a show organized by Ariel Dill and Denise Kupferschmidt, with Sara Meltzer.

Participating Artists:
Roland Allmeyer, Gina Beavers, Sarah Braman, Talia Chetrit, Ariel Dill, Ben Dowell, Carla Edwards, Esther Kläs, Joshua Kolbo, Denise Kupferschmidt, Eric Palgon, Leigh Ruple, Christian Sampson, Joshua Smith, Kate Shepherd, Matthew Thurber, Mamie Tinkler.

Performances by Ambergris, Ben Sisto, The Crippler, Jason Martin, The Love Loves, Pablo Picasso and more.

or, “Hey, that’s my all-possible-artworks artwork!”

Recently, for Apartment Show I exhibiting a painting called Widescreen: All Possible Landscapes (above), a 48” x 24” monochromatic on wood created with Rosco brand video (green screen) paint atop gesso. I began working on these around a year ago as part of a series called Amateur Portals. 

Of Bits
24” x 28” Black & White, PDF
720 variations on the period (.) 

In his recent book In Praise of Copying, Marcus Boon cites a personal conversation he had with Julian Dibbell who says of bits:

“We tend to think of bits as being sort of atomic, on-or-off monads, but they are usually represented as two voltage levels-1 being thus-and-such a voltage level, 0 being another.” He proposes a question: “How different can two electronically coded 1s be?” and replies that it’s like asking how many ways one might write various 1s on a page with pen and paper. He ends by asking - might ever see a calligraphy of the bit?

Spectrevision Presents:
An Exhibition of Necessary Research
http://spectrevision.tumblr.com/miami2010 

Wynwood Arts District, December 2-5, 2010
Lions Gallery @ Museovault
346 NW 29th Street, Miami, FL 33127
Tel: 305.992.7701

Thanks be to Zeus for the return of Amalthea’s horn; it seems we have quite the celebration of nondualism on our hands! I’ve never been to Miami for art-weekend but, as a presenter this year I’m hereby required to encourage you to attend. The exact time is TBA, but on Saturday I’ll be giving a 25-ish minute talk entitled Good Morning to Happy Birthday to All, based on my essay of the same name, which is itself based on a more investigative research paper. I’ll also be making little videos of folks singing. 

The rest of the showcase mixes holography, economics, international relations, and online-dating in a way that feels more like a Cabinet / TED mini-event than an art-mall-stall.  On the visuals there’s two “main attractions”: Jeremy Dean’s horse-drawn Humvee (a contemporary Hoover Cart) circling the fairs, and samples from the recently discovered collection of eccentric Chasidic rabbi Aryeh Wuensch which include lithographs by Chagall, tapestries by Dali and Max Ernst, drawings by Keith Haring, photos by Christian Boltanski and Marina Abramovic, metal sculpture by Beverly Pepper – most of which have not been publicly shown since their respective openings, if at all.

“Navigating the borderlands of investigative practice, Spectre”, this is their self description, “long ago abandoned the catalogue notion of genre; as such Spectrevision humbly presents studio art work juxtaposed interchangeably with experiments and efforts that defy current modes of categorization, displayed alongside research materials and other relevant findings.”

Including art & life by:

Jeremy Dean, Jonathon Keats, Abigail Portner, Oliver Laric, Judi Werthein, Julieta Aranda, Michael Mandiberg, Iris Lasn, Nellie Appleby, Mike Ross, Stephen Mihm (“Nation of Counterfeiters”), Howard Bloom (“Lucifer Principle”), Robert Eisenberg (“Boychicks in the Hood”), & Zachary Mexico (“China Underground”), Philip Tinari (founding editor artforum.com.cn & LEAP), Cheryl Dunn, Tod Seelie, Jamel Toppin, Janine Gordon, Stacy Kranitz, Olivia Wyatt, & Julia Solis, Hacker Dan Kaminsky, Miami firefighter Myles Kaplan, holographer Mark Diamond, psychic economist Eva Destruction, artist/activist Ben Sisto, ‘missed connections’ curator Gillian Sneed, consumer advocate Dewey LLC, and others TBA.

*Update 12/02/10 - The folks at Drift Station now have the full catalog online, which you can download here.

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This past Friday I had work in the exhibition Instructions for Initial Conditions, which took place at Parallax Space in Lincoln, Nebraska in conjunction with Drift Station. I’m not sure what work was shown but it was one of, or all three of the following: instructions for Memetic Self Portrait Game #2, Typing Game (version), or Somethings at Home (a mod of Sometimes). The organizers are compiling the works of all 100+ artists in a single PDF which I’ll add here when it becomes avail

My pal Rob Corradetti recently published a zine called Bon Hommes featuring a few dozen drawings of “chill little dudes”. I was asked to collaborate, and gave his characters their names. You can get a copy at the famed Desert Island in Brooklyn, and while there pick up a free issue of their in-house comics paper Smoke Signal.

Please come by this one-night-only group show curated by Joshua Smith and Denise Kupferschmidt featuring works by Olivier Babin & Harold Ancart, Sherri Caudell Brennan, Jamison Brosseau, Margaret Lee, Sam Moyer, and I, Ben Sisto - plus rooms curated by the occupants of 225 Starr Street: Annie Purpura & Natalie Labriola.

Sunday November 7th 2010, 7pm - 10pm
225 Starr Street, Brooklyn, New York
BYOB 

Apartment Show
Facebook invite 

MOVE!, a “two-day event merging the worlds of fashion and art through the collaboration of designers and artists” happens this Saturday and Sunday at PS1. Terence Koh, Rob Pruitt, a bunch of other people, and my pals CHERYL will have rooms up. I helped install today (thanks for the taping tips, Denise) and will be around all weekend. Check it out, and also their party at the Bell House Saturday night.

Update: CHERYL put up some photos from the weekend. 

Freeculture.org has posted my summary of the copyright story surrounding Happy Birthday to You, which is based on the paper Copyright and the World’s Most Popular Song by Professor Robert Brauneis. Please take a look, and at Braunei’s supporting documents as well.

“One of the English language’s most recognized and performed songs is Happy Birthday to You (HBTY), which likely first appeared between 1893 and 1912 as new age-grading standards in American schools increased the need for a common celebratory song. Historian Elizabeth Pleck’s work shows birthday parties as a common practice had only come into vogue around the 1830s, while confection-lovers would wait another 20 years before the modern birthday cake emerged in the 1850s. HBTY is a derivative work combing generally-assumed-to-be-folk lyrics with the tune of Good Morning to All (GMTA) a melody written by and copyright to Mildred J. Hill in 1893. The original GMTA lyrics were penned by her sister, Patty Smith Hill.” Read on…

Michelle O’Marah’s Barb Wire redux, A Girl’s Gotta Do What A Girl’s Gotta Do is up now at Brennan & Griffen gallery, East Broadway St NYC. Year of the monocle. 

I noticed nothing special about these pumpkins?

Babycastles & Showpaper window in the city