bicycle, ecology, event, learning, local, travel
In events, learning, various on June 11, 2010 at 4:15 pm
I’m going to need a weekend at home by the time I’m done with my whirlwind of meetings (note: Las Vegas is surreal and fascinating.) but this sounds great. A weekend of biking and bicycle repair workshops in the Catskills with my friend Chris:
As you might have heard, my friend Ryan and I are putting on a weekend long bicycle workshop in upstate NY on the weekend of June 25-27th. This is the first time we have put on this workshop and have been unable to register any participants as of yet. However, our shortfall is your gain. We would like to do this workshop in the future and we feel your participation and feedback will be great help for the workshop’s future development. Thus, we are sending you a personal invite to join us for the weekend for a greatly reduced $100 per person! This price includes: five great meals, lodging, rides, and workshops. This is all in the context of Woodbourne, NY at a house that is on 15 acres of land. You will be responsible for getting yourself and your bicycle to the location. Read the rest of this entry »
art, artists, copyright, event, learning, software freedom
In events, learning on June 8, 2010 at 1:31 pm
I won’t be around on June 10, but this will be interesting. Promise:
Please join Not An Alternative, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, and Upgrade NY! this Thursday, June 10 for the opening of Re:Group: Beyond Models of Consensus, an exhibition which examines models of participation and participation as a model in art and activism.
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art, artists, copyright, software freedom
In events, learning, linux, misc on April 15, 2010 at 1:28 pm
My new friend Jen lured me to a panel last night. Part of LMCC’s Access Restricted series. Worth checking out, though I wanted a lot more from Intellectual Property in the Age of Reproduction.
We barely touched on the very interesting questions of copyright transgression, copying and fair use. Which is really too bad. Two quick observations before I get back to work. Read the rest of this entry »
In events, various on February 11, 2010 at 1:59 am
The excitement lately is the small kind, an offer tendered (so we’ll wait and see), an external monitor (no hunching!), Cory, Iyengar (and Maria for leading me to Cory). Finding balance in a new professional space (sometime lately I stopped feeling like I was faking it at being a grown up). Beans. Absolutely fascinating, a documentary
I can bring a guest to the Kiki Smith preview at BMA tomorrow. But there’s also this, which will make you think:
The opening of Kleio Projects in its new home in the Lower East Side, 153 1/2 Stanton Street:
Arrival
Ara Azad
11 February – 4 March 2010
Opening: Thursday 11 February 6-8 pm
Site specific performance painting begins at 7 pm
“Trust amongst us humans, is not a thing of the past”
- Ara Azad <>
For its inaugural exhibition, Kleio Projects is pleased to present Ara Azad’s first Solo exhibition in New York. This exhibit will feature work from Azad’s ongoing series, Postal Paintings, as well as a new wall length drawing that will be created on-site during the opening and will remain on view for the duration of the exhibition.
Begun in 1995, the Postal Paintings series developed from Arad’s desire to bridge the automated with the corporeal, and to explore his strong belief in the importance of trust and the human experience. Azad paints the surface of each canvas, then sends the paintings through the mail as is, unwrapped and exposed, so that each work becomes marked, scuffed, and changed as it passes by hand and machine through the postal and to its final destination. Azad’s resulting canvases are a tremendous outpouring of emotion – they evoke the palpable tension between a shudder and a scream.
The gallery space at Kleio Projects will become a studio space for a brief period of time as Ara Azad creates a site-specific mural for the month of February. The audience is invited to witness the live action painting, each fluid stroke of Azad’s brush on paper conveying the artist’s personal and
intense visual language.
Ara Azad received a BFA from Tufts as well as a D5 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he taught for several years and traveled extensively as its representative. Currently, he spends time between Lebanon and the United States. Azad’s work has been widely exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.
Plus, Alyosha Dubina will be there, being Russian, drinking no whiskey.
I have a new correspondence art project that I’m inching towards starting. Maybe you’ll want to join me?
In events, flaneurie on November 23, 2009 at 2:07 am
art, artists, audio, Brooklyn, event, todo
In events, various on June 4, 2008 at 2:27 am
have a meeting to go to (there better be cookies!), I’d be at this on Thursday …
Floating Points 2008 Issue Project Room
This Festival, in its third year, (formerly points in a circle) explores the versatility of ISSUE Project Room’s Innovative house speaker system, designed by Stephan Moore.
In the hands of these diverse performers and sound artist, this fifteen-channel installation of hemisphere loudspeakers radically changes the concert experience for both performer and audience.
Each of the hemispheres radiates sound in all directions, activating the acoustics of this unique concert space. Immersive sonic environments are generated, electronic sounds take on the characteristic intimacy of acoustic instruments, and location is liberated as a musical dimension.
Thursday June 5
title: /body-in-pieces/
performance and installation by tianna kennedy and chad laird
/body-in-pieces/ is a partially pre-recorded, partially improvised performance riffing on two immediately recognizable themes from the horror genre: Bernard Herrmann’s cue to the first murder in Alfred Hitchcock’s /Psycho/ and John Williams Main Title theme from /Jaws/. Both reworked samples reside in popular culture as sonic tropes instantly signifying ‘horror,’ or the anticipation of immanent peril or violence to the body. By isolating, fragmenting, and manipulating these familiar soundtrack elements in space we hope to underscore the process by which sound and mise-en-scene in horror often not only prepare and condition the viewer for violence, but stand-in for or displace the traumatized body itself. /body-in-pieces/ also finds its way through thematically linked material such as Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major (written for a pianist who had lost his left arm in World War I) and motifs from Alice in Wonderland. Additionally, our installation/performance will be set to projections of abstract light sequences culled from 60s Italian Horror films.
Tianna Kennedy is a cellist, sometime-artist, and Brooklyn Program Director for free103point9. Chad Laird teaches art history at FIT and makes zombie movies.
Brooklyn, capoeira, event, local, suggestions
In events on July 26, 2007 at 8:00 pm
They’re calling it The Greatest Yardsale Fundraiser which might be an exaggeration, but they have a great selection of clothes, books, cds, videos, a sewing machine, boxing gloves, skiing goggles, a brand new ski bag, a couch, a small-framed woman’s mountain bike, bamboo window shades, bags, purses, jewellery, fresh baked vegan and non-vegan goodies, smoothies….the list goes on.
This is a fund-raiser for Capoeira Brooklyn’s 2007 Batizado. Stop by if you’re in the area, I’ll be around for an early shift probably.
event
In events, various on September 13, 2006 at 1:00 pm
via Hubert; Harmony Farm (despite the cheesy name) is highly recommended: it’s time for our third harvest festival up here at the farm. For those that weren’t in attendance last year he’s a quick run down: christian rock, faux amish singers, football, climbing trees, getting stuck in a trees, food, booze, and a drive in movie theater.
and the info on this years’:
when? sunday september 24th 3pm but come when ever you want to and i’ll tyip you off to fun things to do in the area (you know you want to go wine tasting) (they make apple brandy)
food? yes.
booze? bring it.
christian rock? yes but not the same band. (I hear this one is more psuedo).
banjos? yes.
amish singers? no.
old english line/folk/jig dancing? yes.
can i (all of you) do that? i’m lobbying for lessons.
trees? yes.
football? knock yourself out (figure of speech).
drive in? if you want to.
cost? ten bucks per person.
its our one fundraiser per year and hopefully this will help us build a barn, buy a tractor, and expand the size of the farm.
directions?
email me back that your coming and i will pass it along. It is a reasonable ride from MetroNorth, for one thing.
