This video by David Fenster was created two years ago, but it’s new to me (as are the other Machine Project videos).
Machine Project and Mark Allen are among my favorite things in Los Angeles. Mark gave a good interview on Bad At Sports about his year-long residency at the Hammer Museum (my favorite LA museum!).
Jason Wilson on presenting his project OuterBody while using it:
I’d always suspected that an on-stage experience would be interesting, if not transformative, so I took the opportunity to give my talk while wearing the OuterBody goggles that only allow me to see myself from a third person perspective. I’d imagined that seeing yourself on stage from the perspective of an audience member might reduce some stage fright if the sense of self could successfully move from your body on stage into the camera in the aisle. Let the attention fall on that disembodied you that you’re also staring at.
Looks like the last time I posted events here was in 2010, just before Bushwick Open Studios. Well it’s that time of year again!
Narrated by Tom Waits.
“Design is communication; communication is political.”
via Andre
I’ll be performing with Future Archaeology on Sunday night. We’ll be showing the third iteration of our Ohm Ω project (previously at Splatterpool and Index Festival). Tom will also be performing Action Film, which you really should see if you haven’t before.
Sunday April 22nd, 1pm to midnight
ANARKO ART LAB
(occupy) REVOLUTION here and now
4th Annual New York City Anarchist Art Festival in conjunction with the Anarchist Book Fair. Future Archaeology is scheduled to perform at 10pm, but come at 9:30pm to see Thomas Dexter!
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton Street, NYC
anarchistbookfair.net
livingtheatre.org
Neal Stephenson: “I saw the best minds of my generation writing spam-filters.”
Bruce Sterling: “The wolf is beyond the door. The wolf is in the living room. This is the Anthropocenic condition.”
This one has been fun to watch come together:
Combining found natural materials (dead wood, foliage) with electrical wiring and living plants like moss and lichen, the sculptural installation took the form of a networked branch riddled with wires that seem to be either drawing power from or conveying power too the surrounding built environment. I filmed the sculpture as I built it, combining footage shot in the studio with details from the surprisingly vibrant forest outside my studio. The result is a piece that slowly reveals an ecosystem in which the lines between technological and biological evolution appear increasingly blurred.
It’s also worth relinking the Bruce Sterling talk which is also amazing.
Here is some video documentation of Ohm Ω, a performance drawing piece I helped create with the Future Archaeology crew at Splatterpool gallery. It was very experimental, in the sense that we had no idea how it would come together until it was up on the wall. And I think it came together very nicely, the audience really got into participating toward the end!
